Nutrition Smart Chooses Nakivo

Nakivo Inc. announced that Nutrition Smart has its Backup & Replication to protect their virtualized environment.

Nutrition Smart is an organic grocery store chain, headquartered in Florida. Each of its Smart’s health food stores features an extensiv selection of organic food, dietary supplements, and natural groceries. These include 100% organic produce, wheat-free and gluten-free products, sports nutrition, natural pet care, herbs, aromatherapy, homeopathy, health and beauty care, and household products – all at affordable prices. Special guests host weekly health and nutrition seminars, organic food cooking classes, and raw foods classes at each of the company’s 5 Nutrition Smart health food stores.

Nutrition Smart’s IT infrastructure consists of 7 locations across Florida, and the company has 300 VMs, including workstations and servers. The VMs store a CRM software and various point of sale applications. Backup and recovery are crucial as the company needs to maintain as close to 100% uptime as possible. Downtime and data loss translate into lost revenue and lost customers in the retail environment. Any IT failure will have a detrimental impact on the company’s business, affecting day-to-day operations, and potentially preventing customers from purchasing the products at the stores.

In the past, Nutrition Smart used 2 different data protection solutions for its environment. Although these solutions met the basic data protection needs, the price tag was too burdensome. Moreover, it wanted a solution that provides enterprise functionality combined with ease of administration, simplicity, and cost-effectiveness. And what sealed the deal for Nutrition Smart was Nakivo’s knowledgeable support team that is always eager to help and ensure that customers have a smooth experience.

Backup & Replication is designed to protect virtual and physical environments with fast backups, replication, recovery and fast deployment, with installation taking under one minute. The software’s capabilities made Backup & Replication a choice for Nutrition Smart.

“Nakivo Backup & Replication offered the most bang for our buck. We installed the product as a pre-configured virtual appliance and that was the best choice given our environment capabilities. The whole installation process was as straightforward as it could be,” says Nelson Lima, IT director, Nutrition Smart.

Nutrition Smart appreciates the ease of use of the Nakivo solution. The web interface is intuitive, and it’s simple to make changes and check the status of various backup jobs. In addition, the ability to reach support from the web interface makes it easy for Nutrition Smart to receive advice and stay connected with a technical engineer.

“Online chat with support is an important feature for us because we can connect and send information effortlessly to the support team. The support team is quick to reach back to us with explanations and advice on our questions. Overall, we’ve always had a great experience with support,” explains Lima.

With Nakivo, Nutrition Smart can backup its entire infrastructure in about 6 hours on a daily basis. The company also appreciates the ability to run multiple backup jobs concurrently. Moreover, screenshot verification and network acceleration helped the company save time on backup administration.

“Network acceleration is helpful for accelerating the time it takes to backup our environment, so it saves us energy and administrative costs. Screenshot verification saves us manual hours that were spent on checking backups. We now receive a screenshot of how backup jobs progress in our virtual environment. We know our backups work and are ready when we need to recover anything,” says Lima.

The Nakivo solution ensures fast backups, easy recovery, and support for Nutrition Smart, thus protecting the company’s daily operations from being disrupted by any incidents. The user increased the speed of its backup jobs and reduced network load with network acceleration. The client can also automatically test its VM backups with screenshot verification to ensure the consistency of backups and get proof of their recoverability.

“Nakivo Backup & Replication helped us achieve simplicity and peace of mind, two important factors when selecting a data protection solution. By switching to Nakivo Backup & Replication, we saved $10,000. Nakivo Backup & Replication is simple yet robust and always delivers reliable backups for us. While the other backup software on the market might have bigger brand names, but in terms of simplicity, Nakivo Backup & Replication is the way to go,” says Lima.