From failing backups to air-gapped protection in hours

Bonnier Corporation, one of America’s largest special-interest publishing groups (Popular Science, Field & Stream), had backup jobs failing to complete on aging infrastructure — leaving data exposed. BrickStor solved the near-term crisis and gave Bonnier a secure, scalable platform for future growth.

Industry

Advertising & Publishing

Solution

BrickStor (FE903)

simultaneous backups vs. prior system

141 TB

usable capacity before compression

Hours

from install to running backups

20+

magazine brands across platforms

“With my data protection issues resolved, I’m looking forward to maximizing my investment and leveraging BrickStor SP for our upcoming general-purpose file storage initiative.”

David Sampson — Director of IT Infrastructure, Bonnier Corporation

The Challenge

Bonnier had a growing data-protection problem and little time to solve it. Backup jobs were not completing within their windows on aging storage infrastructure, leaving data unprotected and vulnerable.

Beyond backup, Bonnier needed multipurpose, secure, scalable storage with the performance and enterprise features to meet future data demands — not just a stopgap for the immediate crisis.

The Solution

After reviewing several vendors, Bonnier determined RackTop was the only one able to provide a secure backup solution within budget and timeline. It deployed BrickStor FE903 with 141 TB of usable capacity before compression.

Deployment took just a few hours: the RackTop team arrived in the morning and by lunchtime the system was online, backup jobs were running, and Bonnier was already seeing a 3X performance increase.

The Results

Ran 3X the number of simultaneous backups and completed all scheduled jobs within the allocated window — eliminating weekly administration headaches.
Improved both recovery time (RTO) and recovery point (RPO) objectives.
Metadata intelligence services — a high-performance, continuous index of all files — enabled instant keyword search and restore of individual files, folders, or data sets.
Unlimited, indexed, immutable snapshots that are offline and unmounted by design — a secure, air-gapped copy that ransomware, viruses, and malware cannot touch.

Capabilities Deployed

What BrickStor SP delivered

Air-gap data protection

Immutable snapshots

DoD-grade Zero Trust data security

Security and storage in one solution

Metadata intelligence and file indexing

“I have been extremely impressed with RackTop from both a technology and a support perspective. By lunch time the system was online, backup jobs were running, and I was already seeing a 3X increase in performance.”

David Sampson — Director of IT Infrastructure, Bonnier Corporation

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