Case Study: Moulton College achieves fast, agentless VM backups and instant recovery with Veeam Backup & Replication

College Chooses Veeam for Smart Backup and Recovery

Moulton College, a large land‑based further education college serving 3,800 students and 800 staff across multiple campuses, relied on a legacy backup tool that couldn’t keep up with its largely virtualised VMware environment (76 VMs). With a small ICT team and tight budget, the college faced slow backups that missed daily windows, no Linux VM protection without costly agents, and recovery processes that could take hours or days—making it impossible to meet RPOs.

Cutter implemented Veeam Backup & Replication, providing fast, agentless backups and features like Instant VM Recovery and Veeam Explorer for Exchange. Backups now complete in six hours so all VMs are protected daily, item‑level restores take minutes, and automatic verification improves confidence—allowing Moulton to virtualise mission‑critical servers and reduce recovery times from days to minutes.

Moulton College

Giles Batchelor

Network Development & Services Manager