Case Study: Sonova Group achieves 80% faster backups and 98% improved RTO with Veeam Backup & Replication

Backup Speed Increases by 80 Percent RTO Improves by 98 Percent

Sonova, a Zurich-based leader in hearing healthcare with more than 7,000 employees and two Swiss data centers running roughly 450 VMware virtual machines, struggled with slow, unreliable backups. Weekly full backups could take up to 120 hours, saturating the network, offered no deduplication or compression, produced poor RTOs, and required operations staff to spend about an hour daily monitoring jobs.

After implementing Veeam Backup & Replication, Sonova increased backup speed by 80%, cutting the full weekly backup window to under 24 hours and improving RTO by 98% (critical app recoveries now take about 30 minutes). The solution’s deduplication reduced storage costs and freed operations staff from daily monitoring, boosting overall productivity.

Sonova Group

Edward Czerwin

Senior Systems Engineer, Corporate IT