Case Study: Bank Administration Institute achieves rapid, scalable backups and cuts disaster recovery from two weeks to two days with XO Communications' Enterprise Cloud

BAI Streamlines Data Backup and Disaster Recovery with the Flexible and Highly Scalable XO Enterprise Cloud

Bank Administration Institute (BAI), a financial services association with offices in Chicago and St. Louis, needed a secure, scalable cloud backup and disaster recovery solution to replace tedious removable‑disk backups and meet strict compliance requirements. After a failed engagement with a provider that could not support more than 2 TB, BAI—already a customer of XO Communications for networking and voice—sought a provider that could support Dell AppAssure‑based backups and multi‑terabyte capacity, ultimately evaluating XO Communications’ XO Enterprise Cloud.

XO Communications implemented XO Enterprise Cloud, integrating with BAI’s Dell AppAssure and VMware tools and offering flexible, pay‑as‑you‑go scalability and easy configuration. The XO Enterprise Cloud deployment was rapid and seamless, enabled full restoration of CRM, email, file systems and the research database in two days (versus about two weeks previously), handled multi‑TB workloads reliably, and delivered improved business continuity, lower RTO and greater cost efficiency.

Bank Administration Institute

Jim DiNapoli

Information Services Manager