Case Study: Stony Brook University achieves 24x7 availability of critical systems with Veeam

Stony Brook University’s Tiny IT Team Delivers Enormous Data Availability with Veeam

Stony Brook University, a large public research university serving over 25,000 students, faced a critical challenge: a three-person IT team was responsible for 24x7 availability of virtualized campus systems—from streaming instructional videos to the police report management system—but legacy backup tools offered no visibility, slow recoveries that took hours, and increased risk during audits and outages.

The university deployed Veeam Backup & Replication, gaining real-time monitoring and daily backup reports plus high-speed recovery through changed block tracking and Instant VM Recovery. Veeam now protects 400 VMs (45 TB) across campus data centers, cutting recovery times from hours to minutes, improving problem resolution, and making regulatory compliance simple to demonstrate.

Stony Brook University

Shrikant Iyer

Systems Engineer