How RWDI protects 700 TB of irreplaceable engineering data

The wind engineering firm behind Burj Khalifa and the Grand Canyon Skywalk builds data resilience with OpenText Server Backup, for both fires and Friday-afternoon file deletions.

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A single 3D model of a 100-storey building can run to four terabytes, and RWDI’s data footprint grows about 90% a year. With 700 TB under protection, a seven-person IT team supporting 15,000 applications, and NDAs on nearly every project, losing wind tunnel results isn’t an inconvenience, it’s hundreds of employee hours and hundreds of thousands of dollars to rerun. With OpenText Server Backup, RWDI replicates everything to a site 60 miles away, recovers everyday deletions in under five minutes, and once sidestepped a ransomware payout entirely. Read the full story to see how it works.

If we weren’t able to recover some of our files, like our wind tunnel results, we would have to rerun and re-analyze tests, which could cost us hundreds of employee hours and hundreds of thousands of dollars.