Case Study: City of Lynchburg, Virginia achieves FOIA compliance and rapid restores with Unitrends Enterprise Backup

City of Lynchburg, Virginia - Customer Case Study

The City of Lynchburg, Virginia—a municipal government supporting ~75,000 residents and multiple higher-education institutions—needed reliable data protection to meet Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) obligations. Their environment ran Windows on VMware hosted on Cisco UCS, and a forced, unaffordable upgrade to a Veeam Enterprise license left the city at risk of noncompliance and potential data-loss liabilities.

Lynchburg replaced Veeam with Unitrends Enterprise Backup, which now protects all Cisco UCS servers and VMware-hosted Windows applications. Since the switch there have been no data-loss incidents, restores are measured in minutes (a full recovery once took 2.5 minutes), reporting and support have improved, and the city now meets FOIA requirements with greater reliability and peace of mind.

City of Lynchburg, Virginia

John Piercy

Senior IT Architect