Case Study: Horizon Food Group achieves 85% faster backups, 92% faster recovery and stronger BCDR with Veeam

Horizon Food Group sweetens the BCDR strategy with Veeam and ExaGrid

Horizon Food Group, a San Diego–based snack manufacturer producing over 130 million single-serve snacks annually across two 24/6 plants, relied on on‑premises systems (Microsoft Business Central and SharePoint) to run manufacturing. Their legacy backup setup (Veritas Backup Exec and PHD with manually swapped external drives) was slow, unreliable and offered only 10 days retention, putting operations and business continuity at risk.

Horizon replaced that stack with Veeam Backup & Replication and ExaGrid, gaining faster, more reliable backups and replication (backup speed +85%, recovery speed +92%) and extending retention to 30 days with built‑in deduplication and compression. The combined solution uses ExaGrid’s disk‑cache Landing Zone, Veeam SureBackup and ExaGrid Retention Time‑Lock to strengthen ransomware protection, support the 3‑2‑1‑1‑0 strategy, and restore confidence that all manufacturing systems can be recovered quickly.

Horizon Food Group

Roger Beard

Director, Information Systems