NAKIVO Backup & Replication Benefits

IT
Administrator ds. Systemów Teleinformatycznych at Black Red White

Nakivo B&R is running at Qnap NAS and is an optimal low cost solution an offers a free version for one year. There are reports for email and deduplication for saving storage space. 

It's easy to configure connections to ESXi and set backup jobs (or recoveries) with  a schedule. There is an option to copy the backup to another ESXi host.

Deduplication makes increasing backup jobs really fast and reduces the required storage.

Qnap offers a lot of collaboration solutions for a small office and Nakivo minimally affects the system load. However, in a few models, TS-231P/TS-431X, you have to run Transporter as a VM at ESXi host - which is not simple to do.

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Chris Blekos - PeerSpot reviewer
DevOps Engineer at Cooperative Bank Of Thessaly LLC

The solution helped us review and re-organize our backup and replication strategy. The main goal was to us become compliant with the 3-2-1-1 approach of backups and to be safe in a disaster scenario.

As a result, it improved reliability for our banking customers in terms of downtime and data safety by ensuring the backups were safe. It also modernized our infrastructure with the awesome anti-ransomware protection of backups. 

We are also in a heavily regulated environment, and Nakivo is very impactful in that regard, as we can provide a solid backup strategy with security in place.

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MC
System Administrator at Tecnoteca s.r.l.

For us, the capability of using Nakivo with the un-licensed version of ESXi is the biggest selling point.

The ease of use and the intuitive interface are also quite nice, and the various upgrades from Nakivo's side are great.

The UI has been reworked from the 9.x to the 10.x version and the new one is really good.

Thanks to Nakivo, we were able to perform a disaster recovery procedure during early 2021, losing little to no data, and the only thing slowing us down during the recovery was the speed of the new host.

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Buyer's Guide
NAKIVO Backup & Replication
April 2024
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GR
IT Manager at BWT Robotics (Aquatron Robotic Technology LTD)

The solution offers reliable copying and fast recovery.

This product is worth the money and does the job perfectly. I’ve already had to restore several times and I do test restorations every month.

I recommend it to everyone. It is a proven product for a small fee.

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Josh Ramirez - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at Garner Transportation Group, Inc.

Nakivo has drastically improved our organization. We needed to minimize the impact of ransomware incidents on our business continuity and ensure that our data was easily recoverable. Nakivo backup, recovery, and replication have made that possible and easy. The product is easy to manage for any IT person who is new to backup, recovery, and replication. The product is also easy to implement whether you are doing on-premise or cloud. Reporting tool has been nice for getting email updates on backup jobs and any kind of failures. 

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Rahim Khasiyev - PeerSpot reviewer
Founder at CAE LLC

All our customers give the same feedback on Nakivo. They tell us they appreciate the user-friendly interface and the space savings they realize from Nakivo's compression. The slick interface, low price, and compression are valuable for us. 

Nakivo's reporting features have helped a lot. They give my boss high visibility into what's going on, which is crucial because we had a data breach in the past where we lost about 12 years of data. That's why we bought several appliances, and we replicate the same backup twice a day to three different depositories. 

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reviewer1602147 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works at a retailer with 1-10 employees

The general cost of doing backups has been reduced. Also, the screenshot verification feature is priceless. I know right when I have an issue. At first, NAKIVO was a bit of a learning curve. It took several failures to figure of that some error messages were just canned messages and I had to dig deeper into the issue. As it turns out, the version of ESXi or vCenter with the proper version of the VM tool is very important for NAKIVO to get a good replication. The cost has been a huge issue using Veeam in the past and if you have ever tried to buy a license for Veeam, you already know it is almost impossible.

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Marek Szreiter - PeerSpot reviewer
Owner at Everest Przedsiębiorstwo Informatyczne

The implementation of Nakivo made it possible to implement the information security policies currently in force in the company and to meet the statutory requirements in the field of IT security. 

The possibility of implementing extensive security policies and the developed schedules allowed for the reduction of costs related to ensuring information security. 

We also solved and deployed anti-ransomware using Nakivo. We monitor our virtual environment, CPU, RAM, and disk usage across VMware infrastructure including hosts, virtual machines, and data warehouses. This allows real-time data analysis directly from the solution interface.

