Case Study: McLean County, Illinois achieves faster, more reliable backups and enhanced data protection with Unitrends Recovery 713S

Replacing Tape for Enhanced Data Protection

McLean County, Illinois — which supports critical services from the sheriff’s office and jail to elections and court records — was struggling with slow, unreliable backups and rising costs while using Veritas Backup Exec. Lengthy backup windows were spilling into business hours and degrading performance for 24x7 operations like jail and 911, creating productivity and reliability risks for the county IT team.

The county deployed the Unitrends Recovery 713S appliance, moving to direct-to-disk backups with compression and faster restores. Backups that once ran into Monday now complete quickly, restoring 4 TB of predominantly VMware-hosted Windows server data with simplified bare-metal and file-level recovery, improved ransomware and disaster protection, attentive support, and lower total cost of ownership.

McLean County

Craig Nelson

Director of Information Technologies