NAKIVO Helps a Nonprofit Simplify Data Protection Management
Business Challenge
World Family of Radio Maria is a non-profit association operating in more than 70 countries worldwide to support humanitarian and educational projects. The radio’s mission includes spirituality, prayer, information, music, and culture.
The IT network of the non-profit consists of headquarters and 5 branch offices. All sites are virtualized on VMware to provide internal and external services. Virtual machines store internal applications like CRM, ERP, and external services, like websites, a mobile application, and entertainment systems. Backup software is a vital component of the IT infrastructure, and a 3-2-1 approach for critical systems is mandatory. The radio cannot afford to let down their listeners, as social and public services through the radio should be delivered without any interruptions.
In the past, World Family of Radio Maria used other VM backup solutions available on the market. Past products required additional time for management, monitoring, and configurations. Moreover, those products offered poor web interfaces, which only complicated administration problems. Since the organization’s IT infrastructure gradually increased every year, while the IT team remained with the same number of people, World Family of Radio Maria required an easy-to-use solution with a maximum level of automation.
Solution
“We were pleasantly surprised and satisfied with the flexibility and ease of use that NAKIVO Backup & Replication offers. We deployed the product as a pre-configured virtual appliance. Installation was super-fast, almost plug and play, while the web interface was also configured in minutes,” says Daniel Giordano, CIO at World Family of Radio Maria.
“In terms of backups, we rely on a daily and weekly approach. Every night, we are able to back up our servers in a few hours. Only cloud backup is more time-consuming as it depends on internet performance. However, we are currently thinking of applying direct access functionality to the cloud provider in order to improve performance,” says Daniel.
“I enjoy the simplicity of the web interface and the level of automation NAKIVO Backup & Replication provides. I spend only a few minutes every day checking the web portal and email notification system. In the past, I have contacted the technical support and sales teams and both were responsive and efficient in communication. I once had an urgent question, and I received a solution in the shortest amount of time,” says Daniel.
“The minimal amount of time is usually only spent during the internal audit and on the recovery of entire VMs. Even in this case, we launch instant VM recovery, and in a couple of minutes, we receive a recovered VM. Overall, the product requires minimal time and effort from our side,” says Daniel.
Results
“We appreciate how NAKIVO Backup & Replication is fast and easy to use, especially during an urgent issue, such as the recovery of an entire VM. NAKIVO Backup & Replication also helped us once tremendously with VM replication when the integrated VMware tools just simply did not work. We were able to quickly create a VM replica and power it on. We switched to NAKIVO Backup & Replication due to ease of management, and since we saved time on management, we also saved money, in a sense,” says Daniel.
About World Family of Radio Maria
World Family of Radio Maria is one of the biggest radio broadcasting networks in the world with thousands of collaborators. The radio is broadcast via the national network in Italy and in more than 70 countries across the world. World Family of Radio Maria carries out and supports activities in favor of social and cultural growth and develops partnerships with entities and institutions that pursue the same goal. For more information, visit www.radiomaria.org.