Nakivo Backup & Replication V4.1

NAKIVO Inc. released its Backup & Replication v4.1.

This version introduces features for cloud, hosting, and service providers who can use it to provide VM Backup-as-a-Service, Replication-as-a-Service, and Disaster-Recovery-as-a-Service in their cloud environments.

Developer Kit
NAKIVO provides an HTTP API that enables customers to automate and orchestrate VM backup, replication, and recovery jobs within Backup & Replication. The kit includes API documentation and code examples and has been designed so that even non-developers can use it. The API enables cloud, hosting, and service providers to integrate the software with cloud monitoring, automation, and orchestration solutions to reduce time spent on VMware data protection management and decrease their data protection costs.

Call Home
The company introduces a new feature to proactively provide support services to its SMB, enterprise, and cloud provider customers. Backup & Replication can now automatically create, encrypt, and upload support bundles to a NAKIVO support server. This will help NAKIVO support to identify a root cause of an issue and provide a solution. Also, the new Call Home feature can help the support to discover, investigate and suggest possible resolutions to a problem, before a customer becomes aware of the issue.

VA user interface
In addition to Windows and Linux installers, NAKIVO provides pre-configured Virtual Appliances (VAs) which enable a simple and streamlined deployment of the product. In the new version, pre-configured VAs now have a new UI which enables users to configure VA networking and increase backup repository size without the need to use Linux commands.
 
Datastore clusters support
A VMware datastore cluster is a collection of datastores with shared resources and a shared management interface. Backup & Replication v4.1 now supports datastore clusters that can be selected as a target for VM replication or as a target for recovery from VM backup.

“We’re focused on delivering new features for enabling our cloud service provider partners be successful in delivering  simple and cost-effective VM data protection services,” said Bruce Talley, CEO and co-founder, NAKIVO. “We will continue to improve our cloud-provider feature set and further penetrate into the cloud backup market.“

Built for virtualization, Backup & Replication has been certified by VMware and offers a complete VM data protection feature set for SMB, enterprise, and cloud provider virtualized environments. The product is agentless, can be deployed on Windows and Linux, backups and replicates VMware VMs onsite, offsite, and to private/public clouds, supports live applications and databases, instantly recovers files and application objects directly from compressed and de-duplicated VM backups, speeds up data transfer with network acceleration, and reduces data size with global deduplication and compression.