Case Study: Gimv achieves fast, reliable protection of virtualised applications and rapid recovery with Veeam Backup & Replication

European Investment Company Counts on Veeam to Protect Critical Virtualised Applications and Data

Gimv is a European investment company managing roughly €1.8 billion across 75 portfolio firms and operating from offices in Belgium, France, the Netherlands and Germany. With a largely virtualised infrastructure (14 VMware hosts and 180 VMs) and hundreds of employees relying on timely access to sensitive contracts and emails, Gimv needed a virtualization-specific backup solution to replace unverified legacy backups and eliminate the risk of data loss and long recovery windows.

Gimv deployed Veeam Backup & Replication in under a week to run agentless, incremental backups (critical VMs every four hours, others daily, full weekly), use SureBackup to verify recoverability and U-AIR for one-click item recovery. The result: much faster backups and restores (full backups cut from five hours to two, some sites to 30 minutes), reduced storage via incremental backups with dedupe/compression, offsite tape archives for disaster recovery, and reliable support—delivering fast daily backups, quick VM/file/item restores and measurable cost and risk reductions.

Gimv

Kristof Poppe

IT Manager