CASE STUDY
enabled ANGE to achieve ROI on its Veeam
deployment in well under two years. Veeam
SureBackup is a standout feature for ANGE,
as it has eliminated the need to manually
verify backups.
“We are now assured that every backup
is always taken correctly and can be used
in any event or emergency,” said Foster.
“We can thus guarantee up-to-date
information is always available when and
where it is needed, a vital requirement for
an organisation with over 100 offices and
What this means is that employees are not
inhibited, but rather empowered by IT.”
Many key applications in ANGE’s
environment weren’t designed for high
availability, but Veeam addresses this by
increasing VM restore speed by over 10 times.
Results of the solution:
Enables 99.8% virtualisation, achieving
sustainability objectives and cutting
capital expenses
FOSTER ESTIMATES THAT HIS TEAM
NOW SAVES 1,000 MAN-HOURS PER
YEAR THANKS TO VEEAM.
sites across such a vast area.” He was also
highly impressed by Veeam’s recovery
features. He said: “Because a lot of the work
our employees do requires collaboration
and the involvement of contractors, it’s very
important that we have reliable backups
at every stage of the process in case there
is a miscommunication or a need to refer
to previous versions. Whereas file recovery
could take up to a day, with Veeam, we can
resolve these issues in under five minutes.
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“This eliminates business risk and makes us
far more resilient to data loss or application
failure,” he added.
Improves full VM recovery speed by
over 10 times
Veeam has shortened backup windows
by over 60%, automated the backup and
verification process with SureBackup, and
increased the speed of full VM recovery by
over 10 times. Foster estimates that his team
now saves 1,000 man-hours per year thanks
to Veeam, resulting in a large amount of
annual savings.
Full Return on Investment (ROI) in
under two years
“Veeam gave us the confidence to carry
out the complete virtualisation of our
environment. We know our VMs can be
instantly recovered, and we have the tools
needed to closely monitor our entire virtual
environment in real time,” said Foster. Although ANGE has experienced a data
explosion in recent years with volumes
growing by 50 to 200% in some areas, the
organisation has been able to accommodate
this with its existing storage investments.
This is because Veeam has reduced storage
requirements by close to 50%, allowing
ANGE to avoid an estimated $180,000 in
capital expenses.
Considerably greater speed and efficiency
has meant that ANGE now extends backup
to all applications, rather than only mission-
critical ones. “Taking into account such cost savings and the
increased productivity of my team, I believe
we achieved ROI on this implementation in
under two years,” said Foster. n
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