Tetra Tech

Tetra Tech consolidates 500 global offices with Nasuni

 

About Tetra Tech

Tetra Tech is a global engineering and environmental science company with a footprint of approximately 500 to 550 offices worldwide and 27,000 employees. The company manages large design files critical to its projects and operates in a highly collaborative environment, with talent distributed across its global offices.

The challenge

Tetra Tech faced significant challenges in managing and storing its vast data.

As an engineering firm handling large design files, the company required efficient collaboration across its globally distributed workforce. Managing backups for 400-500 offices presented a daunting technical hurdle, further complicated by the inefficiency of maintaining separate file structures, servers, and backups. A critical ransomware event three years prior exposed vulnerabilities in its data security and recovery processes, serving as a wake-up call to reassess its IT infrastructure. Although Tetra Tech recovered all its data, the experience underscored the need for better encryption, global deduplication, and a more scalable storage solution.

Additionally, integrating file systems during acquisitions was cumbersome and time-consuming, further highlighting the limitations of their existing approach.

How Nasuni helped Tetra Tech

Nasuni helped simplify and eliminate complexity.

Nasuni’s set up consolidated 500 file servers into a single, unified environment managed via one easy console for Tetra Tech to access.

Nasuni allows Tetra Tech to sleep soundly at night with enhanced data security.

Nasuni helped improve encryption and global deduplication capabilities, which were critical to Tetra Tech after its ransomware incident.

Nasuni makes streamlining acquisitions easy.

Implementing Nasuni helped simplify the integration of newly acquired companies by replacing file servers with Nasuni filers, allowing for seamless data migration without disrupting Tetra Tech’s operations. According to the Director of IT Systems and Engineering, Chris Moorhea, “Now we don’t have to touch their servers… We copy the data, pipe it up to Nasuni, and we’re done.”

Nasuni provides cost-effective cloud usage.

By eliminating backup and server licensing costs, reducing power and cooling requirements, and repurposing IT staff for more strategic tasks, Nasuni enabled Tetra Tech to decrease its overall costs drastically. “By moving to Nasuni, we were saving money over time,” says Moorhea.

We had one of those events that drives you to make a decision, and that was a significant ransomware event.

Chris Moorhea, Director of IT Systems and Engineering at Tetratech

The Nasuni difference

Nasuni provided Tetra Tech with a transformative solution that addressed its data management challenges while delivering measurable efficiencies and cost savings. Nasuni’s platform’s robust encryption and global deduplication capabilities significantly enhanced data security and resilience, ensuring business continuity despite potential ransomware events. By driving long-term savings, security, and operational scalability, Nasuni became a critical enabler of Tatra Tech’s growth and innovation.

Industry: Architecture, engineering and construction

Cloud file storage: Nasuni