Case Study: Alpha Bank achieves 99% faster backup, replication and recovery with Veeam Availability Suite

Alpha Bank relies on Veeam for virtual environment data protection

Alpha Bank, a major Greek financial institution with operations across Europe, needed to replace a legacy backup solution that was degrading performance. The old system didn’t integrate with HPE storage and offered limited visibility into VMware vSphere, slowing backups, replication and recovery and risking business continuity, SLAs with affiliate banks and GDPR compliance.

The bank deployed Veeam Availability Suite integrated with HPE storage and VMware, restoring snapshot integration and adding advanced monitoring. The solution increased backup/replication/recovery speeds by 99%, cut storage costs by 30% and software costs by 20%, improved deduplication to 22:1, protected 9.2 PB across 7,500+ VMs to HPE StoreOnce, reduced recoveries from hours to seconds, and enabled rapid remote-working support during COVID.

Alpha Bank

Efthymios Bekas

Assistant Manager, IT Systems Division