HosTeam started in 2009 as a hosting provider with three co-located servers. Currently, the company has hundreds of servers with a network capacity of over 400Gbps. The company’s main services are virtualization and private cloud solutions. HosTeam offers Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware vSphere virtualization, as well as DDoS mitigation services.
HosTeam has two sites. The primary site in Warsaw has 300 physical servers and 1,000 virtual machines (VMs), and the secondary site stores all the backup copies of critical information. VMs store customer data that is mostly web services. There are several different environments, ranging from a small single server to as large as a few dozen servers. HosTeam provides virtualization services with storage and firewalls to their customers. Data integrity is critical for the company, as several customers from the banking industry have to report data loss to the government.
In the past, HosTeam relied on open-source tools and backup tools from their storage providers for data protection. The main issue was that backups required too much storage space and too much bandwidth. The previous tool only did a full backup and did not provide incremental backup. There were also random failed backup jobs, inconsistent backups, and failed recoveries. HosTeam needed a reliable VM backup solution that would provide incremental backups and consistent reporting.
NAKIVO Backup & Replication offers data protection for virtual, physical, cloud, and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) environments. The solution provides a wide range of functionalities, including installation on a NAS server, backup to tape, backup to cloud, granular recovery, disaster recovery orchestration, failover/failback, reporting, and much more. NAKIVO Backup & Replication also offers some of the most competitive pricing in the industry. “NAKIVO Backup & Replication offered us a variety of features at an affordable price. We tested other similar solutions and all were way too expensive for us,” says Bartosz Waszak, co-owner of HosTeam.
With the solution’s robust backup, HosTeam can create image-based, incremental, and app-aware backups of VMs. With VMware Changed Block Tracking (CBT) technology, only changes are copied to the backup repository, resulting in faster backups. “Most of our VMs are backed up on a daily basis, and few of our VMs are backed up twice a day. We have agreements with our customers that backups should be scheduled at fixed hours. Usually, all our backup jobs finish successfully within four to five hours. Incremental backups are much appreciated since now backups finish much faster. We enjoy direct access to storage, as well, so we can back up without overloading our ESXi servers,” says Bartosz.
“Instant VM recovery and instant granular recovery functionalities save a lot of time for HosTeam. Situations occur when customers need to recover only a single file, and we can do that in just a couple of minutes with instant file recovery. Sometimes, we have to boot a previous version of the database server to check some records in the database. Instant recovery is a big advantage, as previously we had to extract complete VM images, then boot, and copy files from the OS,” says Bartosz.
“With NAKIVO Backup & Replication, we have much more reliable backups. And with screenshot verification, we can test those backups anytime, to make sure that they are good and recoverable. With reporting, we receive cyclical reports to our email about the progress of our backups. Previously, we had to manually check that backups were done correctly, but with NAKIVO Backup & Replication, everything is now automated. Our senior administrators saved their time because the user-friendly web interface means they can offload recovering data for customers to helpdesk or junior administrators,” says Bartosz.
HosTeam was established in Poland in 2009. Over the years, the company has been expanding and developing the range of services offered to their customers. HosTeam offers domain name services, hosting, virtualization services, and dedicated servers services, all with 24/7 support. HosTeam also provides switches, routers, and firewalls to their customers. For more information, visit hosteam.pl.
Cyllene Group is an IT service management company from France that was founded in 1986. Cyllene Group operates out of ten sites and has three datacenters and 1,500 physical servers. The company manages a variety of data for their customers, including infrastructure services, business databases, middleware data, e-commerce data sites, health sensitive data, and other types of information. Due to strict service-level agreements (SLAs) with customers, backup and recovery services are critical for the Cyllene Group. The company sees the importance of backup services for protection against environmental disasters, ransomware, and security breaches. The loss of critical data could be disastrous for the company and could put all business activity in jeopardy.
Previously, Cyllene Group relied on another backup solution, but the software did not succeed efficiently for the company. The main problem was that the solution was not agentless and required agents to be installed on virtual machines (VMs), plus recovery functionality was not efficient. Additionally, the management console was not user-friendly and agent deployment required time and considerable effort from the IT team. Cyllene Group decided to change their old legacy backup solution in favor of a VM backup solution. “We decided to search for a new VM backup solution that would address customer requests efficiently and at the same time increase recovery objectives for us. Moreover, as the old software was time consuming for the IT team, we needed to optimize our work time, as well,” says Jérôme Ospitaletche, Director of Transversal Services at Cyllene Group.
“When we started looking at various solutions on the market, obviously the first instinct was to select the market leader. However, In Cyllene, we have always preferred to look for and work with challengers. Not that the other product was a bad product, but we prefer to work with challengers because we find our relationships to be better. The pricing of NAKIVO Backup & Replication has been a real surprise for us, so switching was much easier as well,” says Jérôme.
NAKIVO Backup & Replication is an agentless data protection solution for virtual, physical, cloud, and software as a service (SaaS) environments. At Cyllene Group, NAKIVO Backup & Replication is now installed on Linux operating systems, with a fast, easy, and efficient deployment process. “With easy deployment and easy management access for the IT team, NAKIVO Backup & Replication solved the issue of the backup solution consuming too much time. We no longer spend time deploying backup agents to systems, and all the processes flow nicely with the simplified architecture of the solution. Basically, we managed to reduce the integration time and we can focus on our SLAs,” says Jérôme.
Cyllene Group takes advantage of recovery functionalities offered by NAKIVO Backup & Replication, VM replication, and backup to tape. “VM replication helps us move VMs between multiple sites and meet our recovery objectives. There is also no need for expansive infrastructure like SAN replication, for example. In terms of recovery, we enjoy instant granular recovery. This functionality is the most important because our old backup solution did not offer it. Instant granular recover with NAKIVO Backup & Replication saves us a lot of time. Lastly, backup to tape supports us in achieving our SLAs by exporting data to long-term archiving media. The efficiency of backup to tape allows us to keep our commitments to our customers,” says Jérôme.
NAKIVO Backup & Replication provides Cyllene Group with an agentless data protection solution that helps protect critical data and applications, while also helping the company achieve their SLAs. Cyllene Group optimized the working time of their IT team, added the missing instant granular functionality, and achieved its recovery objectives. “NAKIVO Backup & Replication is an efficient solution for virtual machine backup and helped us solve the technical limitations we encountered with our old solution. The nice pricing enabled us to propose optimized services to our customers. NAKIVO support is also efficient because questions are answered quickly and critical cases are resolved speedily,” says Jérôme.
