Case Study: First Commonwealth Bank achieves rapid, reliable disaster recovery and business continuity with Veeam

First Commonwealth Financial Corporation Picks Veeam for DR

First Commonwealth Financial Corporation, a regional bank serving nearly 500,000 customers with 147 branches, relied on a central data warehouse to power CRM and call-center systems that drive customer experience. Their existing replication tool (Arcserve) was unreliable—interrupted jobs restarted from scratch, causing overnight replication overruns, slow access to business‑critical systems at branch open, and cumbersome DR testing and compliance demonstrations.

First Commonwealth replaced Arcserve with Veeam Availability Suite, replicating 40 TB across 200 VMs off‑premises to Pure Storage and enabling 1‑click failover, Instant VM Recovery and granular item restores. The change delivered reliable, efficient replication, faster recoveries (DR tests that previously took ~30 minutes now complete in under 3), proactive monitoring, and easier compliance with Dodd‑Frank, PCI‑DSS and SOX—keeping branches operational and customer service uninterrupted.

First Commonwealth Bank

Eric Kubla

IT Server Manager