Eczacıbaşı Group builds resiliency with Veeam, decreasing backup times by 50% and thwarting cybercriminals

For the Eczacıbaşı Group, variety is the spice of life. The group is made up of 47 companies that span many different sectors. What they all have in common is a singular focus on innovation and quality.

“Since it was founded by Dr Nejat F. Eczacıbaşı in 1942, the Eczacıbaşı Group has retained its pioneering spirit,” said Yusuf Uzun, Senior Data Backup Administrator, Eczacıbaşı Bilişim. “I work for Eczacıbaşı Bilişim, which is the technology company that serves the group with cutting-edge solutions that set us apart from the competition.”

For all Eczacıbaşı Group companies, protecting customer data and ensuring uninterrupted continuity of service is a top priority. Recognizing that cybercriminals are only getting more cunning, Eczacıbaşı Bilişim decided the time was right to invest in a new approach to data protection.

“Data is what keeps every Eczacıbaşı Group company running,” said Uzun. “Our previous data protection solution offered limited flexibility and wasn’t easy to use. Every day you hear about cyberattackers finding new routes into organizations’ IT landscapes, so we wanted to ramp up our cyber-resiliency measures.”

Eczacıbaşı Bilişim selected Veeam to protect data across the Eczacıbaşı Group, ensuring that 13,250 employees can work uninterrupted to bring high-quality goods and services to people in Turkey and beyond.

“When we compared Veeam to competing offerings, we were impressed by the versatility and power of Veeam,” said Uzun. “We were able to set up our new data protection approach surprisingly quickly thanks to Veeam’s seamless integration with a wide variety of hardware and software options. As soon as we kicked off the project with Veeam, it began exceeding our expectations, and it hasn’t stopped since.”

Today, Eczacıbaşı Bilişim uses Veeam to back up approximately 800 TBs of data, protecting a diverse IT environment of physical and virtual machines. The environment includes business- critical systems such as Oracle, SAP HANA, PostgreSQL and Microsoft SQL Server databases. Eczacıbaşı Bilişim also rolled out Veeam to protect the group’s Microsoft 365 environment, helping to ensure that thousands of employees can collaborate without interruption.

Since deploying Veeam, Eczacıbaşı Bilişim has seen a dramatic impact on its ability to restore data quickly and comprehensively, helping it to keep group operations running smoothly 24/7. Backups also run much faster and with zero errors, giving the company confidence that every byte of data is protected.

“The results we have seen from Veeam are impressive across the board,” said Uzun, “With Veeam, we can recover data in 40% less time, our backups complete twice as fast, and our backup success rate is now 100%. These results translate into a more resilient Eczacıbaşı Group that’s ready for anything — including whatever cybercriminals might throw our way.”

Eczacıbaşı Bilişim is also operating more efficiently now, decreasing the time and effort spent administering data protection. With time saved thanks to Veeam, the company can increase its focus on empowering Eczacıbaşı companies with exciting new technologies.

“We spend 50% less time on managing data protection with Veeam, which we now devote to business process innovation,” said Uzun. “Next on the agenda, we’re exploring Kasten K10 for protecting Kubernetes environments. It’s clear that Veeam will play a big role in ensuring a bright future for the Eczacıbaşı Group.

• Cuts the time for data recovery by 40% and seamlessly scales to accommodate data growth of 30% per year. 
  Veeam is helping the Eczacıbaşı Group capitalize on growth opportunities without compromising on its ability to run smoothly 24/7.
• Decreases backup times by 50% and boosts backup success rate to 100%, contributing to rock-solid business resiliency. 
  “Veeam gives us peace of mind that no byte of data slips through the net of our backups,” said Uzun. “It’s also extremely efficient, with backups completing reliably without any impact on the performance of other IT services.”
• Reduces the administrative workload associated with data protection by 50%, freeing up time for IT innovation. 
  By halving the time and effort spent managing data protection, Eczacıbaşı Bilişim has more time to devote to new business development processes.