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.
