Case Study: HBC (Hudson's Bay Company) achieves multi-cloud data protection, ransomware resilience and millions in savings with Veeam Availability Suite

HBC taps Veeam for multi-cloud data protection, ransomware resilience and saves millions

Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC), a 350‑year‑old retail and real estate holding company, embarked on a digital transformation to accelerate its omni‑channel e-commerce presence and adopt a multi‑cloud strategy. During migration to AWS and Azure, HBC’s legacy backup began to fail and lacked integration with multi‑cloud workloads — putting a complex logistics ecosystem at risk and exposing the company to potentially millions in lost revenue from even an hour of downtime.

HBC deployed Veeam Availability Suite to centralize policy‑driven data protection across on‑premises, AWS and Azure environments, providing consistent tagging, ransomware resilience and visibility into every workload. The solution backs up 80 TB across 2,000+ cloud instances and 40 TB on‑prem, enables license mobility and cost transparency, and delivered savings of more than $1 million in one‑time CAPEX plus $600,000 in annual OPEX.

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Ope Bakare

Chief Technology Officer