Wenatchee Valley College modernized its disaster-recovery strategy after a nearby institution suffered a crippling ransomware attack. Pages 1–3 show that Backup Exec and Dell storage were slow, unreliable and not cloud-ready, leaving critical systems—student registration, payroll, VDI, Exchange, SharePoint and OneDrive—at risk. Veeam Backup & Replication with ExaGrid now protects 24 TB across 125 VMs with encrypted, air-gapped backups and Retention Time-Lock. SureBackup verifies recoverability, Instant VM Recovery cuts restoration time by 300%, and Veeam for Microsoft 365 ensures long-term data retention and rapid granular restores.

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