Case Study: Mercedes Benz of Oklahoma City achieves full data protection and disaster recovery with Unitrends

Full Data Protection and Disaster Recovery for an IT Team of One

Mercedes Benz of Oklahoma City is a high-end dealership serving the Oklahoma City region with sales, financing and service. The IT environment—virtualized Windows servers, a physical Linux server and SANs—was managed by a single IT employee, Michael Gates, who needed a reliable, low‑overhead backup and disaster recovery solution after a failure to restore Exchange backups with a free product made continuity unacceptable.

Gates implemented a Unitrends Recovery 713 appliance with 1 TB of Unitrends Forever Cloud and Disaster‑Recovery‑as‑a‑Service. The fully automated solution provides offsite cloud copies, the ability to spin up applications in the cloud for DR, ransomware and accidental‑delete protection, and consolidated vendor support—delivering a tested DR capability and the operational peace of mind Gates needed.

Mercedes Benz of Oklahoma City

Michael Gates

IT Manager