Lafayette Utilities System
CUSTOMER STORIES Strengthening cyber resilience in mission-critical situations

Customer - Lafayette Utilities System
Industry - Utilities
Location - United States
Vision
Lafayette Utilities System wanted to strengthen its data protection and cyber resiliency to minimize disruption from natural disasters and outages, while proactively securing customer information and infrastructure data against cyber threats.
Solution
Lafayette Utilities System integrated Dell data protection portfolio – including PowerProtect Data Manager and PowerProtect Cyber Recovery – to prepare for and recover from any unforeseen threats by ensuring critical data remains safe and quickly recoverable.
Impact
Dell data protection portfolio allows Lafayette Utilities System to enhance cyber resiliency by delivering intelligent data protection that enables proactive threat protection from natural disasters and cyberattacks. Backup windows have been reduced from 20 hours to less than five, and exchange time from four hours to 20 minutes.
"By using PowerProtect Data Manager, we were able to reduce our exchange backups from 4 hours to 20 minutes and overall reduce our backup windows significantly."
Matthew Suire, Network Engineering and Operations Supervisor, Lafayette Utilities System

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Business Results
Delivers intelligent data protection, enhancing cyber resiliency.
Enables proactive threat protection from natural disasters and cyberattacks.
Accelerates backups from 20 hours to 4-5 hours and exchange server times from 4 hours to 20 minutes.
How Lafayette Utilities System leveraged Dell Technologies
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Dell PowerProtect Data Manager
Delivering multicloud data protection and ensuring minimal service interruption.
Dell PowerProtect Cyber Recovery
Protecting and separating critical data from ransomware and other sophisticated threats.