Case Study: WienIT achieves 50% reduction in backup storage and NIS2-ready resilience with Veeam

WienIT reduces backup storage by 50% and gears up for NIS2 with Veeam

WienIT GmbH, the central IT and business services partner for the Wiener Stadtwerke Group, supports IT for multiple municipal companies and needed a future‑proof, simplified data protection strategy. The team sought to improve resilience across a diverse virtual and physical environment, reduce backup complexity and storage, and strengthen cybersecurity and compliance with the EU NIS2 directive.

WienIT deployed Veeam (Data Platform Premium and Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365) to protect 1,100+ systems and 22,000 M365 users, integrate with Pure Storage, and centralize backups on S3‑compatible object storage. The new solution sped up backups and recoveries, cut backup storage by 50% (2.6x compression), added redundant distribution across two data centers, introduced automated backup verification, and simplified NIS2 compliance while enabling plans for immutable backups and enhanced threat monitoring.

WienIT

Michael Dexheimer

Service Portfolio Manager Platform Services