Case Study: Agnico Eagle achieves daily DR protection and minutes‑fast VM recovery with Quantum Corporation's DXi and vmPRO

Agnico Eagle - Customer Case Study

Agnico Eagle, a senior Canadian gold mining company with remote sites above the Arctic Circle and across the Canadian Shield, struggled to protect largely virtualized local offices with low-bandwidth, high-latency links and limited on-site IT staff. Legacy tape-based backups required manual handling and could take days to restore files or rebuild VMs, so the company needed a way to provide corporate-level disaster recovery for many dispersed sites without costly network upgrades or heavy administrative overhead.

Agnico Eagle deployed Quantum DXi deduplication appliances with Quantum vmPRO to write local VM backups in native VMware format and replicate deduplicated data to central DXi systems with bandwidth throttling and scheduling. The solution delivers automated daily DR replication, dedupe rates up to 270:1, dramatically reduced administrative effort, and cut file/VM recovery times from days to minutes—enabling fast restores, data center migration without outside consultants, and higher protection using existing infrastructure.

Agnico Eagle

Daryl Land

Manager of Network Services