Case Study: Barloworld Automotive achieves 24x7 availability and 40% cost savings with Veeam Availability Suite

Barloworld Automotive Cruises to 24x7 Availability with Veeam

Barloworld Automotive, a South African provider of vehicle rental, fleet and retail services with 7,000 internal users across 71 branch offices, needed true 24x7 availability after data volumes doubled in three years. Their legacy backup tool could not complete within windows or centrally manage branch VMs, putting customer-facing systems and SLAs at risk.

Barloworld deployed Veeam Availability Suite to centralize VM management and replicate branch VMs to the data centre using built‑in WAN acceleration, protecting 50 TB across 230 VMware VMs in the data centre and 291 Hyper‑V VMs in branches. The solution delivered around‑the‑clock availability and faster SLA fulfillment while saving nearly 40% in costs and about 120 support hours per month.

Barloworld Automotive

Brian Smith

Operations Manager, IT Shared Services