Case Study: Linear Technology achieves rapid recovery and 24/7 manufacturing continuity with Veeam Backup & Replication

Manufacturer Back Online in Minutes Following SAN Crash

Linear Technology, a long-established maker of high-performance integrated circuits, runs a 24/7 automated, nearly paperless manufacturing plant in Camas, WA and a corporate office in Milpitas. A one-person IT team supported more than 300 users with about 60% of the infrastructure virtualized, but relied on manual scripts and tape backups for VMs — a slow, fragile process that left production at risk if systems or storage failed.

They implemented Veeam Backup & Replication and Veeam ONE to provide automated, image-level backups, monitoring and Instant VM Recovery; after a SAN crash critical VMs were running in minutes and full recovery was completed within 48 hours. Daily backups now complete in hours, backup storage dropped from ~5 TB/week to under 2 TB, and automated reports and monitoring improved VM performance and business continuity.

Linear Technology

Dan Birnseth

Network Systems Administrator