Case Study: City of Fort Lauderdale achieves secure, flexible data protection and up to 95% faster recovery with Veeam

City of Fort Lauderdale fights hurricanes, floods and cyberattacks with Veeam

The City of Fort Lauderdale, a coastal municipality of about 180,000 residents and a major tourist destination, needed to protect critical systems—transportation, utilities, police and public safety—against hurricanes, floods and ransomware. After its previous backup solution failed to meet recovery and flexibility requirements, the IT team sought a modern platform that could deliver high‑speed recovery across a hybrid‑cloud environment.

The city deployed Veeam Data Platform Premium Edition and Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365, backing roughly 500 TB to ExaGrid with immutable copies in Azure Blob. The solution reduced recovery times by up to 95%, standardized and centralized disaster recovery and business continuity efforts, and meets cybersecurity insurance requirements through encryption and immutability, enabling rapid restoration of city services after outages.

City of Fort Lauderdale

Tamecka McKay

CIO