Case Study: Cobb-Vantress, Inc. achieves hyper-availability and $100,000 annual savings with Veeam and NetApp

Cobb-Vantress Feeds the World with Help from Veeam and NetApp

Cobb‑Vantress, the world’s oldest and leading poultry breeding company, relies on massive amounts of genetic and operational data to breed healthy, affordable chickens for global markets. Their legacy backup infrastructure was disrupting critical systems during backups, risking data unavailability, lost orders and the company’s ability to meet its mission — so Cobb needed a far more reliable, always‑on solution.

Cobb implemented Veeam Availability Suite integrated with NetApp FAS/ONTAP, using storage snapshots, SnapMirror offsite copies and Veeam’s On‑Demand Sandbox for non‑disruptive backups, DR testing and faster application development. The result: hyper availability and simplified disaster recovery, stronger business continuity, improved capital‑expenditure planning and about $100,000 in annual savings (plus $20,000 lower IT admin costs).

Cobb-Vantress, Inc.

Chris Crosby

Director World IT – Infrastructure and Support