How quickly can Veeam Data Cloud be deployed for large-scale Microsoft 365 environments?

CEWA had data actively backing up within 40 minutes of implementation, despite managing over a petabyte of data across 90,000+ Microsoft 365 users. This rapid deployment eliminated the need for extensive project teams and lengthy implementation timelines.

How does Veeam Data Cloud support compliance with Australian data protection regulations?

The solution aligns with Australia's Essential 8 security framework through multi-factor authentication and supports long-term retention requirements, including CEWA's need to retain certain data for 99 years to meet regulatory mandates.

CEWA Protects 90K M365 Users with Veeam Data Cloud

Name: CEWA Protects 90K M365 Users with Veeam Data Cloud
Uploaded: 2026-03-20T17:03:16-04:00
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Description: TL;DR CEWA deployed Veeam Data Cloud to protect over a petabyte of Microsoft 365 data across 162 Catholic schools, 12,000 staff, and 81,000 students in Western Australia. Implementation was completed in just 40 minutes, far exceeding expectations for a...

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CEWA deployed Veeam Data Cloud to protect over a petabyte of Microsoft 365 data across 162 Catholic schools, 12,000 staff, and 81,000 students in Western Australia.
Implementation was completed in just 40 minutes, far exceeding expectations for an organization of this scale with complex regulatory requirements including 99-year data retention.
The solution aligns with Australia's Essential 8 security framework, providing MFA and role-based access control that enables both school-level and centralized data restoration capabilities.

Summary

Catholic Education Western Australia (CEWA) deployed Veeam Data Cloud to protect Microsoft 365 data across 162 schools, 12,000 staff, and 81,000 students. The organization needed a cloud-first solution capable of scaling with their environment while meeting strict Australian regulatory requirements, including 99-year data retention mandates. Implementation took just 40 minutes to begin backing up over a petabyte of data, significantly faster than anticipated for an organization of CEWA's scale. The solution provides enhanced security features aligned with Australia's Essential 8 framework, including multi-factor authentication and role-based access control that enables both school-level and centralized restoration capabilities. CEWA's leadership emphasizes that Veeam's data protection layer ensures educational continuity even in the event of cyber attacks, supporting their 2030 growth targets by guaranteeing rapid recovery with minimal downtime for schools and administrators.

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0:00 - Introduction and Overview
0:28 - CEWA's Scale and Cloud Strategy
1:07 - Rapid Implementation Success
1:39 - Security and Compliance Features

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1:12 "We had a call within 40 minutes, we actually had data being backed up. Now for us this was amazing, we were thinking we'd have to get a whole project team together to be able to do something at the scale of CEWA, with over a petabyte of data."
2:09 "We have data that from regulations we have to keep for 99 years."
2:38 "We needed a robust solution that can deal with 100,000 users and the petabyte of data we need to back up."

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