Case Study: Russell Reynolds Associates strengthens business continuity and cuts costs with Microsoft Corporation Azure hybrid cloud

Global leadership advisory and executive search firm strengthens, simplifies business continuity with hybrid cloud

Russell Reynolds Associates, a global leadership advisory and executive search firm, wanted to reduce the cost and complexity of its global datacenter and business continuity operations while staying agile in a fast-changing digital world. Using Microsoft Corporation’s hybrid cloud technologies, including Microsoft Azure Backup and Azure Site Recovery, the company looked to protect VMware workloads, simplify backup, and improve disaster recovery.

Microsoft Corporation helped Russell Reynolds Associates move backups to Azure and build a hybrid-cloud DR solution in Azure. The results included cutting its secondary datacenter footprint by half, reducing recovery point objective from 24 hours to 6 hours, lowering backup and DR costs, and freeing IT staff from routine backup tasks so they could focus on strategic projects.

Russell Reynolds Associates

David W. Pfister

Director of Global Distributed Infrastructure and Client Services