Case Study: Onit (cloud software provider) achieves 60% storage savings and faster VM backups with NAKIVO Backup & Replication

NAKIVO on ASUSTOR NAS Saves Storage Space by 60% for a Cloud Software Provider

Onit, a Houston-based cloud software provider specializing in enterprise legal, contract and process automation, ran about 300 VMware VMs across 12 physical servers and needed a reliable, low-maintenance VM backup solution to avoid costly downtime. Their previous rsync-based file-level protection was slow, laborious and couldn’t restore entire VMs, so they sought software built specifically for virtual environments that was easy to manage and cost-effective.

Onit deployed NAKIVO Backup & Replication on an ASUSTOR NAS as a compact VM backup appliance, using VM backup, replication and backup copy with VMware CBT plus global deduplication and compression. The setup protects roughly 10 TB of data with daily and weekly recovery points, eliminated the need for a separate backup server, cut storage use by 60%, sped up backup windows (nightly jobs take a few hours; weekend jobs 6–8 hours) and reduced overall recovery risk and administration overhead.

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Steven Brown

IT and Compliance Manager