Case Study: Steen & Strøm achieves 50% faster backups and daily VM protection with Veeam Backup & Replication

Senior IT Consultant What do I like most about Veeam Backup & Replication It works every time

Steen & Strøm, a 400‑employee Scandinavian retail and real estate company based in Oslo that owns 43 shopping centers, runs a 95% virtualized environment on 10 VMware vSphere hosts with 150 Windows VMs. Their legacy VM backup tool lacked incremental backups and was slow and unreliable, so several large VMs (including Exchange) were only backed up a few times a week, Exchange item recovery could take up to an hour, and copying backups offsite for DR was time‑consuming.

The IT team adopted Veeam Backup & Replication, an agent‑free solution that was easy to configure and dependable; backups are now 50% faster, enabling every VM to be backed up daily. Granular Exchange restores using Veeam Explorer now take about five minutes, and Veeam’s replication capabilities are being used to simplify and accelerate the company’s DR strategy.

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Kay Ove Gabrielsen

Senior IT Consultant