Some of you may recall my VM Backup & Replication for $1/socket post from a year and a half ago, I hope that at least some of you bought in at that time and are now reaping the benefits.
Nakivo has come a long way since then and is now in release version 3.7 with constant feature improvements happening. See the results of the 3.8 beta tester survey here: http://www.nakivo.com/3_8_beta_results.htm Version 4 is on the horizon and will offer multi-tenancy and self-service recovery.
If you are a vExpert, VCI, VCP, or VMUG member you can grab your free 2-socket NFR license here: http://www.nakivo.com/en/free_nfr_license.htm and check it out for yourself.
You may be thinking; enough with the links already, let's talk cash!
Right you are! The per socket acquisition cost of Nakivo Backup & Replication is approximately half of the per socket cost of Veeam Standard. The annual support fee is lower as well.
I am using Veeam myself, and have support paid up through 2015, but since switching to Nakivo would lower my annual support cost by close to 30% I am considering to take advantage of Nakivo's Easy Switch promo: http://nakivo.com/Resources/NBR-ES.pdf (pay 2 years of support, get the software at no additional charge). The Easy Switch promo expires on December 23, 2013.
Full disclosure: I do not work for Nakivo, I don't work for any of their partners, I am not in any kind of sales channel and have no financial ties to the company at all. I did participate in the alpha and beta programs.
Nakivo has come a long way since then and is now in release version 3.7 with constant feature improvements happening. See the results of the 3.8 beta tester survey here: http://www.nakivo.com/3_8_beta_results.htm Version 4 is on the horizon and will offer multi-tenancy and self-service recovery.
If you are a vExpert, VCI, VCP, or VMUG member you can grab your free 2-socket NFR license here: http://www.nakivo.com/en/free_nfr_license.htm and check it out for yourself.
You may be thinking; enough with the links already, let's talk cash!
Right you are! The per socket acquisition cost of Nakivo Backup & Replication is approximately half of the per socket cost of Veeam Standard. The annual support fee is lower as well.
I am using Veeam myself, and have support paid up through 2015, but since switching to Nakivo would lower my annual support cost by close to 30% I am considering to take advantage of Nakivo's Easy Switch promo: http://nakivo.com/Resources/NBR-ES.pdf (pay 2 years of support, get the software at no additional charge). The Easy Switch promo expires on December 23, 2013.
Full disclosure: I do not work for Nakivo, I don't work for any of their partners, I am not in any kind of sales channel and have no financial ties to the company at all. I did participate in the alpha and beta programs.