Nakivo

Backup & Recovery

NAKIVO is a software company specializing in data protection, providing Backup & Replication solutions tailored for virtual, physical, cloud, and SaaS environments. Their flagship product, NAKIVO Backup & Replication, offers a comprehensive suite of features—including image-based, application-aware backups, replication, instant recoveries, and disaster‑recovery orchestration—all accessible via a centralized web interface. NAKIVO’s core business is delivering fast, reliable, and affordable backup, recovery, and ransomware protection services geared toward ensuring business continuity and cyber resilience across hybrid IT infrastructures.

NAKIVO empowers businesses with fast, reliable, and affordable data protection—ensuring continuity, resilience, and peace of mind across virtual, physical, cloud, and SaaS environments.

Why Choose NAKIVO

Customers choose NAKIVO Backup & Replication for the advanced feature set, superior performance and highly-rated technical support team.

Trusted by organizations with strict cybersecurity standards
One platform for all data protection needs
Fraction of the cost of competitors

Top 3 Reasons

to Choose NAKIVO vs. Competitors

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NAKIVO vs. the Competition

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Installation

Deploy where you need

Installation on Windows and Linux including Ubuntu, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server or Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Deployment as a virtual appliance in VMware vSphere/Nutanix AHV or as an AWS AMI with a built-in immutable backup repository
Installation on NAS devices from different vendors to create a backup appliance that combines hardware, software, storage, deduplication and backup to cloud
No installation of any plug-ins, extra components or additional modules for specific operations

Limited deployment options

Very few vendors provide deployment as a pre-configured virtual appliance (VA).
Competitor solutions cannot be installed on NAS, and you cannot create an integrated NAS-based backup appliance.
Require additional components and modules to perform certain basic operations.

Backup to Cloud and Immutability

Advanced cloud integrations

Direct backups to public cloud storage like Amazon S3, Azure Blob, Wasabi and Backblaze B2
Direct backup to cloud for Microsoft 365 data and SMB/NFS file shares
Integration with various S3-compatible platforms such as Cloudian, MinIO, DigitalOcean and more
Immutable and encrypted backups in local Linux-based repositories, NEC HYDRAstor storage, public cloud storage and other S3-compatible storage platforms to protect recovery points from ransomware, deletion or modification

No direct backup to cloud

Most competitor solutions only offer backup copy to cloud and require complicated configuration steps.
This functionality does not always support immutability and ransomware protection.
Limited range of supported cloud storage platforms — you might not find the option that best suits your requirements or budget.

Protection Capabilities

Everything you need in one solution

Integrated data protection functionality
Built-in backup for Microsoft 365 to protect Exchange Online, OneDrive for Business, SharePoint Online and Teams
Built-in Site Recovery for DR orchestration and automation, including non-disruptive recovery testing, including for Amazon EC2
Built-in Monitoring for VMware to keep an eye on CPU, memory and disk usage in real time

Lack of centralized data protection

Data protection for SaaS is offered as a separate solution that cannot be integrated into a single view of all your data protection activities.
Disaster recovery orchestration is mostly available as a separate solution.
No other vendor offers replication and disaster recovery for Amazon EC2.

Ease of Use and Automation

Spend less time on administration

Web-based intuitive interface to access the solution from anywhere and on any device
Calendar dashboard to view and schedule all data protection workflows and avoid overlaps
Policy-based automation to streamline activities by automatically performing backup and replication on machines that match policy rules

Complex and time-consuming

No centralized web interface with tools that simplify data protection planning and automation.

Access and Security

More secure access

Source-side backup encryption for end-to-end data security
Two-factor authentication to prevent unauthorized access to the solution
Granular access with flexible role-based access controls (RBAC): both predefined roles and the ability to customize roles and permissions

Limited security controls

Many backup solutions encrypt only network or data at the backup destination (target) increasing the risk of data exposure during transit and storage.
Other vendors do not always offer all administration and security features as part of the solution.
Most vendors only offer predefined roles for access without any flexibility to customize permissions.

Licensing

Costs up to 50% less

Perpetual licensing for indefinite access with only one payment
Best value for the same set of features with up to 50% savings
Exclusive discounts for trade-ins

Expensive with high TCO

Only subscription licenses available. Most vendors have discontinued perpetual licensing while organizations in certain sectors still rely on one-time payments.
More expensive with little added value.

Solution Footprint

Small footprint – get started with minimal resources

Installation without additional agents
One of the lightest solutions on the market requiring only 2 cores and 4 GB RAM to run
Deployment within minutes

Very high resource usage

Some of the other solutions are relatively heavy and require substantial processing power to run smoothly.
Multiple software agents may need to be installed before you can run your first job.

Technical Support

Our support team is always ready to help

Live chat support right from the solution interface
24/7 technical and sales assistance

Inefficient and inconvenient

Other vendors cannot match the 98% satisfaction rate with NAKIVO technical support services.
They do not provide an easy way to reach support and submit requests and send support bundles.

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