Case Study: Town of Paradise Valley achieves 10-minute daily backups, 2-hour VM restores and 100% data visibility with Druva

How Paradise Valley Transformed Its Data Protection

Paradise Valley, an affluent suburb of Phoenix (pop. 12,658), struggled with a complex legacy backup environment—Commvault plus tape—that made protecting 150 Microsoft 365 users and 32 TB of hybrid data (VMware, NAS, SQL) time‑consuming and resource intensive. IT analyst Walter Wojno led the search for a more secure, easy‑to‑manage, and cost‑effective solution after daily media rotation and maintenance strained the small IT team.

The town moved to Druva’s 100% SaaS Data Resiliency Cloud to consolidate protection, eliminate tape, and gain a single‑pane view across on‑prem and SaaS data. As a result, backups now take about 10 minutes a day versus hours, full VM recoveries can be completed in roughly 2 hours, visibility is 100% across the estate, and the town has cut staffing time, media and offsite storage costs while benefiting from global deduplication and simpler management.

Town of Paradise Valley

Walter Wojno

IT Analyst