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YH
Manager at Integrasindo Mitra Sejati

Basically, we were very interested in Nakivo because it was easy to install and support was able to install on devices like Synology, Windows Server, or even a client virtual or physical server. Using the web interface made it easy to configure and manage. 

It was easy to deploy a transporter to make process backup and replication faster and more reliable. Nakivo ensured our organization had good backup and replication software. 

We like the capability of Nakivo in terms of being able to restore files, folders, Active Directory objects, and so on. 

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Will Sand - PeerSpot reviewer
Sysadmin at ALL THINGS MEDIA, LLC

Nakivo has been great for incremental backups of our virtual infrastructure. Restoring from backups is very simple. Nakivo, similar to Veeam Backup gives you peace of mind and confidence in your virtual infrastructure. 

If you were to lose a virtual host or a local datastore or remote datastore, Nakivo quick restore allows you to immediately spin up the virtual guest from backup on another virtual host, eliminating downtime and allowing for quick migrations to new hardware in the case of a catastrophe.  

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DB
IT Manager at a construction company with 11-50 employees

We made the move from physical to virtual machines and Nakivo allows us to safely and quickly back up all of our VMs. 

It was also very easy to configure backups to be sent offsite to a separate repository for disaster recovery needs. This improved our organization because now we can conveniently have all of our VMs backed up onsite and offsite. This allows us to have a solid disaster recovery plan in place by having multiple copies of our backups. We can have copies on an offsite NAS, or on a portable HDD, and they can all be encrypted - which is even better.

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reviewer902752 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior IT System Administrator at Nèmesi IT srl

NAKIVO Backup & Replication provides a cost-effective solution without compromising on features and functionality. I selected NAKIVO Backup & Replication to benefit from its cost-effectiveness, user-friendly interface, versatile platform support, performance optimization, advanced features, and storage efficiency. 

The setup process is very quick and I am able to install it on a Windows machine in less than five minutes. The app for a QNAP NAS system has proven to be very useful, quick to deploy, and reliable.

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CM
System Administrator at Zucchetti Software Giuridico S.r.l.

Nakivo permits easy installation natively on a NAS and has a low-impact footprint for needed resources. It can be quickly configured via web pages.

It is strongly oriented to backup VMware vSphere environments yet permits us also to protect data based on CIFS (Microsoft SMB) shares, thus covering our needs.

We can protect our environment by backing up data to local, offsite, and Amazon storage - making use of backup and copy jobs offered natively by Nakivo.

After an initial configuration and calibration work, the software now works successfully.

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PM
Consultant at MIRANDA Partners A/S

The management of NAKIVO works great. They make it simple to get an overview of the status, backup progress, and the used disk space in the repository.

It is very useful for all types of backup and a copy function to external media works smoothly.

It is the first time I have been able to set up backup systems that work and is easy for the customer to access and check the status of the system.

It can be used on many systems, like VMs, physical machines, and Office 365, from the same installation - depending on the license.

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SK
Information Technology Manager at MSF Greece - Médecins Sans Frontières Greece

The solution is very simple to use in every way - including in the setup process, configuration, and backup process. 

Backups are done if all your connections are online. We tested and keep testing the restore process and we found that the restore process is quick and easy. 

You can also connect to different repositories so that you can have multiple backups on different devices to keep the backups stored in and safe and secure location. 

With Nakivo, we have a worry-free backup process and restore feature.

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reviewer98625025 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Administrator at KSM Human Resources Ελλάς

Nakivo backup and replication has improved our organization a lot by its deployment scenario across two bare metals running VMware, its easy configuration, and reporting.

Nakivo has improved our organization largely due to the fact that it is an extremely robust backup system too.

It comes with a replication module that is very critical to safeguard our mission-critical servers. This has been applied on several servers across our sites with great results as it becomes a Plan B in case of a hardware failure or an outage of the primary system.

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SG
IT Support Specialist at Macgregors Meat & Seafood Ltd.

Nakivo improved our backup environment as it added yet another backup for us to have. 

We use multiple backup software like the Windows Server backup, EaseUS TODO Backup, and SQL SMSS DB Backup including other third-party backup software dedicated for their software. 

Nakivo's able to do everything these programs can do and is able to work with NAS shares, SMB shares, and many others. The best part about it is when we've ever tried to restore to verify the backups we've never had a problem in the four years and we regularly verify the backups every three months.

