Case Study: McConnell Dowell achieves 100% Microsoft 365 data protection and rapid recoverability with Druva

McConnell Dowell leverages Druva to protect Microsoft 365 data and ensure business continuity

McConnell Dowell, a 60‑year‑old construction firm with 3,500 staff across Australia, New Zealand, the Pacific and Southeast Asia, relied heavily on Microsoft 365 (SharePoint, Teams, OneDrive) to support its mobile workforce. As cloud adoption grew, the IT team worried Microsoft’s native protections and recycle bin (limited retention and no point‑in‑time snapshots) left the business exposed to accidental deletion, corruption, ransomware and long‑term legal retention requirements—while Veeam and on‑premises solutions didn’t provide the cloud‑native, isolated backup they needed.

They deployed Druva on AWS after a successful proof‑of‑concept: a cloud‑native, scalable backup that keeps Azure production and AWS backups separate, offers granular point‑in‑time restores, and requires no hardware. The result: 100% of Microsoft 365 data is protected 24/7 and recoverable in minutes, with long‑term retention (archiving to S3 Glacier Deep Archive), 2.58x deduplication storage savings, faster restores for accidental deletions and easier compliance with regulations like GDPR and PDPA.

McConnell Dowell

Heinrich Kukkuk

Head of IT