INDUSTRY WATCH
Following a proof of concept, Veeam was
introduced into the environment and
immediately reflected ‘a fantastic outcome
of 100% reliability of backups’.
Veeam’s ease of use and simplicity has been
a huge positive for Kirk and his ICT team. “We
selected Veeam because of its simplicity,” he
said. “It was a very easy platform to move
to.” The university was able to transition in
a seamless manner, replicating its legacy
backup environment directly into Veeam
Availability Platform. “We ran in parallel
for three months and had no regrets about
turning the old one off,” he added.
Now, Kirk says policies drive the backups
according to their needs; backup and
recovery evolves with JCU’s growth and any
necessary changes can be made with greater
efficiency than ever.
As he points out, the university’s backup
completion rates have gone from 96 or
THE UNIVERSITY
DISCOVERED NOT ONLY THAT
THERE WERE CONSTRAINTS
AROUND ITS EXISTING
SERVICE LICENSING, BUT
IT WAS ALSO COSTING
EVEN MORE TIME (AND
THEREFORE MONEY).
97% under its old provider to 100%
with Veeam. “We don’t have to babysit
the backup solution anymore. We have
that peace of mind.”
Kirk also points out that Veeam Backup
for Office 365 can potentially help the
university protect everything stored
within SharePoint Online, OneDrive for
Business and even Microsoft Teams.
“Knowing Office 365 data is protected
and backed up by the same availability
solution would certainly assure us of
backup consistency and keeping the
valuable information in faculty emails,
documents and conversations accessible
and under our control.”
As the university’s data needs grow,
backup and recovery can serve another
vital purpose – development and testing.
With complete and up-to-the-instant
copies of all the data, Kirk and his team
can continue to innovate on secondary
datasets without disrupting the live
workloads of the university. •
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