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NAKIVO
Backup, replication and disaster recovery at a price you can read— per workload, with the term stated, and stored wherever you choose. This hub is your complete intel file.
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The company, at a glance
Quick answer
Three intel pages. Back up, replicate, recover.
NAKIVO, product by product — every linked card is a full intel page, from VM backup to real-time replication and Microsoft 365.
NAKIVO Backup & Replication
VM, server, NAS and EC2 backup in one console.
Backs up VMware, Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV, Proxmox, EC2, servers, NAS shares and Oracle, with Site Recovery in the Enterprise editions.
NAKIVO Real-Time Replication
Journal replication with RPOs down to a second.
Continuous journal-based replication for VMware vSphere 7.0 to 9.1, generally available since v11.1; not sold with the Pro editions.
NAKIVO Backup for Microsoft 365
Exchange, OneDrive, SharePoint and Teams backup.
Copies Exchange Online, OneDrive, SharePoint and Teams to storage you own: local disks, NAS, S3-type clouds or tape. Minimum 10 users.
NAKIVO for MSPs
Platform & engineA separate licence family for service providers, MSP Pro, Enterprise and Enterprise Plus, billed per workload each month: $1.85 on an annual commitment or $2.60 month to month, with up to 100 tenants in one console
IT Monitoring for VMware
Platform & engineA small add-on with its own licence that tracks CPU, memory and disk use across VMware VMs, hosts and datastores, with alarms and reports; priced from $1.10 per VM a month or $100 per socket perpetual
Free Edition
Platform & engineBackup & Replication for 10 workloads plus 5 Microsoft 365 users for one year, with the Pro feature set minus NAS backup; it writes to local folders or CIFS/NFS shares only and has no Site Recovery
Install anywhere
Platform & engineThe same software installs on Windows, Linux, a Synology, QNAP or other supported NAS, as a VMware or Nutanix virtual appliance, or as an EC2 AMI; NAKIVO sells no hardware of its own
NAKIVO sells across 3 of the products TechBag carries in backup & cyber resilience. The Backup & Cyber Resilience guide shows how the category splits and which part is yours. →
Why “the price, with its term” is the whole story
NAKIVO publishes what most backup vendors quote — per workload, per month — but the headline figure is a 3-year rate and the product pages show 1-year ones. Read the term, check which edition carries Site Recovery, and patch to the current release.
Director and Transporters
The Director runs the web console and the Transporters move the data; NAKIVO licenses neither one, only the workloads they protect.
Site Recovery
Ordered failover, failback, script and check steps for VMware, Hyper-V and EC2, with scheduled tests in an isolated network and re-IP.
Immutable repositories
Write-once copies on hardened Linux repositories, S3-compatible clouds, HYDRAstor and Data Domain, with a malware scan before restore.
MSP Console and Direct Connect
One console for up to 100 tenants; Direct Connect reaches tenant sites without a VPN or any open port at the tenant end.
Start with the job — VM and server backup, near-zero-RPO replication for VMware, or Microsoft 365 — then count workloads.
Peer & market recognition
Every claim on this hub traces to one of these public signals.
Gartner honorable mention only
named in the honorable mentions of the 2022 and 2024 backup reports, never placed in the quadrant; not evaluated in 2025 or 2026
NAKIVO founded
by Bruce Talley, still the CEO, and Sergei Serdyuk, who runs product management
One flaw on CISA’s exploited list
CVE-2024-48248, an arbitrary file read fixed in v11.0 and added to the list in March 2025; run v11.0.2 or later
Version 11 released
agentless Proxmox backup, Microsoft 365 backup to cloud storage and source-side encryption
Real-Time Replication goes GA
v11.1 took VMware journal replication out of beta and added it to Site Recovery
vSphere 9 and Proxmox VE 9
v11.2 brought full support for both, plus OAuth 2.0 for email
Gartner Peer Insights 4.8
from 427 user reviews, February 2024; a review score, not an analyst placement
No ISO 27001 or SOC 2 report shown
nakivo.com states neither; ask NAKIVO for audit evidence before you sign
The company in six figures
See the platform, hear the pitch
NAKIVO Backup & Replication: Fast, Affordable Data Protection
NAKIVO’s current product overview, posted in September 2025.
Discover What’s New in NAKIVO Backup & Replication v11.1
Covers Real-Time Replication leaving beta, Proxmox additions and MSP Direct Connect.
