NAKIVO Helps Trucking Company Bring Down the Cost of Backup and Recovery by 50%
Business Challenge
E.W. Wylie has been in the trucking industry since 1938. The company has a fleet of trucks and drivers for small, medium, and Fortune 500 companies. The team includes both company drivers and owner-operators. The company offers general freight hauling, a brokerage department, and an asset-based fleet.
E.W. Wylie relies on enterprise-grade data centers across the United States and Canada, with the head office in Fargo, North Dakota. Currently, there are two main sites in the U.S. and Canada and ten remote sites.
Between the various sites, the company has some 40 physical servers and 80 VMware VMs. Virtual machines store user data, personal information, application data, emails, Microsoft SQL for customer data, vehicles and accounting data, software for vehicle maps and routes data, etc.
Backup, replication, and recovery are critical for E.W. Wylie, not only for security and safety reasons but also to meet the requirements established by SOX and other governmental entities as part of the company’s SOP compliance. If backup and recovery are missing or critical data gets compromised, business continuity will be heavily impacted, since everything about the trucking business is data-centered.
E.W. Wylie relied on another VM backup solution and had physical servers for backup. Most backup jobs failed to be completed successfully and most recoveries failed or timed out due to slow equipment. Moreover, backup and recovery times were way too long due to the previous VM backup solution relying on obsolete equipment. Lastly, the graphical user interface was complicated and difficult to navigate.
Solution
NAKIVO Backup & Replication provides ease of installation, various functionalities, and 24/7 support. The product can be installed on Windows or Linux, deployed as a VA, or installed on different NAS devices.
“We did our due diligence online and found NAKIVO Backup & Replication to be reliable, easy-to-use, scalable, and efficient,” says Michel Gyebi, IT Network and Systems Engineer at E.W.Wylie. “We currently have a five-socket perpetual license and 305 Exchange Online accounts in Microsoft 365, covering two QNAPs that mirror each other through backup copy. The user interface is much better to navigate and operate than that of our previous product.”
NAKIVO Backup & Replication provides agentless, application-aware, and incremental backups for efficient and reliable data protection. “We have daily, weekly, and monthly backups. On average, we need anywhere between 30 minutes and four hours to complete all the backup jobs. The automatic backup copy integration is important as the functionality gives us peace of mind in redundancy. Having the opportunity to have a backup copy of our backups at another location is awesome,” says Michel.
The LAN-free data transfer feature from NAKIVO Backup & Replication allows organizations to reduce the impact of data protection activities on business-critical operations. The feature boosts job speed, optimizes network resources and reduces the impact on core operations. “NAKIVO’s LAN-free data transfer feature eliminates the bandwidth overhead often associated with other backup and recovery systems and accelerates data transfer,” says Michel.
NAKIVO Backup & Replication also provides instant VM and instant granular recovery for near-zero RTO and RPOs. “Instant VM recovery is fast and error-free, and we are able to resume our operations in minutes. Instant granular recovery provides easy navigation and recovery of files and folders,” says Michel.
With IT Monitoring for VMware by NAKIVO, IT administrators can gain complete visibility into the environment and manage resource allocation, networking, and data protection. IT administrators can customize alerts and generate reports about CPU, RAM, VMs, and datastores. “IT monitoring provides a one-stop monitoring page that is extremely useful for visualizing the overall performance status of your system,” says Michel.
Results
By switching to NAKIVO Backup & Replication, E.W. Wylie gained better reliability, scalability, ease of use, and efficiency. The company improved the performance of backup and recovery jobs which are no longer failing, gained visibility into the health of their environment with IT Monitoring, and eliminated bandwidth overhead with LAN-free data transfer mode. Moreover, backup copy functionality helped the company to maintain multiple copies of backups at various locations and automate those workflows with the Job Chaining feature.
“NAKIVO Backup & Replication has brought down the cost of our backup and recovery solution by 50%. NAKIVO Backup & Replication has excellent, quick-to-respond, and knowledgeable customer support available 24/7,” says Michel. “We can now manage, scale, and customize our own backup processes without any third-party intervention or restrictions. NAKIVO Backup & Replication does not require constant modification or fine-tuning.”
About E.W. Wylie Corporation
Founded in 1938, and operating terminals in West Fargo, ND, and Sanford, NC, E.W. Wylie runs flatbed and step-deck trailers. In addition to flatbed trucking, the company handles specialized, high-value hauls and provides oil field cargo services. The company covers the U.S. and Canada with about 30 percent of Wylie’s business in Canada. The company has also won numerous national and state driving safety awards. For more information, visit www.wylietrucking.com.