Case Study: Horizon Food Group reduces backup window by 85% with ExaGrid

Horizon Reduces Backup Window by 85% with ExaGrid / Veeam Backup Storage Solution

Horizon Food Group, maker of Cutie Pie snack pies, was struggling with lengthy, manual backups in a fully virtualized environment—backup jobs ran 20–22 hours and required daily swapping of external drives, a painful process made harder by a reduced in-house IT staff. The company needed a disk-based, efficient backup solution to ensure reliable daily protection and faster restores.

Horizon deployed an ExaGrid backup appliance with Veeam, protecting 30+ TB and adding an offsite Veeam repository for DR. The combined solution cut the backup window by 85% (from about 20 hours to roughly 3 hours), delivered “blazingly fast” restores from the ExaGrid landing zone, improved offsite replication, is easy to scale, and earned strong marks for ongoing R&D and customer support.

Horizon Food Group

Roger Beard

Director, Information Systems