Case Study: Take-Two Interactive Software achieves 24x7 availability and 89% faster recovery with Veeam Backup & Replication

Gaming Company Scores 24x7 Availability with Veeam

Take-Two Interactive, a New York–based developer and publisher of interactive entertainment, needed to keep its intellectual property and core systems (Perforce, email, finance) available to global users 24x7. With multiple data centers, more than 2,500 users and a largely virtualized VMware environment, the IT team required a scalable backup solution that avoided lengthy, complex recoveries and met strict recovery SLAs.

Take-Two deployed Veeam Backup & Replication, using features like Instant VM Recovery and end-to-end AES‑256 encryption, and later paired it with Cisco UCS and NetApp storage for up to 30% faster performance. The result: recoveries in under 10 minutes (89% faster than prior tools), a 100% restore record, the ability to scale to 500 VMs quickly, and savings of thousands of dollars plus 720 man-hours over three years.

Take-Two Interactive Software

Drew J. Como

Senior Manager, Global Datacenter Platform Services