How to install and configure NAKIVO Backup & Replication in 2 minutes
A short walk-through of a first install and the initial settings.
Where NAKIVO sits — the grids
Two company-level views you won’t find on any vendor site — tap any dot for the rationale. The category-level grid lives on the product page.
NAKIVO Across Its Solution Areas
Each dot is a NAKIVO solution area: competitive position vs category momentum.
NAKIVO’s core: agentless backup for VMware, Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV and Proxmox with list prices a buyer can read.
Resilience Jobs Covered × Price Transparency
The span of resilience work each vendor handles — backup, DR, SaaS, cyber vault — set against how openly it prices.
Backup, replication, Site Recovery, VMware CDP and Microsoft 365 backup, with public per-workload, per-VM and per-user prices; no cloud of its own.
Positions are TechBag’s illustrative synthesis of public review-platform standings and vendor documentation — not a reproduction of any analyst graphic. Verify before relying on it.
New to this? Learn it properly.
Zero-jargon starting points, in reading order. Each links into the deep education on the product page.
Where should you start with NAKIVO?
Answer three questions; we’ll point you at the right starting product. No email required — this isn’t that kind of quiz.
1. What do you most need to protect?
2. How much data can you afford to lose?
3. What does the estate run on?
One product, three licences
Backup & Replication is the base. Real-Time Replication and Microsoft 365 backup are bought separately, alone or alongside it.
Read →Pro or Enterprise editions?
Pro editions back up and replicate. Site Recovery, tape, cloud targets and Real-Time Replication need an Enterprise edition.
Read →Reading NAKIVO’s price list
The headline figure is a 3-year monthly rate; the 1-year rate is higher. Licences come in 5-workload packs and GST is extra.
Read →Seconds-level RPO for VMware
Real-Time Replication journals every write from vSphere VMs to a second site, so you can roll back to a point seconds old.
Read →Patch before you rely on it
One NAKIVO flaw is on CISA’s exploited list. Check every Director runs v11.0.2 or later before you trust it with recovery.
Read →Where NAKIVO sits in backup and resilience
The Backup & Cyber Resilience guides separate backup, disaster recovery and SaaS backup, and show where NAKIVO fits in each.
Read →The acronym decoder
Every term on these pages, in one place- Director
- The NAKIVO component that hosts the web console, holds job settings and tells the Transporters what to do.
- Transporter
- The NAKIVO data mover that reads, compresses, encrypts and writes backup data; you can deploy as many as you need.
- Workload
- NAKIVO’s subscription unit: one VM, physical server, workstation, EC2 instance or half a terabyte of NAS data.
- Essentials editions
- Pro Essentials and Enterprise Essentials: the Pro and Enterprise feature sets, capped at 5 to 50 workloads.
- Site Recovery Job
- An ordered DR runbook of failover, failback, script, wait and check steps, run in test or production mode.
- Flash VM Boot
- NAKIVO’s instant recovery, which starts a VM straight from its backup while the full restore runs later.
- Real-Time Replication
- NAKIVO’s continuous replication for VMware, which sends every write to a journal at the target as it happens.
- RPO and RTO
- Recovery point objective is how much data you can lose; recovery time objective is how long you can be down.
- Immutable repository
- Backup storage that blocks changes and deletion for a set period, so ransomware cannot encrypt or erase it.
- Federated Repository
- An Enterprise Plus feature that pools several repositories into one target that grows as members are added.
- Direct Connect
- An MSP feature that manages a tenant’s site without a VPN and without opening any port at the tenant’s end.
- Trade-in discount
- NAKIVO’s actual promotion: 5% off eligible licences when you move from another backup vendor.
Buy it like you’ve done this before
The procurement playbook TechBag runs with IT buyers — steps, licensing cheat-sheet, and the pitfalls that cost quarters.
Count the workloads
List every VM, server, workstation, EC2 instance and terabyte of NAS data; licences come in packs of five workloads.
Decide whether you need DR
If you want failover runbooks, choose an Enterprise edition; Pro editions back up and replicate but have no Site Recovery.
Add the separate licences
Real-Time Replication is priced per VMware VM and Microsoft 365 per user; both can join any matching edition later.
Subscription or perpetual
Subscriptions run 1 to 5 years with 24/7 support; perpetual is per CPU socket with a year of business-hours support.
