Case Study: Boise Cascade achieves instant disaster recovery with NAKIVO Backup & Replication

Boise Cascade Achieves Instant Disaster Recovery with NAKIVO

Boise Cascade, a leading U.S. manufacturer and distributor of wood products, needed reliable, fast protection for its Inland Region IT environment—five sites, six ESXi hosts and about 75% virtualized—where intermittent power and network issues could disrupt mill operations. Their prior file-based backup was inefficient, so they sought a centralized, easy-to-use, feature-rich and cost-effective VM backup solution with incremental backups to minimize downtime and data loss.

They deployed NAKIVO Backup & Replication to deliver image-based, forever-incremental VMware backups with network acceleration and CBT, cutting routine backup windows to roughly 15 minutes and reducing network load. VM replication enables instant disaster recovery with rapid failover and failback for critical VMs, while a single web interface provides centralized management—resulting in minutes-long recoveries instead of hours and improved availability across the region.

Boise Cascade

Noel Peden

Applications Development Supervisor