Case Study: The Master Group reclaims 125 production days and achieves 900% faster restores with Cohesity

The Master Group Returns 125 Days of Productivity with Cisco– Cohesity Solution

The Master Group, Canada’s largest independent HVAC/R distributor with more than 900 employees, set out to modernize and consolidate its data centers to improve slow, cumbersome backups and move long-term retention off tape. With a 99% virtualized environment and SQL/Exchange backups often taking days, the IT team wanted fewer vendors, simpler management, and a cloud-enabled DR strategy.

Using Cisco HyperFlex and UCS for primary workloads and Cohesity DataPlatform/DataProtect with CloudArchive (AWS) — introduced via Insight Canada — Master Group replaced tape and legacy tools. The solution delivered instant mass restores and native snapshot protection, cutting restore times by 900%, reducing full backup time by ~75%, shrinking largest server backups to ~45 minutes, doubling effective data center capacity, meeting a four-hour RTO, and returning an estimated 125 production days to the business.

The Master Group

François Lepage

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Manager