Case Study: Anne Arundel County Public Schools achieves 24x7 availability and $150,000 annual savings with Veeam Backup & Replication

Veeam Helps School District Preserve the Integrity of Standardized Tests, Report Cards and Email, Plus Saves $150,000 Yearly

Anne Arundel County Public Schools (AACPS), the fifth largest district in Maryland serving 80,000 students, faced slow and unreliable backups that put critical systems—Active Directory and Exchange—at risk. Those systems support standardized testing, report cards and email; failures or missed deadlines could trigger fines and reduced government funding, so the district needed a reliable, fast recovery solution.

AACPS implemented Veeam Backup & Replication to provide 24x7 availability, protecting 685 Hyper-V VMs with onsite HPE StoreOnce and virtual tape plus offsite copies. The change preserved testing and reporting workflows, simplified administration, sped the Windows Server 2016 migration (saving about 80 hours of testing), and delivered roughly $150,000 in annual savings through reduced hardware, travel and legacy backup costs.

Anne Arundel County Public Schools

Manish Patel

Senior Systems Administrator