A business was backing up 90 servers across three racks in its own data centre using an ageing backup system with expensive licensing and growing storage costs. Panda IT moved all 90 servers to managed backup, using cloud backups for recovery and freeing up space in the data centre.
Key results
- $40,000
- annual licence savings
- 3
- data centre racks freed up
- 90
- servers protected
The challenge
- 90 servers relied on a legacy backup product with rising licence and maintenance costs.
- On-premises backup storage consumed three full racks of data centre space.
- Recovery processes were slow, manual and dependent on the same hardware being available.
- Backup windows were creeping into business hours and affecting application performance.
The solution & results
- Audited every server, workload and recovery objective to size the managed backup design.
- Migrated all 90 servers to managed backup with cloud-based recovery.
- Saved $40,000 per year in licence costs.
- Freed three data centre racks previously used for backup storage.
“We stopped paying to store copies of our own data three times over. The backups are faster, the recovery tests actually work, and we got our data centre space back.”