Case Study: Imperial War Museums protects its 100-year heritage and accelerates digital transformation with Veeam

Veeam Helps Imperial War Museum Protect its 100 Year Heritage Whilst Driving Digital Transformation

Imperial War Museums (IWM), a family of five museums founded in 1917 that attracts 2.4 million visitors a year, faced the risk of losing unique digital assets—more than 23,000 hours of film and hundreds of thousands of photographs—due to an unreliable backup solution. With most systems hosted on-premises, a small distributed IT team needed a cost-effective, auditable way to protect collections, maintain core museum services and meet government security compliance amid millions of cyber-attack attempts.

IWM consolidated physical and virtual backups onto Veeam Backup & Replication, gaining reliable visibility, faster recoveries and built-in AES‑256 encryption for compliance. The platform reduced firefighting for the IT team, supports on‑prem and cloud workloads as the museum digitizes more collections, and has helped protect the institution against over 10 million attempted attacks while delivering better value and peace of mind.

Imperial War Museums

Emmett Jenner

IT Infrastructure Manager