Trucking Company E.W. Wylie Chooses Nakivo

Nakivo Inc. announced that E.W.Wylie Corporation has selected its Backup & Replication to protect their environment.

E.W. Wylie has been in the trucking industry since 1938. It 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.

It relies on enterprise-grade data centers across USA and Canada, with the head office in Fargo, ND. Currently, there are 2 main sites in USA and Canada and 10 remote sites.

Between the various sites, the company has some 40 physical servers and 80 VMware VMs. VM store user data, personal information, application data, emails, SQL for customer data, vehicles and accounting data, software for vehicle maps and routes data, etc.

Backup, replication, and recovery are critical for the end user, for security and safety reasons and 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, BC 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 GUI was complicated and difficult to navigate.

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, E.W.Wylie. “We currently have a five-socket perpetual license and 305 Exchange Online accounts in Microsoft 365, covering 2 Qnaps that mirror each other through backup copy. The user interface is much better to navigate and operate than that of our previous product.“

Backup & Replication provides agent-less, 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 4 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 Gyebi.

The LAN-free data transfer feature from Nakivo 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 Gyebi.

Nakivo 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 Gyebi.

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 Gyebi.

By switching to Nakivo, 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.

“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 Gyebi. “We can now manage, scale, and customize our own backup processes without any third-party intervention or restrictions. Backup & Replication does not require constant modification or fine-tuning.“