Construction Firm Egan Replaced Veeam With Druva

Druva, Inc. announced that Egan Company, a specialty contractor based in Minnesota with more than 1,100 employees, has selected its Phoenix to manage enterprise data for its growing organization.

Druva’s cloud-native architecture enabled the firm to deploy within minutes, manage data files and hundreds of VMs at sites across the state, and reduce data management process times by more than 50%.

Modern commercial construction requires massive amounts of data, and depend on terabyte-size CAD files. While traditional construction moves sequentially one step at a time, modern projects move faster based on customer needs, resource availability and tightening deadlines. Egan found success in this new model requires precise resource planning and reliable data sets that are protected, backed up, and immediately restorable. Druva’s all-in-one solution was able to meet Egan’s needs and complex IT environment, including high-performance restores, scalable backup, DR, archival ability, and analytics to simplify data protection – all delivered as-a-service.

“The velocity of our business continues to accelerate, and if the right data isn’t there to avoid collisions and confusion on the job site, all work grinds to a halt,” said Jim Nonn, CIO, Egan. “From the start, Druva’s ability to backup data directly to the cloud and rapid restore performance exceeded our expectations compared to Veeam. Druva’s architecture is perfect for our virtualized environment and puts us in an ideal position as our business continues to expand.“

As a company that is 100% virtualized, Egan was able to deploy Phoenix, a data protection and management solution designed for enterprise workloads with a cloud-first approach. It then saw the benefits of this cloud-native solution, including reduced risk and cost, increased reliability, and savings of more than 30 hours a month for maintenance and storage management of the firm’s environment. With the deployment completed, the firm is exploring future projects in the cloud, including running VMs in the cloud for DR and running their environments in the cloud day-to-day.

“We’re helping customers realize the promise of cloud through our solutions,” said Jaspreet Singh, founder and CEO, Druva. “Customers like Egan can now manage and protect their data from any source, including data centers, SaaS applications, cloud workloads or user devices, regardless of volume or location; all without impacting response time and reducing TCO. Egan never has to worry about where the data is, or how quickly they can restore it.“

Phoenix is available as part of the Druva Cloud Platform, which provides a single pane for data management and protection across cloud and on-premises data sources – improving data resiliency, visibility and alignment to data governance needs. By providing a common services layer, the Cloud Platform unifies Phoenix, Druva CloudRanger, and Druva inSync so organizations can apply data policies, monitor their data at the global level, recover from site disasters and data loss and better manage the data lifecycle across environments. The platform scales to accommodate petabytes of data due to its AWS native architecture and enables customers to take control of their most critical data stored across end-point devices, in the data center, and with SaaS services.