Case Study: Hanover County achieves real-time recovery and ransomware protection for public safety with Veeam

No need for Hanover County to call 911 for data protection — Veeam has them covered!

Hanover County, VA—a suburban community of about 110,000 residents—faced a critical challenge when its previous backup solution began to slow, risking delayed access to 911 and other public‑safety systems. The IT team needed real‑time recovery, ransomware protection, immutability, and an easy, delegable self‑restore workflow so staff could rapidly recover services without specialized intervention.

The county deployed Veeam Data Platform (Advanced) and Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365, using Veeam Instant VM Recovery, encrypted/immutable backups to Cloudian S3, monitoring and a self‑service restore portal. The solution delivers real‑time restores for critical systems, protects 900 TB across 240 Hyper‑V VMs and 300 TB of Microsoft 365 data, strengthens ransomware defenses, and underpins Hanover’s business continuity and disaster‑recovery plan.

Hanover County

Lee Speeks

Senior Systems Engineer