Case Study: Crew Carwash Inc. achieves rapid ransomware protection and near‑instant disaster recovery with Unitrends

Crew Carwash Inc. - Customer Case Study

Crew Carwash, a 30-location exterior-only carwash chain that grew from a single automated site in 1948, faced a critical IT gap: no enterprise backup solution across its redundant datacenters protecting 100+ virtual Windows servers, 20+ Linux servers and 20+ workstations. Principal Systems Engineer Jack Estes needed a business-continuity strategy to protect against accidental deletes, outages and ransomware that could spread across subnets.

Estes deployed two Unitrends Recovery Series 824S appliances (with RXDA removable media) to provide continuous backups and rapid recovery. The appliances enabled minute‑scale restores—recovering a ransomware‑infected VM in under 10 minutes from a backup taken 15 minutes earlier—and the ability to restore all servers locally in under 30 minutes, eliminating data loss and turning weekly recovery demands into routine operations.

Crew Carwash Inc.

Jack Estes

Principal Systems Engineer