Case Study: Cwm Taf Health Board achieves faster, more frequent VM backups and major cost savings with Veeam Backup & Replication

Healthcare Organisation Prescribes Veeam to Save Time and Money in Multi-Hypervisor Environment

Cwm Taf Health Board, a Welsh healthcare organisation serving nearly 300,000 residents with about 8,000 staff across nine hospitals, struggled to protect a multi‑hypervisor environment of 100+ Hyper‑V and VMware VMs. Their legacy backup tool could only run VM backups once a day, lacked on‑the‑fly restores and limited disaster‑recovery capabilities, so the ICT team sought a cost‑effective, feature‑rich solution to protect data, optimise datacentre costs and improve operational efficiency.

The board implemented Veeam Backup & Replication, a virtualization‑built solution that enabled 2–3 backups per day, sub‑five‑minute VM restores, and reliable RPO/RTOs. Veeam’s agentless, multi‑hypervisor support, built‑in deduplication/compression, replication, Veeam Explorer for Exchange and On‑Demand Sandbox delivered faster recovery, significant storage and operational savings, and a 60% cost advantage on the offered maintenance—resulting in more frequent backups, quicker recoveries and lower total cost of ownership.

Cwm Taf Health Board

Matt Palmer

Head of Server Management, Cwm Taf Health Board