Case Study: Brainlink achieves 99% faster BCDR testing and ultrafast Azure restores with Veeam

Brainlink masterminds Data Protection with Veeam Direct Restore to Microsoft Azure

Brainlink is a New York City–based MSP serving financial services and construction firms that relied on a legacy backup vendor whose appliance could only recover one VM at a time and locked tests into a proprietary cloud. That bottleneck made disaster recovery and BCDR testing untenable—consuming roughly 3,300 hours (16–24 weekends) annually, costing about $30,000 in overtime, and leaving Brainlink unable to guarantee recovery times to customers.

Brainlink replaced the legacy solution with Veeam Backup & Replication and Veeam Direct Restore to Microsoft Azure, gaining fast, cloud-agnostic restores (average 50 MB/s, peak 3.2 GB/s) and far better vendor support. BCDR testing time fell by 99% (from 3,330 hours to 8 hours), saving $30,000 per year; Brainlink now backs up 60 TB across 70 VMs and reports immediate ROI and stronger, more reliable recovery for customers.

Brainlink

Raj Goel

Chief Technology Officer