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PC
Systems engineer and analyst at twsweb

Nakivo makes our backs-ups more reliable and easy to recover in case of full damage or partial retrieval of files - all at a convenient cost. Every time a user asks us for a missing file to be retrieved, we can satisfy his/her request in a few minutes. Notifications of Nakivo make us sure of the accuracy of backup jobs. 

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reviewer33248924 - PeerSpot reviewer
Specialista infrastruktury at Artevio marketing s.r.o.

Nakivo has been instrumental in strengthening our data security infrastructure. By allowing the creation of cold stand-bys, it ensures immediate availability of recent backup data, minimizing potential downtime. This proactive measure is crucial for maintaining our operational resilience, ensuring consistent business continuity, and safeguarding client trust. 

The automation of these processes has also enhanced efficiency, freeing our team to focus on strategic tasks rather than routine backup management.

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ŠU
System Administrator at tech

The Nakivo solution provided us with the ability to do automatic scheduled app-aware backups with great deduplication and compression, so they don't overload our local area network and don't require a lot of storage space. 

Having reliable backups is a must for us, and Nakivo provided us with an easy-to-use solution, that offers fast implementation, initialization, and configuration. The restore function works great. Thanks to Nakivo we can do our business 24/7/365. 

The Nakivo solution was very economical, so my CEO is happy with it.

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MB
IT infrastructure manager at Indicom eDocument Care Srl

Before using Nakivo Backup & Replication, all of our data backup processes took a long time and did not optimize the disk space reserved for backup. With the introduction of Nakivo Backup & Replication, savings time has been reduced by almost half (thanks to the use of several simultaneous transporters) and the space occupied has also had a very important reduction.

In addition, all restore test processes are carried out quickly and easily. You can restore a single file, a single folder, or a single database in a very simple way. There is also the possibility to receive the restored files or folders directly on our PC by downloading the browser or by receiving e-mails   

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reviewer2346636 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works

NAKIVO Backup & Replication has significantly improved our organization's data management and disaster recovery capabilities. By implementing NAKIVO, we've experienced several key benefits that have positively impacted our operations.

Firstly, NAKIVO has streamlined our backup processes by providing a simple yet powerful solution for backing up entire virtual machines. Its flexibility in deployment options, whether on a NAS or as a virtual machine, has allowed us to adapt to the diverse needs of our clients efficiently. This adaptability has not only simplified our setup procedures but also enhanced our ability to meet specific client requirements. 

Secondly, NAKIVO's automatic backup and replication features have saved us valuable time and resources. The ability to schedule backups and receive notifications ensures that our critical data is consistently protected without manual intervention. This automation has significantly reduced the burden on our IT staff, allowing them to focus on more strategic tasks to drive business growth. 

Moreover, NAKIVO's robust security measures have instilled confidence in our data protection strategy. We have consistently managed to restore virtual machines without any issues, ensuring business continuity in the face of potential disasters or data loss incidents. 

However, while NAKIVO Backup & Replication has brought many improvements to our organization, it hasn't been without its challenges. We've encountered difficulties with version compatibility and experienced delays in updates, particularly concerning collaboration between NAKIVO and QNAP. 

Additionally, the discontinuation of the "Basic" license has posed challenges for smaller clients within our client base, impacting our ability to cater to their needs effectively. 

Overall, despite these challenges, NAKIVO Backup & Replication has significantly improved our organization by enhancing data protection, streamlining backup processes, and saving time and resources. Its effectiveness in safeguarding our critical data has made it an indispensable part of our IT infrastructure, contributing to our overall resilience and success.

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reviewer1630716 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works at a tech services company

Veeam Backup and Replication is the main backup solution at our customer's site, but it stopped working while backing up our now 5TB file server - and after some weeks of investigating the whole issue with Veeam support, I had to decide to search for an alternative solution. Nakivo offered a free trial which was very easy to set up and immediately worked. To be totally honest, it has an affordable price. 

The bandwidth-optimized deduplicated offsite backup to a Synology NAS was another must-have, which would have been possible with Veeam, too, but we would have had to build a Windows-based server for that.

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MS
EERO ApS at DatateknikerDatatekniker

If you don't want to waste a lot of money each year on backup software and just want something that works out of the box, and is easy to install, then choose Nakivo. 

