Case Study: Canadian Malartic achieves instant VM and file recovery, 50% storage savings, and robust data protection with NAKIVO

Canadian Gold Mine Protects Critical Data with NAKIVO

The Canadian Malartic mine, one of Canada’s largest open‑pit gold operations, runs critical industrial systems across two sites (11 ESXi hosts and about 40 VMware VMs) and required reliable, 24/7 protection to avoid costly downtime. Their previous backup product lacked file‑level recovery and usability, so the IT team sought a virtualization‑focused solution that would deliver fast VM and file recovery with minimal management overhead.

They deployed NAKIVO Backup & Replication on Windows with vendor support, gaining full VM backups, instant VM recovery (boot from backup) and instant file recovery from compressed, deduplicated backups. Global deduplication and compression cut storage use by 50%, the intuitive web UI reduced backup management time by hours per week, and recoveries now take minutes for VMs and seconds for individual files; the team is now optimizing the network to enable daily backups.

Canadian Malartic

Serge Offroy

Automation Technician