Case Study: Northgate Markets achieves 60% cost savings and 3.4x data reduction with Druva's cloud-native data protection

Northgate Markets Goes All in on Cloud with Druva’s Data Protection Platform

Northgate Markets, a Southern California grocery chain founded in 1980 that has grown to 40 stores and over 7,000 employees, was managing two data centers and a 99% virtualized environment of 450+ VMs while facing strict retail and financial compliance and aggressive RTO/RPO targets. Their legacy EMC/Data Domain and NetWorker backup setup was complex, unreliable, and costly, and multi-vendor “cloud” retrofits didn’t meet the company’s needs for a scalable, as‑a‑service solution.

Northgate adopted Druva Phoenix, a cloud-native, AWS‑built data protection platform that removed on‑prem hardware and software overhead and provided a single pane of management. Druva’s global source‑side deduplication cut cloud storage needs by 3.4x, minimized bandwidth, met stringent RTO/RPO requirements, and delivered over 60% cost savings while simplifying operations and replacing a cobbled-together backup architecture.

Northgate Markets

Harrison Lewis

Chief Information Officer