Case Study: Üsküdar Municipality achieves 24/7 municipal service availability and 50% faster VM backups with Veeam Backup & Replication

City Relies on Veeam Backup & Replication to Support Municipal Operations and DR Strategy

Üsküdar Municipality, a densely populated borough of Istanbul serving over 650,000 residents, had virtualized more than 95% of its data center and ran 50 mission-critical VMs for services like Exchange, GIS and Oracle. The IT team found their legacy backup tool inadequate for virtual environments and lacking built-in VM replication, creating risk to the e‑municipality services that must be available 24/7.

After testing solutions with partner VPROF‑IT, Üsküdar adopted Veeam Backup & Replication to combine fast, agentless VM backup and built‑in replication. Veeam’s vPower Instant VM Recovery, SureBackup and On‑Demand Sandbox enabled minute‑scale recovery, automated verification and safer testing; backups run about 50% faster, supporting more frequent recovery points and a cost‑effective DR strategy without extra software or agents.

Üsküdar Municipality

Murat Hendem

Project and System Administrator