Case Study: Liverpool John Moores University achieves up to 90% faster recoveries and 75% faster backups with Veritas Technologies' NetBackup Appliances

Liverpool John Moores University Cuts Backup and Recovery Times Up to 90 Percent using Veritas NetBackup™ Appliances

Liverpool John Moores University, a major UK university with 21,000 students and more than 150 TB of data, was struggling with a legacy disk-to-tape backup environment that caused backups to overrun windows, degraded application performance, and failed to meet recovery time objectives.

The university deployed two Veritas NetBackup Appliances, rapidly restoring reliable backup and recovery. Results included a ~75% cut in full backup times (16 → 4 hours), up to 90% faster recoveries, about 85% deduplication with six-figure annual storage savings, roughly £20,000 saved by eliminating tapes (and reclaiming hardware), a 98% backup success rate, and a large reduction in weekly backup administration time.

Liverpool John Moores University

Mark Smith

Senior Operations Officer, IT Services