Cyllene Group was created in 1986 and has more than 400 employees today. Born from the merger of the companies CETSI, ABC Systemes, ASEMA, Leadeal Mfrketing, and Equinoa, Cyllene Group now has the capacity to respond to all the needs of digital transformation and global outsourcing. Cyllene Group covers everything from hosting and managed services, cybersecurity, and deployment of applications, to data intelligence and analytics. For more information, visit www.groupe-cyllene.com.
Gürallar Group was founded more than 50 years ago. The group has several businesses spanning glass tableware and glass packaging manufacturing, roof tile manufacturing and machinery development. It also owns Gürallar Yapi, an immovable property investment and development company. Lastly, Gürallar Group owns the Ali Bey Hotels & Resorts brand and JOALI Maldives.
Gürallar Group headquarters is located in Kütahya, Turkey. The group’s data center has 10 physical servers and 50 virtual machines. Virtual machines store files, databases, web servers, document management applications, an ERP system and other applications. Server problems, malware, hacking threats, natural disasters and human errors pose a real threat to the business. That is why data protection and business continuity are key priorities for Gürallar Group. Loss of data can have a detrimental impact on the group, including disrupting manufacturing, withholding services and losing credibility in the eyes of customers, all of which would lead to financial losses.
Previously, Gürallar Group relied on another VMware backup solution. One of the issues faced repeatedly with that solution was failed jobs. In addition, the backup solution sometimes crashed due to internal database errors. These issues took too long to fix, diverting resources from other important activities. Gürallar Group wanted to keep their business running rather than constantly fixing errors. Recovery times were also rather long, and a whole day was needed to recover a virtual machine. At some point, Gürallar Group decided it was time to switch to a new backup solution that would provide fast performance, reliability and agility.
NAKIVO Backup & Replication is a reliable data protection solution for physical, virtual, cloud and SaaS environments. The software offers a complete set of functionalities, including backup, replication, recovery, backup to cloud, backup to tape, granular recovery, data deduplication and Site Recovery. NAKIVO Backup & Replication is faster, more reliable and easier to manage than legacy solutions. With NAKIVO Backup & Replication, there are multiple deployment options as well, including installation on Windows or Linux, installation on a NAS and deployment as a virtual appliance.
“We selected NAKIVO Backup & Replication due to the good Linux file system support and great data deduplication ratio. NAKIVO Backup & Replication supports a variety of different deployments and that is great to have options. For now, we just installed the product on a Linux OS. The installation process is easy to manage without external help, and the web interface is pretty self-explanatory,” says Yasar Ozkul, Senior Infrastructure and Network Specialist at Gürallar Group.
NAKIVO Backup & Replication performs fast and reliable backups of virtual machines, while saving effort and time. The product performs incremental backups of virtual machines by copying only the changed data blocks to the repository after the initial full backup. This approach saves backup time and storage space. “We perform backup jobs every day, and they are always incremental. Backup jobs complete successfully, and we no longer have to fix constant errors. For VM backup, I enjoy NAKIVO Backup & Replication because of short backup times and good data deduplication ratio. By having lower storage space requirements, we save money on direct storage costs and costs related to electricity,” says Yasar.
LAN-free data transfer also provides savings for the Gürallar Group, while with instant granular recovery, the group can recover application objects near-instantly. LAN-free data transfer increases VM backup speed and reduces the load on the network. “Instant object recovery for Microsoft Active Directory helped us a lot, as rapid recovery ensures business continuity. Active Directory databases can be instantly accessed from deduplicated VM backups and we can search for Active Directory objects and containers or download entire containers or objects. With our previous solution, such near-instant recovery was not possible,” says Yasar.
NAKIVO Backup & Replication provides Gürallar Group with fast and reliable VM backup, where backup jobs complete successfully and in a timely manner. The IT team no longer needs to spend hours on endless errors within the backup solution. NAKIVO Backup & Replication supports a broad array of file systems, including Linux file system. With instant object recovery, the group can recover Active Directory objects near-instantly as well. “We are satisfied with NAKIVO Backup & Replication so far, as the product delivers reliability, performance and agility. The support team is knowledgeable and fast, with someone responding to requests asap. NAKIVO Backup & Replication protects our hybrid environment with VM backup and ensures business continuity with quick recovery,” says Yasar.
Gürallar Group commenced its business in 1948 as a family-owned company and claimed its rightful respected place among the largest private sector groups in the first quarter of the 21st century. The Group carried out the majority of its investments in the first year of its activity in and around Kütahya, Turkey, and significantly contributed to the socioeconomic and sociocultural development of the region. Adopting a long-term strategic perspective, the Group has achieved sustainable growth in different sectors from glass tableware to tourism, construction and machinery. For more information, visit www.gurallar.com.
AVIOBOOK, is a Thales Group company that supports airline operations as a partner. AVIOBOOK’s comprehensive software digitizes airline’s workflows, syncs information, and securely connects airline staff. Combined with the company’s cutting-edge hardware solution and thanks to its expertise in data and cyber security, AVIOBOOK helps airlines create more value and meet unique operational demands. The company also offers 24/7 support, training and documentation.
AVIOBOOK operates out of one site that has seven running physical servers. Virtual machines run mostly developer tools and data-gathering tools. Some of the machines are used for management, while others are used for testing purposes only. There are also virtual machines used for documentation portals. For AVIOBOOK, data is the bread and butter of the company. If the company loses data, they also lose hours of hard work by developers, potential revenue and even customer trust. Since AVIOBOOK promises their customers certain SLAs, such as bug fixes, extra functionality and frequent product updates, data loss and downtime cannot be tolerated. A reliable backup solution that protects the company’s data must be in place.
In the past, AVIOBOOK used a solution that relied on scripts to compress most critical databases and copied them to a NAS server. Previously, recovery was a manual and tedious job for the IT team. The solution was good enough for a small company with five people working in a one-room office. AVIOBOOK has grown tenfold since then, thus, the approach to data protection had to evolve as well. The company wanted an efficient backup solution that would protect both VMs and physical servers and offer fast recovery at the same time. The backup solution had to be affordable for a large number of VMs and just a handful of physical servers.
NAKIVO Backup & Replication is designed for virtualized environments and supports VMware, Hyper-V and Nutanix AHV environments, as well as offers Windows and Linux Server backup. Since AVIOBOOK’s previous approach to data protection did not allow the company to back up the entire environment, AVIOBOOK needed a scalable solution that was easier to maintain. Moreover, since NAKIVO Backup & Replication supports various NAS servers, including Synology, QNAP, ASUSTOR, FreeNAS and others, the decision to trust NAKIVO was easier to make.
