Case Study: Luxury Brand and Retail Company achieves SLA-backed triple-backup validation and 700 hours/$50K annual savings with Veritas Technologies' APTARE Backup Manager

Meeting Backup Duplication Requirements and Corporate SLAs

A prominent upscale retail brand faced a compliance and operational problem: corporate SLAs required three copies of every backup, but the native backup tools couldn’t correlate jobs and duplications into a single, verifiable report. IT staff spent about 15 hours per week manually validating tapes and could not confidently prove to stakeholders or executives that all backup copies were completed.

The retailer deployed Veritas APTARE Backup Manager/IT Analytics to automate Backup Duplication Reports across all data centers, correlating backups with their duplications and providing daily, easy-to-read confirmation of status, locations, policies and expiration dates. That automation eliminated the weekly 15-hour validation burden, recovered roughly 700 hours per year, saved more than $50,000 annually, and restored executive and stakeholder confidence by proving SLAs were met.