Case Study: Vodafone Netherlands achieves 24x7 availability and 80% faster backup and recovery with Veeam Availability Suite

Veeam Helps Vodafone Netherlands Ensure 24x7 Availability of Telecommunication Services

Vodafone Netherlands, part of the global Vodafone telecommunications group, faced growing pressure as its VMware vSphere environment reached about 90% virtualization with hundreds of VMs across multiple Dutch data centers while customer volume and data tripled. Legacy backup and monitoring tools couldn’t scale—backups were slow and sometimes failed, there was no easy file‑level recovery, and the team lacked visibility into which VMs were protected, threatening the carrier’s requirement for continuous, always‑on services.

Vodafone deployed Veeam Availability Suite across its data centers, leveraging seamless integration with HP StoreVirtual to back up every VM daily, speed backups by about 80% and make recovery roughly five times faster. Veeam’s Instant File‑Level Recovery and Instant VM Recovery, replication for DR planning, and improved monitoring/reporting gave the IT team faster restores, a 2.5× smaller backup footprint, complete visibility of protection status, and confidence in 24x7 service availability.

Vodafone Netherlands

Jan Spapens

Senior Program Manager Technology Enterprise Solutions