Intelligent CIO North America Issue 30 | Page 58

CASE STUDY
About CDI
California Dairies Inc . ( CDI ) is the largest farmer-owned milk processing cooperative in California , producing approximately 40 % of the state ’ s milk and 20 % of the nation ’ s butter . The number one dairy processing cooperative in the number one dairy state was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Visalia .
CDI is comprised of more than 300 dairy farms producing nearly 17 billion pounds of milk annually that CDI processes to make butter , fluid milk products and milk powders . Producing fresh , high-quality dairy products every day is fundamental to CDI ’ s success .

THE ENTIRE EXCHANGE ENVIRONMENT WAS FULLY RESTORED , ALL DATA WAS ACCOUNTED FOR AND USERS WERE UNAWARE OF HOW CATASTROPHIC IT COULD HAVE BEEN .

twice about deploying Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 because we knew how simple and reliable recovery could be . We also knew backup was our responsibility , not Microsoft ’ s .”
“ It was on a Friday at 4pm and I was getting ready to leave on vacation , but our Exchange servers failed ,” Prieto said . “ I began troubleshooting the cause to no avail , so I contacted Microsoft , but they couldn ’ t determine the root cause quickly enough , and we needed to be up ASAP . I reached out to other experienced friends in the field , but they couldn ’ t determine the cause either .
“ My vacation was already postponed because it had been 36 hours , so with no resolution in sight and Monday morning fast approaching , I decided to put my faith in Veeam . I restored the entire Exchange environment from a backup – it was fast , incredibly easy and worked as expected . The entire Exchange environment was fully restored , all data was accounted for and users were unaware of how catastrophic it could have been .
“ Later when the opportunity arose to migrate our on-premises environment to the cloud , we didn ’ t think
Prieto said the second time stuff hit the fan was scarier . Custom-built software supporting milk payments to farmers had failed in the middle of the night .
“ I can ’ t stress enough how important our farm families are to our organization ,” Prieto said .
“ For five hours I tried to troubleshoot the software issue , but by early morning it was still unresolved . That ’ s when I began referring to Veeam as our emergency parachute . I yanked on the ripcord and said , ‘ Let ’ s go Veeam . You ’ ve never failed us before , so don ’ t fail us now .’ And it didn ’ t . The entire system restore was quick and all systems were fully functional by sunrise .”
The solution
Veeam helps CDI maintain milk production and pay dairy farmers by protecting data used to collect , market and process milk . Veeam also ensures Business Continuity through verified Disaster
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