We performed a comparison between Nakivo and Veeam Backup Replication based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Based on the parameters we compared, Nakivo finishes ahead of Veeam. Users felt that Nakivo helped reduce costs, has excellent automation and is very scalable. Nakivo helped users save time due to its simplistic, reliable processes. However, Veeam users did feel that Veeam’s cloud version needs more maturity to be competitive in today's market.
"Nakivo makes our backs-ups more reliable and easy to recover in case of full damage or partial retrieval of files - all at a convenient cost."
"The backup and replication are great."
"The user interface in general is very good. I"
"The solution has a user-friendly interface and is easy to configure."
"The chat functionality with Nakivo Support in the web interface is very unique and we love it."
"The product is good for protecting very low-budget offices, whereas other solutions fail in terms of cost and footprint of the VMs involved."
"The features that we like the most are the Backup Copy and Active Directory Integration. They have helped us to save a lot of time since we do not have to make the backup copies “by hand”."
"The virtual appliance for VMware vSphere is easy to deploy, easy to manage, and we have no need for additional Windows licenses."
"Once you get it set up, everything is smooth, and the recovery is excellent."
"The solution just works consistently. I never have issues with it."
"The data backup replication has been the most useful feature. Previously, we copied the data hub to an external hard drive but now we are able to store the backup on one of the depository service."
"It's a pretty complete product."
"It is a global major solution for quite a lot of people."
"The solution works well in two different environments, whether it is on-premises, cloud, or a combination."
"It is a flexible, simple, and scalable software-based solution. It has agentless functionality with specific hypervisors and agent-based functionality with specific operating systems. It gives you the flexibility to use your own hardware and back up physical Windows, Linux, IBM AIX, and Oracle Solaris systems as well as VMware VMs, Hyper-V VMs, and Nutanix VMs from one console. It also has integration with major applications that most companies are using, such as Active Directory, SQL, Exchange, or SharePoint. It has integrations, not just for the backup on the image, host layer, or hypervisor, but also for performing an application-consistent backup. It is helpful in backing up to the tape, cloud, DR site, etc. It is really flexible. It is really amazing that you can restore any backup on VMware, Azure, or AWS. As compared to the other solutions in the market. Veeam has really integrated a lot in the past years. It has the best performance and perfect replication."
"The most valuable features of Veeam Backup Replication are ease of use, dashboards, and reporting."
"It would be a good thing to have some use case and architecture examples online to understand integration in complex infrastructure."
"In the future, I would like to see support for backing up data to more cloud platforms, besides Amazon."
"My first thought was maybe the GUI could be improved, although it works."
"The process for getting unused diskspace back from the data repository is slow."
"From our experience, the main factor that could be improved is adding more cloud services that are supported as a backup repository."
"An improvement would be to give us more control over the email alerts, with different emails going to different addresses based on a set of rules."
"One complaint I have is the dashboard flashing as it reloads/refreshes itself. The program was not always like that and it happened after an update at some point."
"An improvement would be to include a general data backup solution that is not only for virtual machines."
"Veeam doesn't have the reporting part quite right. Its data visualization isn't as slick as other solutions like Veritas. For example, in Veritas, you can see a calendar that shows you which days are backed up. Veeam lacks features like that."
"The price can be better."
"The recovery and integration features of Veeam Backup Replication could improve. For example, all VM integration could improve, such as with Hyper-V and VMware."
"It's hard to answer because managing cloud storage in our version could be better, but now that they have improved it in the recent version, I cannot say it's a better point because I know it should be already fixed."
"The licensing models, from a reseller's perspective, could be better."
"I have also been struggling with the storage and in some cases I need to move things due to performance."
"The web interface could be more visual."
"There's a lot of room for improvement surrounding the backup process."
NAKIVO Backup & Replication is ranked 6th in Backup and Recovery with 84 reviews while Veeam Backup & Replication is ranked 1st in Backup and Recovery with 329 reviews. NAKIVO Backup & Replication is rated 9.4, while Veeam Backup & Replication is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of NAKIVO Backup & Replication writes "Good deduplication, easy to configure, and offers a free version". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veeam Backup & Replication writes "Beneficial pricing model, user friendly interface, and many free features". NAKIVO Backup & Replication is most compared with Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup, Acronis Cyber Protect, Rubrik, Zerto and Commvault Cloud, whereas Veeam Backup & Replication is most compared with Acronis Cyber Protect, Azure Backup, Rubrik, Zerto and Veritas Backup Exec. See our NAKIVO Backup & Replication vs. Veeam Backup & Replication report.
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The functionalities are almost the same. Nakivo is available at a lower price.
If you don't need advanced storage integration there is no difference.
Nakivo offer almost the same functionality of Veeam at a lower price.
They have the same functionality except that Nakivo allows the backups to be immutable, thus, providing protection against malware (backups cannot be moved, deleted or changed) It has 1/3 of the price but sometimes there is a direct deal.
For me, Nakivo has all Veeam features and also supports Oracle RMAN backup.
Nakivo has a very flexible deployment compared with Veeam (it supports the deployment using Windows and SQL only). It can be installed on NAS, VA, and many more. Most of the things have a reasonable price.