Case Study: Appleton Area School District achieves $86,000 in savings and 300+ hours reclaimed with Veeam Backup Management Suite

School District Excels with Veeam by Saving $86,000 and 300+ Hours

Appleton Area School District (AASD), a Wisconsin district with 36 schools, 15,000 students and 2,200 staff, ran a largely virtualized IT environment (98% on VMware, ~160 VMs). Their legacy, agent‑based backup tool was unreliable and slow—backups often ran past the nightly window, required about six hours/week of troubleshooting, and frequently failed to produce recoverable copies.

AASD deployed Veeam Backup Management Suite to automate and accelerate VM backups and provide monitoring, reporting and capacity planning. Backups that once took up to 36 hours now finish within the nightly window, daily status reports and automatic job inclusion reduced manual work, and the district realized 300+ saved hours per year and more than $86,000 in five‑year cost savings while improving recoverability and availability.

Appleton Area School District

Brent Braun

Network Infrastructure Security Specialist, Appleton Area School District