Case Study: Housing Authority of the Cherokee Nation achieves 30–50% reduction in backup and recovery workload with Quest AppAssure

Housing Authority Slashes Backup & Recovery Workload By 30–50%

The Housing Authority of the Cherokee Nation (HACN) provides federal and local housing services to Cherokee citizens and, after separating from the Cherokee Nation, needed to build a new IT environment that its small, less experienced staff could support. HACN’s legacy backup tool demanded heavy administration and risked interrupting services if data couldn’t be restored quickly, so the organization sought a reliable, easy-to-manage backup and recovery solution.

HACN deployed Quest AppAssure to manage backup, replication and recovery from a single interface, allowing snapshots of 31 VMs every three hours and automated status alerts. The solution enables full virtual-server recoveries in 10–15 minutes (and individual database restores in under 10 minutes), reduced IT workload by 30–50%, and cut storage needs with roughly a 1:3 compression ratio, delivering faster recovery and greater operational confidence.

Housing Authority of the Cherokee Nation

Tonia Williams

CIO-IT Director