Case Study: Energiselskapet Buskerud (EB) achieves three-month ROI and rapid VM recovery with Veeam Backup Management Suite (Veeam)

Energy Company Achieves Three-month ROI with Veeam

Energiselskapet Buskerud (EB) is a Drammen, Norway–based energy company with nearly 170 VMware virtual machines supporting 10 companies and 400+ users. The IT team faced rising outsourcing costs (data-volume and agent fees that grew up to 30% annually), slow backups that spilled into production, and lengthy VM recoveries that could leave hundreds of users unable to work for days.

EB deployed Veeam Backup Management Suite to bring VM protection on-site. Backups now finish three hours before production, recoveries are about 10× faster (typically under 10 minutes), and features like Instant VM Recovery and On-Demand Sandbox sped incident response and virus analysis. Eliminating agent-based licenses delivered a payback in three months, plus improved monitoring, reporting and capacity planning for future growth.

Energiselskapet Buskerud (EB)

Kay Åge Lian

Senior IT Consultant