Item: NAKIVO Backup & Replication
Rating: 8
Author: Chris Blekos

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it to backup our entire ESXi servers datacenter as well as our physical servers and CIFS folders across 10 branches. We also use it to backup office 365 data. In addition to those we use NAKIVO Backup & Replication to replicate our VMs in our disaster recovery continuously as well as to perform test regularly for failover scenarios. We also use it as an monitoring system for our infrastructure like is a VMServer has an outage we are getting alerted by NAKIVO Backup & Replication mail. Finally NAKIVO Backup & Replication helped us having a good picture of our backup strategy

Pros and Cons

VM Backup
VM Replication
Anti Ransomware Protection
Multiple Backup storage points (blob, local, tape etc)

Monitoring
More Integrations with alerting
More flexible schedule
Ability to keep specific backups based on dates

Return on Investment

Being more reliable to the customer data safety
Lower operating IT cost
Single Pane of glass

Alternatives Considered

Veeam ONE

we had Veeam before purchasing NAKIVO Backup & Replication back in 2019. Veeam was too complicated for us and needed agents to operate. Also the price was higher than that of NAKIVO Backup & Replication. Meanwhile NAKIVO Backup & Replication is agentless. It uses SSH to connect to the transport VMs that take the backup. The connection to the transporter is also secure. This automatically creates a smaller attack surface to your critical machines as agents can get compromised. this is something that is great if you are in the financial industry like us. Also i have to say it. The NAKIVO Backup & Replication support team is super friendly and super good. They always respond within an hour at max.

Key Insights

Do you think NAKIVO Backup & Replication delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with NAKIVO Backup & Replication's feature set?

Yes

Did NAKIVO Backup & Replication live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of NAKIVO Backup & Replication go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy NAKIVO Backup & Replication again?

Yes

Other Software Used

VMware ESXi, PowerProtect DD, Microsoft Azure Active Directory

Likelihood to Recommend

Where NAKIVO Backup & Replication Shines is on Daily backup schedule with copying to different locations. If you want to implement a 3-2-1-1 backup strategy plan (Local - Copy to DR - Copy to Tape - Copy to Cloud). It is also strong on failover scenarios (Main site to DR Site) Now it could have a better backup planning schedule, more flexible like option to run this backup every 7 minutes and also the ability to keep specific date backups. Also the alerting is far behind other vendors

Nakivo Backup and Replication Review

Overall Satisfaction with NAKIVO Backup & Replication