Case Study: School District of Holmen achieves fast, reliable backups and quick restores with Unitrends Recovery

Why a Unitrends Appliance is Better than Tape Backup

Holmen School District, a public system in Holmen, WI serving pre-K through 12 across eight schools, faced growing risk as its reliance on digital records increased. Critical student, financial and health data were protected by an unreliable Backup Exec/tape workflow that was slow, costly, hard to use and often unable to perform full or single-file restores when needed.

The district replaced tape with a Unitrends Recovery Series 824 appliance, gaining disk-based backups with an intuitive UI, scheduled off-hour jobs, faster backups and bare-metal restore capability. Since the switch IT time spent on backups has dropped, quick file restores are routine, and the district now benefits from ransomware protection, accidental-delete recovery and full disaster-recovery capabilities.

School District of Holmen

Matt Kalisz

Network Administrator