Backup software program vendor Nakivo has added Microsoft 365 cloud-to-cloud backup, assist for backups of Proxmox virtualisation environments, and cloud as a goal for NAS backups within the newest model – v11 – of its Backup & Replication product.

Assist for information safety of Microsoft 365 environments brings Nakivo into line with quite a few backup suppliers that defend information in the primary cloud companies. Right here, they’re capitalising on the truth that the hyperscaler cloud suppliers do not more than rudimentary safety of buyer information.

Sergei Serdyuk, product administration vice-president at Nakivo, stated: “Microsoft’s enterprise mannequin is that you’re answerable for your information and they’re answerable for their infrastructure. So, should you by chance delete one thing, you might be accountable. What we now have launched permits prospects to place their information someplace it may be recovered from they usually can arrange a repository the place they need.”

This extends Nakivo’s cloud backup capabilities from its current EC2 assist. Serdyuk stated different cloud platforms could be added, however wouldn’t say when.

In the meantime, Nakivo added assist for agentless backups within the open supply Proxmox virtualisation atmosphere. In keeping with Serdyuk, round one third (33%) of its prospects – principally small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) – who responded to an inside survey stated that they deliberate emigrate to Proxmox and away from VMware.

The background to that is the Broadcom purchase of VMware and subsequent licensing adjustments and reported price rises, stated Serdyuk.

“Broadcom acquired VMware and altered the licensing mannequin from perpetual to subscription,” stated Serdyuk. “Prospects have reported elevated prices consequently and so many are trying elsewhere. Proxmox is free, or comes with cheap assist, and is suited to SMEs. As a virtualisation platform, it may possibly displace VMware. We additionally see a smaller proportion migrate to Nutanix and Hyper-V.”

Distinguished backup product maker Veeam – which made its title offering backup for VMware – began to supply Proxmox throughout the summer season, in a transfer seen as a key second for these contemplating shifting away from VMware. That transfer is seen as probably unlocking migration to Proxmox as a result of it removes the barrier to defending these environments.

Nakivo has additionally added backup of NAS gadgets to cloud targets. In keeping with Serdyuk, this necessitated the corporate growing a method to make file information appropriate for S3 storage.

“Most cloud distributors declare S3 compatibility [for file data], however there have wanted to be some tweaks to work with the API,” he stated. “So, there was some fine-tuning to work with file information – block information is simpler – as a result of after we copy file information to S3, the entire file must be remodeled to work within the cloud.”

Model 11 additionally noticed the addition of backup from NetApp Storage Snapshots for FAS and AFF arrays to permit prospects to backup VMware VMs on these gadgets from storage snapshots. Federated repository functionality permits prospects to create a scalable storage pool from a number of places, with failover to useable capability elsewhere ought to first alternative storage within the pool fail.

Nakivo now affords a tenant overview dashboard for service supplier prospects that enables them to handle tenant exercise, efficiency and useful resource metrics from a single display.

Nakivo was based in 2012 and began out by specialising in VM backup. Its model 1.0 supplied VMware assist and set up on Home windows.

It now helps workloads in VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V, Nutanix, Home windows and Linux, and within the cloud in Amazon EC2 and Microsoft 365.

It helps use circumstances that vary from SMEs, to massive enterprises and managed service suppliers (MSPs), with deployment attainable on NAS, Home windows and Linux, in addition to in a digital equipment or from an Amazon occasion within the cloud. It may restore with granularity that ranges from single recordsdata to complete websites.

Model 10.9 of Backup & Replication software program added ransomware malware scanning, in addition to naked metallic restoration and restoration from tape on to digital machine (VM).