Fintech GCS International in Dominican Republic Selects Nakivo

Nakivo Inc. announced that GCS International selected its Backup & Replication to protect their environment.

GCS International is a fintech company promoting digital transformation in Latin America. The company was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in the Dominican Republic. It specializes in the processing of financial transactions, with a focus on mobile solutions.

It has 2 sites in the Dominican Republic. The IT infrastructure consists of 8 physical servers with 200 VMs. VM store databases, various applications, files, and websites. VM backup and recovery are important since the company serves thousands of customers and operates hundreds of thousands of transactions per day. The company’s history consolidates over 675 million processed transactions through an electronic payment platform in real-time. GCS International needs to stay online 24/7/365, as well as comply with government regulations and PCI standards.

It migrated their environment to Nutanix AHV, and their previous VM backup solution was incompatible with Nutanix. The company had to look for an alternative backup tool. The backup solution had to deliver protection for Nutanix AHV infrastructure as well as support vSphere.

Backup & Replication protects Nutanix AHV as well as vCenter-managed and standalone ESXi workloads. The solution provides agentless and incremental backup, application-aware backup, instant recovery, optimized storage space, and more. Moreover, a centralized interface allows for simplified administration and management.

“The installation of Backup & Replication was quick, flawless, and ready to operate. I enjoyed that the web interface was easy to use, compact, and user-friendly,” says Jose Luis Crespo, infrastructure manager, GCS International. “Initially, the solution took 2 days to backup our entire infrastructure. However, with the incremental backups, we backup only the changes, reducing the time dramatically.“

“What I enjoy the most is the compatibility with Qnap NAS and Nutanix AHV. We had a Qnap NAS, when we found out that Nakivo Backup & Replication was compatible with NAS, and we have acquired two more NAS’s since then,” says Crespo.

A Qnap NAS-based backup appliance based on Backup & Replication combines backup, recovery, and storage under one roof. The data protection infrastructure can also be scaled with ease to accommodate growing needs.

“Nakivo Backup & Replication was one of the few backup tools available on the market that supported Nutanix AHV infrastructures as well as vSphere,” says Crespo. “The backup tool could be integrated into our infrastructure seamlessly and helped us achieve reliable backups to Qnap NASs.  Backup & Replication compatibility with Qnap NAS allows for higher backup performance, storage space savings, data compression, and reliable recovery. Nakivo’s technical support via online chat is also a nice bonus and is a really fast way to reach support staff.“