Case Study: Great Southern Wood Preserving achieves reliable, fast VM backup and slashes backup/replication management time with Veeam

Great Southern Wood Preserving - Customer Case Study

Great Southern Wood Preserving, a leading U.S. producer of pressure‑treated pine, runs its entire IT environment on VMware vSphere and maintains 55 VMs with local backups and replication to a DR site 200 miles away. The company’s systems administrator was spending more than 20 hours per week troubleshooting a slow, unreliable backup and replication tool and needed a fast, easy-to-manage solution that could be set up and largely forgotten.

They implemented Veeam Backup & Replication, which cut weekly backup/replication management to about 1–2 hours, delivered faster backups and more restore points, and provided granular recovery of items like Active Directory objects via U-AIR. Veeam’s On‑Demand Sandbox also enabled safe testing of updates, while reliable VM replication improved disaster recovery and streamlined IT onboarding after acquisitions.

Great Southern Wood Preserving

Brooks Barnes

Systems Administrator