Com-Trade in Slovakia Chooses Nakivo and Qnap

Nakivo Inc. announced that Com-Trade s.r.o. has selected its Backup & Replication to protect their VMware environment.

Founded in 2002, Com-Trade is a Slovakian company that provides IT solutions and services to its customers. Combining their experience and knowledge of innovation and advanced technology, it can prepare a turn-key IT solution for any area of business operations.

The company’s virtual environment holds website servers, an accounting program, and SQL data. As Com-Trade’s business-critical data must be available on a daily basis, a VM backup solution was required to protect data and ensure its timely recoverability.

The company’s previous approach to data protection consisted of a simple process of backing up and configuring files and SQL data, but the excessively long recovery times prompted Com-Trade to consider investing in a proper VM backup solution.

“As recovery time was usually taking about two hours or more, we decided to start to search for good software that was specifically designed to protect VMware environments. We wanted to have a complete backup of our VMware VMs, and we needed recovery of entire VMs and selected files,” says Richard Rajniak, CEO, Com-Trade.

Nakivo Backup & Replication can be installed on a QNAP NAS to create a performing VM backup appliance.

“Nakivo Backup & Replication was clear and comfortable to configure. We installed it on QNAP TS-563-2G NAS successfully, and the main advantage for us is that we do not have to purchase any additional hardware for securing VM backups. Instead of purchasing separate backup or storage servers, we use a single QNAP NAS to process and store VM backups,” says Rajniak.

Bakotech, a VAD, initially introduced Backup & Replication to Com-Trade. After testing and weighing several comparable VM backup solutions on the market, Com-Trade chose to go with Backup & Replication, since the software met the company’s initial requirements and provided performance and functionality.

With Backup & Replication, Com-Trade protects VMware VMs with VM backups, copies VM backups offsite with backup copy, and tests their backups instantly and automatically.

“We backup our virtual environment on a daily basis. What we enjoy about the VM backup feature is its clear and user-friendly interface, its ability to backup VMs by blocks, and the storage space reductions because the software saves only unique data blocks,” says Richard. “With backup copy, we can create and maintain a mirror copy of a primary backup and keep it offsite. For us, it is the most secure way of protecting our VM backups.“

With their previous approach to data protection, VM recovery time was long and cumbersome. With Backup & Replication, Com-Trade can recover entire VMs near-instantly with Flash VM Boot.

“Flash VM Boot helps us restore entire VMs in literally a few minutes. Going from at least two hours to a couple of minutes is incredible, and provides great time savings,” says Rajniak.

Backup & Replication provides Com-Trade with VM backup functionality and the ability to recover individual files as well as entire VMs. With Flash VM Boot, the company saves at least two hours on VM recovery and can recover entire VMs in a couple of minutes. Moreover, backup copy provides an additional assurance of recoverability by allowing Com-Trade to keep several copies of VM backups in different locations.

“With Nakivo Backup & Replication, we achieved complete backup of VMware VMs with configuration files, web content, and SQL data, without needing a lot of disk space. Finally, time savings of at least two hours for VM recovery is the main reason we are completely satisfied with the performance of Nakivo Backup & Replication,” says Rajniak.