Case Study: Ameritas achieves total data availability and significant time and cost savings with Veeam

Ameritas Puts a Premium on Data Availability, and Veeam and NetApp Deliver

Ameritas, a 130+-year-old insurance and financial services company serving about 4 million customers, relies on Big Data to calculate risk, develop products and meet customer needs. When legacy backup tools failed to integrate with their NetApp ONTAP environment, gaps in data availability threatened actuarial deadlines, time to market and customer service in a highly competitive industry.

Ameritas deployed Veeam Availability Suite integrated with NetApp ONTAP on FlexPod, protecting over 1,600 VMware and Hyper‑V VMs, plus physical servers via Veeam Agents, and validating recoverability with Veeam testing. The combined solution delivered complete data availability, enabled staff to shift from backup management to automation, reduced costs versus legacy backup, and positioned Ameritas to extend backups to the cloud with Veeam Cloud Connect.

Ameritas

Jeff Martinson

Director of Information Technology