Case Study: PriceWaterHouseCoopers achieves modern data protection and rapid VM recovery with Veeam Backup Management Suite

PricewaterhouseCoopers South Africa Revolutionizes Data Protection with Veeam

PricewaterhouseCoopers South Africa, supporting clients across seven Southern African countries, faced a growing problem as its datacenter moved to full virtualization on Vblock systems: the firm’s legacy backup tool couldn’t keep up. Recoveries often took days, monitoring and reporting were inadequate for nearly 400 VMs, and the team needed an agentless, disk-based solution with deduplication, easier administration and better visibility to enable proactive VMware management.

PwC deployed Veeam Backup Management Suite to provide agentless backups, WAN‑optimized replication, deduplication/compression and Instant VM Recovery. The result: restores that take minutes instead of days, a 30% better dedupe ratio on Lotus Notes, about 20% lower cost versus the legacy tool, nightly replication of 85 VMs to a DR site, and 24x7 monitoring and reporting that deliver complete visibility and faster, proactive issue resolution.

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Pieter Kruger

Senior Manager for Hosted Services, PricewaterhouseCoopers South Africa