Ultimately, we see resilience as an enabler of innovation rather than a barrier to it.

“ The environment protected by Veeam is varied,” said Henry.“ It includes everything from research applications to systems that control lights in our campus buildings. Veeam can handle it all.”

The university has also extended protection to its Microsoft environment through Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Entra ID, supporting its broader secure-by-design approach.

According to Sheffield Hallam, the implementation has delivered a 99.9 % data recovery success rate, significantly faster backup performance åand enhanced cyber-resilience through features including immutable backups and malware scanning.

“ With Veeam we had full confidence in backup and restores from day one,” said Henry.“ Our largest workload backs up 2.8x or 80 % faster with Veeam, while some agent-based backups complete 13.7x faster than before.”

The university is now exploring the use of Veeam to improve data portability between platforms and extend protection to cloud workloads.

“ Whether we choose to switch hypervisor or adopt hyper-converged infrastructure, we know Veeam will provide the same level of outstanding data resilience with minimal complexity,” said Henry.“ Our experience of working with Veeam so far has been enriching and we look forward to seeing where we go next on our journey together.”

We asked Simon Henry, Head of Cloud, Networks and Infrastructure at Sheffield Hallam University, further questions to find out more about the project.

How does data resilience fit into Sheffield Hallam University’ s wider cloud-first Digital Transformation strategy?

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