Case Study: City of St. Marys achieves reliable, cost‑predictable disaster recovery with Datto

How Public Sector Does Disaster Recovery

The City of St. Marys, Georgia — led by IT Director Eugene Rudy — faced inadequate disaster recovery: critical systems were backed up to tape and external drives in a fragmented, manual process that left more than 4 TB of municipal data vulnerable to coastal storms and other outages and risked the city’s ability to serve citizens or pay employees. Rudy needed streamlined, cloud-capable protection and a cost model that wouldn’t balloon as data grew.

Rudy engaged MSP Thinkgard to deploy Datto SIRIS, giving the city hybrid local-and-cloud backups, automated protection for physical and virtual systems, and a Time-Based Cloud Retention fee for predictable monthly billing. The result was low-touch, reliably verified recoverability, protection even if local infrastructure is lost, predictable costs, and materially improved continuity for city operations and residents.

City of St. Marys

Eugene Rudy

Director of IT