Case Study: Basler osiguranje Zagreb achieves sub-30-minute VM recovery and 60% lower backup costs with Veeam Backup & Replication

Insurance Company Prevents Data Loss with Veeam Replication to a Private Cloud

Basler osiguranje Zagreb, a Zagreb‑based insurance company and member of the UNIQA Group, needed reliable, always‑on access to virtualized applications and data. Their legacy backup tool only protected files and databases (not whole VMs), lacked VMware integration, had no recoverability verification, consumed excessive storage without deduplication/compression, and required costly per‑VM agents—leaving the company exposed to data loss and slow recovery.

Working with itSoft, Basler deployed Veeam Backup & Replication to back up VMs onsite and to an itSoft‑hosted private cloud and to replicate critical VMs for disaster recovery. Veeam’s image‑based backups, incremental CBT, intelligent load balancing, SureBackup verification and Instant VM Recovery enabled restores of replicas in under 30 minutes, quick single‑item restores (e.g., emails), 30 days of retention in the same storage footprint for 5 TB of data, no user impact during jobs, and roughly 60% lower costs thanks to agentless, per‑socket licensing.

Basler

Davor Slavica

Manager, System Infrastructure and IT Security