Case Study: Ascot Underwriting achieves scalable, reliable backup windows and rapid restores with ExaGrid

Scalable ExaGrid System Provides Reliable Backup Window as Ascot’s Data Grows

Ascot Underwriting Limited, a London-based managing agent at Lloyd’s and global specialty insurance underwriter, was relying on time-consuming tape backups with Veritas Backup Exec. The IT team needed a simpler, faster backup and restore solution with reliable offsite disaster recovery that could keep pace as data volumes grew.

Ascot deployed ExaGrid appliances at its primary and DR sites paired with Veeam, using ExaGrid’s landing zone and adaptive deduplication plus cross-replication to the DR site. The solution delivers nightly backups that finish by morning, instant VM recoveries and quick “few‑click” restores, easy scale‑out as data grows, reduced IT time managing backups, and responsive vendor support.

Ascot Underwriting

Lewis Vickery

Infrastructure Engineer