Supermarket giant Asda has added a new backup and restore solution to protect against downtime

Asda has chosen the Veeam Availability Suite to protect its high-volume, low-margin operation which means even a few hours of downtime could lead to millions of pounds in missed sales opportunities.

With automation from Veeam Backup & Replication and central visibility from Veeam ONE, Veeam Availability Suite enables the company to deliver maximum protection for mission-critical systems and opens up the potential for a future move to Modern Data Protection in the cloud.

Asda is also using self-service workflows to empower users to restore individual files themselves, which puts it above 70% of European businesses that rely on manual steps to resume during business continuity and disaster recovery processes.

Mat Cox, senior server engineer at Asda, said: “We can now configure, run and monitor backup jobs automatically, increasing data protection for Asda NewCo while keeping the IT team lean. Crucially, we think Veeam’s support for self-service restores could cut IT support requests by more than half.”