Case Study: Walbridge reduces backup and storage costs by 80% with Microsoft Azure and StorSimple

Construction Firm Reduces Backup and Recovery Costs by 80 Percent with Hybrid Cloud Storage

Walbridge, a global construction company, faced rapidly growing storage needs for large project files and backups, which made its conventional storage arrays too expensive and slow. To support its remote job sites and move toward a cloud-first IT strategy, the company needed a more innovative and cost-effective solution. Walbridge turned to Microsoft, implementing a hybrid cloud storage solution using StorSimple and Microsoft Azure to manage its data growth.

Microsoft's solution provided Walbridge with fast, cloud-integrated storage that used deduplication and thin provisioning to optimize space. The results were significant: the company reduced database restore times by over 80%, from two hours to under twenty minutes, and cut its overall storage costs by 60 to 80 percent. By using Microsoft Azure and StorSimple, Walbridge also slashed the administrative time for backups and restores in half.

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Cynthia Weaver

Vice President of IT