Case Study: Bakwena achieves resilient Oracle data protection and faster recovery with Veritas Technologies NetBackup Appliance

Driving confidence with mature data protection

Bakwena operates about 400 km of toll roads across three South African provinces, processing roughly 210,000 users daily and storing critical transaction, e‑tag and GIS data in Oracle databases on physical servers. After relying on tape, they purchased a third‑party solution that claimed to back up physical Oracle servers but failed in practice; eight months of unsuccessful workarounds left Bakwena exposed and seeking a dependable data‑protection partner.

Veritas ran a successful proof of concept in three weeks and deployed a NetBackup Appliance, meeting Bakwena’s needs for a stable platform, proven Oracle support, a 6‑hour RPO and a projected threefold faster RTO versus tape. The appliance compresses and stores backups in a hardware‑agnostic format, replicates to the DR site, simplifies testing and recovery, and has given Bakwena faster, better‑managed backups and greater confidence in their data protection.

Bakwena

Stephen Larkins

Operations Manager