AVIOBOOK installed NAKIVO Backup & Replication on a newly purchased Synology NAS server, and the installation was easy and straightforward, while the web-interface is self-explanatory. “NAKIVO Backup & Replication was the most affordable solution for us that we could implement in a short time span, also due to the solution’s integration with our Synology NAS. The product does not require much needed real estate on our ESXi’s and runs like a charm,” says Romeo, IT Administrator at AVIOBOOK.
Currently, AVIOBOOK takes advantage of both virtual and physical backup. The first initial backup took some time, but all current jobs are much shorter because the solution offers incremental backups. “We run a daily backup of our most critical data without any issues in the hours after midnight and before non-business hours. Everything runs smoothly with great performance results,” says Romeo.
“With the calendar and dashboard, we track the performance and progress of our backup jobs. I enjoy how you can see when the jobs are scheduled and really enjoy the fact that you get an estimate of how long the job will take to complete. I also appreciate that I can see how the backup job is running and the what is the estimated completion percentage is,” explains Romeo.
AVIOBOOK also values the ability to instantly recover an entire VM and maintain copies of backups in different locations, such as a public cloud. “With backup copy, we send backup copies to a cloud. This saves us time and offloads our production site. Instant VM recovery is fast and effective, we have tested in on a VM, and the functionality worked right out of the box. In the near future, we are planning to use Amazon EC2 storage for sending backups to the cloud. We are still deciding on the best option for us, as NAKIVO Backup & Replication supports different cloud environments,” says Romeo.
NAKIVO Backup & Replication allows AVIOBOOK to protect both the company’s physical and virtual environments and integrates seamlessly with the company’s Synology NAS server. With the dashboard and calendar, the company can schedule backup jobs at different times and track progress of those backup jobs. While previously, recovery was a manual and tedious job, now, NAKIVO Backup & Replication offers a near-instant way to recover an entire VM. AVIOBOOK already saved a whole day worth of work on installation and configuration, in comparison to setting up their previous solution. “NAKIVO Backup & Replication was a fit for us in terms of budget and capabilities. Other solutions that we investigated were too expensive or too difficult to use. With NAKIVO Backup & Replication, we easily track backup jobs with the calendar and can easily recover entire VMs now,” says Romeo.
AVIOBOOK, is a Thales Group company that supports airlines as a partner in their digital strategy. AVIOBOOK offers a comprehensive and highly integrated suite of ground and flight applications, systems and solutions that connect all stakeholders and key assets in a safe and secure manner. This, combined with expertise in data and cyber security, gives airlines an edge through greater efficiency and ultimately sustainable, profitable growth. For more information, visit www.aviobook.aero.
Regional Infectious Diseases Hospital in Warsaw (formerly St. Stanislaw Hospital) is the oldest medical institution for infectious diseases. It was established by the decree of Tsar Nicholas in 1881, to combat dangerous epidemics. Currently, the hospital is the leading health care center in the field of infectious diseases in Poland and in Central and Eastern Europe. The hospital performs tasks on three levels: providing patients with high-quality medical services, infectious diseases prevention and medical staff training.
The hospital’s IT infrastructure consists of one site and six physical servers, where three of servers are virtualized on VMware vSphere and two on Microsoft Hyper-V. In total, the hospital has 20 virtual machines that store a web server, an applications server, a hospital information system, an enterprise resource planning system, a Microsoft Active Directory server, a picture archiving and communication system and an Oracle database. All data stored at the hospital is critical. Patient data, including medical history, is updated every few minutes. In the event of an emergency, it is vital to recover the most recent drug administration history in order to avoid overdosing or incompatibility of drugs. When IT systems are not available, the hospital cannot take new patients, plan treatments or dose drugs. This is why a reliable VM backup solution is critical to support the hospital’s daily operations.
Previously, the hospital only backed up its Oracle database. If, for example, an applications server crashed, the IT team had to install a new one and configure it from scratch. Basically, the hospital could not back up an entire virtual machine. The backup of the Oracle database itself required a significant amount of time, and recovery was even more time-consuming. After virtualizing two of its servers on Microsoft Hyper-V, NAKIVO Backup & Replication was recommended to the Regional Infectious Diseases Hospital of Warsaw by a solution partner.
NAKIVO Backup & Replication is designed specifically for virtualized environments and supports both VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V. NAKIVO Backup & Replication is reliable, easier to use than the competition, and has a great price-performance ratio. With NAKIVO Backup & Replication, the hospital now ensures that all its virtual machines are available around the clock in order to provide optimal patient care. Moreover, the simplicity of the software allows the IT team to save significant amount of time on administration.
“NAKIVO Backup & Replication is a simple and an intuitive solution. The dashboard offers great visibility, as all alarms are visible immediately after logging in, and the web interface allows you to use the product anywhere, without the need of installing a client. That is handy when you use an Apple MacBook,” says Krzysztof Plochocki, IT Manager at Regional Infectious Diseases Hospital of Warsaw.
NAKIVO Backup & Replication offers consistent, image-based backups, ensuring that data in applications remains consistent and ready for recovery. In addition, the solution provides incremental backups, where only changes are copied to the backup repository, resulting in faster backups. Moreover, with instant VM recovery, entire virtual machines can be recovered within minutes. “An initial full backup of our entire infrastructure takes 3 to 4 hours. With incremental backup and because our environment is based on SSDs, the backup jobs complete in a few minutes. We enjoy that we can schedule and structure our backup jobs to ensure the shortest backup windows possible. For example, we back up our accounting server incrementally every day, and, once a week, we do a full backup. While with our hospital information system, we need incremental backups every 8 hours and a full backup every day,” explains Krzysztof.
With NAKIVO Backup & Replication, the hospital set up automated backups to cloud, making the whole backup process fully automatic. The hospital has integration with the encrypted cloud storage UseCrypt Safe, and all the backups are automatically sent to the cloud. “NAKIVO Backup & Replication allows us to choose UseCrypt Safe as cloud backup storage. In Poland, it is the only encrypted cloud service that is recommended by the Polish government,” says Krzysztof.
With NAKIVO Backup & Replication, the Regional Infectious Diseases Hospital of Warsaw protects its critical data and applications. With a reliable data protection solution from NAKIVO, the hospital ensures optimal patient care by making all IT systems always available. The solution allows the hospital to perform full and incremental backups and to send backups automatically to the cloud. With instant VM recovery, the hospital can recover entire VMs instantaneously. “Previously, we could not back up an entire virtual machine. Recovery of a database from a backup was time-consuming, and the failure of the application server required a new installation. Currently, with just one click, we can recover an entire virtual machine back to any day or time. With NAKIVO Backup & Replication, we save a tremendous amount of time on administration and increase overall reliability as well,” says Krzysztof.