Choose where copies live
NAKIVO stores nothing itself, so pick the repository: local disks, a NAS, tape, an Indian cloud region or a provider.
Get it priced in rupees
NAKIVO lists USD prices and excludes GST. TechBag sizes the editions, works through the distributor and quotes in INR with GST.
The licensing cheat-sheet
| Product | Licensing model | How you enter | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Backup & Replication · Pro Essentials | Per workload, 5 to 50 · or $229 per socket perpetual | $2.45/workload/mo (1-yr) · $1.95 (3-yr) | Backup without DR runbooks |
| Backup & Replication · Enterprise Essentials | Per workload, 5 to 50 · adds Site Recovery, tape and cloud targets · or $329 per socket | $3.20/workload/mo (1-yr) · $2.55 (3-yr) | Backup plus orchestrated DR |
| Pro, Enterprise and Enterprise Plus | Same features with no 50-workload cap · Enterprise Plus adds Oracle, snapshots, API and RBAC | Quote; Enterprise Plus is contact sales | Estates over 50 workloads |
| Real-Time Replication | Per VMware VM subscription, or $550 per socket perpetual · Enterprise levels only | $2.95/VM/mo (1-yr) · $2.35 (3-yr) | Second-level VMware RPO |
| Backup for Microsoft 365 | Per user subscription · minimum 10 users · listed student licences need none | $0.95/user/mo (1-yr) · $0.85 (3-yr) | Exchange, OneDrive, SharePoint, Teams |
| MSP editions | Per workload, billed monthly · MSP partners only · up to 100 tenants | $1.85/workload/mo (annual) · $2.60 (flexible) | Providers selling BaaS or DRaaS |
NAKIVO publishes USD prices per workload, per VM or per user, with the term stated; TechBag quotes them in INR with GST.
Five pitfalls that cost buyers quarters
Expecting Site Recovery in a Pro edition
Failover runbooks come only with Enterprise Essentials, Enterprise and Enterprise Plus. Pro and Free editions do not include them.
Assuming Real-Time Replication covers every hypervisor
It protects VMware vSphere 7.0 to 9.1 only. Hyper-V and Proxmox get scheduled replication; Nutanix AHV gets backup only.
Looking for a NAKIVO cloud
NAKIVO hosts no backups, replicas or Microsoft 365 data. You supply the storage and DR site, or buy the service from an MSP.
Running an unpatched Director
CVE-2024-48248 is on CISA’s exploited list and CVE-2025-32406 was fixed later; anything older than v11.0.2 needs upgrading.
Misreading the price list
The headline rate assumes a 3-year term, and ‘save up to 50%’ compares NAKIVO with rivals; the real promotion is a 5% trade-in.
The evaluation kit
Each intel page carries an 8-question vendor checklist and a value calculator:
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Book a discovery call →The forces shaping this market
Four trends with momentum scores (TechBag’s read of analyst and market signals) — and what each means for your next decision.
Category momentum — estimated market growth
Illustrative CAGR synthesis**TechBag’s illustrative estimate, not a quoted analyst figure. The takeaway: buyers leaving VMware are re-buying backup and DR together — which is why NAKIVO added Proxmox and VMware real-time replication in 2025.
Leaving VMware
NAKIVO added agentless Proxmox backup in v11, then Proxmox replication and instant boot in v11.1.
What it means for you
Check that your backup tool can follow you to the next hypervisor, DR included.
Continuous replication moving downmarket
NAKIVO’s Real-Time Replication left beta in October 2025 at $2.95 per VMware VM a month on a 1-year term.
What it means for you
Ask what RPO you actually need before paying for seconds.
Immutable copies as standard
NAKIVO writes immutable backups to Linux repositories, S3-compatible clouds, HYDRAstor and, since v11.1, Data Domain.
What it means for you
Test a restore from the immutable copy, not just that it exists.
Backup software as an attack target
CVE-2024-48248 in NAKIVO joined CISA’s exploited list in March 2025, four months after a silent fix.
What it means for you
Patch the backup server as urgently as anything internet-facing.
Questions buyers ask about NAKIVO
Ready to shortlist NAKIVO?
Open any of the three intel pages for the deep dive, or let a TechBag advisor build the case with you — workload counts, the term, quotes, trials, GST invoicing and lifecycle support included.
Stats, positions and figures are illustrative syntheses of public materials; verify before purchase.