Nakivo is easy to manage also - even if you are not in the IT department - and is a single company with its own data center. 

It is easy to manage your backups and restore. There are a lot of advanced features in Nakivo. All in all, you don't have to use them for single backups and restores. 

If you have problems, they also have a very good support staff that is not afraid to join a session with you, helping with backup or restoring a setup (or whatever the problem might be). 

We had some issues with snapshots on our VMware that Nakivo uses. Nakivo fixed it with a live session, even though they don't have anything to do with our VMware.

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DS
Network Administrator at The Sarjeant Company Ltd.

We first used Nakivo Backup and Replication for our own HyperV Cluster. Then, we added a physical server.

Having used it for some time, we discovered all of its functionalities and have seen the power of the product.

The web interface is clear and simple to use and learning to use it is very quick.

The email reports are clear.

The support is quick and efficient.

Nakivo Backup and Replication has become an important part of our disaster and recovery strategy.

Our company, being a VAR, has decided to become a reseller of this product to help more and more customers discover it.

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LR
Cloud and Security Architect at ARPITEL S.R.L.

Since we started using Nakivo Backup and Replication, we can perform operations that would be very expensive using a VMware license, for a very very affordable price. Even if our infrastructure should increase in the short term, we can upgrade just the license to cover all the new devices we use. 

We use Nakivo Backup and Replication on QNAP devices, and it covers up to 5 servers in a small environment. We can now perform operations that were expensive and difficult with very high automation. We are very satisfied with its capabilities. 

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SP
Systems Specialist at Deimos Information Systems Oy

Backups are working smoothly with Nakivo Backup. Deduplication and compression of backup repositories save lots of disk space, and I can keep many more restore points compared to situations where deduplication is not used.

Having a couple of the latest restore points saved in the repository at a remote data center allows restoration of them quickly without the need first to transfer them over the internet from the office. It also is nice to be able to copy backups to the office, where I have plenty of more disk space to save them compared to a remote data center.

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SS
Operations manager at Füssner Computersysteme GmbH

With Nakivo, we can increase our portfolio and have a partner with short response times. Nakivo takes the time to hear every customer's issues and needs.

They are always friendly and help the reseller and customer with a good support team.

With Nakivo, we can grant a backup solution for a lower price - which is perfect for smaller customers. 

The pre-configured virtual machine helps the IT team save time and is very easy to use. 

Email notifications make the ongoing monitoring of the system simplicity itself.

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SD
ICT Manager at Rossall School

It has enabled us to backup (and replicate) our virtual machines much more frequently than was previously possible. We can now backup our entire vSphere cluster to disc on-site and then move backups to the cloud later. This enables us to do quick granular file recovery as and when required but also to do whole-site relocation in the case of a total loss scenario.

The small footprint of the main software ("Director" ) and transporters is excellent, too. I've often wondered why some of the agents we have had to install for other backup solutions need so many resources. You don't need an agent for Nakivo either, just a "transporter" that can handle loads of VMs and jobs.

Also, the ability to use a variety of cloud providers rather than being tied into one is a huge bonus. 

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DK
Administrator IT at Shim-pol A.m. Borzymowski. S.j

Our organization was running on Windows Backup and Recovery - with a backup of all servers and VMs to a remote location from time to time.  

Now Nakivo gives us a reliable system that has more options - such as deduplication, replication, and disaster recovery.

Backup jobs are running smoothly every day with job reports sent to email after they finish each job. That gives us peace of mind. Nakivo was easy to deploy and configure in our environment.   

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CA
Director at A-Tech Services Limited

It has massively simplified the backup process and management of backups when compared to the previous solution. Backup times are much quicker.

The pre-configured virtual machine means installation onto a vSphere host takes minutes, requiring little more than the allocating of an IP address for the web console and a few credentials. We quite literally install the virtual machine, create a backup repository, link Nakivo to our vSphere environment, and have the first backup running in under twenty minutes.

Email notifications make the ongoing monitoring of the system simplicity itself.

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reviewer1756911 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works

Nakivo's backup and replication product has allowed us to implement a disaster recovery solution with a target repository in the cloud.  

The biggest reason we went with Nakivo is the ability to rate limit and/or throttle the backup, ensuring that the traffic required to maintain our business operations was not interrupted.  This is very important. Nakivo's backup and replication product has provided us with a solution that meets our requirements.  We are definitely better off using this solution.

