Case Study: Consolidated Minerals achieves 66% cost savings and reliable, scalable data availability with Veeam Availability Suite

How Veeam Availability Solution Complemented the Core Values of Industry-Leading Mining Company

Consolidated Minerals Pty Ltd, a Perth-based, high-grade manganese producer with over 400 employees across two sites, relied on continuous ERP availability to keep production and the supply chain moving. An audit during a care-and-maintenance period revealed an expensive, complex legacy backup system that hindered timely ore recording, lacked Office 365 integration, and incurred ongoing tape and renewal costs—prompting the search for a simpler, scalable disaster-recovery solution.

Consolidated deployed Veeam Availability Suite on a FlashStack (Cisco UCS C240 + Pure Storage), meeting its core requirements of simplicity, scalability and minimal administrative effort. The new solution delivered complete data visibility and easy restores, replaced tape workflows, reduced administrative time to a few hours per week, eliminated recurring tape and support costs, and achieved roughly 66% cost savings versus the prior renewal while improving confidence and cloud/Office 365 readiness.

Consolidated Minerals

Erle Metcalf

ICT Coordinator