Case Study: Machinima achieves secure, automated SaaS backup and one‑click restores with Datto (Backupify)

Don’t Play Around When It Comes To Saas Backup

Machinima, a California-based digital content company reaching over 150 million viewers per month, needed a reliable way to protect its SaaS data while Director of IT Ed Becker cleaned up network infrastructure and migrated roughly 800 Google Apps accounts to Office 365. With downtime unacceptable and user error a constant risk, the team sought a low-maintenance, cloud-to-cloud backup approach that would also support legal eDiscovery and mailbox restores.

They kept Backupify (already in place for Google Apps) alongside Google Vault, using Backupify’s automated cloud backups and one-click restore UI to simplify recoveries and assist legal requests. The approach reduced on-premise admin overhead, provided stronger redundancy and faster restores, and supported the Office 365 migration—leaving only about 150 Google accounts active during transition and planning ongoing Backupify protection for OneDrive and SharePoint.

Machinima

Ed Becker

Director of IT