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SR
Pre-sale and Post-sale Engineer at a reseller with 201-500 employees

Nakivo's replication feature can permit configuration replicas in a different hardware platform with VMware vSphere. We protect all of our virtual machines in VMware vSphere and secure our data with the immutability feature; our virtual machines are Windows-based and Linux-based. We have SQL Server, IIS, Active Directory Instances, PACS, and File Servers.

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PC
IT Architect at MFL GROUP

First of all, the price and the order process of Nakivo B&R are very attractive and simple.

We have a lot of QNAP appliances and Nakivo Backup and Replication supports them. This is very useful. I can install the suite directly to the NAS appliance and the transport package on a small QNAP across my datacenter's infrastructure. 

The product has almost the same features of Veeam Backup and Replication at a lower price point, and this is very attractive.

The enterprise version is a solid product with good support, a lot of features, and a helpful knowledge base.

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PS
Manager at a integrator with 1-10 employees

We first used NAKIVO Backup & Replication for our own HyperV Cluster. Then, we added a physical server.

Having used it for some time, we discovered all of its functionalities and have seen the power of the product.

The web interface is clear and simple to use and learning to use it is very quick.

The email reports are clear.

The support is quick and efficient.

NAKIVO Backup & Replication has become an important part of our disaster and recovery strategy.

Our company, being a VAR, has decided to become a reseller of this product to help more and more customers to discover it.

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DK
Owner at Bit and Bytes

For our portfolio management services, Nakivo is simply perfect. Our team can react in a really short time if a backup doesn't work correctly. When we need a backup or only some files, it is really easy to restore and fix the problems. It is absolutely a time win and has improved our reaction times. Our clients are very happy and it is perfect that Nakivo runs perfectly with Synology disk drives. 

Our technicians don't want to miss it anymore and if a client doesn't want to backup with Nakivo, then the backup is the client's problem. 

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reviewer1516494 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Engineer at SRC

With Nakivo, I have the peace of mind that all of my production environment is safely backed up and can be restored safely, easily, and quickly with a few clicks.

When I changed the host server, the restoring of virtual machines was completed in a fully automated process, in a few hours, with just a few clicks. This is in contrast to it an effort of days of work restoring everything manually.

The backup process is also fully automated, with powerful scheduling, so that I do not need to worry about a loss of service for any of our services.

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TC
Senior Director, Production Engineering at ATOS

The customer didn't have any backup solution in place to protect their current server environment. This was a very quick and simple solution that fit their needs, and it was free!

They are now able to get a daily backup of their environment, including their main file share that has thousands of files stretching back for at least seven years. The loss they sustained cost them at least two man-weeks of effort to restore. 

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NA
Managing Director at Daedalus Computing Limited

This has allowed us to move our clients to an automated solution that simply plugs into their existing infrastructure, removing the need for manual media handling. We have seen an increase in resistance to clients using staff resources to manage manual media handling. 

Nakivo's solution based upon a discrete NAS has provided a very neat "plug-in" solution that connects to their networks and targets their existing servers and creates a local disc-based backup resource. To this is added a simple AWS EC2 resource, which is an automatically configured host for cloud copies of the local backups for DR and archive. 

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reviewer1490964 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at Smith Neufeld Jodoin LLP

Backups are easy and it de-duplicates very well, saving lots of space. I never have to worry about whether my backups are working.

Nakvio Backup and Restore handles backup scheduling very well, and it is easy to manage. I have set up numerous schedules for backing up key servers more often than utilitarian servers, and have found that scheduling is easy, especially with the "run after a different backup completes". The lets me schedule one backup, and the rest can follow.

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reviewer1469676 - PeerSpot reviewer
Help Desk Manager at Alter Solution

The main reasons for choosing and using Nakivo for business backup and recovery management are many but basically lie in the fact that the product is feature-rich and easy to manage and configure.

Backups are very easy to implement and schedule, the product is very useful, and the recovery procedure is very extensive and feature-rich.

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ER
Managing Partner at DelComps LLC,

I can say that Using Nakivo Backup and replication adds extra layers of redundancy to my client's environment.

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SD
Technical Director at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

The solution has improved our organization a lot by making the product very easy to install and making it easy to understand its reporting. 

