NAKIVO Backup & Replication vs. SkyKick

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
NAKIVO Backup & Replication
Score 9.1 out of 10
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
NAKIVO Backup & Replication is a VM data backup solution for protecting VMware, Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV, and AWS EC2 environments. It also features replication, failover, backup to cloud, backup copy, backup size reduction, screenshot verification, and site recovery through a single web interface.
$25
per workload
SkyKick
Score 8.7 out of 10
N/A
SkyKick headquartered in Seattle offers a total cloud migration solution, featuring cloud backup and cloud management features for control of customer access to cloud resources.
$249
per month
Pricing
NAKIVO Backup & ReplicationSkyKick
Editions & Modules
Pro Essentials
$25
per workload
Enterprise Essentials
$35
per workload
Pro
$40
per workload
Enterprise
Contact Vendor
Basic
$249
per month
Standard
$549
per month
Professional
$1,149
per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
NAKIVO Backup & ReplicationSkyKick
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsA workload is a VMware vSphere VM, Microsoft Hyper-V VM, Nutanix AHV VM, a physical machine (01 server and 03 workstations), an Oracle database, or an Amazon EC2 instance.
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Features
NAKIVO Backup & ReplicationSkyKick
Data Center Backup
Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Product A and Product B
NAKIVO Backup & Replication
9.2
108 Ratings
12% above category average
SkyKick
-
Ratings
Universal recovery9.188 Ratings00 Ratings
Instant recovery8.898 Ratings00 Ratings
Recovery verification9.093 Ratings00 Ratings
Business application protection9.182 Ratings00 Ratings
Multiple backup destinations9.295 Ratings00 Ratings
Incremental backup identification9.3100 Ratings00 Ratings
Backup to the cloud9.672 Ratings00 Ratings
Deduplication and file compression9.097 Ratings00 Ratings
Snapshots9.494 Ratings00 Ratings
Flexible deployment9.262 Ratings00 Ratings
Management dashboard9.372 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform support9.469 Ratings00 Ratings
Retention options9.270 Ratings00 Ratings
Encryption9.261 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
NAKIVO Backup & ReplicationSkyKick
Likelihood to Recommend
9.1
(108 ratings)
9.0
(2 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.1
(5 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
9.3
(43 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
9.7
(51 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
8.7
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
9.2
(32 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Professional Services
9.1
(13 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
NAKIVO Backup & ReplicationSkyKick
Likelihood to Recommend
Nakivo Inc.
File share backup is less rich in terms of restore features, but the basic functions are supported. It have all you need to plan backup jobs. Backup and restore of virtual machines is the strongest function of Nakivo. When backing up to Amazon S3, keep in mind that you will be taxed also based on the I/O you make and this will be more prominent cost with Nakivo.
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SkyKick
SkyKick does a great job on migrations to Office 365. Their technicians are very helpful in planning the whole process, and the tool itself is quite reliable and resilient. Their cloud backup works OK but it does not provide the most friendly or fastest recovery. It also sits on the expensive side as they charge separately for Exchange and Onedrive/Sharepoint backups.
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Pros
Nakivo Inc.
  • Frequent backups do not affect the server load especially when the store is based on a high-performance NAS. We use OMV and average a GB per Minute per backup.
  • Offsite backups to a hosted store on AWS or Wsabi is simple.
  • VM replication is simple to set up.
  • Backup compression and encryption is excellent.
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SkyKick
  • Customer Interface for Backups
  • Migration support team
  • Comprehensive backup suite
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Cons
Nakivo Inc.
  • Backups have the option of "screenshot verification". Screenshot verification doesn't always work for us when our vmtools is out of date. If we are on an older version of VMware and that version of vmtools is up to date, NAKIVO still thinks it is out of date.
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SkyKick
  • Response time and [ease] to get hold of
  • Integration with 3rd party apps for billing
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Likelihood to Renew
Nakivo Inc.
Because it is a product that I have been using for many years, it is becoming easier to use, and it also includes more and more things that you might need.
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SkyKick
No answers on this topic
Usability
Nakivo Inc.
NAKIVO Backup & Replication is very easy to set up. I did it by myself, and it went perfectly. Online documents are very well written, and also the tech support asked to help me set it up. I want to do it by myself and the setup process is very easy to do. The connection to your VM and servers is very easy to do.
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SkyKick
No answers on this topic
Support Rating
Nakivo Inc.
The support is fast and perfect. If u have any questions, you can contact the support team via mail or chat and you always get a fast answer. You can also find a lot of help in the FAQ in the help center to resolve your problems. Anytime I had to contact the support, they helped me and solved my problem.
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SkyKick
Responsive, technically capable, and friendly. Ive always had a good experience working with SkyKick su[[ort.
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Implementation Rating
Nakivo Inc.
It is very easy to do in all the formats in which it is implemented, whether as an appliance, in a windows machine, or an implementation in NAS. I only use the appliance one, but I have tried all of them in trial mode to know which one interested me more.
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SkyKick
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
Nakivo Inc.
NAKIVO Backup & Replication offers most of the features of the great products and the ones most used by all backup administrators at a very competitive price. For this reason, it is not necessary to make large outlays to be able to maintain a backup with a high level of security. It is quick to implement and very simple to use.
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SkyKick
For migration purposes, we have chosen SkyKick over and over again. Their tool just works and does a great job with multiple different sources. Their support team is awesome albeit could be somewhat faster sometimes. Regarding cloud backup, it seems like that space is quite commoditized as every vendor offers the same. SkyKick does have some good promotions on migration costs when signing up for cloud backups as well which makes them more competitive than other vendors.
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
Nakivo Inc.
Of course, you always think that something could be a bit cheaper. But NAKIVO Backup & Replication delivers real value for its price and value that lasts. We greatly appreciate that you are still able to actually BUY the software instead of being forced into subscription services. After all, it is OUR data and it should remain that.
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SkyKick
No answers on this topic
Professional Services
Nakivo Inc.
I contacted a few times Nakivo representatives, once for technical doubt and the other ones for commercial ones. Both support services are fast and reliable.
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SkyKick
No answers on this topic
Return on Investment
Nakivo Inc.
  • One of our contributors has permanently deleted worksheets from our file server. From Nakivo, we were able to recover all the data in less than 10 minutes.
  • An authentication server was encrypted by ransomware, through NAKIVO Backup & Replication, we recover the entire server within 1 hour.
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SkyKick
  • Profitable migration business
  • Profitable backup solution
  • Delivers peace of mind to clients and improves our brand as trusted cloud vendor
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