Case Study: The Santa Fe New Mexican backs up business-critical VMs to the cloud and saves 80% vs. tape with NAKIVO

NAKIVO Enables Newspaper Company to Back Up Business Critical VMs to Dropbox Cloud and Save 80% Versus Tape

The Santa Fe New Mexican, the West’s oldest newspaper, runs an almost fully virtualized IT environment and needed a more reliable, cloud-capable backup strategy for 25 business‑critical VMs (images, databases, mail, finance, phone systems, etc.). Their legacy disk-to-disk/tape approach required rebuilding physical servers for recovery and left them exposed to disaster or theft, so the IT team prioritized fast local image-based recovery plus secure offsite cloud backup.

They deployed NAKIVO Backup & Replication for direct backup to public cloud and local storage, benefiting from a modern UI, application-aware protection, changed-block tracking, multithreaded processing, deduplication, encryption and compression. The result: full protection of the virtual infrastructure, RTO reduced to about 10 minutes, local backups 40% faster, and cloud backups costing roughly 80% less than sending tapes offsite.

The Santa Fe New Mexican

Michael Campbell

IT Director