Case Study: Takeda UK achieves 10x faster, fully verifiable backups and compliance with Veeam Backup & Replication

Pharmaceutical Company Chooses Veeam to Speed Backups, Eliminate Inconsistencies and Unify Data Protection

Takeda UK Ltd., the British affiliate of Japan’s Takeda Pharmaceutical, operates a nearly fully virtualized IT estate supporting about 50 VMs that run critical systems (Exchange, SharePoint, Active Directory and specialized databases) for a dispersed, international workforce. Faced with strict regulatory requirements and an unreliable, slow backup environment that left no effective backup window and risked noncompliance, the IT team needed a single, fast and verifiable backup solution.

The company deployed Veeam Backup & Replication (recommended by partner Vcentral), using vPower/SureBackup to automatically verify recoverability of every VM. Backups now run at least 10× faster, enable daily full VM backups and rapid (sub‑10 minute) file-level restores, eliminate multiple agents and products, and give Takeda the consistent, auditable protection required for regulatory compliance.

Takeda UK

Richard Taylor

Director of Information & Communication Technology