Case Study: Strategic Hotels & Resorts achieves three-month ROI and $150,000+ annual savings with ExaGrid disk-based backup

Strategic Hotels & Resorts Reports Three-Month ROI with ExaGrid’s Disk-Based Backup

Strategic Hotels & Resorts, a Chicago‑based REIT that owns and manages 17 luxury hotels totaling more than 8,000 rooms, had been using an outsourced cloud backup for eight years but faced rapidly rising retention-driven costs (about $12–14K+/month) and difficult restores. Concerned costs would continue to escalate and needing easier management, they evaluated alternatives to find a more cost‑effective, scalable backup solution.

They implemented ExaGrid’s disk‑based, scale‑out GRID with post‑process byte‑level deduplication and a landing zone, which sped backups, simplified restores, and preserved 72% of system capacity despite retention requirements. The deployment delivered roughly a three‑month ROI, saved over $150K per year, and provided painless scalability plus highly rated vendor support.

Strategic Hotels & Resorts

Bryce White

Director of Information Systems