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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.

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

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

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

In 2014, the multi-tenancy functionality was added to the software solution to allow managed service providers (MSPs) to offer BaaS, DRaaS, and RaaS. That same year, over 700 resellers from 72 countries joined the NAKIVO Partner Program. 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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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. That same year, Software Advice named NAKIVO a FrontRunner in the Business Continuity category.