Case Study: Industrial Development Corporation achieves 24.7 Availability and R17.1M in savings with Veeam

Veeam Becomes a Guiding Force in the IT Infrastructure, Enabling Financial Services Company to Tear Down Technology Silos and Ensure 24.7 Availability

The Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) is a South African government–owned development financier that drives industrialisation and funds high-impact projects. To stay agile and ensure decision-making data is always available, the IDC had implemented multiple replication, backup and monitoring tools that created operational silos, slow backups and limited visibility—resulting in an unacceptable 48-hour recovery time and point objective (RTPO) for an always-on organisation.

By making Veeam the single solution for backup, replication and monitoring, the IDC tore down silos and achieved 24.7 availability: RTPO fell to 15 minutes, Instant VM Recovery and SureBackup enabled rapid, verified restorations (including SAP), and Virtual Lab simplified patch testing. The consolidation saved about R17.1 million (~$1.3M) over five years (including repurposing 400TB of storage), cut thousands of troubleshooting hours, improved resource optimisation and enabled fast, proactive issue resolution for the business.

Industrial Development Corporation

Gert Prinsloo

Infrastructure Manager