Case Study: GGZ Friesland achieves rapid VM and mailbox recovery with Veeam Backup & Replication

GGZ Friesland Reduces Recovery Time by Days with Veeam Backup & Replication

GGZ Friesland, a mental health provider in the Friesland region of the Netherlands serving about 22,000 residents across 12 sites and 38 partner offices, relied heavily on IT to deliver patient care. After virtualising roughly 80% of its environment (three data centres, eight ESX hosts and ~200 VMs), the organisation needed a reliable, user‑friendly backup solution that could meet strict recovery time and point objectives so clinicians always have access to critical patient data.

Working with VCD Infra Solutions, GGZ Friesland implemented Veeam Backup & Replication with HP 3PAR StoreServ. The result: mailbox restores that once took three days now take about 10 minutes, entire VMs can be recovered in minutes, and SureBackup verifies recoverability for audit compliance. Built‑in deduplication and compression cut backup storage needs by roughly 60–70%, enabling fast RTO/RPO achievement and significantly reducing downtime risk.

GGZ Friesland

Herwin Duinkerken

Senior Systems Administrator