Case Study: Hoffman Construction achieves fast, reliable, scalable backups with ExaGrid (leveraging Veeam Backup & Replication)

Hoffman Construction Optimizes Data Protection with Veeam Backup & Replication on ExaGrid’s Disk-Based Backup Appliance

Hoffman Construction Company, a major U.S. general contractor with an expanding virtual environment and about 600 users, struggled to protect and quickly recover critical data as its IT responsibilities nearly doubled. Backups were slow, consumed half of SAN capacity, lacked replication, and left users—especially field crews across WAN links—vulnerable to outages and lengthy recovery times.

By deploying Veeam Backup & Replication with ExaGrid’s disk-based appliance and landing‑zone architecture, Hoffman gained fast, verifiable backups, on-demand sandbox testing, and Instant VM Recovery capability. The combined solution enabled full, near-instant restoration of all VMs after a SAN crash, cut SQL recovery time from six hours to under three, achieved about 4:1 data reduction, and provides seamless, scalable growth by adding ExaGrid appliances without performance loss.

Hoffman Construction

Kelly Bott

Field Technician/Technical Specialist