Backup and Replication From Start-Up Nakivo

Nakivo Inc., a privately-held data protection start-up that develops and markets a line of virtualization data protection products, introduces a new product in virtualization data protection market: Nakivo Backup and Replication.

The product features:

Cloud support: Performs direct backup to Amazon cloud.
Performance: Supports changed block tracking, near real time backup and replication, direct SAN backups and replications, deduplication, and compression.
Simplicity: Installs in 60 seconds, delivers a web UI for anywhere anytime access to jobs and groups, provides dashboards full of informative widgets, automatically protects new VMs, and does not require reading the manuals.
Reliability: Delivers scheduled and on-demand incremental backup and replication over LAN, SAN and WAN. Provides VM prioritization, live application support for Exchange, Active directory, MS SQL, and Oracle, encryption, automatic retries on failures, and email notifications.

Pricing

Essentials edition – $199 per socket (includes 1 year of support and upgrades)
Professional edition – $399 per socket (includes 1 year of support and upgrades)

"The growth and volume of virtualized data, applications, and clouds are forcing SMB IT to make critical decisions about how they protect their virtualized infrastructure to better enable their business. Nakivo is at the forefront of enabling and protecting virtualized IT with exceptionally fast, unprecedentedly easy to use, and extremely reliable data protection technology," said Bruce Talley, president and CEO, Nakivo.

"The remote cloud storage for backups market is rapidly emerging as an alternative to offsite tape rotations and archival solutions. Nakivo has recognized this important trend and is addressing the demand for easy-to-access offsite storage for backups with Nakivo Backup and Replication and integration with the Amazon cloud," said Dave Simpson, senior analyst, Storage, 451 Research.

"I purchased Nakivo Backup and Replication to protect our internal VMware environment. However, I was surprised by how great the solution fits into our overall service provider strategy. The combination of price and quality makes Nakivo Backup and Replication the only choice for our business," said Johan DuPre, president, Sector 5 Holding Group (Pty) Ltd, South Africa.

"As a service provider to small businesses, we purchased Nakivo Backup and Replication to take advantage of its backup features and low cost of ownership. With Nakivo Backup and Replication, we specifically liked the deduplication feature, as well as backup to cloud, and intuitive web based interface. We appreciate Nakivo’s low cost of ownership, with support for free Linux, an embedded production database, and low pricing that leads the industry," said Dave Evans, Independent IT Consultant, Des Moines, IA.

"MVBA Law is well respected law firm serving the greater Austin area. Our previous VM backup and replication product was Windows based, slow, and difficult to use. We needed a faster, more accessible solution. During the Nakivo Backup and Replication testing, the first VM replication went so fast I did not think anything actually happened. However, I was able to power the machine on at the colocation recovery site. I really like this product. It is very easy to use and I can even manage jobs from home," said Mark D. Hahn, Technology Architect at MVBA Law, Austin, TX.

"KEM Technology Group is a specialized IT provider for small to medium-sized businesses in Nebraska. We strive to take the complexity out of information technology for each and every one of our clients. Many of our small business customers are too small to have an IT person on staff. Nakivo Backup and Replication enables our small business customers to protect their virtualized environment themselves, without training or becoming IT professionals," said Kevin McCall, president at KEM Technology Group, Inc., Malcolm, NE.

Nakivo Backup and Replication will be available on October 30, 2012. The beta version is available.