Case Study: McNeilus Steel reduces VM recovery time by over 50% with Unitrends Backup

Unitrends Backup Rolls the Competition

McNeilus Steel, a family‑owned metals service center founded in 1948 with about 550 employees and three warehouses in the Upper Midwest, struggled with a legacy backup system that produced unreliable restores, poor reporting, and difficulty reclaiming storage. After being told an expensive upgrade was required, IT Manager Darren Boeck evaluated alternatives and ran side‑by‑side trials to find a more reliable solution.

He selected Unitrends Backup software for its intuitive interface, on‑demand backup capability, and global deduplication. Unitrends was quickly deployed across the virtual environment to protect roughly 70 VMs (around 3 TB and growing), enabling remote management for three sites, planned replication for disaster recovery, more than a 50% reduction in VM recovery time, streamlined payroll updates, and lower overall storage costs.

McNeilus Steel

Darren Boeck

Manager of Information Technology