Case Study: Ideal Standard cuts backup window by 80% and gains near-instant VM, file, and AD recovery with NAKIVO Backup & Replication

NAKIVO Helps Shorten Backup Window by 80% for Ideal Standard

Ideal Standard, a Belgium‑based leader in bathroom solutions with ~9,500 employees and 18 manufacturing sites across EMEA, was modernizing its IT by virtualizing servers and moving away from slow, tape‑centric backups. The decentralized tape process was costly, fragile and hard to manage, and the IT team needed a centrally managed VM backup solution that could shorten backup windows, verify recoverability, and enable fast restoration of VMs, files and Active Directory objects.

NAKIVO Backup & Replication was deployed as a preconfigured appliance at each site, backing up VMware VMs to QNAP storage using forever‑incremental backups with Changed Block Tracking, global deduplication and GFS retention. The single web console plus screenshot verification enabled reliable, centrally managed protection; backups now run up to 80% faster with initial full backups around 4 hours and incrementals in ~20 minutes, storage use dropped ~30%, and full VMs, files and AD objects can be recovered near‑instantly.

Ideal Standard

Steven Tomney

ITS Infrastructure Team Leader