Case Study: Udens College saves two hours a week on VM backup with NAKIVO Backup & Replication

NAKIVO Saves Udens College Two Hours a Week on VM Backup

Udens College, a Dutch secondary school with about 2,800 students and 400 staff across two sites, runs eight VMware ESXi hosts and roughly 80 VMs hosting core services. The college’s previous backup solution was unstable, frequently losing recovery points, slow to support new ESXi versions and hard to configure, putting day-to-day operations and full disaster recovery at risk.

By deploying NAKIVO Backup & Replication on two Synology NAS units, Udens College gained fast, easy-to-install VM backups, application-aware backups and 10-minute VM replication without agents. The new setup reduced backup time (saving about two hours per week), cut storage needs by roughly 50% through global deduplication, and delivered simple file- and object-level restores (about one hour saved per restore), restoring confidence in reliable disaster recovery.

Udens College

Joey Aben

System and Network Administrator