In 1881, the Warsaw City Council adopted a resolution to build a separate hospital for infectious diseases in order to protect the population from acute diseases spreading at that time. In 1882, the construction of the hospital was completed and the hospital opened. In 1982, the hospital celebrated its 100th anniversary. At that time, the most frequently treated diseases at the hospital were meningitis, food poisoning, and mononucleosis. Currently, the hospital treats patients with COVID-19. For more information, visit zakazny.pl.
GynePro is a medical center in Bologna, Italy, that specializes in fertility, reproduction, prenatal health and urogynecology. GynePro has implemented a quality management system compliant with the requirements of the UNI EN ISO 9001: 2015 standard for the provision of medical and reproductive biology services, diagnosis and treatment of couple infertility, Medically Assisted Procreation (MAP) of I, II and III levels. David di Luzio is an IT administrator of the GynePro center and is responsible for the center’s IT infrastructure.
GynePro has three sites, four physical servers, two NAS servers and 20 virtual machines. Virtual machines store different data, including documents, medical reports, accounting data, as well as applications, such as Windows File Server, Mexal, Viewpoint and Arxivar. Data protection is fundamental for the center, in order to maintain the accuracy of medical data, including patient information that needs to be stored over time. If critical data becomes unavailable and there is no proper backup solution in place, GynePro would not be able to provide appropriate care to its patients because different medical equipment would just be not operational. In this case, a reliable data protection solution is a necessity to maintain business continuity for the center.
In the past, backup activities at GynePro were limited to backing up and recovering single files. The process was time-consuming as it was done manually and many errors and failures occurred often during this process. GynePro did not have a centralized backup solution and lacked many functionalities, including backup copy. In April 2019, GynePro started testing different backup solutions and immediately liked NAKIVO Backup & Replication’s ease of use and reliability. According to David, other solutions had several problems with backup validity, so the decision to select NAKIVO Backup & Replication was easy to make for GynePro.
NAKIVO Backup & Replication is a fast, reliable, and affordable solution that can protect virtual, physical, cloud and SaaS environments. NAKIVO Backup & Replication is a versatile solution that can be installed in a variety of ways, including installation on Windows, Linux, NAS devices and deployment as a pre-configured virtual appliance. GynePro finally decided to go with NAKIVO Backup & Replication because of the competitive pricing, the solution’s simplicity and the rich set of functionalities.
“The installation process was easy, immediate and functional. In a few minutes, I had a centralized and professional VM backup solution. The web interface is intuitive and comfortable to navigate. Thanks to such simplicity and ease of management, our technicians save several hours a day on backup administration, time that was previously used to do backups manually. With NAKIVO Backup & Replication, we have now centralized and automated all the processes,” says David.
Currently, GynePro takes advantage of full and incremental backups, as well as backup copy functionality. Incremental backups allow GynePro to only back up the changed data blocks, so that backups are faster and smaller. GynePro backs up its entire infrastructure every evening, and each backup job takes a variable amount of time to complete, depending on the nature of the company’s servers. Nevertheless, backups complete successfully and quickly now with NAKIVO Backup & Replication. While with backup copy, GynePro can create and maintain copies of its backups and copy them from one backup repository to another without touching the source VMs.
“Backup copy functionality is awesome, as we can set any backup job to trigger a backup copy job, so that we have an extra layer of security when it comes to minimizing the risk of data loss. The main goal is to reduce or even eliminate downtime across all our departments, and backup copy helps us do just that,” says David.
NAKIVO Backup & Replication’s instant file recovery allows GynePro to recover files and folders to their original location near-instantly. Instant file recovery even allows recovering files and folders not only from backups, but also from backup copies located in a different location. With NAKIVO Backup & Replication, you can recover files to their original location, specify a new location, download them or send them via email. “I enjoy selecting a particular backup from which to recover a file and then in a matter of minutes I have that file already recovered along with the file permissions,” says David.
With NAKIVO Backup & Replication, GynePro gained a centralized backup solution and abandoned the old ways of manually backing up and recovering files. The IT team no longer spends excessive amounts of time on backup management because NAKIVO Backup & Replication is an easy-to-use and automated solution. GynePro can now back up its entire infrastructure every day, create backup copies and send them to different locations, as well as recover files near-instantly. “We now have a centralized backup solution with great functionalities and excellent support that is always available. During the course of use, we saved time, in cases where a single file had to be recovered instantaneously. Moreover, in other cases, we were even able to restore a few servers that failed after updates. We also want to take advantage of backing up our VMs to the cloud in the future,” says David.
GynePro Medical is a welcoming and comfortable structure of over 1,600 square meters, spread over 5 floors. The modern building, located a few minutes from the center of Bologna, is easily accessible even for those coming from outside the city and is equipped with a private parking for the customers. The Medical center provides couples with its outpatient and operating room facilities that allow the execution of a wide spectrum of medical-surgical procedures, including all Medically Assisted Procreation techniques. For more information, visit www.gynepro.it.
HAM Precision is a precision tool developer and manufacturer, headquartered in Schwendi, Germany. The company manufactures precision tools for a variety of industries, including automotive, aerospace and precise machining. HAM’s IT infrastructure is distributed across three data centers, all of which are virtualized on VMware. Located in Hörenhausen, Germany, the main data center houses 47 virtual machines. Virtual machines store a variety of information, including two Microsoft Active Directory controllers, a network policy server, file servers, a print server, an ERP system, and an industrial process management system that shows the real production time for each manufactured tool.
Backup and recovery procedures are essential for HAM Precision. Most of the failures at the company are caused by employees accidentally deleting important files and folders. Some 80% of the recovery requests are related to files and folders, while 20% are related to failures with databases and objects. Without a proper VM backup solution in place, it might take HAM a day or two to completely recover deleted objects. Previously, the company used another solution from VMware that created VMware VM clones and copied them to an external destination. If a cloned VM was not copied correctly, the backup was immediately lost and data could not be recovered. Moreover, sending uncompressed data over the network took too much time with the previous solution. In addition, recovering the data took a long time and failed recoveries were a regular occurrence due to corrupted data or missing settings.
The previous solution also proved cumbersome and too often required manual intervention from the team. Issues arose often, especially when an admin forgot to change some settings for the network or storage. HAM Precision also lacked a daily overview of successful and failed backup jobs and wanted a software solution could be managed centrally from a single interface. Office 365 data was also protected via local backup. “The manual solution from VMware proved to be the wrong choice for us. If a colleague was on holiday and no one checked on the backups, we could be left with days without having proper backups. That is why we decided to look for a new VM backup solution that would provide us with stable VM backups and give an overview of the successfully completed backups,” says Lars Weimar, Head of IT at HAM Precision.
