Case Study: Karlshamn Kommun achieves faster, ransomware-resilient availability of public services with Veeam

Municipality Protects Public Services with Veeam

Karlshamn Kommun, the local authority for about 32,000 residents in southeast Sweden, needed to modernize backup and recovery after moving to VMware vSphere. The IT team was running two separate backup tools, which made backups slow, complicated and storage‑intensive—putting critical public services like healthcare and schooling at risk if systems couldn’t be recovered quickly.

The municipality deployed Veeam Backup & Replication (with HPE 3PAR snapshot integration) to consolidate and accelerate protection of 150 VMs (80 TB). Veeam enabled fast ransomware recovery, met strict RTPO targets, cut recovery time by 50% (saving >250 IT hours/year), reduced costs by ~25%, and halved backup storage needs—ensuring public services remain available when needed.

Karlshamn Kommun

Einar Berntsson

Systems Engineer