Case Study: C&S Companies achieves fast, reliable data restoration and major time and cost savings with ExaGrid

C&S Installs ExaGrid to Ensure Data Restoration in the Event of Catastrophic Data Loss

C&S, a Syracuse-based multidisciplinary design and construction firm serving markets from aviation to healthcare, faced a major backup crisis after an outage destroyed several virtual servers and forced IT staff into a grueling 48-hour recovery using slow, unreliable tape restores. The company needed a more dependable, fast restoration strategy that would work with its existing backup tools and handle large, frequently changing data sets.

C&S deployed an ExaGrid EX10000E, which integrated with Symantec Backup Exec and Quest vRanger, was quick to rack-and-run, and delivered much faster restores. The solution cut backup administration by an estimated 150 hours per year, saved thousands in tape costs, and offers scalable GRID expansion (up to roughly 130 TB full backup plus retention), giving C&S reliable, easy-to-manage disaster recovery going forward.

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James Harter

Senior Network Administrator