The Who
- UK motor group and car dealership chain
- 185 dealerships/remote sites
- 8,500 users
- 3x datacentres in Manchester, Newcastle, and Belfast
The Challenge
- Constrained investment in IT
- Technology not keeping pace with needs
- Experiencing challenges with Symantec backup
- Delays resulting in missed RPO and RTO
The Solution
- Veeam obvious choice for virtual infrastructure based on VMware
- Facilitated demo of Veeam and a 30-day licence trial
- Hosted discovery workshops with Veeam and customer to look at bespoke solution
- Selected "Backup and Replication for Enterprise"
- Led additional workshop to explore best licensing option
The Benefits
- Results within first few days of trial
- Backup windows a lot smaller and meeting company targets
- Backup now much quicker and achieving objectives
- User-friendly single management interface
- Less resource to manage, freeing up IT team
- More granular understanding of where to backup to/from
- Now re-engaging with Veeam expert to extend backup
Why Servium?
- Got to grips with challenge and proposed options quickly
- Excellent relationship with Veeam got the right experts engaged
- Valuable support through every stage of the project - advice, licensing, implementation
