Case Study: Christof Holding AG achieves reliable RPOs and €3,000/month savings by bringing backup in‑house with Veeam Backup & Replication

Christof Holding AG Brings Backup In-house with Veeam to Meet RPOs and Save Money

Christof Holding AG, a Graz-based construction and welding-technology group with 3,000 employees, relied on an outsourced backup service that cost €3,000/month, required about 10 hours of troubleshooting per month, and experienced up to 20% backup failures—making recovery point objectives (RPOs) difficult to meet for its 14-person IT team supporting 189 VMs across 35 sites.

By bringing backup in‑house with Veeam Backup & Replication across its multi-hypervisor, HP StoreServ/ProLiant environment (~40 TB), Christof eliminated the €3,000 monthly fee and recovered 10 troubleshooting hours. Veeam delivered a 0% backup fail rate, faster RTOs (Instant VM Recovery restored a 3 TB SQL VM in ~3 hours vs. days previously), and storage-agnostic verification and recovery features (SureBackup) to reliably meet RPOs.

Christof Holding AG

Josef Kormann

Head of IT Operations