# What is NAKIVO Backup & Replication used for?

What is NAKIVO Backup & Replication used for?

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NAKIVO Backup & Replication is a backup and disaster recovery solution for SMBs, enterprises and MSPs. It supports hybrid and multi-cloud environments, including the following platforms: VMware vSphere, VMware Cloud Director, Microsoft Hyper-V, Amazon EC2, Linux/Windows servers and workstations, Microsoft 365 apps, file shares/NAS, Oracle Database. The solution delivers backup, replication, monitoring, ransomware protection, real-time replication and much more.

The solution enables fast backups integrating native change-tracking technologies. It also offers 9+ recovery options for different scenarios:

- Instant VM recovery
- Full VM recovery
- Instant granular recovery
- Bare metal recovery
- File share recovery
- VM failover to replica
- And much more…

NAKIVO Backup & Replication delivers several advantages over other products:

- Easy and fast to install 
- Flexible deployment on NAS, Windows, Linux, as VA / AMI
- Small footprint: just 2 CPUs and 4 GB of RAM to install and run the first backup job
- Single web interface for all data protection activities


To illustrate how NAKIVO Backup & Replication can be used, here are some practical scenarios:

Small businesses can deploy the solution on a NAS and send VM backup to NAS with backup copies to a public cloud.

Medium-sized enterprises can efficiently secure their virtual machines through backup to leading cloud providers like Amazon S3 or Microsoft Azure and use Real-Time Replication for VMware for their most critical VMs.

Large enterprises can implement a hybrid strategy, backing up virtual machines to both on-premises and cloud storage for comprehensive protection. In addition, they can use Site Recovery to set up advanced disaster recovery workflows with automated testing.

Even government agencies can ensure data security with offsite backups at secure locations.

Regardless of the size or industry of the organization, NAKIVO Backup & Replication delivers an adaptable and dependable solution for protecting all types of infrastructures and guaranteeing uninterrupted uptime and availability. 

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