Case Study: Ayers Saint Gross achieves cyber resilience and saves 10+ hours/week with Druva

Architecting Cyber Resilience Ayers Saint Gross + Druva

Ayers Saint Gross is a 200-person interdisciplinary architecture and design firm that faced unreliable, time-consuming backup processes—using tape and a separate cloud solution—that required 10–12 hours weekly to manage, produced poor restore performance, and left endpoints and Microsoft 365 at risk. A ransomware incident that encrypted multiple desktops and strict AEC/State of Maryland retention requirements made it clear the firm needed a reliable, point-in-time, immutable offsite backup solution.

Working with partner Electronic Data Solutions, Ayers Saint Gross adopted the Druva Data Resiliency Cloud to protect endpoints, VMware/Hyper-V, NAS, file servers and Microsoft 365 from a single pane of glass. Since implementation in 2020 they’ve saved 10+ hours per week on backup management, secured 133 TB of data recoverable 24x7, improved restore reliability, and met retention and insurance requirements with immutable, air-gapped backups.

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Jon Eaton

Chief Information Officer