Case Study: NSM Insurance Group stores 58TB in 1.4TB and cuts backup window to 17 hours with ExaGrid and Veeam

NSM Insurance Stores 58TB of Data in 1.4TB of Disk Using ExaGrid and Veeam

NSM Insurance Group, a national specialty insurer and wholesale broker, faced rapidly growing data volumes after moving to virtualization. Backups to tape and then to a NAS with Veeam became slow and unreliable, with full backup windows stretching over a weekend and looming hardware upgrade decisions as data continued to explode.

The firm deployed an ExaGrid disk-based backup appliance alongside Veeam, using ExaGrid’s post-process deduplication and scalable GRID architecture. Results: 58.5 TB of logical data occupies just 1.375 TB of disk (dedupe up to 41:1 for SQL), eight months of retention, and weekly full backups cut from 60+ hours to about 17 hours—while management and scalability were greatly simplified.

NSM Insurance Group

Todd George

Technology Manager