Svenska Fönster Opts for Veeam and NetApp

Veeam Software, Inc. announced that Svenska Fönster AB, a window manufacturers, chose its Availability Suite and NetApp ONTAP to improve IT efficiency before increasing window production – a precursor to increasing market share.

“We had to be sure we could manufacture more windows in a shorter timeframe,” said Mattias Forslindh, IT project manager, Svenska Fönster. “The company had invested in a state-of-the art factory in Edsbyn and had hired and trained the best employees. Only one challenge remained: legacy backup couldn’t keep up with business growth.”

He said taking and removing VMware vSphere snapshots during backup and replication was putting a tremendous burden on VMs, which created a performance bottleneck in production.

Recovery was an issue too.

“Recovering the 4TB VM that supports our ERP system could take up to 2 days, which was unacceptable to the business,” he said. “Our ERP system has to be available all the time because it keeps track of customers’ orders. If it’s not available, we can’t manufacture windows.”

Veeam integrates with NetApp ONTAP to ensure the ERP system is always available. It orchestrates backup, replication and recovery through direct integration with ONTAP storage snapshots and vSphere, reducing the backup window from 5 hours to 5 minutes (98%) and increasing recovery speed to hours from days (89%).

“Veeam integration with NetApp was a game-changer for us,” Forslindh said. “We simplified data protection and improved IT efficiency, enabling us to support our company’s business strategy to increase market share. Data protection has become so fast and easy that we’ve also been able to improve our work-life balance.”

Inefficient IT operations had caused the IT team to work overtime. Even routine maintenance caused performance problems in production, so it had to be completed during evenings and weekends.

“Veeam and NetApp reduced the administrative burden on our team, giving us back our evenings and weekends,” Forslindh said.