Case Study: DriverTech achieves 70% storage savings and streamlined VM backup & replication with NAKIVO Backup & Replication

NAKIVO Gives a Mobile Computer Solutions Supplier 70% Storage Space Savings

DriverTech, a Salt Lake City–based supplier of mobile computer solutions for the trucking industry, needed a reliable, software‑based way to protect ~50 VMware VMs across two primary sites and a disaster‑recovery site. The company wanted full (forever‑incremental) VM backups and VM replication to ensure fast recovery from human error or physical disasters, replacing a previous mix of separate VM backup software and SAN volume replication with a single, user‑friendly solution.

DriverTech selected NAKIVO Backup & Replication deployed as a pre‑configured virtual appliance for easy implementation and scalability. Using custom schedules, they back up primary VMs twice daily (secondary site VMs as often as every 30 minutes) with full jobs completing in about two hours. Global deduplication and compression cut backup storage needs by about 70%, enabling more frequent backups and longer retention, while VM replication to secondary locations provides near‑instant failover and simplified management.

DriverTech

Jay Newhouse

IT Director