Case Study: Parex Resources achieves fast VM backups, near-instant recovery, and major storage savings with NAKIVO Backup & Replication

NAKIVO on a QNAP NAS Improves VM Backup, Recovery, and Reporting for an Oil and Gas Company

Parex Resources Inc., a Calgary‑headquartered oil and gas company operating in Colombia, ran a virtualized IT environment across two sites with roughly 35–40 VMware VMs per site, including SQL and Oracle servers and long‑term file archives. The team needed reliable, easy‑to‑use VM backups with near‑instant recovery and better reporting after tape backups proved too slow and their previous product ran into storage limits and slow recoveries.

Parex deployed NAKIVO Backup & Replication on a QNAP NAS, gaining compression and deduplication that slashed storage use and let them retain backups for an estimated 20 years. Forever‑incremental backups now complete in about 20 minutes (versus 2–5 days to tape), Instant VM/Flash VM Boot and Instant File Recovery restore systems and files in seconds to under a minute, and automated reporting delivers daily visibility — all at lower licensing cost.

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Alejandro Trevino

Senior Information Technology Administrator