NAKIVO Backup & Replication is a versatile and universal data protection solution for VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV and Amazon EC2 environments, as well as physical servers and workstations, Oracle Databases and Microsoft 365 data. “NAKIVO Backup & Replication is easy to use and no complicated training is required to get to know the product in the department. Every IT admin can access the product via the web browser and no additional software is needed to get started. You receive all the information in one place, including an overview of how the backup jobs are progressing and whether they have completed successfully,” says Lars.
NAKIVO Backup & Replication delivers reliable protection for Microsoft 365 to ensure recoverability of mission-critical data. “We selected NAKIVO Backup & Replication for Microsoft 365 to back up our mailboxes, and at the end of the migration process, we shall be protecting a total of 110 mailboxes. The possibility to recover entire mailboxes, selected files, and folders in case of user deletion is the main advantage that we see with Microsoft 365 backups,” says Lars.
NAKIVO Backup & Replication provides various installation options, including installation on QNAP NAS devices, which is the option that HAM Precision chose. Integration of NAKIVO Backup & Replication with QNAP NAS allows HAM Precision to significantly improve the effectiveness of the entire backup process. “The installation process was super easy for us, while the web interface is clean and logical. The primary reason we chose installation of QNAP NAS was to save costs on storage and just combine hardware and software under one roof,” says Lars.
HAM Precision performs a full backup of all their virtual machines once a week and an incremental backup every day on weekdays. “The full backup takes nearly 18 hours and can be completed over the weekend. The incremental backups take several hours and are run every day. Once a week, we also replicate VMs from our QNAP server to an additional storage in a separate area, to ensure protection against any kind of outage or incident. This is also done for the purpose of long-term storage, as we need to keep VMs that are older than one year,” says Lars.
Instant VM recovery and instant granular recovery provide HAM Precision with near-instant recovery of entire VMs, files, folders, and objects. “We first tested instant VM recovery on our dedicated server and then rolled out the functionality on our production systems. One time, we were able to recover a database with all its data and that was literally done in a few minutes. We use instant granular recovery on a daily basis. This is the most used feature, as we are able to recover deleted or corrupted files and help our employees to continue doing their jobs successfully,” says Lars.
With NAKIVO Backup & Replication, HAM Precision protects its environment with VM backup, VM replication, instant VM recovery and instant granular recovery. The company also makes use of the built-in Microsoft 365 backup functionality. VM backup solution allows the company to perform full VM backups weekly and incremental backups daily. Instant VM recovery provides recovery of entire VMs and databases, in a matter of minutes. While instant granular recovery is the most used functionality that helps employees access deleted or corrupted files in a matter of minutes. Lastly, with Microsoft 365 backup, HAM Precision plans to protect 110 mailboxes in the near future. “Our previous solution was a mess as we ran into failures, lost backups, and we just wasted too much manual time. NAKIVO Backup & Replication is a reliable backup solution that helped us save costs and time, and prevented failures from happening. We invested 2 hours every day into our previous solution. Now, everything is automated, so we spend just 10 minutes a day,” says Lars.
HAM Precision was founded in 1969 in Germany. The company develops and manufactures precision tools and tooling systems for the global market. Presently, HAM is represented by its own companies in France, Italy, Austria, Switzerland, Hungary and Japan. HAM’s customers come from a variety of industries, including automotive, aerospace, medical engineering, crystal technology.
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) is an academic society dedicated to the use of mathematics in industry. Headquartered in Philadelphia, the society was founded in 1951 to advance the application of mathematics to science and industry, promote mathematics research and provide media for the exchange of information and ideas among mathematicians, engineers and scientists. Through publications, research and community, SIAM’s mission is to build cooperation between mathematics and the worlds of science and technology.
A single site houses most of SIAM’s IT infrastructure, which consists of 10 physical servers and over 70 virtual machines that run Windows and Linux servers, supporting web, databases and applications. The virtual machines support the full stack of websites, including association management system, member portal, journal submission and a peer review system, and a variety of marketing and specific application-oriented websites. Any kind of data loss would bring SIAM’s operations to a standstill. Journal publishing would stop, subscription fulfillment would cease, and software development would also stop. All business operations would be impacted until the affected systems are restored. That is why a reliable data protection solution that can back up and recover all data and systems swiftly should be in place in order for the business to keep running.
SIAM had relied on another data protection solution for backing up VMs in the past. The major disadvantage of SIAM’s previous backup software was the amount of effort required to recover from a complete disaster. Essentially, the IT team would have to spend an entire day just to get the product’s environment up and running before even starting to recover the company’s data and servers. Due to this, SIAM decided to look for alternative solutions that would fit its budget and ensure availability of its infrastructure with near-instant recovery. “We wanted flexibility, native support for offsite rotation of removable disk drives, and a demonstrated track record of new added features as technology evolves,” says Ted Kull, Director of Information Systems at SIAM.
“The decision to select NAKIVO Backup & Replication pretty much was done after the software ticked all our boxes, including fast recovery times, flexibility of installation and configuration, overall architecture of the product and its price. Overall, the total cost of ownership proved to be worth it for us in the long run,” says Ted.
NAKIVO Backup & Replication provides a complete solution that includes backup, backup size reduction, replication, backup copy, backup to tape, granular recovery, site recovery for both virtualized and physical environments, all in one convenient web interface. NAKIVO Backup & Replication also provides flexible pricing that includes per-socket perpetual or per-workload subscription. With versatile deployment options, including installation on Windows, Linux, as a VMware/Nutanix AHV VA, as an Amazon Machine Image, or on NAS devices, NAKIVO Backup & Replication is flexible and convenient.
“The installation and configuration process was intuitive, while the web interface and operational concepts just make sense. Support is also excellent, as we contacted support several times during the testing and prototyping stages, and every time the response was great. We saved a tremendous amount of time on installation, as everything was very straightforward, from configuring transporters, to running the first backup jobs,” says Ted. NAKIVO Backup & Replication offers technical support right from the product’s web interface, where you can connect with a representative via a chat option.
“Our infrastructure is continuously backed up and recovery points are taken one to two times per day, depending on the nature of the source system. Our backup copy jobs to portable USB drives start every Friday. With backup copy, Site Recovery, granular recovery, backup size reduction functionalities such as compression and global data deduplication, we have a more complete and flexible solution at a similar cost to that of the previous solution. While our expenses are almost the same, choosing NAKIVO Backup & Replication translates to greater value and cost reduction for the future,” says Ted.
The primary functionality that SIAM was mostly interested in is the ability to perform a full restore from scratch, using any backup media (such as a portable USB drive) within a few minutes. After testing, NAKIVO Backup & Replication proved to meet our recovery-time-objective (RTO). “NAKIVO Backup & Replication met our RTO expectations in terms of the recovery speed and we are quite certain that we would be able to recover our data and servers much faster than in the past, if an actual disaster were to strike. With NAKIVO Backup & Replication, we can create automated Site Recovery jobs for a wide variety of scenarios, so that we avoid downtime and ensure business continuity,” says Ted.
