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Research Center Saves Time on Backup Administration with NAKIVO

February 4, 2022 - NAKIVO Inc., a fast-growing software company for protecting physical, virtual, and cloud environments, has announced today that the Microwave Applications Group (GAM) has selected NAKIVO Backup & Replication to protect their environment.

The Microwave Applications Group (GAM) focuses its research on developing techniques for analyzing and designing passive microwave and millimeter wave components such as filters, matching networks, multiplexers, switches, probes, and transitions. The group belongs to the Institute of Telecommunications and Multimedia Applications (iTEAM) of the Technical University of Valencia (UPV) and is located in the Polytechnic City of Innovation, the scientific park of the UPV.

The group currently has eight physical servers and several virtual machines for storing the critical data and applications of the research group. Virtual machines store confidential data related to the educational material that the group teaches within their department, and all the research carried out by the group. Data loss could be detrimental to the group, as all research activity would practically stop. “For example, if the VM that runs the license servers stops working, we can no longer use the essential SW to carry out our work. VM Backup and VM replication are essential for GAM, as we need to guarantee the integrity of data and have multiple recovery points,” says José Vicente Morro Ros, Associate Professor at GAM.

In the past, GAM mirrored data to several disks installed in their physical facilities at iTEAM. In addition, GAM backed up every day to a NAS to ensure the possibility of data recovery in case of a critical failure. Backup procedures at that time were carried out manually by the department's employees, which made this task cumbersome and inefficient. In addition, since the backup process was not automated, everything was susceptible to failures that had to be reviewed and fixed manually before the next daily backup. The backup copies were also created manually and by different department employees, causing a great loss of time in teaching and research responsibilities. Moreover, these procedures used to be subject to failures that had to be solved as a matter of priority, which caused the repetition of long backup processes that always ended up being incomplete. To replace this process, GAM selected NAKIVO Backup & Replication for automated Hyper-V VM backup and replication.

“For us, NAKIVO Backup & Replication has two main advantages. Firstly, the software is extremely fast and easy-to-use. Secondly, we do not have to worry about failed backups because NAKIVO Backup & Replication is reliable, and we do not need to make manual procedures that waste our time. In the past, we had to manually check every backup copy and replica we made of the data and virtual machines. However, now with NAKIVO Backup & Replication, there's no more manual, repetitive tasks, as the product gets the job done reliably,” says José.

NAKIVO Backup & Replication is available in UK through Simple IT Distribution LTD, Nakivo Partner in UK.

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