Case Study: Shire Christian School achieves 24/7 data availability and same-day recovery with Veeam

Veeam gets an A+ from Sydney school for 24.7.365 data availability

Shire Christian School, an independent Prep–Year 12 school in Sydney with about 850 students, faced an urgent IT challenge: a legacy Mac environment with manual USB Time Machine backups, no off‑site recovery, and a small IT team stretched thin as the school rapidly virtualized and moved to a private cloud. The unreliable, time‑consuming backup process risked prolonged downtime, data loss, and non‑compliance with privacy rules during the school’s transition to a hyper‑converged Microsoft environment.

Working with cloud provider BEarena, the school implemented Veeam Backup & Replication to automate on‑site Nutanix‑backed backups and off‑site replication to a FlexDR private cloud via Veeam Cloud Connect. The solution delivered 24.7.365 availability, same‑day restores and immediate failover for critical systems, ensured regulatory compliance, supported the IT infrastructure upgrade, and reclaimed hundreds of IT hours annually.

Shire Christian School

Chad Walsham

IT Manager