Case Study: Warrington Collegiate achieves energy savings and rapid file-level recovery with Veeam Backup & Replication

College Goes Green with VMware and Veeam

Warrington Collegiate, a UK vocational college serving about 7,000 students and 450 staff, needed to expand virtualization to cut costs and energy use but lacked a fast, reliable, cross‑platform backup solution to protect mission‑critical systems. With public funding under pressure, the IT team required cost‑effective data protection and quick file recovery to feel comfortable moving key services to VMware.

They implemented Veeam Backup & Replication to protect nearly 100% of their environment (six hosts and 80 VMs), enabling fast, frequent backups and file‑level recovery in minutes instead of hours. The college passed a disaster‑recovery audit, reduced electricity use by 600,000 kWh (about 6.7%) saving ~£10,000, and earned multiple Green awards for its energy‑efficiency gains.

Warrington Collegiate

Nick Smeltzer

Director of IT Services