Case Study: US Steel Manufacturer achieves rapid compliance and 100% data availability with Infrascale

After Catastrophic Datto Failure, US Steel Manufacturer Relies on Infrascale

A privately held U.S. steel manufacturer in business since 1942—producing over two million tons of steel across five product lines and employing 800+ staff—faced a catastrophic Datto disaster-recovery failure during annual testing. With corrupted data, an unrecognizable 4TB LUN, and less than two weeks to meet government compliance or face fines and contract penalties, the company urgently needed a reliable replacement to protect more than 80TB of mission‑critical data.

They switched to Infrascale, which deployed appliances onsite, recovered the damaged disk image, and stood up cloud and on‑premises disaster recovery within the two‑week window. The solution delivered faster boot times, continuous availability, simpler maintenance (resolvable by Level 1 techs), and about 30% cost savings—allowing successful compliance testing, restored business continuity confidence, and ongoing annual tests that reliably boot systems during a single flight.