A professional services firm gained data resilience and efficiency with automated centralised archival

Data efficiency through archiving
A professional services firm kept data resilient and costs predictable with automated archival

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About the company

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Zero Touch
Location: N/A
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Industry: Professional Services (Chartered Accountancy firm)
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Users: 240+
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Data volume: 5+ TB
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Operations: Financial sector clients, subject to SEBI oversight
Existing systems: Microsoft 365

Why now?

As teams scaled and volumes of data grew, it created data retention challenges, putting operational continuity and data access at risk.

The difference vaultastic made

Before Vaultastic

  • Critical emails were unprotected, exposing the business to loss and attacks
  • Ex-employee mailboxes were scattered, making handovers slow and unreliable
  • Historical PST archives fragmented across devices and accounts
  • Mailbox growth strained IT and budgets, causing constant firefighting

After Vaultastic

  • Every record preserved securely, reducing risk and strengthening trust
  • Successor access simplified, with records available when needed
  • All past records centralized, improving visibility and oversight
  • Costs kept predictable, while IT effort was freed up

Lack of centralized oversight was exposing the business to risk

Mailbox quotas filled rapidly, forcing frequent IT intervention to keep operations running

Ex-employee mailboxes were retained manually, making records incomplete and at risk of loss

Critical emails had no protection from ransomware, accidental deletions, or malicious actions

Successors faced delays in accessing ex-employee communications, slowing continuity and handovers

With no independent copy of email archives, compliance readiness was always in question

Behind the results: how targeted implementation drove change

Automated archival reshaped how emails were managed, reducing IT strain, improving continuity, and lowering costs.
What changed on the ground         What it meant for the business
Automated archival captured all live and legacy emails, including PSTs and in-place archives

 

Improved productivity, as IT no longer managed quotas or manual backups
Continuous archiving created a secure, independent cloud copy of all mailboxes Reduced risk, with emails safeguarded from accidental loss, ransomware, or malicious actions

 

Former employee mailboxes preserved centrally in a unified archive

 

Ensured continuity, with records always available during staff transitions
Successor access enabled through powerful eDiscovery tools

 

Smoother handovers, with faster discovery and less effort for new staff
Automated retention policies controlled mailbox growth in Microsoft 365 Lower subscription costs, maintaining the basic M365 plan without performance trade-offs

 

Why vaultastic was the right fit

These results were made possible by Vaultastic’s secure and auto-scale platform, designed to handle
high-volume information archival, helping create a scalable repository of information records and assets.

Always-on archiving captured live and legacy emails, eliminating manual backup effort

The unified cloud archive consolidated scattered PSTs and ex-employee mailboxes, improving visibility and continuity

Deep eDiscovery tools enabled precise, fast retrieval of records during audits and handovers

Elastic storage tiers kept long-term retention costs predictable while ensuring durability

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