Case Study: The Vitec Group plc standardises disaster recovery and ensures 24.7 Availability with Veeam

Vitec Standardises Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Across the Enterprise with Veeam

Vitec, a London‑based provider of broadcast and photographic equipment with 22 offices and 1,800 employees worldwide, faced a sprawling, remote IT estate driven by rapid growth and acquisitions. Legacy tape-based backups and two separate tools could not meet the company’s disaster recovery and business‑continuity needs—putting critical, 24/7 applications at risk and leaving recovery times of up to 72 hours.

Veeam Availability Suite centralized backup, replication and recovery across Vitec’s environment, protecting 230 VMware vSphere VMs (16 TB) and integrating with HPE 3PAR and Dell EMC VNX storage snapshots for near‑instant restores. Veeam Cloud Connect and Availability Orchestrator enabled DRaaS to regional datacenters and Azure without extra complexity, cut recovery from hours to minutes with Instant VM Recovery, and standardized testing and documentation of DR plans while retaining tape archival for long‑term retention.

The Vitec Group plc

Ben Skinner

Head of Corporate Network and Infrastructure