Case Study: Bingham McCutchen

As is the case with all large law firms, information is the lifeblood of Bingham McCutchen, LLP. With more than 850 attorneys and 12 offices throughout the United States, Europe, and Japan, Bingham McCutchen has data spread out over 200 servers that need to be backed up each night. The firm currently backs up over 12 terabytes of critical data each day.

Each night, full backups were performed for each server's data store. Because each server had its own tape drive, between 50 and 60 backups had to be performed at one location alone. All tapes were then taken off-site. A weekly and monthly full backup were also performed and sent off-site. The monthly backups were left off-site permanently. This procedure was performed in each of Bingham McCucthen's offices each night. At headquarters, backups consumed more than 66 tapes every night, week, and month.