Case Study: Broedrene AO Johansen achieves rapid VM recovery and slashes downtime with Veeam

Wholesale Distributor Deflects Downtime with Veeam

Brødrene A & O Johansen A/S, a Danish wholesale distributor of heating, plumbing and electrical materials founded in 1914, depends on an almost fully virtualized IT environment to run operations across Denmark, Sweden and Estonia. With potential downtime costing up to €50,000 per hour, the IT team needed much faster VM and single‑item restores after their previous backup tool sometimes took days or even a week to recover critical virtual servers.

They deployed Veeam Backup & Replication for VMware vSphere, using Instant VM Recovery (vPower), SureBackup, On‑Demand Sandbox and Instant File‑Level Recovery. As a result VM backup speed increased by over 50% so all VMs can be backed up daily, VM restores now take minutes (typically 5–15 minutes), single‑item restores are about 10× faster, critical servers were recovered within an hour during a SAN failure, and automated verification and sandbox testing removed uncertainty.

Broedrene AO Johansen

Rune Keller

Systems Operations Manager, Brødrene A&O Johansen A/S