Case Study: Mississippi College achieves 2–6× faster VMware backups and instant file recovery with NAKIVO Backup & Replication

Mississippi College Selects NAKIVO to Protect their VMware Environment

Mississippi College, a private Christian university with a largely virtualized IT environment (85% on VMware), needed a faster, more reliable and budget-friendly way to protect its VMs after outgrowing tape and agent-based disk backups. The college required overnight backups for critical systems (domain controllers, file servers, SQL/Oracle, etc.) without the overhead of maintaining per‑VM agents or moving physical media between campuses.

They deployed NAKIVO Backup & Replication on an existing Synology NAS, gaining an agentless, all‑in‑one backup appliance with forever‑incremental backups, Changed Block Tracking, backup copy, and instant file recovery. Backups now complete in under 20 minutes on average and run 2–6× faster than the prior solution, weekly backup copies protect the law‑school site, and individual files can be recovered in minutes—reducing management overhead and eliminating tape dependence.

Mississippi College

Van Jones

Network Support Manager