Case Study: Clayco Construction Co Inc achieves 7x faster backups and seamless disaster recovery with Veeam Backup & Replication

Large Design-Build Firm Facilitates Business Continuity with Veeam

Clayco, a national design-build firm with about 1,000 employees and a largely virtualized IT environment, faced inconsistent, slow VM backups and needed reliable replication to a colocation disaster-recovery site to ensure business continuity. Their previous backup tool created long backup windows and required too much manual oversight, so the IT team sought an easy-to-use solution that would deliver consistent backups and robust DR capabilities.

Implementing Veeam Backup & Replication gave Clayco consistent, automated nightly backups (backup speed improved ~7x), fast file-level restores and Instant VM Recovery for added peace of mind, and built-in replication of 100% of VMs to the DR center with network re-mapping/re-IP to simplify failover. The solution eliminated reliance on array-based replication, saved about $25,000 annually, and enabled the team to expand Veeam coverage to Exchange and SQL workloads.

Clayco Construction Co Inc

Chris Collum

Senior Systems Engineer