Case Study: Study Group achieves near‑instant disaster recovery, 24/7 availability and 45% ROI with Veeam Availability Suite

Veeam Helps Online Education Provider Turn Disaster Recovery On Its Head

Study Group, a global provider of international education, had fully virtualized its environment across three data centers (London, Las Vegas, Sydney) to handle fluctuating student demand, but its legacy tape-based and manual backup processes could not support an always-on, virtualized operation. The company needed a modern, reliable disaster recovery solution to reduce downtime, simplify management and cut the heavy operational overhead of manual restores.

Implementing Veeam Availability Suite on VMware vSphere gave Study Group one-click disaster recovery, centralized backup and automated replication for 600+ VMs (215 TB) across 120 sites. The change reduced recovery from days to roughly an hour in worst-case scenarios, doubled DR capability, cut data retention/storage costs by ~60%, delivered an estimated 45% annual ROI, and freed IT staff to focus on strategic work while ensuring 24/7 availability.

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Andrew Christensen

Senior Systems Engineer, Global Data Centres