“Vembu ensures availability of our core productions systems that support Mackie’s business operations. 24×7 availability of business applications and its data is critical for us, and Vembu delivers on these requirements. Vembu has become an integral component of our IT and business continuity strategy.

– Lee Wong, Manager of Information Technology at The Mackie Group

The Mackie Group

Company : Moving & Storage
Problems
Needed consistent backup & restoration services for production VMs, physical disks, and file services with full and incremental backup capabilities.
Protected Platforms
Virtualization (VMware)
Physical Image
Solution
Vembu BDR Suite
Result

  • Able to provide on demand file restores for the business with meaningful point in time recovery
  • Able to simulate other restoration functions like VMs and Exchange log files and databases
  • Backup verification process simplified

About the Mackie Group

Headquartered in Oshawa Ontario, Canada, Mackie is a privately owned Canadian company, founded in 1928. Mackie has diverse holdings that encompass all facets of household goods moving, storage and warehousing, general freight transportation and trailer rentals. Mackie is the largest Canadian agent for North American Van Lines, a world leader in corporate relocations, household, commercial and international moving.

Challenges

The Mackie Group required a solution that addresses their exposure to the lack of consistent backup & restoration services for production VMs, physical disks, and/or file services. The solution had to accommodate their environment of various business applications, messaging, database, Windows & Non-Windows systems. Full and incremental backup capabilities were required as well.

Solution

On implementing Vembu’s solution, the Mackie group were now able to provide on demand file restores for the business with meaningful point in time recovery. They were also able to simulate other restoration functions like our VMs and Exchange log files and databases. Their backup verification process has been simplified and allows them to move onto other technology matters.

The Vembu BDR suite comes with the complete package where it addresses both physical and virtual environments’ image backup requirement. All the changes during the incremental backup data is monitored and processed using CBT (Change Block Tracking method) tracking drivers and patent APIs. Also the backed-up data is efficiently handled at the backup server using VembuHiveTM file system with high end encryption and deduplication. Using Vembu BDR suite of products, the IT administrator can fulfil the company’s whole IT backup requirements using the following below products.

The Mackie Group also lauded the affordability of Vembu’s solutions saying that price was one of the major deciding factor for choosing Vembu over other competitors. They also commented that they would recommend Vembu to others as the product works and the price point is quite attractive.

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