Italian Clothing Manufacturer Siggi Group Selects Nakivo Backup & Replication

Siggi Group S.P.A has selected Nakivo Backup & Replication to protect their environment.

It is an industrial group specializing in the manufacture of professional clothing. It was founded in 1966 in Italy and provide specific solutions to the needs of those working in industry, business, artisanship, catering, government, medical/hospital field, and child care.

It has been collaborating with MasterChef Italia since the show’s first season in 2011, with a range of aprons and the MasterChef Italia brand chef’s uniforms are available to all cooking enthusiasts.

Siggi’s IT infrastructure consists of 2 sites and 1 cloud datacenter, with 25 VMware VMs deployed for production purposes. VMs store various file servers, mail servers, SQL servers, Microsoft Dynamics NAV, a phone management system, business intelligence, and other application servers. All the group’s servers are mission-critical for BC, and any disruption to processes can lead to negative consequences for the company. Moreover, protecting data that is stored in the cloud is also vital. That is why reliable backup and DR procedures must be used for the business to run successfully. If critical data becomes unavailable, Siggi might suffer from all a complete halt to all sales and production processes.

The group had another VM backup solution deployed at their sites, but Omninet Srl, an IT solutions partner, suggested other better suited alternatives on the market. Thus Siggi decided to switch to Backup & Replication.

With the previous product, Siggi experienced the most common problems, which included failed backup jobs, long backup time, and failed recoveries. Plus, the product lacked a proper method for verifying the integrity of backups. The product also did not offer support for various OSs and deployments. In the end, the support and product quality just did not match its requirements.

It needed a user-friendly product with affordable pricing and efficient support, as well as a sales team who actually listened to the customer’s needs and requests. Backup & Replication fit the bill and provided all the necessary functionality in order for the clothing business to function properly. It is a data protection solution for physical, virtual, cloud, and SaaS environments. The product offers flexibility in terms of deployment, offering installation on Linux/Windows, deployment on a NAS device, and deployment as a pre-configured virtual appliance. Moreover, it offers site recovery orchestration and backup to Wasabi cloud.

Installation took Siggi more or less 15 minutes.

“Installation time was impressive and it was easy to create our first backup job. In addition, now we have backup to Wasabi cloud, enjoying geographical redundancy of data, since now we are located in three different regions. The Wasabi backup functionality allowed us to reduce the cost of cloud backup,” says Silvia Marta, CEO, Siggi Group.

With Backup & Replication, you can send backups and backup copies of VMs to Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage, as well as recover backed up data from Wasabi by performing full and granular recoveries. Wasabi offers scalable cloud storage and does not charge for recovering backups (that is, no egress fees).

With the site recovery functionality, Siggi can orchestrate and automate DR. Site recovery enables continuous delivery of IT services. The product monitors VMs and checks whether some of the VMs are unreachable. By creating site recovery jobs, you can minimize service disruption and downtime.

“Site Recovery was helpful in an emergency situation, we were able to start up our production VMs in a few minutes,” says Marta.

The Nakivo solution also provides knowledgeable technical support that can be reached by phone, email, or chat. If you experience technical issues, you can just send a support bundle to support.

“Nakivo Backup & Replication is reliable, thus, we only turned to customer support a handful of times. However, when we needed help, the support team was always responsive, kind, and decisive,” says Marta.

Nakivo provides Siggi Group with data protection functionalities that help ensure availability of IT services. With Wasabi backup, the company saves money while backing up to the cloud. While with site recovery, the company was able to recover production VMs in a few minutes after an emergency situation.

“Backup & Replication is 40% less expensive than our previous product, plus, we spend 30% less time on Backup & Replication when it comes to management. In addition to saving time and money, Backup & Replication guarantees reliable backups, as well as integration with various cloud platforms,” says Marta.