Case Study: Kenridge Primary School achieves instant object recovery and 60% IT administration time savings with NAKIVO Backup & Replication

Kenridge Primary School Achieves Instant Object Recovery and Reduces IT Administration Time by 60% with NAKIVO

Kenridge Primary School, a Cape Town elementary school with about 1,600 students and 150 staff, needed reliable, fast VM backups for a small datacenter that hosts critical VMs including a 300 GB onsite mail server and the primary domain controller. Legacy backup tools were slow, prone to failures, had a cumbersome UI, and made object or full-VM recovery time-consuming—creating a risk to day-to-day operations and heavy IT administration overhead.

The school deployed NAKIVO Backup & Replication, which proved quick to install and use and offered deduplication/compression, Instant Object Recovery for Exchange, Exchange log truncation, screenshot verification and email alerts. As a result backups now run reliably, Exchange objects and entire VMs can be recovered in minutes, maintenance is minimal, and IT administration time dropped by about 60% (roughly 4 hours saved per week).

Kenridge Primary School

Devon Chandler

IT Systems Manager