Switching to Eon gave us the cloud visibility and recovery speed we’d been missing for years.
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—Satish Nair, Sr. Manager IT, NETGEAR

About NETGEAR

NETGEAR is a global provider of networking and connectivity solutions with a growing AWS footprint across EC2 workloads and large SQL Server databases. As cloud adoption accelerated and new acquisitions expanded their environments, NETGEAR needed a unified, cloud-native approach to control costs, improve visibility, and shorten recovery times across the business.

The Challenge

After nearly eight years of using a legacy provider in a traditional data center environment, the shift to AWS exposed several limitations:

• Limited visibility into backup spend: Previous tools provided little transparency into actual backup costs or usage.
• Slow recovery: Instances larger than 10TB could take up to 24 hours to recover, significantly impacting recovery objectives.
• Operational overhead: Multiple components and moving parts increased both cost and management burden.
• Delayed improvements: Requests for critical features often went unanswered, slowing modernization efforts.
• Corporate cost pressure: Leadership mandated meaningful infrastructure savings and greater control over cloud spend.

Their previous solution wasn’t built for cloud scale, and visibility gaps made cost control and DR planning increasingly difficult.

Why Eon

Cloud-native from day one

NETGEAR chose Eon because it was purpose-built for cloud workloads rather than retrofitted from on-premise architecture, with the added goal of leveraging backup data as a backend data lake to generate insights using AI technologies.

Eon enables backups that reflect the way our cloud truly works—faster, more transparent, and easier to operate.

Real-time cost clarity

Eon’s Cost Explorer gave NETGEAR instant insight into spend by resource and application, eliminating the delays and inaccuracies of manual reporting.

Eon heard our requirements and mobilized the right team to deploy the solution, adding NETGEAR-requested features in days—flawlessly and without errors.

A simple, fast deployment

Eon integrated cleanly into their AWS environment. The same team that managed their previous tool deployed Eon in under a week with virtually no retraining.

The Solution

NETGEAR deployed Eon across its AWS workloads as part of a broader shift to a cloud-first backup strategy. With Eon, NETGEAR now benefits from:

• A cloud-native, agentless architecture aligned with AWS best practices
• Optimized recovery for large, business-critical databases
• Real-time spend visibility through Cost Explorer
• Automated coverage and posture monitoring aligned to Cloud Backup Posture Management (CBPM) principles
• Monthly cadence reviews covering usage, cost, and roadmap updates

The Results

35% reduction in backup storage costs

Eon’s storage model and automated policy management immediately reduced NETGEAR’s backup spend, helping them meet a company-wide cost mandate.

88% faster recovery for a 10TB SQL Server database

Recovery dropped from 24 hours to under three, strengthening their disaster recovery posture and reducing operational risk.

Cutting 10TB recovery from almost a full day to a few hours strengthened our confidence in our disaster recovery strategy.

Accurate, real-time cost visibility

Cost Explorer eliminated manual reporting and enabled chargeback by instance, application, and team.

Operational simplicity from day one

Deployment was quick, onboarding was minimal, and the team immediately gained clearer visibility and easier day-to-day management.

A partnership that accelerates innovation

The speed, transparency, and collaboration continued beyond deployment, giving NETGEAR confidence in both the platform and the team behind it.