Case Study: a Fortune 500 Energy Provider achieves 50% backup cost reduction with Zmanda Pro

Fortune 500 Energy Provider cuts backup storage costs by 50% with zmanda

zmanda, a major fortune 500 energy provider, faced significant IT management challenges as the largest franchisee operator in the U.S. Their hundreds of locations had non-standardized systems, poor connectivity, and legacy hardware, which made reliable backups difficult and led to high data storage costs. They needed a robust and efficient disaster recovery solution that could be managed by a small IT team.

Zmanda Pro solved these problems with seamless remote installation and advanced deduplication technology. This resulted in a 50% reduction in data storage costs, bringing the total storage requirement for over 470 locations to under 6TB. The solution also enabled disaster recovery in less than two hours per location, providing reliable data protection and freeing up the IT team to focus on other critical operations.