Case Study: American Tower Saves on Backup Storage Costs with Wasabi and Veeam

American Tower Saves on Storage Costs for Secondary Backups with Wasabi+Veeam

American Tower, a global telecommunications company, needed a more cost-effective way to store secondary backups for its 30-day retention policy. Its previous backup application required an expensive companion storage solution, making it difficult and costly to scale. American Tower turned to Wasabi Technologies, using Wasabi hot cloud storage with Veeam for backup and retention.

With Wasabi Technologies and Veeam, American Tower sends secondary copies of virtual machine backups to Wasabi for the retention period, supporting an automated 3-2-1 backup strategy. The company reported saving 80% on cloud object storage, while Reserved Capacity Storage gave it predictable costs and easier budgeting. The solution has enabled American Tower to scale its retention backups by adding more applications and petabytes of data without storage issues.

American Tower

Michael Ribaudo

Global Infrastructure Architect