Case Study: BLR (Business & Legal Resources, Inc.) achieves 24x7 Hyper-V availability and saves nearly $280,000 in its first year with Veeam

BLR Achieves 24x7 Availability of its Hyper-V Environment and Saves Nearly $280,000 in its First Year with Veeam

BLR (Business & Legal Resources) is a long-established digital publisher that delivers compliance content across 175 websites and must provide customers with 24x7 access. As its data grew 400% and the company moved to a Hyper‑V/Cisco UCS environment, a legacy backup tool—built for physical servers—couldn’t keep up: full backups took 12 hours and only ran weekly, file restores took 4–5 hours, VMs couldn’t be replicated or quickly recovered, and monitoring lacked real‑time reporting.

BLR implemented Veeam Backup & Replication and Veeam ONE to protect 55 Hyper‑V VMs across four sites, enabling daily full backups, replication for DR, and real‑time monitoring and capacity planning. The result: backup windows halved (12→6 hours), file recovery dropped to 20–30 seconds and Instant VM Recovery restored a production VM in 30 seconds, storage needs fell ~70% (saving about $200K plus $30K/year tape and $40K hardware), recovery time decreased 99.8%, and availability rose to 99.9%, yielding nearly $280,000 in first‑year savings.

BLR

John Burks

Director of Information Technology