Case Study: Ocean Observatories Initiative achieves faster VM backup and recovery with NAKIVO Backup & Replication

The Ocean Observatories Initiative, a research facility in the USA, improves backup performance and recovers full VMs and individual files with NAKIVO Backup & Replication

The Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI), a research facility operating ocean observation platforms and sensors across the Atlantic and Pacific, needed a faster way to protect and recover virtual machines without disrupting its tape-based backups. OOI was looking for an additional backup solution that would integrate with VMware and NFS, support cloud storage, and help avoid delays when restoring production VMs critical to continuous data processing and public access.

NAKIVO Backup & Replication was implemented to provide quick VM backup, instant recovery, and long-term cloud archiving alongside OOI’s existing tape strategy. NAKIVO helped OOI deploy the solution in minutes, simplify backup administration, and speed up recovery of full VMs and individual files, while backup verification improved confidence in restore readiness. The result was a highly resilient VM backup setup that reduced recovery time, minimized load on production systems, and significantly accelerated deployment and staff training.

Ocean Observatories Initiative

Casey Dinsmoe

DevOps Engineer