Case Study: Drenthe College achieves 24.7.365 VDI availability and 95% faster recovery with Veeam Backup & Replication

College Counts on Veeam to deliver 24.7.365 Availability of VDI

Drenthe College, a vocational school serving nearly 11,000 students across 14 locations, had virtualised its environment and deployed a VMware Horizon VDI to support digital learning, but its legacy backup couldn’t meet the demands. Item-level restores for Exchange and SQL were slow (single-email restores took hours) and VM recovery was time‑consuming, preventing the IT team from meeting SLAs and ensuring the VDI was available 24.7.365.

The college replaced legacy backup with Veeam Backup & Replication, using Veeam Explorer for fast Exchange restores and Virtual Lab for safe testing. Recovery times dropped to minutes (a 95% speed increase), saving about 10 IT hours per week, enabling SLA compliance and uninterrupted VDI availability, and cutting backup costs by roughly 60% through socket-based licensing.

Drenthe College

Patrick Lübbers

Senior Systems and Network Administrator