Case Study: Sunwing Travel Group achieves resilient ransomware protection and business continuity with Veeam

Sunwing Vacations Inc. strengthens ransomware protection and business continuity with Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure

Sunwing Vacations Inc., a leading North American travel company serving over 2 million customers annually, needed a more reliable way to protect business‑critical data—reservations, customer records, flight manifests and BI—against rising ransomware threats and industry‑specific risks like hijacking. After issues with a previous Backup-as-a-Service offering that couldn’t meet recovery objectives, IT prioritized a secure, cost‑effective, easy‑to‑manage, hybrid‑ready solution to ensure regulatory compliance and rapid recovery.

Sunwing deployed Veeam Availability Suite and Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure to back up more than 150 TB across Azure and on‑prem systems, encrypt backups, maintain three copies, and enable direct restores to Azure Blob Storage. The single platform improved ransomware protection and business continuity, supported Transport Canada compliance, reduced annual backup costs with portable licensing, and removed cloud lock‑in while enabling future hybrid cloud agility.

Sunwing Travel Group

Hilton Reading

IT Infrastructure & Cloud Leader