Case Study: Safety Product Inc. achieves rapid disaster recovery and ransomware protection with Unitrends DRaaS

Safety Product Inc. - Customer Case Study

Safety Products Inc. (SPI), a Lakeland, Florida manufacturer of safety apparel and equipment founded in 1968, faced a critical risk from seasonal hurricanes and unreliable protection: an EMC/VMware secondary-site DR setup never worked and Carbonite backups failed to recover. With Hurricane Irma imminent, SPI needed a single solution for dependable local backup, cloud recovery, and business continuity to avoid potentially catastrophic data loss.

SPI deployed Unitrends Backup virtual appliances with 90-day Forever Cloud retention and Unitrends DRaaS; support engineers replicated the entire infrastructure in the Unitrends Cloud and spun up systems ahead of Irma so ERP and remote offices stayed operational. The outcome was seamless failover, removal of the need for a staffed secondary DR site, and fast recovery from a subsequent ransomware attack (full restore in under an hour), delivering DRaaS, ransomware protection, and protection from accidental deletes.

Safety Product Inc.

Dennis Hershey

Chief Technology Officer