Asustor and Nakivo Team Up to Create Virtualized Backups on NAS

The winner of a Best of VMworld 201‘ and the Gold Award for Data Protection, Nakivo, Inc. is a US corporation dedicated to developing VM backup and site recovery solution.

With twenty consecutive quarters of double-digit growth, five-star online community reviews, 97.3% customer satisfaction with support, and more than 10,000 deployments worldwide, the company delivers protection for VMware, Hyper-V, and Amazon EC2 environments.

As a feature, its Backup & Replication runs natively on storage systems including Asustor, Inc., Qnap Systems, Inc. , Synology, Inc., Western Digital Corp., and Netgear, Inc. to deliver up to 2X performance advantage.

The product also offers support for high-end deduplication appliances including Dell/EMC Data Domain and NEC HYDRAstor.

Being one of the fastest-growing data protection software vendors, the company provides a data protection solution for major companies such as Coca-Cola, Honda, and China Airlines, as well as works with over 3,000 channel partners in 137 countries worldwide.

Challenge
In order to properly allocate IT resources and reduce equipment costs, companies today have adopted virtualization technology to effectively control IT spending and optimize IT resources. However, according to statistics, servers account for 60% of investment costs while storage accounts for 40%. Therefore, to control the cost of storage systems has become a challenge for asset managers.

That is why Nakivo decided to partner with Asustor, in order to integrate software and hardware together, by providing customers an ability to create a high-performance VM backup appliance that combines backup software, hardware and storage in a single device.

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Solution
To provide companies with a complete and affordable data protection backup solutions under limited budgets, the company’s R&D team have chosen an Asustor NAS to make Backup & Replication compatible with their network. Backup & Replication supports all Asustor NAS devices, allowing enterprises to enjoy affordable and efficient VM backups.

Nakivo stated: “Asustor ADM has a simple interface, and users can easily find Nakivo Backup & Replication app in App Central,which can be installed in just one minute.”

After installing an Asustor NAS, users have a performance virtual backup solution. In particular, Backup & Replication can automatically use the LAN-Free data transfer mode, which takes advantage of the Hot Add and Direct SAN Access to double the VM backup speed.

At the same time, the product also reduces network load by 50%. In addition, deletion and compression operations can be performed for duplicate data to reduce the backup space required for backup, so users can effectively configure the storage space on the Asustor NAS.

In case of insufficient storage space, Asustor NAS devices support online capacity expansion, which can replace a large capacity HDD without shutting down, as well as adding the AS6004U external expansion device.

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An Asustor NAS is in line with the needs of today’s companies by providing a simplified UI, Rsync backup, FTP backup, local backup, cloud backup and more. Most features can also be scheduled by the user, making backup tasks intelligent as well as providing users with peace of mind data storage and backups.

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