City of Fort Lauderdale Reduces Data Recovery Time by 95% Using Veeam
March 28 2024 - 9:05AM
Business Wire
City Implements Veeam Data Platform and Veeam
Backup for Microsoft 365 to Protect Against Impacts of Weather
Events and Cyberattacks
Veeam® Software, the #1 leader by market share in Data
Protection and Ransomware Recovery, today announced that the City
of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, has deployed Veeam Data Platform and
Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 to enable high-speed recovery of
vital data anywhere in the city’s hybrid cloud infrastructure. With
Veeam, the city has reduced recovery time by 95%, providing secure,
flexible protection of data against cyberattacks and natural
disasters.
In today’s security landscape, organizations face the challenge
of trying to keep operations up and running, while also fending off
ransomware attacks. Over the past twelve months, 76% of
organizations were attacked at least once in the past 12 months,
and 26% of those reported being attacked at least four times.i
Facing additional risks of data center outages from severe weather
events along Florida’s coast, the City of Fort Lauderdale
implemented Veeam Data Platform Premium Edition and Veeam Backup
for Microsoft 365 to upgrade the performance of its backup
solutions.
“If only we had deployed Veeam citywide before the historic
flash flood in 2023,” said Tamecka McKay, CIO, City of Fort
Lauderdale. “More than 25 inches of rain fell within five hours, so
we lost power in one of the data centers. Power wasn’t expected to
resume for two days, so we spent hours rerouting network
connectivity to bring up systems supporting city services. Veeam
would have restored our backups from Azure Blob in minutes, and
many city services would have been restored in a shorter time
frame.”
Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 operates in the cloud, allowing
users to securely back up Office 365 to any location, whether that
be on-premises or in cloud object storage, including locations like
Amazon S3, Azure Blob, IBM Cloud or S3 compatible providers. In
this case, it allowed Veeam to back up 8.5TB of on-premises data to
ExaGrid appliances and made backup copies immutable in Azure
Blob.
To further support the city, Veeam will back up its data in
Microsoft 365 to Azure Blob because reliable restore is critical
for the city. For example, granular recovery of historical emails
will ensure the city maintains legal compliance with Florida’s
Sunshine Law and recovering SharePoint will ensure the city’s
intranet is always available.
Along with meeting the city’s requirements for secure, flexible
data protection, Veeam helped Fort Lauderdale standardize,
modernize and centralize its disaster recovery and future business
continuity efforts plans.
“There’s a saying that you shouldn’t let a good crisis go to
waste, so we didn’t,” McKay said. “The catastrophic flood we
experienced affirmed our decision that Veeam is the best solution
for taking disaster recovery and business continuity to the next
level.”
Veeam solutions also enabled Fort Lauderdale to meet its
cybersecurity insurance requirements with encryption and
immutability. Veeam delivered cyber resiliency through recovery
verification, instant recovery at scale, infection-free recovery,
inline malware detection and DR orchestration.
“At Veeam, we understand how keeping municipal services up and
running is paramount, especially in the event of a debilitating
power outage or cyberattack,” said Shiva Pillay, General Manager
and Senior Vice President of Americas at Veeam. “We’re proud that
Veeam’s backup and disaster recovery solutions have helped the City
of Fort Lauderdale properly protect its data and get systems
restored after any emergency.”
For more details on the Fort Lauderdale program and Veeam, visit
https://www.veeam.com/success-stories/city-of-fort-lauderdale.html.
Registration is now open for the 10th annual VeeamON event,
taking place June 3-5, 2024, at the Diplomat Resort in Fort
Lauderdale, Florida and online. Register now for a limited-time
10-year anniversary rate: https://www.veeam.com/veeamon.
About Veeam Software
Veeam®, the #1 global market leader in data protection and
ransomware recovery, is on a mission to help every organization not
just bounce back from a data outage or loss but bounce forward.
With Veeam, organizations achieve radical resilience through data
security, data recovery, and data freedom for their hybrid cloud.
The Veeam Data Platform delivers a single solution for cloud,
virtual, physical, SaaS, and Kubernetes environments that gives IT
and security leaders peace of mind that their apps and data are
protected and always available. Headquartered in Seattle with
offices in more than 30 countries, Veeam protects over 450,000
customers worldwide, including 74% of the Global 2000, who trust
Veeam to keep their businesses running. Radical Resilience starts
with Veeam. Learn more at www.veeam.com or follow Veeam on LinkedIn
@veeam-software and X @veeam.
i Veeam Data Protection Trends Report 2024;
https://go.veeam.com/wp-data-protection-trends-2024
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