With the range of features in NAKIVO Backup & Replication, SIAM minimizes downtime and ensures continuity of business services. SIAM backs up data and servers every day with VM backup and does back copy jobs once a week. SIAM also is finally able to recover data from scratch just within a few minutes. NAKIVO Backup & Replication meets the company’s RTO requirements, as recovery speed is much faster than that of the previous backup product.
“From a daily operation perspective, we are happy, as NAKIVO Backup & Replication does not take an enormous amount of time to operate and almost everything is automated anyways. What was proven via testing is that our potential savings are way higher with NAKIVO Backup & Replication. We estimate that we will be able to recover from a complete disaster in about 50% to 75% of the time it would have taken us with our previous product,” says Ted.
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is an international society of over 14,000 individual members, including applied and computational mathematicians and computer scientists, as well as other scientists and engineers. Members from 85 countries include researchers, educators, students and practitioners in industry, government, laboratories and academia. The Society, which also includes nearly 500 academic and corporate institutional members, serves and advances the disciplines of applied mathematics and computational science by publishing a variety of books and prestigious peer-reviewed research journals, by conducting conferences and by hosting activity groups in various areas of mathematics. For more information, please visit www.siam.org.
Suwannee American Cement (SAC) is the second largest cement supplier in Florida, USA. Their world-class operation based in Branford, Florida, has been manufacturing high-quality cement for the Florida and Southern Georgia construction market since 2003. The company is recognized as an industry leader in developing and producing high-quality cement, adopting sustainable practices, and reducing the environmental impact of the cement production process.
With three locations in Florida, SAC’s IT infrastructure consists of four physical servers and several virtual machines, which hold databases such as Microsoft SQL and Oracle. Moreover, virtual machines support other software like Rockwell Automation and other heavy industry manufacturing programs. All three facilities run 24/7, 365 days a year, thus, the IT environment must be available 24/7 to support the company’s daily operations. Reliable backups and fast recoveries are critical to ensure swift recovery in case of an outage. Without automation systems and manufacturing programs running, the manufacturing process cannot run safely and effectively. If systems become unavailable, not only will the business be disrupted, but also the work environment will become unsafe. That is why a reliable VM backup solution is imperative for ensuring the success of the business.
SAC tried different solutions over the years, but most of them had disadvantages in terms of pricing and difficulty of use. With previous products, backup time was long, as the whole process required manual intervention and offered no automation options. This translated into wasted administration time and high overhead costs. The company wanted to minimize the time spent on operating data protection products. Manual management as well as pricing and sizing were the main reasons why SAC decided to look for a new solution. “Our VMs are the meat and potatoes of our environment. We wanted a solution that would manage our virtual environment first. Support for physical environments was also important so there would be no gap,” says Jeremy Mayfield, Director of IT at SAC.
Suwannee American Cement chose NAKIVO Backup & Replication as the new solution for protecting its virtual environment several years ago. Now, SAC is also protecting its physical environment with NAKIVO Backup & Replication. Integration with NAS servers, especially QNAP NAS, was one of the main reason SAC decided to select NAKIVO. NAKIVO Backup & Replication and QNAP NAS provide better backup performance, consume less storage space, and are more affordable together as a backup appliance. “We had two QNAP NAS servers at our premises, thus we immediately installed the software on the servers, as it allowed us to utilize both the storage and software quickly. Installation was quite simple and the user interface is very intuitive. Being able to manage both the storage and backup software from one interface is fantastic,” says Jeremy.
Unlike previous backup products used by SAC, NAKIVO Backup & Replication installed on QNAP NAS allowed SAC to reduce administration time significantly. Moreover, NAKIVO Backup & Replication provides flexible job scheduling, allowing you to view past and current backup jobs, schedule new ones, and analyze job details. In addition, the reporting functionality provides notifications and reports by email, so that you can receive information about the status of all the jobs. “We back up VMs several times a week. We schedule backup jobs for most items at different times, so that we can monitor each backup job independently. With Calendar dashboard, we can evenly distribute the load on our production environment. Reporting and monitoring of the backup jobs are also a big plus for us,” says Jeremy.
Fast recovery of business-critical data is imperative and with Flash VM Boot achieving near-instant recovery is possible. With Flash VM Boot, you can boot VMs directly from compressed and deduplicated VM backups to any recovery location. Granular recovery with NAKIVO Backup & Replication allows you to recover any object or file within your infrastructure without recovering an entire VM first. With granular recovery, you can recover object or files at any time in a matter of minutes. “Flash VM Boot and instant granular recovery are useful additions that save us time and money,” says Jeremy.
With NAKIVO Backup & Replication, Suwannee American Cement achieved better backup performance by installing the software directly on a QNAP NAS server. SAC also improved backup management with job scheduling and reporting functionalities. The ease of installation and updates are also big advantages for SAC. With the help of Flash VM Boot and instant granular recovery, the company can recover entire VMs or files and objects at any time within minutes. Lastly, with NAKIVO Backup & Replication, SAC now spends less time on managing the backup software and frees up time and resources for other important tasks. “I definitely enjoyed being a user of NAKIVO Backup & Replication, as we have been their customer for more than two years. NAKIVO Backup & Replication helped us save 60% of our time on backup administration. The cost of NAKIVO Backup & Replication has equaled out the savings on time, however, the product is still affordable and effective,” says Jeremy.
Suwannee American Cement (SAC) Company, part of CRH Americas Materials, is the second largest cement supplier in the state of Florida with two world-class cement plants – one located in Sumterville, FL, and the other in Branford, FL – as well as an import facility in Port Manatee, FL. Since 2003, SAC has been manufacturing high-quality cement for the Florida and Southern Georgia construction markets. The company is recognized as an industry leader in producing high-quality cement, adopting sustainable practices, and reducing the environmental impact of the cement production process. For more information, visit www.sacement.com
Lebenshilfe Wetzlar-Weilburg eV is an non-profit that provides support to people with disabilities and integrates them into society. The organization offers people with disabilities support in the areas of early learning, daycare, living, work, and leisure. As a non-profit, it generates income from donations or inheritances. The organization’s mission is inclusion, support, and promotion of people with disabilities in all their life situations.