Nakivo has improved our organization largely due to the fact that it is an extremely robust backup system. 

It comes with a replication module that allows us to safeguard mission-critical servers. This has been applied on several sites by us with fantastic results as it becomes a great Plan B in case of a hardware failure or an outage of a primary system.

There is only one criticism and that is when we compared it with other vendors we found that although the backup speed was very fast, the restore speed was slower.

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SD
Works

Nakivo has enabled me to concentrate on other tasks without worrying about the daily backups. It has given us more confidence in the infrastructure thanks to the replication. The virtual machines are fundamental for the daily functioning of the company, so a failure would have a very damaging impact, and incur a great economic cost.

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reviewer1078821 - PeerSpot reviewer
President at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

Because Nakivo Backup and Replication is very easy to install and maintain, time and resources aren't wasted with installation, management, or use. Since the recovery of both full machines and discrete files and folders is easy to manage, we're able to rapidly respond when machines crash or users delete necessary files and folders.

This not only minimizes our time and expenses but enables our supported clients to bring machines quickly back to service and their end-users to regain access to those necessary files and folders.

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reviewer1557180 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Administrator

This product has helped to centralize backups and made it easy to recover data.

It can be deployed as an individual virtual machine to the VMware ESXi environment.

It doesn't need a lot of computing power, whether RAM, processor or otherwise.

Its runs silently and has a webpage where we can manage all of our backups. The webpage is clean and fast.

There aren't any major problems and it's easy to update.

There are a lot of options such as sending emails from each job about its status every day.

It manages the repositories well, it can clean space if it's needed, and it has self-healing capabilities.

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DP
IT Systems / Security / Communications Administrator at Bennett International Group, LLC

We utilize multilayered approaches with our Security and Disaster Recovery. Nakivo has fit the bill for what we were trying to accomplish and has given us peace of mind knowing that our data is safe and secure.

We have had several instances where Nakivo has helped us with potential disaster recovery issues and each time, the product has performed better than we had expected.

Our organization is now safer, more secure, and more reliable because of our implementation of Nakivo. The product has also gained more ability since we first implemented it, as feature requests are added all the time!

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reviewer1509885 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sviluppatore, Sistemista, DPO at Areadati srl

When we started working with the first virtual environments, we used to make only copies of the data. Specifically, we were copying files and database dumps to external destinations. 

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L.V. - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Technician at Teseo Spa

The speed and security of backups have improved my organization.     

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FS
IT support manager at SharKom Srl

It was useful to migrate via replica from an old 5.0 ESXi to the newer 7.0 by simply deploying the transporter and crossing the two systems. From there, we replicated the VMs and switched over, which was as easy as stopping and restarting the VMs, limiting the unavailability of the systems involved to a couple of minutes.

To migrate a VM from HyperV to vSphere when a customer needed to change the vendor of the hypervisor produced the same results as above. We also had the opportunity to test it offline prior to full deployment.

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reviewer1557354 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Admin at Maternity Magánklinika

Using this solution has organized the data structure. Prior to using it, we could only back up three or four machines, manually to external storage, and it was impossible to keep consistent or to manage for a long time.

This software has the ability to centralize, organize, and manage all of our data. When something is changed or missing, you know where to look for it.

It has improved our backup speed, reducing the time we spend on performing backups every week. This gives us more time to improve other areas at the company. File recovery from a virtual machine is also great.

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DD
manager at DAPPRO

We can back up our file server with an extra layer of security due to the ransomware protection that Nakivo offers. 

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JC
Manager

We were looking for a comfortable and automized backup system that makes the backup copies automatically. This is why we decided to use NAKIVO. It fulfils this aspect and many other points that we were looking for on a backup system.

Furthermore, NAKIVO is easy and fast to use and to manage the system and installation is very intuitive and it is easy to follow it. We needed a backup and replication tool that makes the backup copies outside of office hours. We needed something that could be integrated with Active Directory and we needed an updated software with high-quality technical support.

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reviewer1501257 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Manager at Automate-IT

The biggest improvement with Nakivo compared to our old open-source backup solution is that we do not need any manual checks to see if the backup runs are completed successfully. This is because we configured automated e-mail notifications. Therefore we will never miss any failed backup jobs and can immediately react to issues.

