Case Study: Welch’s achieves fast, reliable disaster recovery and verified recoverability with Veeam Backup & Replication

Welch’s Harvests Data Protection with Veeam for Reliable Recovery in any DR Situation

Welch’s, the Concord, Massachusetts–based food and beverage company owned by the National Grape Cooperative, runs 24x7 production and must process grape deliveries at any hour. With nearly 200 VMware vSphere VMs supporting critical apps (domain controllers, SQL, Exchange, SharePoint), slow and complicated VM recovery threatened operations and made frequent disaster‑recovery (DR) testing impractical; Welch’s required recoverability within four hours.

Welch’s deployed Veeam Backup & Replication (with partner Focus TSI) to streamline backup, replication and verified recovery using features like SureBackup and SureReplica and instant restore capabilities. The solution delivered fast, agentless VM and granular restores (including recipes, email and AD), made every backup and replica verifiable, and cut DR testing from nearly two days to just a few hours, enabling frequent tests and an always‑on business.

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George Scangas

Manager, IT Architecture