Case Study: The Kraft Group cuts backup windows by up to 70% and centralizes data protection with Dell Technologies

The Kraft Group transforms their data protection environment

The Kraft Group, a multi‑industry holding that includes Gillette Stadium, the New England Patriots and Revolution, and multiple manufacturing and hospitality businesses, needed a simple, reliable and secure enterprise‑wide data protection strategy to support 500+ virtual servers and over 600 TB of data while meeting aggressive SLAs and defending against ransomware and zero‑day threats. To standardize and modernize backups across its diverse operating companies, The Kraft Group turned to Dell Technologies, deploying Dell Data Protection Suite — Avamar, Dell PowerProtect DD series appliances and Dell Data Protection for VMware.

Dell Technologies implemented a unified backup and disaster‑recovery architecture—Avamar for VMware backups paired with PowerProtect DD appliances and centralized DR—consolidating disparate systems onto a single platform. The result: backup windows reduced by as much as 70%, a single administrator can support seven operating companies, SLAs are met, and backup management and restores are significantly faster and more reliable, turning data protection into a proactive, easily managed capability.

The Kraft Group

Michael Israel

Chief Information Officer