Disaster Recovery That Scales Across Automotive Manufacturing 

• Industry: Automotive & Manufacturing 
• Employees: 50,000+ 
• HQ Location: Michigan 

About the Client

A Michigan-based automotive manufacturer that operates multiple manufacturing facilities across the region. With a longstanding presence in the automotive and manufacturing sector, the company manages large volumes of operational and production data. The headquarters is located in Michigan, and the organization maintains a strong commitment to innovation, operational reliability, and continuous business growth. 

The Challenge

The Michigan-based automotive manufacturer faced a strict deadline to launch a new project requiring new infrastructure. Concurrently, the organization needed to ensure its data protection, storage, and disaster recovery strategy could support both the new initiative and existing operations. In addition, the organization operates across multiple facilities, where individual sites were managing infrastructure and backups independently, creating inconsistency and risk. 

The customer needed to: 

• Stand up new infrastructure without delaying a critical project 
• Eliminate inconsistent backup and recovery processes across sites   
• Protect growing volumes of operational and production data  
• Ensure recoverability without disrupting manufacturing operations  
• Standardize disaster recovery without increasing internal complexity 

The Solution

OTAVA delivered a fully managed infrastructure and data protection solution. By utilizing a VMware Private Cloud environment, OTAVA supported immediate deployment needs while establishing a repeatable proof-of-concept model. This approach introduced a more standardized framework for backup and disaster recovery, designed to support broader rollout across multiple manufacturing sites. 

• VMware Private Cloud Deployment: Delivered secure, high-performance infrastructure to support the new project workloads and ensure optimal resource utilization 
• Disaster Recovery Services aligned to business continuity and recovery objectives 
• Managed Partnership Model, OTAVA handled deployment, monitoring, and ongoing management, allowing a seamless extension of the customer’s IT team

This approach enabled the customer to launch the new project on schedule while relying on OTAVA as a long-term managed services partner. 

The Results

By partnering with OTAVA, the manufacturer deployed its new infrastructure on time while standardizing backup and disaster recovery readiness across its environment. The initial POC established a standardized and repeatable approach, giving the organization a proven framework to scale across additional manufacturing sites. 

• On-Time Project Launch: New infrastructure was deployed and protected without impacting project timelines 
• Improved Resilience: Veeam Managed Backups and disaster recovery capabilities protect both new and existing workloads from localized failures 
• Operational Confidence: IT teams gained assurance that systems were recoverable without increasing their internal daily workload
• Scalable Foundation: The VMware Private Cloud environment established a repeatable model to support expansion across additional sites and predictable, long-term growth
• Trusted Partnership: OTAVA maintained its role as an extension of the customer’s IT team through ongoing management and continuous support

Modern manufacturing requires resilient, standardized operations. By transitioning from independent site management to a unified, managed infrastructure model, this automotive leader secured its operational data and established a clear path for future expansion.