Case Study: John I. Haas, Inc achieves daily, lightning-fast VM backups and instant recovery with Veeam Backup & Replication

Recovering VMs Quickly is Vital During Harvest Season

John I. Haas, Inc., a leading supplier of hop products, depends on virtualized systems (ERP, Exchange, SharePoint) to keep harvest operations running — where even minutes of downtime can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. Their legacy backup tool was slow and unreliable with VMware, forcing the IT team to pick which VMs to protect and creating unacceptable risk during peak season.

The company deployed Veeam Backup & Replication, using features like On‑Demand Sandbox and Instant VM Recovery to run VMs from restore points and recover services rapidly. Backups became dramatically faster (a 550 GB Exchange backup dropped from 16 hours to 20 minutes), every VM is now backed up nightly, and the team gained easier management, better support and the ability to replicate VMs to a new datacenter.

John I. Haas, Inc

Theresa Brownfield

Lead Principal IS Operations Engineer