Texas Peoples National Bancshares Chooses Nakivo Backup & Replication

Nakivo, Inc. announced that Texas Peoples National Bancshares, Inc. has selected its Backup & Replication to protect their environment.

The bank provides a range of commercial banking services to customers in the state of Texas. Its products and services include investments, financing, cards, insurance, remote banking, personal banking, and direct deposit.

The bank operates out of 3 sites with one physical server and 22 VMs. VMs store the company’s critical data like documents, spreadsheets, and databases. The company runs financial applications to support teller functions, account opening, and instant issuing of debit cards. A VM also run an email server, a telephone system, and collaboration applications. Maintaining uninterrupted access to critical data and applications that support the organization and their customers is of the utmost importance. Protecting data with the help of a VM backup solution ensures data availability and BC.

Previously, the company relied on a different VM backup solution for data availability. Recovery with the previous solution was slow, there were daily failed jobs or backup hangs. The main criteria for choosing a solution were speed, efficiency, reliability, and cost.

Backup & Replication stood out from the competition due to the solution’s functionality set and multiple deployment options. It can protect virtual, physical, cloud and SaaS environments with incremental and application-aware backups. It provides complete visibility via a unified dashboard for all data protection activities and workloads. Moreover, deployment is easy and flexible with a range of options: installation on Windows/Linux, as a pre-configured virtual appliance, or on NAS.

“Installing and configuring Backup & Replication was a breeze. The web interface is simple, intuitive, and responsive. Since the solution offered integration with Synology NAS, we took advantage of this functionality, and we really enjoy the portability and unification of both hardware and software,” says Pat Watson, VP/CTO, Texas Peoples National Bancshares.

“Backing up our entire environment takes nearly 4 hours, while incremental backups take about 50 minutes,” he says. “We enjoy fully automated backups that reduce administrative complexity and time spent on data protection. We do not experience issues anymore with stuck or hung backups.“

“In the past, recovery was a long and exhausting process for us. With Backup & Replication, we can recover entire VMs, files, and application objects directly from backups. Thus, we have minimized time for recovery dramatically,” he says Pat. “We also take advantage of backup copy functionality and VM replication. We keep an extra copy of our backups for archival purposes. And with VM replication, we always have a VM replica available for DR purposes,” says Pat.

“The simplicity, elegance, and complete functionality set is unmatched at the price point that Nakivo provides its customers,” he says. “Our backups are portable, fast, and more reliable than ever before. Backup & Replication has saved us thousands of dollars in yearly renewal costs and eliminated countless hours we used to spend on maintaining our old solution. With the previous solution, we struggled to complete offsite replication due to limited bandwidth between our sites. We no longer have this problem with Backup & Replication.“