Case Study: Catalent Pharma cuts VM recovery from one week to hours with Veeam Backup & Replication

Veeam Reduces VM Recovery Time From One Week to Hours Following Data Center Fire

Catalent Pharma Solutions, a global drug development and manufacturing services company with 20+ sites and over 8,000 employees, needed a faster, VM-aware backup strategy after virtualizing its Swindon site with VMware vSphere. When a fire damaged servers at its Corby data center — interrupting six mission-critical VMs — the company discovered its legacy physical backup tools would have taken about a week to restore services.

Catalent implemented Veeam Backup & Replication (including Instant VM Recovery and replication), reducing recovery time by 95% — from roughly seven days to hours — and cutting incremental backup windows from 24 hours to about one hour. VM restores dropped from about 12 hours to under 20 minutes, replication provided cross-site disaster protection, and the solution was rolled out across all 20+ Catalent sites.

Catalent Pharma

Dave Clark

Senior Infrastructure Engineer