The non-profit consists of a headquarters location and 14 other branches, where 10 locations have physical servers and virtual machines. The virtual machines store file servers with Microsoft Active Directory, print servers, services for computer telephony, and Windows Server Update Services. The organization aims to protect its data in more than just one way: VM replication and a three-step backup are a part of its data protection procedure. Since data loss is expensive for a non-profit, the organization closely adheres to these data protection methods. In accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation, more commonly known as the GDPR, and other special regulations for non-profits in the EU, all data must be kept secure in-house and cannot be backed up to the cloud. Moreover, it is mandatory to back up and store redundant data.
Previously, Lebenshilfe Wetzlar-Weilburg eV relied on a backup product that was designed specifically for protecting physical infrastructures. However, when the organization decided to virtualize part of its environment, it was time to look for a new product. The main disadvantage of the previous product was that the organization could not centralize the backup management for all its branches and had to log in constantly in different interfaces. The organization ultimately wanted a solution designed specifically for virtual environments, offering pricing options for non-profits, and delivering the needed functionalities.
Salutec, a German service provider recommended NAKIVO Backup & Replication for Lebenshilfe Wetzlar-Weilburg eV and performed all the necessary installation and configuration steps. NAKIVO Backup & Replication is an agentless solution that provides backup, replication, and recovery for virtualized environments. Moreover, NAKIVO Backup & Replication offers data protection for physical environments as well. The product provides several installation options that were convenient for the organization, including installation on Windows and Synology NAS.
The organization backs up its VMs to a Synology NAS and to tape. Installation on a Synology NAS provides Lebenshilfe Wetzlar-Weilburg eV with higher performance, smaller backups, and faster recovery. “The nightly incremental backups for our headquarters usually require less than two hours, while daily backups in our branches just need 5 to 30 minutes. NAKIVO Backup & Replication delivers savings in storage space for backup activities and decreases other costs. While implementing NAKIVO Backup & Replication, we were able to save 87% on our storage space, meaning that we save money that otherwise would have been spent on disk drives,” says Dirk Bierwirt, IT Administrator at Lebenshilfe Wetzlar-Weilburg eV.
NAKIVO Backup & Replication also offers recovery capabilities, including instant file recovery. “Our users may often delete simple files and need to wait hours for the file to be restored because files are not always very critical. Instant file recovery works great for us, especially the option where the recovered file can be sent by email. We specify the user’s email and the user then receives the recovered file and chooses what to do with it. Thus, this functionality saves our IT department significant amount of time,” says Dirk.
Lastly, NAKIVO Backup & Replication provides integration with Microsoft Active Directory to simplify user management. “Our GDPR/ISAE 3000 regulations require that a technician who accesses the web interface must use personal login credentials. With Microsoft Active Directory integration, we can provide access to NAKIVO Backup & Replication. The functionality saves us time every time the technician log ins,” says Dirk.
With NAKIVO Backup & Replication, Lebenshilfe Wetzlar-Weilburg eV centralized all the organization’s branch offices under one management interface. The organization achieved high performance and fast file recovery, saved money on storage space, and saved time on backup administration. With the help of instant file recovery, users no longer need to wait hours for file recovery, but rather can receive their files within minutes to their emails. With global data deduplication, the non-profit saved 87% on storage space. Microsoft Active Directory integration also helped save time and simplify user management. “NAKIVO Backup & Replication saved us so much storage space so that we are able to utilize that space for other things. Our previous backup product was difficult to manage and was not centralized. While NAKIVO Backup & Replication was able to deliver simplicity, and centralize all our branch offices in one management interface. Finally, with NAKIVO Backup & Replication we saved approximately 4 hours a week on backup management,” says Dirk.
Since its establishment in 1961, Lebenshilfe Wetzlar-Weilburg eV has been the point of contact for people with disabilities and their relatives in all matters of social interaction. The association has around 1,400 members and around 800 employees. Lebenshilfe Wetzlar-Weilburg eV is committed to ensuring that people with and without disabilities in the Lahn-Dill district and in the Limburg-Weilburg district live, learn, and work together – live life with all its beautiful facets, but also with all the challenges. For more information, visit www.lhww.de.
Save the Children Spain is a member of Save the Children International, a non-profit organization that is aimed at making the world a better place for children through better education, health care, and economic opportunities. Nowadays, with 25,000 dedicated staff across 120 countries, Save the Children responds to major emergencies, delivers innovative development programs, and ensures children’s voices are heard through campaigning to build a better future for and with children. Save the Children Spain has 10 locations across Spain and two main datacenters in different locations.
The organization has a hybrid infrastructure with a mix of private cloud services and on-premises servers. A part of the infrastructure is virtualized with nearly 40 virtual machines storing file servers, databases, reporting services, and other applications. The main objective of the IT department is to ensure consistency and reliability of all data. As Save the Children is a non-profit organization, all money spent on projects must be properly justified to donors, while all invoices, transfer orders, and project reports kept safe. That is why data protection is imperative for the organization to continue to be successful in the future. The organization’s goal is to be able to back up all data and services every day and restore those services easily and quickly in case of a disaster.
Until recently, Save the Children Spain was using a different backup product to protect its data. However, the cost of that software was too expensive for a non-profit. The organization also wanted to take advantage of its NAS servers, but the previous software did not support NAS installation. Installation on NAS servers was essential for reducing the overall complexity of the backup strategy and freeing up a server from the environment. When Save the Children understood that the costs of updating its licensing with the vendor were too excessive, and its budget only allowed them to cover a particular number of hosts, it was time to look for an alternative solution. The goal was to save costs, simplify disaster recovery, and achieve simplicity.
NAKIVO Backup & Replication was Save the Children’s backup solution of choice for several reasons. Not only is NAKIVO Backup & Replication affordable, but the total invoiced price allowed the organization to protect all the virtual hosts with the same functionality that was provided by the previous vendor. Overall, the organization saved money by switching to NAKIVO Backup & Replication. It can now use that money now to finance other projects. Since NAKIVO Backup & Replication is compatible with various NAS servers, Save the Children installed the software on its Synology NAS. This allowed the organization to free up resources and reduce backup strategy complexity.
A backup appliance based on Synology NAS combines backup software, hardware, backup storage, and deduplication. With this installation, there are multiple advantages, including higher performance, smaller backups, faster recovery, and storage space savings. “The previous solution was installed on Windows, but we always wanted to take advantage of already available hardware. The whole installation process was so simple. We just had to add a package manager, find it, and click install. The whole process took 15 minutes at most. With the Synology NAS installation, we freed up production resources that were previously spent on backup,” says Alejandro Canet, IT Project Coordinator at Save the Children Spain.
“Today, a full initial backup takes the organization roughly 24 hours, while a daily incremental backup takes around 3 hours. Storage space is always expensive, so global data deduplication reduced space and saved money on storage systems for Save the Children. Moreover, instant granular recovery is a key functionality that saves a lot of time when recovering files or objects from shared resources,” says Alejandro.
