Case Study: Phi Medien Systeme saves €25,000 and gains near‑instant VMware recovery with NAKIVO Backup & Replication

NAKIVO Saves €25,000 in Backup Costs for a Hosting Provider

Phi Medien Systeme GmbH, a Jülich‑based hosting and cloud services provider managing 10 ESXi hosts and about 200 VMware VMs for SMB customers, needed a more reliable, fast and cost‑effective VM backup solution. Their previous product was too expensive and overly licensed for their needs, and they required a solution that ensured quick recoverability and easy multi‑tenant management to meet SLAs and protect diverse customer workloads.

They selected NAKIVO Backup & Replication for its flexible deployment (Synology NAS or Windows), Direct SAN Access, CBT, Flash VM Boot and multitenancy. NAKIVO backs up all 200 VMs daily in under an hour at up to 400 MB/s, enables near‑instant VM recovery and self‑service restores for customers, and eliminated the need for agents—resulting in reliable 24/7 data protection and about €25,000 in backup cost savings.

Phi Medien Systeme

Jan Stockem

IT Systems Engineer