Case Study: Banca Popolare di Sondrio achieves 24x7 application availability and boosts customer acquisition and retention with Veeam Backup & Replication

Veeam Availability Helps Increase Bank’s Customer Acquisition and Retention

Banca Popolare di Sondrio (BPSO), a northern Italian banking group with 330 branches and about 2,600 employees, needed 24x7 availability for customer-facing applications to retain and attract tech‑savvy customers. Rapid data growth (25–30% annually) and a legacy backup that could only run once a day left online banking, branch tellers and ATMs at risk of outages and customer churn.

BPSO deployed Veeam Backup & Replication to deliver continuous availability, backing up more than 1,000 VMs (250 TB) and integrating with HPE StoreOnce and EMC Data Domain for efficient storage. The solution cut recovery from hours to minutes—saving nearly 200 hours a year—lowered backup TCO, eased compliance, and improved customer acquisition and retention.

Banca Popolare di Sondrio

Piergiorgio Spagnolatti

Head of Infrastructure