Case Study: Burgess & Niple achieves cloud disaster recovery and 7x storage savings with Druva

Burgess & Niple Improves Business Resilience With a SaaS Disaster Recovery Solution

Burgess & Niple is a national engineering and architecture firm managing a central data center and 25 remote offices with 100 VMware VMs and 400 virtual desktops. After moving to a cloud-first strategy, CTO Rod Dickerson found the firm’s SAN replication and tape-based backups were time consuming, costly, and left the company vulnerable to data loss and ransomware; the team wanted a cloud-native, low-maintenance disaster recovery solution.

B&N evaluated options from AWS Marketplace and chose the Druva Data Resiliency Cloud after a POC, replacing site-to-site replication and tape with a hardware-free, immutable cloud backup and orchestrated VM failover solution. The deployment now protects 180 TB of data, delivers 7x global deduplication savings, reclaims 50% of the time previously spent managing backups, enables restores at least 2x faster than tape, and freed roughly half an FTE for more strategic work.

Burgess & Niple

Rod Dickerson

Chief Technology Officer at Engineering and Architecture Design