Case Study: Mishcon de Reya achieves 95% faster VM recovery and centralized hybrid‑cloud backup with Veeam

Mishcon de Reya LLP protects its growing hybrid-cloud environment with 95% faster recovery from Veeam

Mishcon de Reya LLP, a London‑based law firm of about 1,200 people, needed reliable, hybrid‑cloud data protection as it moved critical systems from an on‑premises data center (300 VMs on 12 servers) to Microsoft Azure (≈180 VMs), protecting roughly 40 TB. Its legacy backup tool was unreliable, slow to recover, required intensive manual intervention by a single FTE, and could not support restore-to/from cloud or integrate well with the HPE Nimble SAN—putting time‑sensitive legal work at risk.

The firm deployed Veeam Availability Suite with Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure and Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 to provide a single pane of control, agentless backups, encryption and offsite tape copies. The change yielded a 95% faster VM recovery (restores in about 10 minutes vs up to 4 hours), saved eight hours a week on management, reduced some storage needs by up to 40%, and cut RTOs from days to hours while improving overall backup reliability.

Mishcon de Reya

Peter Hughes

Availability Analyst