NAKIVO Backup & Replication Reaches Amazon Cloud

NAKIVO redefines VMware environment protection with the first simple, fast, and affordable VM backup and replication solution for small business.

Campbell, CA, United States — September 27, 2012

Small business faces a new era in which VMware backup and replication is central to success, today and in the future. Customers want to accelerate their business with greater efficiency and reliability, but they must think differently to remove the complexity, cost, and inefficiencies of first generation VMware protection solutions.

Today, NAKIVO is introducing a new way for customers to protect their VMware infrastructure more easily. Nakivo enables small business to better respond to unexpected situations, automatically protect new VMs, and grow while better protecting the business.

NEWS FACTS

NAKIVO (nakivo.com), a privately-held data protection startup that develops and markets a line of high-performance virtualization data protection products, introduces a new product in virtualization data protection market: NAKIVO Backup & 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 just 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

NAKIVO Backup & Replication comes at roughly half the industry price, and is one of the most affordable data protection solutions on the market:

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

EXECUTIVE QUOTE

“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.” Bruce Talley, President and CEO, NAKIVO.

WHAT ANALYSTS ARE SAYING

“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 & Replication and integration with the Amazon Cloud.” Dave Simpson, Senior Analyst, Storage, 451 Research.

WHAT CUSTOMERS AND PARTNERS ARE SAYING

“I purchased NAKIVO Backup & 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 & Replication the only choice for our business.” Johan DuPre, President, Sector 5 Holding Group, South Africa.

“As a service provider to small businesses, we purchased NAKIVO Backup & Replication to take advantage of its backup features and low cost of ownership. With NAKVIO Backup & 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.” Dave Evans, Independent IT Consultant, Des Moines, USA.

“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 & 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.” Mark D. Hahn, Technology Architect at MVBA Law, Austin, USA.

“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 & Replication enables our small business customers to protect their virtualized environment themselves, without training or becoming IT professionals.” Kevin McCall, President at KEM Technology Group, Inc., Nebraska, USA.

AVAILABILITY

NAKIVO Backup & Replication will be generally available on October 30, 2012.

ABOUT NAKIVO

NAKIVO is a US corporation founded in 2012. NAKIVO develops a fast, reliable, and affordable data protection solution for VMware, Hyper-V, and cloud environments. Over 10,000 companies are using NAKIVO Backup & Replication to protect and recover their data more efficiently and cost-effectively, while over 180 hosting, managed, and cloud service providers are using NAKIVO’s software to deliver VM BaaS and DRaaS to their customers. NAKIVO has a global presence with over 2,300 channel partners in 124 countries worldwide. Visit www.nakivo.com to learn more.

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