Case Study: Afognak Native Corporation achieves rapid recovery, efficient eDiscovery and seamless failover of mission-critical data with CommVault Simpana software

Afognak - Customer Case Study

Afognak Native Corporation, a rapidly growing Alaska-based holding company and parent of federal services provider Alutiiq, supports a highly distributed workforce across dozens of offices and relies on virtualized, Microsoft-centric systems for mission‑critical ERP, communications and financial applications. As the company outgrew its legacy Backup Exec platform it faced unreliable backups, cumbersome eDiscovery, high WAN costs, and an urgent need for stronger disaster recovery and two‑hour RTOs given regional natural‑disaster risks.

Afognak deployed CommVault Simpana (upgraded to v9) with capacity licensing, source‑side deduplication, DASH copies and archiving (plus Azure integration). The result: dramatic WAN efficiency and hourly replication of critical SQL data, full recoveries in about 75 minutes (beating the two‑hour RTO), faster end‑to‑end eDiscovery, more on‑disk retention before tape, reduced storage and bandwidth costs, and markedly improved business continuity and operational flexibility.

Afognak

Karl McLaughlin

Senior Vice President of IT