Nashville Wire Products Opts for Arkeia Rather Than Veeam

Arkeia Software, Inc. announced that Nashville Wire Products, Inc. (NWP) has
chosen the Arkeia R220 appliance as a replacement for its Symantec Backup Exec
application to protect both its physical and virtual environments.

NWP is a diverse organization serving multiple markets and thousands of
customers worldwide. Its primary product categories include wire mesh, retail
displays, store fixtures and wire products for the materials handling
applications. It also addresses markets for wire mesh and sells component
products to a variety of manufacturers. Technology, quality
products and service have earned NWP a leadership position
in the markets that it serves.

Data Protection for Virtual and Physical
Machines
The company revisited its choice of Symantec Backup Exec as its backup
solution after deciding to expand its platforms to embrace VMware
virtualization technologies and enjoy the hardware efficiencies of server
consolidation. It also wanted to move from a tape-only environment to a mix of
tape and disk storage as its backup storage targets to benefit from the
random access of disk, as well as deploy its backup server as an appliance to
simplify management and improve security of the solution. After narrowing its
decision between Arkeia and Veeam, NWP selected the Arkeia R220 appliance as a
direct-attached backup solution to its existing Exabyte T24 tape library and
Windows Server 2008 media server.

"Arkeia gave us everything you would
expect from an enterprise-class solution, including support for tapes,
deployment as a hardware appliance and protection of both physical and virtual
environments," said Robert Miller, NWP system administrator. "Arkeia is easy to use. We value the
intuitive web user interface that permits administration from anywhere, and
requires a minimum of training. The recovery wizard makes restores easy.
Finally, we especially value the Arkeia solution because it operates entirely
independently of our production systems – increasing the robustness and
reliability of our data protection infrastructure."

The NWP backup infrastructure protects 300
workstations and 12 servers, primarily a combination of VMware hypervisors and
Windows servers. Windows servers include Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 2003
SP2 and Windows 2008 Enterprise. The VMware environment is distributed across
three hosts and is used to deploy a dozen production VMs.
Applications that require regular backups include Exchange
with 145GB of data, as well as two SQL Server databases. The
backup strategy is to perform weekly full and daily incremental backups with
monthly replication to tape at end of retention period.

"For companies looking to move from
traditional backup to an all-encompassing solution that covers both physical
and virtual environments, Arkeia appliances combine hardware and software to
deliver maximum performance and reliability," said Bill Evans, Arkeia
Software’s CEO. "We are pleased that
Nashville Wire Products could see the value that we deliver in ease of
installation and deployment, maintenance and support, and security and
performance to provide an all-in-one solution that meet their specific needs.
Arkeia appliances are ideally suited to provide organizations with the speedy
recovery, centralized management and ease-of-use that they require."