Case Study: Sky cuts backup administration time by 73% with Veritas Technologies’ NetBackup Appliances and Information Map

Sky and Veritas Believe in Better Backup

Sky plc, Europe’s leading entertainment company serving about 22 million customers, needed to modernize its backup infrastructure—moving off tape to a disk-based, deduplicated solution to improve recovery times, reduce costs, and keep integration with its existing NetBackup environment.

Sky deployed Veritas NetBackup Appliances and Veritas Information Map (34 appliances phased in), achieving up to 90% deduplication, a 73% reduction in backup administration time and an increase in backup success from 85% to 98%. The rollout cut storage costs, sped Oracle/SQL recoveries and instant restores, simplified visibility and policy management for unstructured data, and freed IT staff to focus on higher‑value work.

Sky

David Kerr

Storage Backup and Support Manager