The Good Tech Companies - How Skechers Streamlined Costs and Enhanced AWS Data Protection with N2W

Episode Date: June 17, 2025

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/how-skechers-streamlined-costs-and-enhanced-aws-data-protection-with-n2w. Learn how Skechers cut costs, simplified backup, and boosted data recovery reliability across multi-cloud environments with N2W’s powerful solution. Check more stories related to cloud at: https://hackernoon.com/c/cloud. You can also check exclusive content about #skechers-cloud-backup, #n2w-case-study, #multi-cloud-recovery, #aws-backup-automation, #backup-cost-optimization, #cross-region-data-recovery, #good-company, #hackernoon-top-story, and more. This story was written by: @n2w. Learn more about this writer by checking @n2w's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. Skechers streamlined its complex multi-cloud backup and recovery systems using N2W. The result: major cost savings, simplified management, and reliable recovery. With cross-region automation, dry-run testing, and tiered storage, N2W became a key part of Skechers’ global IT standardization strategy.

This audio is presented by Hacker Noon, where anyone can learn anything about any technology. How Sketchers streamlined costs and enhanced AWS data protection with N2W. BYN2W. The organization. Meet Sketchers. Sketchers, the iconic comfort technology company, sells a wide range of footwear and apparel products. It boasts more than 15,000 employees and operates within early every country across the globe. Like most retailers operating on a massive scale, Sketchers relies on a complex set of IT assets to connect its many teams and move information seamlessly across the business. Those assets include applications, databases, and other resources

that are hosted on multiple clouds, including AWS, Google Cloud Platform, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, across disparate cloud regions. Book your free demo today and start optimizing your data protection strategy with N2W on AWS Marketplace. The Challenge. Achieving Standardized Backup and Recovery. Historically, Sketchers employed a diverse mix of backup and recovery tools within its various cloud environments and other systems.

But when Gabriel Sandoval, manager of cloud engineering, came on board, the company's IT organization was on a mission to standardize the business's IT tooling, including the software it used to manage backup and recovery operations. Our mixed IT ecosystem was hampering our ability to grow," Sandoval says. When it came to choosing a solution to drive backup and recovery standardization, the choice was clear to Sandoval, who advocated strongly for N2W. Having used the product with great success in roles at previous companies, he knew it would deliver the simplicity that his teams sought, while also keeping costs in check

and enabling highly reliable data recovery across Skeche's complex IT environments. It was an easy pitch to make to management, he says of his efforts to encourage the organization's adoption of the product. https://www.youtube.com slash watch?v equals 38 oon underscore k5 libuilding value through data protection simplicity, cost savings, and reliability. N2W quickly began delivering the value that Sandoval had expected, starting with the product's

simple setup process. Greater than, it was ridiculously easy to implement. It was just a matter of a few clicks, greater than and the support we got was hands down some of the best. They walked us through greater than everything from start to finish, then made sure the product was fully up and greater than running properly. He adds that this hands-on support was available as a core part of the N2Wi product offering, without requiring additional payment. In my experience, I have not seen that type of hand holding without having to pay a separate consulting fee. That is a big kudos to N2W.

Book your free demo today and start optimizing your data protection strategy with N2W on AWS Marketplace. The solution also proved highly valuable from a cost perspective. Skechers saves money by taking advantage of the ability to store data directly in low-cost cloud storage and automatically cycle backups to lower cost storage tiers as the data ages. I don't see from any other player in the backup Andre recovery market right now," Sandoval notes. He adds that the ability to automate cross-region backup and recovery operations is also a money saver for Skechers because it makes it easy to migrate to different cloud regions based

on which ones offer the lowest costs. When you plug in N2W, you'll see immediate savings, Sandoval says. That's important because we were able to put that money back into the business to achieve greater headcount. Of course, low-cost backups are not worth much if they don't enable successful recovery. That's why N2W's dry run feature is so important. As Sandoval notes, being able to test how we recover everything, our file systems, our databases, our applications, through a dry run is really powerful. It lets us plan ahead of time how we'll recover, and confirm that our plans will actually work. Standardizing N2W across multiple cloud envir onments at first, Skechers deployed N2W within just a few key cloud environments.

But now that Sandoval and his team have fully validated the solution and gained a deep understanding of the unique value it offers in terms of ease of use, cost, and reliability, they're rolling it across the rest of the company's IT estate. Standardization is everything. And as we standardize by creating a global framework that Skechers uses across the board, N2W is a big part of that process, Sandoval explains. Modernize and optimize your data protection strategy. See for yourself how N2W can bring ridiculously simple, cost-effective, and powerful backup and recovery capabilities

to your organization by scheduling a custom demo. Thank you for listening to this Hacker Noon story, read by Artificial Intelligence. Visit HackerNoon.com to read, write, learn and publish.