Case Study: Ventnor City cuts restore times from days to minutes with Scality ARTESCA and Veeam

Immutable Municipal Backup at Ventnor City

Ventnor City, a coastal municipality in New Jersey, faced a crippling ransomware attack that exposed its legacy backup system's failures, including lost data and multi-day restore times. The attack, coupled with a more than doubled renewal price, forced the city's one-person IT department to seek a modern solution with immutability from vendor Scality and its ARTESCA object storage product.

Scality implemented a solution using Veeam Backup & Replication and Scality ARTESCA to create local immutable backups at three on-premises sites with cloud replication. This resulted in restores being reduced from five days to minutes or hours, achieved 10-15% cost savings, and reduced the IT admin's daily workload by approximately 20%, providing strong ransomware protection and resilience for future initiatives.

Ventnor City