The goal of the IT department was to create a simple disaster recovery strategy with the NAKIVO Backup & Replication functionality. “Simplifying the disaster recovery strategy was our main objective. Today, we can recover data on the same day in a minimum amount of time. We replicate VMs across our datacenters. This allows us to have source VMs and VM replicas. Thus, if we lose one datacenter, we can always power on VMs in another datacenter and the organization will be operational within a few hours. Ensuring near-instant recovery and uninterrupted business operations with NAKIVO Backup & Replication is important for us. NAKIVO Backup & Replication also allows us to keep recovery points for replicas and backups that we can rotate on a daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly basis,” says Alejandro.
With NAKIVO Backup & Replication, Save the Children simplified its disaster recovery strategy with VM replication and instant recovery. All data and applications are backed up daily, while VMs are replicated to a different datacenter to ensure near-instant recovery in case of a disaster. With a backup appliance based on Synology NAS, Save the Children freed up its production resources and achieved business continuity. Instant granular recovery is also as simple as opening the web interface, clicking a couple of buttons, and recovery is done in minutes. “The licensing costs that were offered by NAKIVO turned out to be cheaper than the yearly maintenance costs of our previous product. NAKIVO Backup & Replication may be almost 10 times cheaper. Regarding installation and setup time, we just spent 15 minutes and everything was working. With the previous product, installation could be over 2 hours, plus the software was more difficult to use. Overall, we were able to simplify disaster recovery, save costs, and utilize existing NAS servers with NAKIVO Backup & Replication,” says Alejandro.
Save the Children is a non-profit organization that aims that all children survive, learn, and are protected from violence in Spain and around the world. The organization serves the needs of children and makes sure their voices are heard. Save the Children is present in more than 120 countries and has 10 locations in Spain. The organization receives contributions from partners, institutions, companies, and donors that help build a better and fairer world for children. Save the Children develops health and nutrition programs, education, protection against violence, attention in humanitarian emergencies, and other childhood policies. For more information, visit www.savethechildren.es.
KPN started as a public telecommunications company with headquarters in Rotterdam, Netherlands. KPN is a telecommunication and ICT service provider that offers telephone, mobile telephone, internet and television services to the consumer market. KPN has millions of users and its revenue reached 5.5B EUR in 2019. For the corporate market, KPN offers complete telecommunication and ICT solutions. In addition, KPN offers wholesale network services for other operators around the world.
KPN’s Managed Networking IT infrastructure consists of three sites with 15 physical servers and 100 virtual machines. Information stored in the virtual machines is mainly data and applications for network management. It includes Microsoft SQL databases, applications for network tooling, security tooling, database tooling and authentication tooling. KPN’s Managed Networking department is responsible for the corporate market. It manages the networks of KPN’s top 100 corporate customers. The department’s main priority is to ensure that all the tooling applications are up and running successfully on a day-to-day basis. Moreover, the ability to recover a complete VM near instantly if a server crashes is crucial for the department. Ensuring continuous availability of services for the top corporate customers is of utmost importance for KPN.
Until a few years ago, KPN Managed Networking only had physical servers and used tape backup software. The company was backing up its data from the physical servers to tape cartridges. One of the main disadvantages of backup to tape is that backup and recovery operations are extremely time-consuming. Moreover, backup to tape proved to be a more expensive option than it first appeared. Tape cartridges must be purchased regularly, not to mention the ongoing costs associated with software management.
When KPN Managed Networking decided to virtualize its physical servers, tape backup software became obsolete as it did not include the functionality of backing up virtual machines. KPN Managed Networking also changed how it stores its data, moving it from tape to storage servers.
When KPN Managed Networking was transitioning from physical servers to virtual machines, the need arose for a VM backup solution that was designed for virtualized environments. NAKIVO Backup & Replication was recommended to KPN by Pieter Simhoffer, a Technical Administrator at KPN Managed Networking department. Pieter was already using NAKIVO Backup & Replication in his home lab for backing up VMs. Being familiar with the software, Pieter knew that the software offered all the functionality the company needed at an attractive price. NAKIVO Backup & Replication was cost-effective with a comprehensive set of features that includes VM backup, VM replication, VM recovery, backup copy, backup to cloud and even native backup to tape.
“It was easy to install and configure NAKIVO Backup & Replication, especially with the straightforward support guide. The website is also easy to navigate and keeps improving with every new product version,” says Pieter. “With NAKIVO Backup & Replication, we have a stable environment, even though we only take advantage of the product’s core functionality and do not use its fullest potential. What KPN needs is scheduled backups that finish successfully and occasional VM restores.”
With the VM backup functionality of NAKIVO Backup & Replication, KPN can perform an initial full VM backup and subsequent incremental backups. Currently, the company backs up its VMs to Dell storage servers.
“We schedule backup jobs on a daily and weekly basis. Understandably, an initial full backup always takes a long time to complete, but our daily 55 incremental backups take approximately 5 hours. This is obviously much faster than backing up to tape. In addition, global data deduplication saves us a ton of storage space, plus time spent on backing up VMs as well,” says Pieter.
Finally, NAKIVO Backup & Replication allows KPN Managed Networking to recover entire VMs, as well as files, when needed. Instant VM Recovery boots VMs directly from compressed and deduplicated backups, so that it can recover VMs in a matter of minutes. “Instant VM recovery helps us save time because we can recover a complete VM. We’ve only used the Instant File Recovery feature once, but it saved hours for a user when we had to use it,” says Pieter.
With NAKIVO Backup & Replication, KPN Managed Networking now has reliable data protection with flexible functionality and saves resources. Incremental VM backup allows KPN to complete 55 backup jobs daily in just 5 hours. The global data deduplication saves the company storage space. While with instant VM recovery, KPN Managed Networking can easily recover complete VMs from compressed and deduplicated backups.
“After switching to NAKIVO Backup & Replication, we are finally able to back up our VMs reliably with improved backup speed. We no longer need to change tapes; thus, we’ve freed up at least an hour every day with NAKIVO Backup & Replication,” says Pieter.
KPN is a Dutch landline and mobile telecommunications company based in Rotterdam, Netherlands. KPN serves consumer markets with networks for telephony, broadband and television, as well as business markets with complete telecommunication and IT solutions. As a market leader in the Netherlands, KPN is committed to millions of private and business customers. From mobile subscribers to household who purchase an all-in-1 package with internet and interactive TV and business customers with IT services and workplaces. Worldwide, KPN offers wholesale network services to other operators. KPN has 105 stores and 16 business centers cross the Netherlands. For more information, visit www.kpn.com.