Case Study: Clough Group achieves secure public‑cloud migration and robust long‑term data protection with Veeam

Clough Group transitions towards public cloud with Veeam

Clough Group, a 100‑year‑old Australian engineering and construction firm, embarked on a digital transformation that introduced drone 3D modelling, widespread smart device use and a jump from ~1GB to 10–20GB of data generated per day. The company also faces strict legal and contractual retention requirements (typically seven years, up to 30 for critical projects) and needed a forward‑looking, cloud‑friendly data protection strategy to support migration to public cloud environments like Azure without vendor lock‑in.

Using Veeam Backup & Replication and Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365, Clough implemented fast, hardware‑agnostic backups, Instant VM Recovery for near‑zero‑downtime migrations to Azure, and purpose‑built protection for Office 365 and Teams. The deployment shortened recoveries from weeks to minutes, consolidated IT management, secured long‑term archives with planned archive‑to‑cloud capabilities for cost savings, and gave Clough the compliance assurance and cloud portability to scale and move quickly into new projects.

Clough Group

Hussain Munir

Security Manager