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NAKIVO is a privately held IT company with headquarters in Sparks, Nevada, United States. NAKIVO develops backup and disaster recovery software. The company has a global presence in over 170 countries with 7,000 channel partners.[1][2]

NAKIVO Inc.
Company typePrivate Company
IndustrySoftware
Founded2012
FounderBruce Talley
HeadquartersSparks, Nevada, United States
Websitehttps://www.nakivo.com/

History

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NAKIVO was co-founded in 2012 by Bruce Talley (formerly CEO of VirtualFabrix and CoroSoft), Sergei Serdyuk, and Veniamin Simonov.[3]

Product

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In 2012, NAKIVO launched the first version of the software solution NAKIVO Backup & Replication for protectingVMware vSphere VM data.[4]

At the end of 2013, NAKIVO added support for Linux operating systems, AWS integration, and instant file recovery in NAKIVO Backup & Replication.[5]

In 2014, the multi-tenancy functionality was added to the software solution to allow managed service providers (MSPs) to offer BaaS, DRaaS, and RaaS.[6] That same year, over 700 resellers from 72 countries joined the NAKIVO Partner Program.[7] Other releases in 2014 introduced the Flash VM Boot feature for instant recovery of VMware vSphere VMs from backups, backup verification, and the grandfather-father-son (GFS) backup rotation scheme.[8]

In 2016, support for Amazon EC2 instance backup, replication, and recovery was added to the solution. The company also introduced the Instant Object Recovery feature for Microsoft Exchange Server.[9]

In 2018, NAKIVO entered the disaster recovery market by adding the Site Recovery feature.[10][11] The same year, the company received the “Best of VMworld 2018” Gold Award for Data Protection.[12][13]

In 2019, NAKIVO added support for Nutanix AHV VM backup and physical Windows server backup.[14][15]

In 2020, the functionality of NAKIVO Backup & Replication was expanded to support the following:

  • Backup to tape;
  • Oracle Database backup via RMAN;
  • Physical Linux server and workstation backup;
  • Physical machine recovery from backup to VMware VMs;
  • Backup to Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage and Amazon S3.[16]

That same year, NAKIVO entered the SaaS data backup market with Backup for Microsoft 365 [17][18] and became the VMworld 2020 finalist in the Resilience & Recovery category.[19]

In 2021, NAKIVO introduced immutability support for backup repositories of different types and IT Monitoring for VMware vSphere environments.[20] That same year, the company became one of the America’s Best Startup Employers as listed by Forbes.[21] The first update release of 2022 added unstructured data backup (CIFS/NFS network share data on NAS devices and on Windows and Linux machines).[22]

In 2022, NAKIVO was recognized by Gartner’s GetApp, a peer review site, as a category leader in the Server Backup Software and Backup Software categories based on user reviews.[23][24] That same year, Software Advice named NAKIVO a FrontRunner in the Business Continuity category.[25]

References

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  1. ^ "NAKIVO | Company Overview & News". Forbes. Retrieved 2022-09-20.
  2. ^ Mellor, Chris. "DDN catches Tintri customers, Seagate beancounter goes to Tesla, NGD powers up". www.theregister.com. Retrieved 2022-09-20.
  3. ^ "Management Team of NAKIVO Inc". Nakivo. Retrieved 2022-09-20.
  4. ^ Mellor, Chris. "Nakivo: Yet another VMware server backup biz going bananas". www.theregister.com. Retrieved 2022-09-20.
  5. ^ Béchade, Corentin (2013-11-06). "Nakivo: Backup and Replication V3.7". StorageNewsletter. Retrieved 2022-09-20.
  6. ^ "NAKIVO announce Backup & Replication v3.9 - vInfrastructure Blog". vinfrastructure.it. Retrieved 2022-09-20.
  7. ^ "NAKIVO Reports 2014 Annual Results: 3X Revenue Growth : @VMblog". vmblog.com. Retrieved 2022-09-20.
  8. ^ SEGET, Vladan (2014-07-24). "Nakivo Backup and Replication 4.1 Released - Brings automation and orchestration capabilities". ESX Virtualization. Retrieved 2022-09-20.
  9. ^ "NAKIVO Backup & Replication Version 6.2.0 – Review – VMwareGuruZ". Retrieved 2022-09-20.
  10. ^ Bonner, Anne (2022-04-03). "Data remediation: What it is and why it matters". VentureBeat. Retrieved 2022-09-20.
  11. ^ "NAKIVO unveils Backup & Replication v8 - Channel Post MEA". 2018-09-02. Retrieved 2022-09-20.
  12. ^ "TechTarget's SearchTechTarget's ServerVirtualization.com Announces "Best of VMworld" 2018 Award Winners". TechTarget. 2018-08-30. Retrieved 2022-09-20.
  13. ^ Warren, Justin. "Tech of VMworld 2017: Data Protection". Forbes. Retrieved 2022-09-20.
  14. ^ SEGET, Vladan (2019-05-07). "Nakivo Backup And Replication 8.5 Released". ESX Virtualization. Retrieved 2022-09-20.
  15. ^ "NAKIVO v8.5 with Support for Nutanix AHV". Bloomberg.
  16. ^ "NAKIVO Backup & Replication v10: vSphere, Linux support, P2V, Wasabi". 4sysops. Retrieved 2022-09-20.
  17. ^ "Nakivo dives into SaaS backup with Office 365 protection". SearchDataBackup. Retrieved 2022-09-20.
  18. ^ "Protect Your Microsoft 365 Environment using NAKIVO Backup & Replication". VMarena. 2020-11-26. Retrieved 2022-09-20.
  19. ^ "Resilience and Recovery 2020 winner - Winners of the Best of VMworld 2020 Awards". www.techtarget.com. Retrieved 2022-09-20.
  20. ^ Valsecchi, Paolo (2022-02-01). "Nakivo: configure real-time IT Monitoring • Nolabnoparty". nolabnoparty.com. Retrieved 2022-09-20.
  21. ^ "America's Best Startup Employers 2021". web.archive.org. 2021-03-09. Retrieved 2022-09-22.
  22. ^ SEGET, Vladan (2022-03-23). "NAS Backup comming with Nakivo Backup and Replication 10.6 - Test the BETA". ESX Virtualization. Retrieved 2022-09-20.
  23. ^ "Highest Rated Backup software & apps 2022 - Category Leaders". GetApp. Retrieved 2022-09-20.
  24. ^ "Highest Rated Server Backup software & apps 2022 - Category Leaders". GetApp. Retrieved 2022-09-20.
  25. ^ "Best Business Continuity Software - 2022 Reviews, Pricing and Demos". www.softwareadvice.com. Retrieved 2022-09-20.