Case Study: Agrex Inc. achieves superior protection and a 1‑year payback with Unitrends

Agrex Inc. - Customer Case Study

Agrex Inc., a multi‑state agricultural trading company, was moving its datacenter and struggling with an inefficient, manual Tivoli tape backup and an increasingly costly SunGard DRaaS arrangement. The tape environment required frequent hands‑on maintenance, risked RPOs when staff were unavailable, and together with cloud DR costs ran over $130K/year, while recovery testing was difficult and cumbersome.

Agrex replaced that stack with a Unitrends Recovery Series 818S appliance, 7TB of Unitrends Forever Cloud and Elite DRaaS for 15 VMs (24‑hour SLA and monthly testing). Deployed in three weeks for about $100K, the solution consolidated backup and DR into a single 1U appliance, simplified management, improved reporting and recoverability, enabled cloud failover testing, and delivered a full payback within one year.

Agrex Inc.

Richard Foster

Asst General Manager