Case Study: Morris Crocker achieves 88% faster backups and 60% storage savings with Veeam Backup & Replication

Backup Speed Increases by 88 Percent for UK Firm

Morris Crocker, a leading chartered accountancy firm in South Hampshire, consolidated 10 physical servers onto a single VMware ESX host and needed a fast, reliable backup and recovery solution. Their IT manager had poor experiences with a previous vendor—random failures, slow restores and delayed support—so he sought a tool that would deliver consistent, efficient protection for the virtual environment.

They implemented Veeam Backup & Replication, which cut initial backup time from two hours to 30 minutes and subsequent backups to 10–15 minutes (an 88% speed increase), reduced backup storage from about 35–40 GB to ~5 GB (saving ~60% and enabling three weeks’ retention), and made file-level recoveries virtually instantaneous (about 99% faster). Full disaster recovery also dropped from days to under an hour, delivering major time and cost savings.

Morris Crocker

Richard Setford

IT Manager