Case Study: Steria achieves 66% less VM backup storage and 20–50× faster VM recovery with Veeam Backup & Replication

IT Services Company Optimizes Storage for VM Backups and Speeds Recovery of Failed VMs

Steria, an IT services provider for financial, government and utilities customers, runs a 95% virtualized VMware environment of about 250 VMs. Facing growth and strict customer SLAs, the Benelux team needed to move from tape to disk-based backups, reduce backup storage consumption, and dramatically speed VM recovery — the existing agent-based tool was slow to restore large systems and costly to scale.

They adopted Veeam Backup & Replication, an agentless solution with built‑in deduplication and forever‑incremental backups plus Instant VM Recovery. The change cut backup storage by about 66%, made full VM restores 20–50× faster (large Exchange restores dropped from 4+ hours to under 5 minutes), reduced backup windows (Exchange backups now ~30 minutes), and enabled Steria to meet SLAs more reliably while supporting complex environments.

Steria

Pedro Vandeputte

Lead System Engineer