Luxury Resort in Cyprus Chooses Nakivo

Nakivo, Inc. announced that Parklane Hotel, a Luxury Collection Resort and Spa in Limassol, Cyprus, has selected Nakivo Backup & Replication to protect their environment.

Parklane relies on a robust IT infrastructure to maintain operations. However, challenges with its previous backup solution, including high costs and slow recovery times, threatened BC. By switching to Nakivo Backup & Replication, Parklane achieved a 25% reduction in backup costs, enhanced data protection and significantly improved recovery speeds, ensuring uninterrupted guest services.

Parklane’s IT systems support critical business operations, including its property management system (PMS), accounting software, payroll, store databases and communication systems. The infrastructure consists of one site, 6 physical servers (including a clustered configuration), and 40 VMs. Ensuring data availability is crucial to avoiding downtime that could impact operations and revenue.

However, Parklane’s previous backup solution was costly due to inflexible pricing and inefficient due to slow backup and recovery processes. The resort needed a more cost-effective and reliable alternative to prevent potential disruptions.

After evaluating multiple options, Parklane chose Nakivo Backup & Replication for its affordability, reliability, and efficiency. The deployment was seamless, with installation on a standalone Windows Server 2012 machine. The resort’s IT team quickly benefited from Nakivo’s intuitive web interface, which streamlined backup administration.

Key features that enhanced Parklane’s backup strategy included:

• Incremental backup:  Reduced storage consumption while ensuring data consistency.
• Global data de-dupe: Optimized storage efficiency by eliminating redundant data.
• LAN-free data transfer: Accelerated backups without impacting production workloads.
• Fast, space-efficient backups: Minimized system performance impact and eliminated VM stun.

Parklane adopted a biweekly full backup strategy with incremental backups in between, balancing data protection with storage efficiency. The complete infrastructure backup now takes approximately 8 hours, providing a robust DR framework.

Additionally, Parklane’s IT partner, GCC Computers Ltd, endorsed Nakivo’s reliability, further reinforcing the decision to transition.

By implementing Nakivo Backup & Replication, Parklane achieved significant improvements:

• Faster recovery times: Instant VM recovery reduced downtime, ensuring continuous operations.
• 25% cost savings: Backup-related expenses dropped compared to the previous solution.
• Operational efficiency: A simplified interface and automated workflows reduced the IT team’s administrative burden.
• Enhanced data protection: Reliable, consistent backups secured critical business data, mitigating the risk of loss.

With Nakivo’s streamlined backup and DR solution, Parklane can manage IT services without needing dedicated personnel at each location, further reducing operational costs.

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