Case Study: Region Blekinge achieves minutes‑level VM recovery (cuts RTO from 24 hours to minutes) with NAKIVO

NAKIVO VM Backup Appliance Based on Synology NAS Reduces RTO from 24 Hours to Minutes

Regional Council of Blekinge, a regional government authority in southern Sweden responsible for transportation, infrastructure, culture and tourism, runs a largely virtualized IT estate (about 90% on VMware) supporting AD, Exchange, SQL and other services. Their previous agent-based, cloud-only backup approach was slow and fragile—recovering a single VM could take up to 24 hours—so they needed a more robust, onsite-capable solution that would deliver fast, reliable VM and file recovery.

They deployed NAKIVO Backup & Replication on a Synology RS815+ NAS as an off‑host VM backup appliance, enabling Flash VM Boot to run VMs directly from compressed, deduplicated backups. This cut their RTO from a full day to minutes, provided instant file and application recovery, reduced costs by avoiding cloud-only backups, and simplified IT administration while giving the council greater control over backups.

Region Blekinge

Oliver Sachse

IT Technician