NAKIVO has announced today that it has released NAKIVO Backup & Replication v5.8. The new version can be installed directly onto a Western Digital NAS, thus creating a simple, fast, and affordable VM backup appliance, which can be used both onsite and offsite.
Cost savings, datacenter consolidation, and footprint reduction are just a few of the reasons driving the high popularity and adoption of VM backup appliances. With an appliance, all VM data protection components are unified in a single system that is fast to deploy and easy to manage, while also not consuming the valuable resources of a VMware virtualized environment. Backup appliances provide an all-in-one hardware, backup software, backup storage, and data deduplication in a single box. This results in a zero VMware footprint, less power and cooling, less maintenance, time, and money. However, these benefits come with some very high price tags, reaching as high as $75,000 per an appliance.
On the contrary, NAKIVO Backup & Replication v5.8 can be deployed even on entry-level NAS devices, as the product requires just 2 CPU cores and 1 GB of RAM to be fully operational, and still deliver high backup speeds. For example, the Western Digital DL 2100 NAS with 12 TBs of storage has a list price of less than $850 which is enough for the data backup needs of a typical VMware Essentials environment. When installed on the NAS, NAKIVO Backup & Replication v5.8 can achieve 1 Gbps backup speed (with data compression and deduplication turned on), fully utilizing the available bandwidth of the NAS. In addition to backing up the VMware environment to NAS, NAKIVO can also backup the virtual environment to Amazon cloud for further protection.
Details:
http://www.nakivo.com/en/press-releases/nakivo-releases-v5-8-nas.html
CloudBacko Corporation is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Ahsay Backup Software Development Company Limited [HKEx Stock Code: 8290]. Ahsay has been successfully listed on Hong Kong Stock Exchange GEM Board on October 8th, 2015. The company intends to use 65.5% of its estimated net proceeds from the share placing for pursuing growth through selective acquisition and partnership, and plans to launch new version of Ahsay Backup Software in the fourth quarter of this year.
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