INDUSTRY: MANUFACTURING | ACRONIS BACKUP CASE STUDYJohnson Electric
Quadruples Backup
Speed and Blocks
Ransomware Attacks
with Acronis Backup
Acronis Backup simplified data protection
procedures and stopped frequentransomware attacks.
Business Summary
Johnson Electric is one of the world's
largest providers of motors, solenoids,micro-switches, flexible printed
circuits and micro-electronics. With anannual production capacity of over 1
billion units, Johnson Electric delivers
products and services to the mostexacting standards of performance,
quality and reliability. Johnson Electricis active in the automotive, building
automation, home technologies
and medical device markets and iscommitted to making its customers

as successful as possible by providing
product differentiation and supply
chain excellence.

Business Challenge
Founded in 1959, Johnson Electric
has continued to grow and expand its
business. With multiple product lines,
partner investments, acquisitions,
expanding manufacturing facilities andtoday’s shifting IT landscape, it has anever-increasing amount of data to backup. And all of it has to be auditable forcompliance purposes.

SECTOR
Manufacturing, automotive,industrial products, medical

KEY CHALLENGES• Risk of downtime• Intellectual property protection• Defense from ransomware

KEY REQUIREMENTS• Complete system backup• Ease-of-use• Ability to scale• Flexible storage support

IT INFRASTRUCTURE• VMware ESXi
• NetApp storage• Over 100 virtual machines• Several physical servers

KEY BENEFITS• Complete, reliable bare-metal
recovery• Automated backup on-site andoff-site• Proactive ransomware andother malware protection• Ability to implement future
blockchain strategy withNotary

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In the U.S., Johnson Electric was trying toperform these tasks with older solutions
that are simply not equipped to handle
today’s data or threats like malware andransomware.
“When I started with Johnson in 2011,
we were backing up our critical businessdata on Arcserve from 2006,” said
network administrator Joel Stuart.
“It worked, but was labor intensive
and the completeness of the data wasquestionable. And there was never any
way to get maintenance done.““When management asked if our businesscould survive if a backup failed or weexperienced a problem, we realized we
had reached a critical point,” said Stuart.
Then Johnson’s Ohio office sufferedaseries of four ransomware attacks.
Theworst came via email, and Johnson’s
antivirus protection failed to detect thethreat until after the damage was done.
The entire Ohio site, including 200+
users, was affected, as were more thanadozen manufacturing lines.
The ordeal lasted 15 hours, with eight
hours of downtime for everyone. Over
3 TB of data was affected. Due to theshortcomings of its backups, Stuart hadto restore much of the data from local
USB hard drives.
The total downtime from all four malware
attacks was more than 30 hours, but thecrisis served as a catalyst for Johnson
Electric.

The Solution
After the attacks, Johnson Electric began
looking for a new backup solution thatwas innovative and robust enoughto scale for the future – and one thatwould provide a strong defense against
ransomware.
But the company had other technology
goals as well. It was looking for a baremetal data protection solution thatwould safeguard its data from hardware
failures and natural disasters suchas fire or flood. In addition, Johnson
Electric wanted to address broader dataprotection technology goals – security,authenticity and making data tamperproof with blockchain technology.
Johnson quickly determined that Acronis
was the only vendor that could provide
everything it needed.

The Result
Johnson Electric is now using Acronis
Backup 12.5 Advanced edition at six
sites in the Americas. It has increased
its backup from protecting a single
physical endpoint to protecting morethan 20 physical and virtual endpoints
simultaneously at multiple locations(with over 20 TB of data). And its
Acronis Backup 12.5 deployment costjust one-sixth what other vendors
would charge – vendors who can’t
provide ransomware protection.
In addition, data backup speeds have
improved dramatically. It used totake eight hours to back up primary
file servers to an external hard drivewith Arcserve. With Acronis anddata deduplication, full backups to adeduplication store take only two hours.
And backing up the same data to tapetakes just five hours.
“The speed with which we can now backup and restore business data was a big
selling point for us,” said Stuart. “It gives
us confidence because we know our data
backups are complete.”
Best of all, Johnson has not suffered any
new ransomware attacks since switching
to Acronis.
“Ransomware was a major point ofconcern for us,” said Stuart. “With theinnovative features such as Acronis
Active Protection against ransomware,
we are implementing the strongest
defense on the market today. And theAcronis Notary technology available in
12.5 is strategically important to us forthe future.”

About Acronis
Acronis sets the standard forhybrid cloud data protection
through its backup, disasterrecovery, and secure file sync andshare solutions. Powered by theAcronis AnyData Engine and set
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Acronis delivers easy, complete,
and affordable data protectionof all files, applications andoperating systems across any
environment—virtual, physical,
cloud, and mobile. Founded in
2003, Acronis protects the data ofover five million consumers and500,000 businesses in over 145
countries. With more than 100
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