Case Study: Rely achieves minutes‑fast VM restores and cost‑effective, reliable backups with OpenText VM Explorer

Rely underpins cloud service with Micro Focus® VM Explorer, safeguarding customers with ultrafast VM backup

Rely is a 60‑person IT company in the Netherlands that runs a private cloud hosting VMware VMs for 35 customers. With more than 50 VMs supporting critical services—such as online mortgage platforms, databases and domain services—Rely needed a fast, reliable way to restore VMs within minutes (not hours) to minimize customer downtime even when geo‑redundant systems face faults.

Rely implemented Micro Focus VM Explorer, using its simple web interface to schedule automatic backups, run verification tests, and restore VMs directly to the same or alternate hosts or to NAS/cloud targets. The lightweight, affordable solution shortened recovery times to minutes, improved service flexibility and reliability, reduced training and hardware costs, and helped Rely meet customer SLAs.

Rely

Marco Krabbe

Purchasing and Sales Manager