The easy creation and modification of backup jobs allow us to split the work between more people because the effort for an introduction and training to learn how to use Nakivo is much lower than with other solutions.

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reviewer1475781 - PeerSpot reviewer
Membro at IT-Group

Nakivo Backup & Replication reduces the time to set up and configure a backup solution in a VMware environment with many types of backup destination.

Before Nakivo, our technicians spent a lot of time every day assisting end-users or our customers' IT departments. Now, all is very clear and simple.

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reviewer1558599 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works

Nakivo is responsible for backing up all of our Office 365 accounts, and it works very well.

It has improved the organization of our data in the system. We have better security in terms of emails and documents, too. After we deployed it to a VMware environment, it worked almost instantly.

Nakivo comes with built-in storage but you can add almost any type of storage to it. This includes options like NAS, NFS, etc. It supports a lot of connection types for backing up to the cloud, and it is continuously growing.

Every new version has got some tweaks and improvements in stability and speed.

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PS
Solutions Engineer at AmWINS Group, Inc.
  • Four times the reduction in the cost of our vSphere backups, which provides the base features required for our environment.
  • Job copy features allows backup repositories to be replicated to a secondary data center.
  • VM level replication jobs can be used to create DR strategies by replicating VMs to another datacenter.
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reviewer1495230 - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Technology System Engineer at Unione dei Comuni della Bassa Romagna

Nakivo is easy to configure because there are only a few basic configurations to complete before it starts working. I use it with VMware and Hyper-V. When you start the initial configuration, it asks you essential questions to reach your goal.

After that, you can schedule backups, and the dashboard shows if there are any problems during the previous backups, also suggesting the solution.

The process of restoring the virtual machine is very simple. You select what you want to recover and how you want it done, then click to run. The dashboard shows you the speed of the process and alerts you when is it done.

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SL
Works at CadMakers

The product has enabled me to concentrate on other tasks without worrying about the daily backups. Once I was past the initial setup and testing, I was confident that the product would perform reliably and as expected. So far, I have not been disappointed. 

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reviewer1068534 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works

NAKIVO has given us confidence by reducing the possibility of having a failure in our virtual machines.

The virtual machines in the laboratory are fundamental for the daily functioning of the laboratory, and a great number of people work on them every day. A failure in a virtual machine would have a very damaging impact on the laboratory, and a great economic cost.

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DG
IT Specialist at Silk Road Bank

It is nice to have a fast and reliable backup solution.

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reviewer1478025 - PeerSpot reviewer
Vice President, Chief Technical Officer (CTO) at MyBusinessHub LLC

Nakivo is a simple-to-use alternative to other more costly vSphere backup alternatives. It is easy to set up using the included virtual appliance and also includes agents for most NAS systems.

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MD
Works

This solution was surprisingly easy to configure. It has a much higher bang for the buck than other products we evaluated. The replication is very fast.

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reviewer1502613 - PeerSpot reviewer
Mede-eigenaar at Bricad Automatisering

We can offer an affordable and reliable backup solution to our customers. It is clear what you get: a back-up solution that does what it promises.

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SB
CoOwner at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

The centralized cloud console for many tenants is great and clear and helped us to grant a BaaS service of excellence.                                                                                                  

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PTL_Tech - PeerSpot reviewer
President at a tech company with 1-10 employees

We have been able to set up a failover site that has replicas of our critical VMs. These are then updated every hour with only changed data. The speed of the backup is excellent and allows for replicas to be updated without affecting production workloads. 

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it_user1126869 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works with 201-500 employees

Nakivo gives users confidence in knowing that if something happens with their application server, exchange server, or other applications, they can recover it easily and quickly.

The Nakivo scheduled job also provides backup verification that will help us to ensure the backup is running properly and is truly recoverable.

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it_user831432 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees

We are able to take backups on a regular interval and restore data/VMs as we choose making the process work as advertised. 

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JR
Senior Key Account Executive at a computer software company with 11-50 employees

Implementing automation is simple and fast. It has also dropped down backup storage capacity on our systems.

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reviewer1062183 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works

Nakivo has helped us to send our backups offsite to Amazon AWS securely. Our customers really like that we can back up to Amazon.

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AF
Networking Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Nakivo is a cheap backup solution and at the level of technology in comparison with Veeam plays well. Now my company has activated just the trial.

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