Case Study: Zambia Daily Mail achieves $500,000 in bandwidth and time savings with NAKIVO Backup & Replication

NAKIVO Helps a Media Company Save Bandwidth Costs over Three Years

Zambia Daily Mail, a leading government-owned newspaper in Zambia, needed a faster, more reliable backup and replication solution for its 12 physical servers and 30+ virtual machines. Its previous open-source backup system was slow, resource-intensive, and difficult to manage, making restores and data integrity checks cumbersome. The company turned to NAKIVO Backup & Replication to better protect its 24/7 mission-critical news, publishing, and advertising systems.

NAKIVO implemented a lightweight, agentless backup and replication setup that was installed in about 10 minutes and automated much of the daily monitoring work. As a result, Zambia Daily Mail saw a 40% increase in VM backup speed, faster granular file recovery, and easier storage planning. Over three years, the company estimated about $500,000 in savings in time and bandwidth costs, while also improving resilience and freeing resources for other business priorities.

Zambia Daily Mail

Emmanuel Kalenge

Senior ICT Engineer