500 VMware Solution Providers Being Nakivo Partners

Nakivo Inc., a provider of virtualization data protection and cloud backup software, announced that 500 VMware solution providers have joined its Partner Program and are offering its products to their SMB, enterprise, and cloud service provider customers.

The company provides a fast, reliable, and affordable VMware VM backup and replication solution for enabling SMBs and enterprises to protect and recover VM data onsite, offsite, and to the cloud. Built for virtualization, Nakivo Backup & Replication is certified by VMware and offers a data protection feature set for virtualized environments, including local and offsite VM backup and replication, support for live applications and databases, granular recovery, network acceleration, data deduplication, Web UI, AES-256 encryption, advanced reporting, and vCloud Director support.

Nakivo aims to be 100% channel-based, and offers a set of benefits to partners:

• New opportunities: Regardless of industry, size, or revenue numbers, all businesses need to protect their data. VMware solution providers can meet the growing customer demand for a fast, reliable, and affordable virtualization and cloud data protection.
• Free training: Nakivo Partner University provides a free self-paced certification training course that enables partners to find and recognize new opportunities, sell Nakivo products, and increase revenue.
• Margins: To help its partners be competitive, Nakivo provides up to a 50% discount to its solution provider partners.
• Deal registration: To secure their business opportunities, partners can register their deals on the Nakivo Partner Portal.
• Trade In program: If a prospect already has a VM backup product in place, partners can offer the prospect to give up the competitive product and get the same number of Nakivo licenses at a discounted price.
• NFR licenses: Nakivo provides free Not for Resale (NFR) licenses for Nakivo backup & Replication to its solution provider partners so they can learn and demonstrate the software to their prospects.

“As a Nakivo solution provider, we appreciate Nakivo’s rich, reliable feature set for backing up and replicating VMware environments not only on site but also to the cloud, all in a single product,” said Alain Egee, director, zTech SARL in France. “With Nakivo, our customers can quickly recover files and emails from local or cloud based VM backup save points as well as recover VMs locally or in the cloud, providing our customers with the additional benefit of VM DR in the cloud.“

“We are pleased with the rapid growth of our channel, and appreciate the opportunity to work with technically advanced VMware solution providers such as zTech, who trust Nakivo to safeguard their customers’ data,” said Bruce Talley, CEO and co-founder, Nakivo. “500 VMware solution providers across 70 countries, is a significant milestone in the overall growth of our company.“

Nakivo has VMware solution providers in 70 countries including Andorra, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Belgium, Botswana, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, El Salvador, Estonia, Fiji, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kuwait, Latvia, Lebanon, Malaysia, Mexico, Mongolia, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Palestine, Panama, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Slovenia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, UK, USA, Vietnam, and Zimbabwe.