CASE STUDY

Mother Lode Holding
Company Transforms
Operations for DataManagement withCohesity and MicrosoftAzure
Mother Lode Holding Company (MLHC) and its family of companies provide title
insurance and settlement support services to the nation’s real estate industry.
INDUSTRY
Financial Services
USE CASE
Backup and Recovery, Disaster
Recovery, Scale-Out NAS
COHESITY SOLUTIONS
DataPlatform, DataProtect,
CloudArchive, CloudTier
SOLUTION PARTNERS

With the founding of its principal subsidiary, Placer Title Company in 1973, Mother
Lode has since expanded outside of its original California market to provide title,escrow, and title-related products and services throughout the United States.
Mother Lode continues to extend its commercial and residential services byempowering talented, innovative people to make the decisions necessary tosatisfy customers on the spot and by utilizing technology that delivers measurable
improvement of service to its customers.

Challenges

Microsoft Azure, VMware

The IT Department at MLHC is responsible for providing technology services to more than 1,200

CHANNEL PARTNER

protection systems in place in past years, including IBM and Veritas NetBackup. These aging solutions

ePlusemployees across all its brands, including remote office support. MLHC had several legacy data
worked well at the time, but as data volumes have grown, the IT team was at the mercy of dated
architecture that was struggling to properly back up tens of millions of files.

Key Benefits

The escrow and title industry produces a large volume of small files, and data is often retained
indefinitely to meet both regulatory and internal requirements. Before implementing a new solution,
data backup and recovery was a tedious and cumbersome process. A full backup was not able to• Reduced time for Exchange
backups by 75%• More than 20x deduplicationand compression even with
raw data and image files• Time for data restore process
lowered by more than 98%• Up to 40% TCO savings overthree years compared tocompetitors

complete before the next full backup needed to begin, and restoring data was even more difficult.
While the IT team developed bespoke solutions and workarounds for data protection throughsnapshots and replication, it was evident that a new solution was needed in order to keep pace withbusiness requirements. In addition, the company aimed to reduce costs and was exploring how toleverage Microsoft Azure for tiered storage and disaster recovery.

CASE STUDY | Mother Lode Holding Company““We have seen a dramatic improvement of day-to-day operations, greatly simplifying data
management across our entire organization with Cohesity. As our requirements expand, Cohesity
will allow MLHC to shorten RPO and RTO times, make our physical storage expenditure curve more
shallow, move colder data to the cloud for uncluttered data tiering, and migrate file shares on asingle web-scale platform with on-the-fly maintenance for stability and reliability.”
Ryan Murphy, Chief Information Security Officer, MLHC

MLHC aimed for the following capabilities in a data management

costs. Not all of its data will need to be stored on expensive, highsolution:

speed disk storage, and some data can easily move to the cloud.

• Enable simplified management for reliable and resilient dataprotection and recovery• Improve overall data recovery process, including options for
granular recovery• Reduce costs to enable a smaller physical storage footprint• Provide a scalable solution to meet future data requirementswith the ability to migrate data to the cloudSolution
In the past several years, MLHC tried to resolve its data management
challenges with other solutions, but found many vendors dramaticallyoversold their capabilities. While the existing NetBackup solution
was successful for a time, once the company’s data footprint began
to grow, the IT team sought out other solutions. After speaking toa Cohesity customer with a similar environment, and following a
successful Proof of Concept, the IT team chose Cohesity for backup
and recovery as well as for future use of its scale-out NAS capabilities.
To date, Cohesity has replaced NetBackup for raw file storage, while
MLHC continues to explore the possibility of expanding their use toinclude roaming profiles and home directories in the future. Cohesity
currently enables MLHC to protect 175TB of physical space to back up
SMB and CIFS shares.

The company will be able to lower costs by shifting data with lower
security risks and regulatory requirements to the cloud, while
being able to quickly locate and retrieve it wherever it is stored withCohesity’s Google-like search. Data recovery is greatly simplified andwill allow users to easily find what they need.
Before, it could have taken hours to locate a file to restore, but withCohesity that process is nearly instantaneous. “Often times when weare asked to recover a folder or file, it’s like looking for a needle in ahaystack, except that you don’t know if you’re looking for a needle
or a haystack, and you have no idea where the pile of hay lives,”
explains Murphy. “With Cohesity, the UI is phenomenal and you juststart typing words and the results are instantaneous, making data
recovery a breeze.”
The IT team will soon begin using the cloud as part of their disasterrecovery strategy. The company has tested Cohesity to back up aVM on-premises with a snapshot, replicate the backup to Cohesity
CloudEdition, and then use the native API integration with Azure tostage as a source or destination. The first test was on a 200TB VM thatthe team was able to bring up in Azure in under 15 minutes. It makes
sense for MLHC to continue to leverage Azure for reduced cost andgreater efficiency.
“People’s time is just as expensive as any physical asset we have. InResults

some cases, it’s a higher cost savings the more data we migrate toCohesity has quickly become a major component of the data center

key, and hiring more people is not necessarily a way to save cost. The

infrastructure, backing up the entire VMware environment, providing

best way IT can contribute to the bottom line and increase revenue issimplified management, and ensuring rapid disaster recovery.

to do our jobs better than our peers and adopt technology that makes

Cohesity also gives the IT team options for tiering data to optimizethat happen. Cohesity enables efficiency, which at the end of the day

the cloud,” said Murphy. “With a small IT team, time and efficiency are

makes data management more cost effective.”

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MLHC realized many benefits with Cohesity including:• Reduced time for Exchange backups by 75%• More than 20x deduplication and compression even with raw
data and image files• Time for data restore process lowered by more than 98%• Up to 40% TCO savings over three years compared tocompetitors© 2022 Cohesity, Inc. All rights reserved.
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