Case Study: Rijkswaterstaat achieves fast, reliable VM backup and reduced storage use with Veeam Backup & Replication

Veeam Delivers Modern Data Protection to Enterprise Virtual Environment

Rijkswaterstaat, part of the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment, operates one of the Netherlands’ largest virtual environments (90 VMware hosts and ~2,000 VMs). The agency’s legacy backup tool failed 60% of the time, required full backups that consumed excessive storage, and lacked replication, leaving the IT team unable to meet backup windows or RPO/RTO targets and limiting disaster recovery options.

Rijkswaterstaat deployed Veeam Backup & Replication to provide forever‑incremental backups with built‑in deduplication and compression, Instant VM Recovery, and replication between datacentres. The solution delivered fast, reliable backups that meet the agency’s schedule and RPO/RTOs, significantly reduced backup storage use, enabled DR replication and VM migration, and allowed recovery of VMs when a storage system failed.

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