Case Study: Greater Anglia achieves 100x faster restores and 70% less backup administration with Druva

Greater Anglia Leaves Veeam and Veritas, Transports to Druva for SaaS Data Protection

Greater Anglia, a UK train operator serving more than 1.2 million passengers with over 3,000 staff, faced data protection challenges as it moved about 80% of its IT to the cloud. A lean IT team of ten was managing legacy backup tools (Veeam and Veritas) that were complex to operate, slow to restore (often taking days), and struggled with Microsoft 365 protection, eDiscovery, regulatory retention requirements, and the need to eliminate on‑prem dependencies.

Greater Anglia consolidated protection onto Druva’s cloud‑native SaaS platform (with partners Intuitive and Arrow), gaining immutable backups, simpler management, and an OpEx model with no on‑prem hardware. The move cut backup administration time by about 70%, made restores roughly 100x faster (minutes instead of days), and allowed less‑trained staff to perform recoveries while providing better retention metrics and cost visibility.

Greater Anglia

Himesh Patel

Head of IT