Case Study: One of America’s Largest Cable Operators achieves 75% faster backups, nearly 90% data reduction and 80 hours/week admin savings with Quantum Corporation’s DXi

DXiDelivers Faster Backups, Better Data Protection, and Total Peace of Mind for One of America’s Largest Cable Companies

One of America’s largest cable and high‑speed data providers — supporting hundreds of thousands of customer mailboxes across 1,500 communities in 22 states and an 80 TB production environment spread over 18 servers — was hampered by an aging tape infrastructure (StorageTek SL500) that forced 10‑day full backups, prevented incremental copies, and demanded over 80 hours of weekly administration, putting recovery objectives at risk.

After benchmarking solutions with partner Datalink, the company deployed a Quantum DXi6702 appliance with Symantec NetBackup. The DXi cut backup times by about 75% (from 10 days to roughly a quarter of that), enabled more frequent backups and four complete recovery points on disk, delivered nearly 90% data reduction, and reclaimed about 80 hours per week of IT time — improving data protection and operational confidence.