Case Study: Midverk ehf achieves fast, reliable VM backup and instant recovery with Veeam

Power Goes Out, UPS Fails and Backup Takes Too Long, but Veeam’s Free Trial Saves the Day

Midverk ehf, a Reykjavik-based software development and IT management company running about 70 VMs that host 90% of its applications, suffered a weekend datacenter power outage when a UPS failed and a SAN holding recent development data became corrupt. With no usable redundancy and a legacy backup appliance too complex to deploy during the crisis, the IT team downloaded a Veeam Backup & Replication trial and had their VMware environment backed up within three hours.

They then purchased Veeam Essentials (Veeam Backup & Replication plus Veeam ONE) and deployed backups at a second site, benefiting from support for both vSphere and Hyper‑V, fast four‑hour backup cycles, Instant VM Recovery and granular file restores. Veeam ONE added real‑time monitoring, alerting and capacity planning, backup storage shrank by about fourfold via deduplication and compression, and the team gained a single, affordable solution that restored operations quickly and improved visibility and reliability across their virtual infrastructure.

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Jon Helgason

IT Manager