Case Study: Jungle Jim's achieves rapid VM recovery and 80% faster backups with ExaGrid

Jungle Jim’s International Market Loses VMs, Quickly Recovers with ExaGrid and Veeam

Jungle Jim’s International Market, a large specialty grocery with two Ohio locations, faced rapid data growth after virtualizing most of its infrastructure. Its tape-based backups could not keep pace, and a SAN bug later caused a cluster failure that wiped out nearly 15 virtual machines, including credit card processing data—exposing the need for faster, more reliable backups and disaster recovery.

Jungle Jim’s deployed ExaGrid disk-based backup with post-process deduplication and cross-replication alongside Veeam Backup & Replication. Using Veeam’s Instant VM Recovery and ExaGrid’s landing zone and dedupe (≈9:1), they ran critical systems from backups and fully restored operations in under 3.5 hours (vs. an estimated 2–3 days on physical recovery), cut backup windows by 80%, and gained a scalable, easy-to-manage DR solution.

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Will Bradshaw

IT Manager