Case Study: Bay of Plenty Regional Council achieves 58% backup cost savings and 24/7 availability with Veeam Backup & Replication

Veeam slashes IT backup costs by nearly 60% at Bay of Plenty Regional Council

Bay of Plenty Regional Council, a New Zealand regional government authority responsible for environmental services, needed reliable, always-on IT to support the community through frequent natural events. Their aging backup solution was unreliable, required manual tape processes, consumed increasing storage and licensing costs, and often left full backups running into Monday mornings—creating operational risk and high administrative overhead.

Working with partner INFX, the council deployed Veeam Backup & Replication to re-architect its HPE StoreOnce environment and retire the legacy software and SRM. The move automated tape backups, cut full backup time from a weekend to about eight hours (incrementals now take roughly half the time), and now protects 231 VMs (90 TB). The solution delivered greater reliability, simpler restores (including Exchange-level recovery), and a 58% cost saving (NZ$58,000 ≈ US$40,200).

Bay of Plenty Regional Council

Aaron Dalgleish

Senior Systems Administrator