NAKIVO Saves a Pharmaceutical Company 90% on Storage Space
Business Challenge
Dita EstFarm is a pharmaceutical company in Moldova. The company provides the full spectrum of distribution, marketing, and promotion, as well as regulatory and pharmacovigilance services. Dita EstFarm distributes over 800 pharmaceutical products nationally and owns Farmacia Failiei, the largest pharmacy chain in Moldova with over 200 pharmacies.
Dita EstFarm operates from 1 physical site with 4 physical servers and 40 virtual machines. The virtual machines primarily store files, Microsoft SQL, Active Directory, a 1C accounting application for controlling the warehouse, and Medica Plus for the company’s retail chain.
VM backup and recovery are crucial for Dita EstFarm, partly because VM backup software is a regulatory requirement. Data from the pharmaceutical warehouse (Dita EstFarm) and data from the pharmaceutical chain (Farmacia Familiei) are stored on the physical servers. This data should be safely backed up and recoverable in the event of an incident.
The previous data protection solution was slow and required installing agents on each virtual machine. The company did not have any solution for VM backup and recovery in place. The previous product was also difficult to implement and maintain. Moreover, there were no new features implemented for years. Dita EstFarm wanted a newer, easier-to-use solution with a rich feature set.
Solution
S&T Moldova, a leading system integrator, recommended NAKIVO Backup & Replication to Dita EstFarm as a possible replacement. The company successfully deployed the solution on premises after a period of testing and evaluation. Installing NAKIVO Backup & Replication was a fast process, as well as updating to the newer versions has also been easy and has worked without any errors, according to Dita EstFarm. The configuration was also easy and flexible both in terms of backing up servers and creating recovery jobs. In addition, the user interface is friendly with simple wizards. The main dashboard view gives the administrator all the needed information.
Global data deduplication is one of the most important features in NAKIVO Backup & Replication for Dita EstFarm. The high price of logistics and hardware takes a toll on the storage. That is why saving storage costs is one of the main priorities for the business. NAKIVO’s data deduplication provides around 90% storage space savings.
With NAKIVO Backup & Replication, Dita EstFarm can finally recover entire VMs from backups in minutes when a VM is down to reduce downtime. Instant VM recovery takes seconds, so IT operations can continue with minimum downtime. The functionality works automatically and does not require any extra setup.
Results
Dita EstFarm finally had the opportunity to back up virtual machines with a proper data protection solution. NAKIVO Backup & Replication has a simple overview and a user-friendly web interface that gives the IT staff all the information they need, without navigating deeper into the product’s configuration. VM backup is one of the features provided by NAKIVO Backup & Replication that the previous solution did not provide. In case of critical data or VM loss, Dita EstFarm has the opportunity to recover entire VMs, meaning that the company operations and activity can now be restored much faster.
About Dita EstFarm
Dita EstFarm is a pharmaceutical distribution company founded in 1995 in Moldova. The company distributes over 8,000 pharmaceutical and parapharmaceutical products nationally from over 170 local and international suppliers to over 800 customers, like private pharmacies, hospital and extra-budgetary pharmacies, and other pharmaceutical warehouses. Currently, the company employs over 300 employees. For more information, visit www.dita.md.