Recovery-as-a-Service Kept the St. Louis Blues up During Playoffs

CASE STUDY Results Challenge Disaster Recovery Who are they? PROFESSIONAL ICE HOCKEY TEAM FOUNDED IN 1967 DURING NHL EXPANSION CONTINUED UPTIME DESPITE SERVER BEING DOWN UNINTERRUPTED OPERATIONS DURING CRITICAL NHL GAMES FAILED OVER SERVER TO AXCIENT SOLUTION WITHIN MINUTES FOR BC/DR “ “ 19,150-SEAT IN DOWNTOWN ST. LOUIS SCOTTRADE CENTER PLAYS IN THE Axcient pulled us out of the ﬁre, and made what could have been a disastrous IT event an incident that was barely noticed by our staff. LARRY WOMACK, IT MANAGER Solution AXCIENT DATA PROTECTION AND RECOVERY SOLUTION FOR MISSION-CRITICAL SERVERS LOCAL AND CLOUD PROTECTION UNRELIABLE LEGACY BACKUP SYSTEM. CRITICAL SERVER CRASHED DURING NHL GAME. Read the full case study at axcient.com/customers

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Read the full case study: http://axcient.com/st-louis-blues-nhl/ NHL Team Records a Save with Axcient When Larry Womack joined the St. Louis Blues National Hockey League team as IT manager at the beginning of 2013, he began to look for an alternative solution for backing up 12 servers and upwards of 9 terabytes of data. His goal was to find an enterprise grade solution that was appropriate for the needs of a prominent organization like the St. Louis Blues. Womack quickly explored his options and selected Axcient’s onsite back-up solution because of its attractive price point and the ease with which the organization’s data could be backed up. It didn’t take long for that decision to pay off, when a couple of weeks later the team’s file server, which held irreplaceable historical photos and data, as well as organizational and financial information, crashed. Within an hour, the Axcient solution enabled Womack to fully restore the Blues’ data with employees barely taking notice of what could have been a disastrous event. Evaluating the Line Up of IT Resources Womack joined the staff of the St. Louis Blues at the tail-end of a lockout that delayed the start of the 2012-13 NHL season by three months. His first task was to do a full discovery to familiarize himself with the organization’s network resources. “During this process, I determined that one of our first priorities should be deploying a back-up solution,” he noted. “Our data is very critical, and in the heat of the season, it must be always accessible, so I wanted to find a new solution that we were sure was reliable and could protect our information.” Womack quickly evaluated several different products, ultimately selecting Axcient for disaster recovery and business continuity, which would enable the Blues to quickly and easily protect its data. “I had a good local vendor who recommended Axcient, and the price point of the solution fit our budget,” he said.... For the entire case study visit: http://axcient.com/st-louis-blues-nhl/