Nakivo Backup & Replication V5 Featuring Flash VM Boot Free of Charge

Nakivo Inc. provides free Not for Resale (NFR) licenses to VMware professionals.

Current VMUG members, VMware vExperts, VCIs, VCPs, VTSPs, and VSPs can receive an NFR license of Nakivo Backup & Replication v5. The NFR license keys are available for non-production use only, including educational, lab testing, evaluation, training, and demonstration purposes.

NFR licenses are available here.

The new version provides the ability to run VMware VMs directly from compressed and deduplicated VM backups, without recovering the entire VMs first. The Flash VM Boot feature works out-of-the-box for both Windows-based and Linux-based VMs.

New version provides customers with set of opportunities, enabling them to:

Permanently recover VMs booted from backups
Access files and application objects of any application on any OS withins
Test system updates and application patches before applying them to production VMs
Verify the VM backups and ensure that OS and applications run properly
Copy VMDK files and then delete the VM.

Named one of the top 10 coolest storage start-ups of 2014 by CRN, Nakivo is delivering a way for cloud providers, enterprises, and SMBs to protect their VMware environments more reliably, efficiently, and cost effectively. Backup & Replication is VMware-certified, agentless and can be deployed on Linux and Windows. Featuring an intuitive Web UI, the product can backup and replicate VMware VMs onsite, offsite, and to private/public clouds (including single-click integration with Amazon cloud). It supports live applications and databases, instantly recover files and application objects directly from compressed and deduplicated VM backups, speeds up data transfer with network acceleration, and reduces data size with deduplication and compression.

“Nakivo Backup & Replication is loaded with new technology and capabilities to protect and recover VMs locally, offsite, and in clouds. We are excited provide VMware professionals with a free yet powerful solution for their home and non-production labs,” said Bruce Talley, CEO and founder, Nakivo.