Case Study: Oyster River Cooperative School District achieves hyper-availability of payroll and $10,000 annual IT savings with Veeam Backup & Replication

School District Sails Through Four Nor’easters in Three Weeks with Veeam

Oyster River Cooperative School District, a highly rated district in Durham, New Hampshire serving 2,200 students and 400 staff, faced an extreme winter in 2018 when four nor’easters in three weeks dumped heavy snow and ice, closing schools and threatening critical IT systems—most importantly the payroll and student information systems that support staff pay and district operations.

Using Veeam Backup & Replication (deployed since 2016) the district restored services in minutes during outages, implemented a reliable disaster‑recovery strategy through replication, and maintained hyper‑availability of payroll and SIS. The solution kept staff paid, protected the local economy, delivered dependable DR, and saved the district about $10,000 in annual IT costs.

Oyster River Cooperative School District

Josh Olstad

Director of IT