CASE STUDY
California Diaries Inc ’ s ( CDI ) family-owned member dairies are located throughout California ’ s rural landscape from San Diego County in the south to Sacramento County in the north . All dairies are within 100 miles of a CDI manufacturing facility , enabling fresh , raw milk to be transformed into a variety of quality dairy products within 24 hours of arrival . CDI has sales of more than US $ 4 billion annually across all 50 states and in more than 50 countries . services to our members is critically important ,” said Matthew Prieto , Director of Infrastructure and Security at CDI .
Like many manufacturing companies , CDI was an early adopter of virtualization . After determining that Symantec Backup , which backed up physical servers to tape , wasn ’ t suitable for virtual machines ( VMs ), CDI considered switching to a competitor but chose Veeam Availability Suite instead .
Producing quality products doesn ’ t happen by chance . Each family farm is committed to producing safe , fresh and nutritious milk . More than 300 hardworking farm families are the backbone of CDI .
“ They ’ re also integral to everything we do as an organization , so protecting the data that helps us collect , market and process milk while providing
“ Veeam was the leading backup solution for virtualization , just like it is today ,” Prieto said . “ We ’ re very glad we chose Veeam because it has saved us from one IT headache after another . When stuff hits the fan , we know we can count on Veeam .”
The first time it hit the fan was when Microsoft Exchange email ( on-premises ) suddenly became unavailable .
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