Agronomy Laboratory Equipment Soilmoisture Equipment Opts for Nakivo

Nakivo Inc. announced that Soilmoisture Equipment Corp., a manufacturer of agronomy laboratory equipment, has selected its Backup & Replication to protect their VMware environment.

Located in Santa Barbara, CA, Soilmoisture Equipment manufactures agronomy laboratory equipment for over 50 years. The company is the supplier of agricultural laboratory and field sampling equipment to over 10,000 agronomists: every day, universities, colleges, government agencies, commercial agriculture, and industry around the world rely on Soilmoisture agronomic equipment. The company has developed a reputation in service and quality that spans over a half a century of innovation. Over the years, the company has developed a number of tools which have transformed irrigation practices, allowing for the establishment of soil-moisture standards used worldwide.

Soilmoisture is using VMware’s hypervisor to run business-critical workloads. The company has virtualized their tier one applications and databases including Exchange, SharePoint, domain controller, data servers, and QAD MFG/PRO for sales, accounting, inventory and shop floor control.

For a few years, Soilmoisture has used a VM data protection product to protect their VMware infrastructure: business-critical VMs were backed up daily and backup copies were sent offsite for secure storage. As the company’s infrastructure has grown, so did the need for VM data protection.

“However, the other vendor could not resolve a very simple reseller’s mistake, where a 1-socket license was bought instead of a 2-socket license for our new ESXi server. To make things worse, after spending money on additional licenses and maintenance, we were then told we have no valid licenses,” said Robert Elliott, computer services manager, Soilmoisture.

“So we went shopping and studied all VM backup solutions availabl on the market,” said Robert. “What we found is that Nakivo Backup & Replication is not only equivalent to our current VM backup, but it is easier to use and much more affordable to buy and maintain.“

Soilmoisture uses Backup & Replication to protect their business-critical VMs. After deploying the product, the company has successfully performed file and VM recoveries.

“Nakivo Backup & Replication enables us to reliably protect our VMware infrastructure at a price point that is at least 2X lower than competitive products,” said Robert.