Case Study: eMazzanti Technologies achieves affordable, fast cloud disaster recovery for SMBs with Microsoft Azure Site Recovery

IT consultancy provides affordable cloud-based disaster protection to SMB customers

eMazzanti Technologies, a New York City–area IT consultancy, faced growing demand from small and midsize businesses for affordable business continuity and disaster recovery after Superstorm Sandy and severe winter storms. Traditional DR solutions were too expensive for many SMBs, and eMazzanti’s earlier use of Hyper-V Replica required custom scripting and an out-of-region replication site, adding complexity and cost.

eMazzanti adopted Microsoft Azure Site Recovery to offer a DR-as-a-service: automated replication and orchestration to Azure (or its own datacenter), near-continuous replication (as often as every 30 seconds), and per-server, per-month subscription pricing. The solution cut setup time to days, reduced labor and recovery times, simplified licensing, strengthened its Office 365 offering, and helped drive business growth—its Azure business grew sevenfold and disaster recovery revenue is a key contributor to the company’s ~20% annual growth.

eMazzanti Technologies

Carl Mazzanti

Chief Executive Officer