Nakivo V5.8 Software

Nakivo Inc. has released Backup & Replication v5.8 software.

This version can be installed onto a Western Digital Technologies, Inc.‘s NAS, thus creating a simple, fast, and affordable VM backup appliance, which can be used both onsite and offsite.

Cost savings, datacenter consolidation, and footprint reduction are just a few of the reasons driving the high popularity and adoption of VM backup appliances. With an appliance, all VM data protection components are unified in a single system that is fast to deploy and easy to manage, while also not consuming the valuable resources of a VMware virtualized environment. Backup appliances provide an all-in-one hardware, backup software, backup storage, and deduplication in a single box. This results in a zero VMware footprint, less power and cooling, less maintenance, time, and money. However, these benefits come with some very high price tags, reaching as high as $75,000 per an appliance.

WD DL1200 NAS

On the contrary, Backup & Replication v5.8 can be deployed on entry-level NAS devices, as the product requires 2 CPU cores and 1GB of RAM to be fully operational, and still deliver high backup speeds. For example, the Western Digital‘s DL 2100 NAS with 12TB has a list price of less than $850 which is enough for the backup needs of a typical VMware, Inc. Essentials environment. When installed on the NAS, Backup & Replication v5.8 can achieve 1Gb/s backup speed (with data compression and deduplication turned on), utilizing the available bandwidth of the NAS. In addition to backing up the VMware environment to NAS, the company can backup the virtual environment to Amazon Cloud for further protection.

“While Nakivo Backup & Replication is already on par with or faster than competition in terms of backup performance, we are seeing up to 1.6X performance boost when our product is deployed directly on a Western Digital NAS. This is because backup data is written directly to NAS disks, bypassing file protocols such as NFS and CIFS,” says Bruce Talley, CEO, Nakivo. “The release of v5.8 opens up new market opportunities for Nakivo and our 900+ solution partners, by enabling our customers to convert Western Digital NAS devices into high performance VM backup appliances. Deployed on a Western Digital NAS, Nakivo Backup & Replication delivers high speed VM data protection, global data deduplication, VM backup to cloud, as well as instant VM and granular recovery at a price point that can help SMB customers save money and offload most the VM backup processing from their VMware environment.“

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The company is delivering a way for cloud providers, enterprises, and SMBs to backup and replicate their VMware environments onsite, offsite, and to private/public clouds more reliably, efficiently, and cost effectively. Featuring a simple and intuitive Web UI, Backup & Replication supports live applications and databases, enables instant recovery of VMs, 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.