Case Study: OnCue Marketing achieves 60% faster backups and $50K annual savings with Quest DR Series appliances

Retailer saves money while protecting its growing data

OnCue Marketing, a growing U.S. retail chain with about 950 employees, was struggling with manual, tape‑based backups that consumed its small IT team's time as data volumes grew ~18–20% annually. The cumbersome process—physically swapping tapes, offsite storage, and slow restores—threatened scalability and would have forced the company to hire another full‑time IT person.

OnCue deployed two Quest DR Series disk backup and deduplication appliances (integrated with Veeam) to automate and disk‑based its backups, protecting 3.8 TB of data. The change cut incremental backup time by 60% (from ~2.5 hours to under an hour), sped restores to about 15 minutes, eliminated ongoing tape costs, and avoided a $50,000 annual hire while delivering reliable, hands‑off protection.

OnCue Marketing

Rocky Taylor

IT Director