Case Study: Tipper Tie achieves a solid disaster-recovery strategy and $107,000 lower cost than tape with Riverbed Whitewater

Whitewater delivers a solid DR strategy at $107,000 lower cost than tape

Tipper Tie, a global manufacturer of food processing and packaging machinery with four production sites and a two-person IT team, faced inconsistent, time-consuming and costly tape backup practices that complicated SOX compliance and left full backups taking up to 72 hours. With aging tape hardware, off-site vaulting costs and slow restores, the company needed a standardized, easy-to-manage disaster recovery approach.

Tipper Tie deployed Whitewater 510 appliances at each site integrated with Amazon S3, enabling fast 15-minute restores, strong deduplication (12x+), and seamless setup. The cloud-based solution reduced three-year costs by about $107,000 versus tape, saved 936 man-hours, improved compliance and delivered an affordable DR/business continuity strategy.

Tipper Tie

Drew Bartow

Senior IT Engineer