Parklane Hotel Limassol Ensures Business Continuity with NAKIVO

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Parklane, a Luxury Collection Resort in Limassol, Achieves 25% Cost Savings and Business Continuity with NAKIVO
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Overview

Parklane, a Luxury Collection Resort & Spa in Limassol, Cyprus, relies on a robust IT infrastructure to maintain seamless operations. However, challenges with its previous backup solution, including high costs and slow recovery times, threatened business continuity. By switching to NAKIVO Backup & Replication, Parklane achieved a 25% reduction in backup costs, enhanced data protection and significantly improved recovery speeds, ensuring uninterrupted guest services.

Business Challenge

As a luxury resort, Parklane’s IT systems support critical business operations, including its property management system (PMS), accounting software, payroll, store databases and communication systems. The infrastructure consists of one site, six physical servers (including a clustered configuration), and 40 virtual machines (VMs). Ensuring data availability is crucial to avoiding downtime that could impact operations and revenue.

However, Parklane’s previous backup solution was costly due to inflexible pricing and inefficient due to slow backup and recovery processes. The resort needed a more cost-effective and reliable alternative to prevent potential disruptions.

Solution

After evaluating multiple options, Parklane chose NAKIVO Backup & Replication for its affordability, reliability, and efficiency. The deployment was seamless, with installation on a standalone Windows Server 2012 machine. The resort’s IT team quickly benefited from NAKIVO’s intuitive web interface, which streamlined backup administration.

Key features that enhanced Parklane’s backup strategy included:

  • Incremental backup – Reduced storage consumption while ensuring data consistency.
  • Global data deduplication – Optimized storage efficiency by eliminating redundant data.
  • LAN-free data transfer – Accelerated backups without impacting production workloads.
  • Fast, space-efficient backups – Minimized system performance impact and eliminated VM stun.

Parklane adopted a biweekly full backup strategy with incremental backups in between, balancing data protection with storage efficiency. The complete infrastructure backup now takes approximately eight hours, providing a robust disaster recovery framework.

Additionally, Parklane’s IT partner, GCC, endorsed NAKIVO’s reliability, further reinforcing the decision to transition.

Results

By implementing NAKIVO Backup & Replication, Parklane achieved significant improvements:

  • Faster recovery times – Instant VM recovery dramatically reduced downtime, ensuring continuous operations.
  • 25% cost savings – Backup-related expenses dropped significantly compared to the previous solution.
  • Operational efficiency – A simplified interface and automated workflows reduced the IT team’s administrative burden.
  • Enhanced data protection – Reliable, consistent backups secured critical business data, mitigating the risk of loss.

With NAKIVO’s streamlined backup and disaster recovery solution, Parklane can efficiently manage IT services without needing dedicated personnel at each location, further reducing operational costs.

About Parklane, a Luxury Collection Resort & Spa, Limassol

Parklane is a prestigious 5-star seafront resort in Limassol, Cyprus, offering 222 elegantly designed rooms, 34 suites and 18 exclusive villas crafted by Harrods Interiors. The resort features the award-winning Kalloni Spa, a secluded Blue Flag beach, three swimming pools, and six world-class dining venues, including NAMMOS and LPM Limassol. Parklane delivers an unparalleled luxury experience for travelers seeking relaxation and indulgence.

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