Case Study: EXCO Engineering achieves SOX compliance and rapid ransomware recovery with Unitrends

Ensuring SOX Compliance with Unitrends Suite of Business Continuity Products

Exco Engineering, a Toronto-area leader in high‑pressure die‑cast tooling and part of publicly traded Exco Technologies, needed a faster, more reliable backup strategy to meet SOX compliance and protect diverse systems (VMware, Hyper‑V, Exchange, SQL, NAS) with a tiny IT team. Their previous LTO tape backups took over a week for full restores, lacked deduplication, and could not meet recovery time objectives or storage needs.

Exco deployed Unitrends Recovery appliances (933S and 603), Unitrends Forever Cloud for Canadian offsite archiving, and DRaaS, gaining deduplication, streamlined management, and Canadian data sovereignty. When ransomware hit, they restored 3+ TB and over 2 million files in 18 hours (vs. over a week on tape), lowered RTO/RPO, achieved SOX compliance, and recouped the appliance cost through avoided downtime and data loss.

EXCO Engineering

Erica Reyes

IT Director