Case Study: Institute of Electronics, Microelectronics and Nanotechnology achieves 2.5X faster VM backups and instant file & Active Directory recovery with NAKIVO Backup & Replication

NAKIVO VM Backup Appliance Based on QNAP NAS Improves Backup Speed by 2.5X for a Research Institute

The Institute of Electronics, Microelectronics and Nanotechnology (IEMN), a French joint research institute with roughly 250 permanent staff and 180+ doctoral/post‑docs, runs a 100% virtualized environment of 70 VMs (about 75% VMware, 25% Hyper‑V). Protecting research and administrative data was critical, but prior file‑based and open‑source VM backup approaches proved unscalable, difficult to maintain, and produced failed recoveries and rising storage costs, prompting a search for a reliable, fast VM backup solution.

IEMN installed NAKIVO Backup & Replication on a QNAP NAS as an all‑in‑one backup appliance, delivering 2.5× faster VM backups, global deduplication and compression to reduce storage needs and costs, and instant file and Active Directory object recovery. Screenshot verification and a user‑friendly web interface simplified administration, shortened backup windows (finishing around 2:00 a.m.), and freed IT staff to focus on other tasks.

Institute of Electronics, Microelectronics and Nanotechnology

Mickaël Masquelin

IT Department Manager