Case Study: Horizon Business Services achieves 3x faster deduplication and 100% recovery success with Veritas Technologies' Backup Exec 2014

Deduplicating 3x Faster with Backup Exec 2014 compared to Backup Exec 2010

Horizon Business Services, a Naples, Florida host of Caterease and other applications, supports 4,000 businesses and 30,000 users and has kept hosting prices steady for nine years. To protect customer data and avoid costly downtime that would impact billing and reputation, the company needed reliable, fast, and cost‑efficient backup and recovery across a mixed Windows/Linux/Mac environment.

Horizon upgraded to Veritas Backup Exec 2014, gaining faster backups and improved deduplication. The upgrade delivered up to 20% faster backups vs. 2012, deduplication 3x faster than 2010 and up to 10% better ratios vs. 2012 (11.6:1 on 15 TB, avoiding ~159 TB of storage), a 99% backup success rate and 100% recovery success with ~20 recoveries per month, and rapid full restores (15 servers recovered to dissimilar hardware in under three hours), reducing costs and administration time.

Horizon Business Services

Jacob Ackerman

Chief Technology Officer