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Veeam guards EECO’s mission-critical efficiency with Microsoft 365 data protection

To deliver value and protect narrow margins, EECO uses advanced analytics and automation solutions. Thanks to Veeam's data protection, EECO can innovate confidently and securely.

February 14, 2025

The ability to unify, analyze, and act on enormous swaths of data opens up incredible opportunities for companies to innovate quickly and make smarter decisions than ever before—but with this opportunity comes the imperative to protect that data from the evolving risks of cyberthreats, system failures, and other disruptions. For companies to safeguard operations, cutting-edge data protection solutions are essential, providing not only risk mitigation but also faster data recovery, operational continuity, cost savings, and compliance with data security regulations.

This is exactly where Microsoft partner Veeam, an innovator in the data resiliency space since 2006, excels. In 2024, the company was recognized by Gartner for the fifth consecutive year as a leader with the highest ability to execute in enterprise backup and recovery software solutions. Veeam's comprehensive suite of solutions—ranging from backup and disaster recovery (DR) to long-term data storage—helps protect more than 550,000 customers worldwide, including large enterprises with complex IT environments, and is available for over 22 million Microsoft 365 users. Veeam emphasizes "radical resilience"—a powerful approach that helps businesses maintain operational continuity and ensure quick recovery from disruptions such as data loss, cyberattacks, or system failures, while optimizing resources to reduce costs.

Strengthening data security to support ramped up automation and analytics

For Electrical Equipment Company (EECO), a provider of high-quality industrial products for manufacturing plants, machine builders, and construction teams, adopting advanced technologies was key to improving operational efficiency and staying competitive. EECO helps customers avoid overspending on unreliable parts. In short, they aim to deliver superior quality at low cost. To achieve this, they strive to maximize efficiency and pass on cost savings.

“We are committed to offering our customers the very best products at competitive prices,” said Rod Vieiradarosa, Director of IT Operations at EECO. “As a result, the margins in our business are extremely tight, and we’re always looking for ways to operate more efficiently, whether that’s on the warehouse floor or in the back office.”

EECO achieved this greater efficiency by harnessing data and applying advanced analytics and automation solutions. However, integrating these new technologies posed potential security risks. EECO needed a robust, scalable, and secure data protection solution to protect their data and ensure operational continuity during their transformation to a data-driven enterprise.

“Data protection is a big priority for us,” said Vieiradarosa. “Any delays to accessing data could slow down deliveries to our customers and drive up the cost of doing business. So, we do everything we can to avoid downtime for our IT systems. When we saw a chance to ramp up our data protection measures and rationalize our IT suppliers at the same time, we grabbed it with both hands.”

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"Veeam empowers EECO to innovate confidently with seamless, cost-effective data resilience solutions, ensuring business continuity and supporting their strategic goals."

—Shiva Pillay, General Manager and Senior Vice President, Americas, Veeam

Flexible, secure data access, reliable disaster recovery, and efficient resource allocation

EECO selected Veeam as their data protection vendor of choice. Thanks to Veeam, EECO unlocked both the security and innovation they needed, empowering enhanced efficiency, greater cost savings, and improved operational resiliency.

“Veeam has never failed to restore any of our on-premises workloads on demand,” said Vieiradarosa. “That sort of track record gives us confidence we’ve selected the right data protection solution to support EECO in going onto bigger and better things.”

Veeam could ensure that EECO employees had access to essential product, sales, and customer information whenever they need it.

“We moved from Zerto to Veeam CDP-based VM replication, and the difference was obvious immediately,” said Vieiradarosa. “Straight away, we saw the cost and complexity associated with data protection drop significantly, as well as the administrative burden on our IT team. Our use of Zerto was through a web portal from a server co-location facility, which meant that in a disaster we would have to spin up virtual servers in their private cloud and pay per hour. That made DR an unknown cost and made failback more complicated. Veeam is more of an any-to-any tool, which is a great advantage.”

EECO now uses Veeam Data Platform, a solution that offers protection for cloud, virtual, physical, SaaS, and Kubernetes environments, to back up all on-premises systems to its DR site before replicating selected backups to the cloud. As part of its annual DR testing, EECO checks that it can restore various workloads with Veeam.

“We have a 100% success rate in restoring data from our on-premises systems with Veeam,” said Vieiradarosa. “I don’t know of any solution that can match Veeam for this use case. The price point of other tools such as Rubrik is so much higher, and they don’t maintain the same pace of innovation as Veeam.”

To protect its business-critical Microsoft 365 environment, EECO became the first company in the US to deploy Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365, a BaaS offering based in Veeam’s industry-leading Microsoft 365 backup solution, which has been a trusted solution for thousands of customers for almost a decade.

“We recently went all-in on Microsoft 365,” said Vieiradarosa. “All our file storage is now within Microsoft Teams, and most of our customer communications happen via Outlook. We tried everything under the sun to back up our Microsoft 365 data, from Backupify to Druva, but when we realized that we could consolidate to Veeam and deal with one less vendor, it was an easy choice.”

Consolidating to a single vendor for data protection for on-premises and Microsoft 365 environments saves time and effort. EECO succeeded in rationalizing its IT suppliers by standardizing Veeam as its data protection solution of choice, streamlining support and licensing.

EECO now benefits from on-tap Veeam support for the protection of both its on-premises and Microsoft 365 environments. EECO looks forward to benefiting from the Veeam culture of continuous improvement—in which innovation is essential—as part of their data protection landscape too.

“Veeam just gets it,” said Vieiradarosa. “Their core values align with ours. We’ve never felt that we’ve become a commodity as a customer. It’s crucial for us to have rapid access to support, and that’s what we get from Veeam.”

As EECO continues to improve its offering to customers, Veeam is proving an invaluable tool in supporting the company’s development.

“If we upgrade some software and it goes sideways, Veeam allows us to roll back instantly,” said Vieiradarosa. “Scenarios like this are where Veeam really shines. It’s also a key part of our cyber resiliency strategy since we can use Veeam to recover from cloud backups in a worst-case scenario. Whatever workloads or tools we consider next, using Veeam to protect them is a given.”

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"With Veeam's data resilience solution, EECO can embrace innovation while ensuring seamless operations, exemplifying how robust security solutions empower businesses to thrive."

—Shiva Pillay, General Manager and Senior Vice President, Americas, Veeam

Secure continuity gives organizations the confidence to innovate and grow

With Veeam's comprehensive data protection solutions, EECO has streamlined its IT operations, reducing complexity and saving valuable time. Vieiradarosa explained, “Veeam helps us to keep our business running cost-effectively with minimal interruption.”

“Using Veeam for data protection allows us to concentrate on what we excel at: bringing the right electrical components to our customers at the right price point,” Vieiradarosa said.

For companies across industries, Veeam's ability to simplify data protection while maximizing returns on IT investments is a powerful enabler of continued success. As businesses like EECO move forward toward an increasingly data-driven future, Veeam will remain at the forefront, helping organizations of all sizes unlock their full potential while securing their most valuable asset: their data.

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