Veeam B&R vs. Nakivo

[Marc.H]

Hi,

I saw today an announcement in a VMware Partner Mail introducing Nakivo Backup Solutions. I have found a post on the Nakivo Web page telling me where it is better than Veeam. I have not found anything on the Veeam Page where you say Veeam is better. I do not want to start an evaluation first of all - so I thought you might point me and our customers to the advantages of Veeam.

Do you have something like this as you have for VDP, etc.

Regards
Marc

[Gostev]

Hi Marc,

We only produce competitive information against vendors we actually see in competitive situations. Nakivo never makes the short list.

Just out of common sense, the product that was released just over 1 year ago cannot be anywhere close to functionality of the market leading product that has been in aggressive development for over 6 years now. Also, reliability wise, you are selecting between a backup engine that is protecting 100'000 companies worldwide (including 92% of Fortune 500), and some freshly baked piece of... software with only a handful of users.

Thanks.

[foggy]

Please note that there are many false statements regarding Veeam B&R on their web pages (which is quite typical for this kind of vendors anyway).

Just a few false statements that have caught my sight:
- "You will need to buy, install, configure, and migrate to a new production database after installing Veeam."
- "Within one job, Veeam can process only one VM at a time."
- "Although Veeam claims to be built for virtualization, their technology cannot be certified by VMware."

[Dude]

Please note that there are many false statements regarding Veeam B&R on their web pages [...]
- Although Veeam claims to be built for virtualization, their technology cannot be certified by VMware.

What does it take to be VMware certified? Given that Veeam is the market leader it is a bit odd that it's not VMware certified and also doesn't appear on the Partner Verified and Supported Product list (http://www.vmware.com/resources/compati ... upport.php) which appears to be specifically made for vendors that cannot achieve certification.

[Rick.Vanover]

@Dude:

That link you shared is for storage-centric services. Veeam's status has two things right now: VMware Technology Alliance Partner (Elite level) and VMware Ready for all products.

[Gostev]

@Dude what foggy meant to say is that B&R is in fact VMware Ready certified, and that Nakivo claims are false. Thanks!