Case Study: Havas Shared Services achieves fast, reliable VM backup and virtual infrastructure optimization with Veeam Backup Management Suite

Global Advertising Group Casts Veeam for Backing up and Optimising Virtual Environment

Havas Shared Services Limited, the shared IT arm for a global group of advertising and marketing agencies, consolidated 120 physical servers into VMware vSphere and ran 120 Windows VMs across two datacentres. The IT team struggled with slow, unreliable file-level backups that ran into production hours, lengthy VM and item-level recoveries, and virtually no monitoring or reporting to optimise VM sizing and capacity.

The team deployed Veeam Backup Management Suite (Veeam Backup & Replication plus Veeam ONE) through partner Beovax/SHI to provide image-based backups, Instant VM Recovery, Virtual Lab testing and real-time monitoring and reporting. The result: fast, reliable overnight backups, minute‑level recoveries, safe isolated testing, improved capacity planning (recovering ~300 GB of memory), and an affordable, easy-to-use solution for managing their virtual environment.

Havas Shared Services

John Phillips

Chief Technical Officer