Case Study: California Dairies, Inc. achieves Microsoft 365 protection, rapid recovery and ransomware resilience with Veeam

California Dairies, Inc. deploys Veeam to protect Microsoft 365 data and mitigate cyberattacks

California Dairies, Inc. (CDI), a farmer-owned cooperative that processes nearly 17 billion pounds of milk annually from 300+ family farms, needed reliable protection for the data that supports milk collection, processing and farmer payments. Legacy tape-based backups and early virtualization gaps left CDI exposed; two major outages — a catastrophic Exchange failure and a custom payments app crash — showed the business risk of inadequate recovery and drove a move to cloud-aware backups.

CDI implemented Veeam Availability Suite and Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365, protecting 72 TB across 240 VMs and 14 TB of M365 data to on-premises ExaGrid with replication to a DR site and immutable copies in Amazon S3/Azure Blob. Using Veeam features like SureBackup/SureReplica, Instant VM Recovery and DataLabs, CDI sped recovery, verified DR readiness, bolstered ransomware resilience, maintained business continuity (keeping production and farmer payments on track) and simplified cybersecurity insurance requirements.

California Dairies

Matthew Prieto

Director of Infrastructure and Security