Case Study: RAM Group of Companies achieves 95% faster backups and 5X quicker recovery with Veeam Availability Suite (Veeam)

Veeam Lends a Hand to Hand-toHand Courier with Veeam Backup Management Suite

RAM Group, a South African hand-to-hand courier with 2,500 employees, a 1,000+ vehicle fleet and 160 VMs across five data centres, faced a major risk when its legacy backup tool proved ill-suited to a 95% virtualized VMware environment. Agent-based backups were slow and poorly monitored, threatening the company’s always-on tracking, communications and core operations.

By deploying Veeam Availability Suite, RAM cut VM backup windows from 2–3 hours to 5–15 minutes, achieved 5× faster recoveries (full VM ≈2 minutes), and reduced backup storage by 25–35% through deduplication and compression. Features like SureBackup, On‑Demand Sandbox, Instant VM Recovery and advanced monitoring delivered near-constant availability, clearer capacity planning, faster troubleshooting and proactive alerts, restoring confidence in IT continuity.

RAM Group of Companies

Lance Soller

Group IT Manager