Case Study: Make-A-Wish Netherlands achieves 71% faster VM backups and instant recovery with Veeam Backup & Replication

Virtualization and Veeam Support Make-A-Wish Netherlands in Granting Wishes

Make-A-Wish Netherlands, a nonprofit that has granted wishes to thousands of seriously ill children since 1989, relied on a small staff, volunteers and partners whose work depended on a stable IT environment. Facing physical servers, slow tape backups (seven hours) and restores that took days—plus rapid organizational growth and plans for a CRM—the charity needed a faster, more reliable, and easy-to-manage backup and disaster‑recovery solution.

NedPortal virtualized the server estate with VMware and deployed Veeam Backup & Replication to protect VMs and data. Backups to NAS now take under two hours (about 71% faster), Instant VM Recovery restores systems in minutes to meet RTOs, and SureBackup automatically verifies recoverability—giving the team confidence in IT and letting staff focus on granting wishes.

Make-A-Wish Netherlands

Alie Snel

Office Manager