A major UK automotive dealership group needed to modernise its backup infrastructure to keep pace with business growth and ensure reliable data protection across hundreds of locations. Advania helped the organisation overhaul its legacy backup platform, dramatically improving backup performance, management visibility, and operational efficiency.
🔎At a glance
- Large UK motor group
- 185 dealerships and remote sites
- Around 8,500 users
- Three datacentres in Manchester, Newcastle and Belfast
🚨The challenge
The organisation’s backup infrastructure was struggling to keep up with the scale of the business.
Key issues included:
- Limited investment in IT infrastructure over time
- Backup technology unable to keep pace with operational demands
- Backup delays causing missed RPO and RTO targets
- Significant strain on internal IT teams managing the environment
With critical systems across hundreds of locations, the organisation needed a modern solution capable of delivering reliable, high-speed backups.
💡The approach
Advania worked with the customer and Veeam to evaluate potential solutions and run a structured trial.
Key steps included:
- Hosting discovery workshops to assess the environment
- Facilitating a Veeam demonstration and 30-day trial licence
- Designing a bespoke backup architecture
- Selecting Veeam Backup & Replication Enterprise
- Running licensing workshops to optimise the long-term solution
☑️The outcome
- Backup windows significantly reduced
- Backup operations aligned with business targets
- Simplified backup management through a single interface
- Reduced operational overhead for IT teams
- Greater visibility and control over backup policies
⚡️Why this matters
For distributed organisations with hundreds of locations, slow or unreliable backups can create major operational and security risks. Modern backup platforms provide the speed, resilience, and visibility needed to protect critical business data at scale.
