Case Study: Drilling Services Company achieves 6-second recovery and seamless Azure migration with Zerto

Drilling Services Company Strengthens Disaster Recovery and Migration Strategy with Zerto

A North American drilling services company that runs up to 30 sites with 15–20 employees per site needed a more robust disaster recovery and cloud migration approach because even minutes of SQL downtime could cost thousands and halt operations. Their legacy tools (Veeam and Azure Site Recovery) produced long RTOs/RPOs, slow manual testing, and even caused infrastructure problems, so they sought a solution to shorten recovery windows and move data to Azure.

They implemented Zerto (and Zerto Backup for SaaS powered by KeepIt) to protect their on‑premises datacenter and migrate workloads to Azure; migrations and tests that once failed were completed in hours, with accounting servers live in two hours. Results included recovery times as low as 6–8 seconds, 80% compression savings, six servers backed up in one day, and simplified Office 365 restores via shareable links—reducing resource use, eliminating lengthy restores, and enabling continued cloud adoption.