Case Study: Pump Solutions Group achieves major cloud-storage savings and improved VM protection with Riverbed Whitewater

Whitewater and Veeam work together to reduce data storage costs and improve the protection of virtual machines

Pump Solutions Group (PSG) is a global pump manufacturer with facilities across the U.S., Europe and Asia. As PSG consolidated disparate brands onto a common IT platform, one subsidiary—Wilden Pump—faced rapidly growing data (about 1 TB/year), an aging tape-based disaster recovery process and a nearly fully virtualized environment (95% VMware, ~100 VMs), creating slow, labor-intensive backups and difficult VM-level restores.

PSG deployed Amazon S3 storage with a Riverbed Whitewater cloud gateway and Veeam Backup & Replication. Whitewater’s 7.51x deduplication cut 65.8 TB to 9 TB sent to S3, saving about $8.5K/month (> $100K/year) and eliminating tape costs and two hours/day of admin work; Veeam simplified VM backups and restores (including Instant VM Recovery and object-level recovery), reduced backup staff time by 20–30%, sped restores to hours, and shifted costs from capex to more flexible opex.

Pump Solutions Group

Jeff Rountree

Global Network Manager