Cloud Backup Solution for Educational Institutions
NAKIVO helps educational institutions protect staff and student data on a limited budget, ensuring continuous availability in hybrid learning environments.
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Enterprise Backup and Recovery Software Solutions
Keep Classrooms and Campuses Running – No Matter What
Designed for simplicity and scale, NAKIVO helps IT teams protect data across campuses and platforms from a single, centralized interface. With fast recovery and built-in ransomware protection, you’re ready for anything, from hardware failures to cyber threats.
Solution Brief
16,000+ Customers Trust NAKIVO
Cloud Backup Services
for Educational Institutions
Unified Data Protection for Your Entire Institution
Protect virtual, cloud, physical and SaaS environments through one centralized platform, simplifying operations for your IT team.
Streamlined Administration for Education IT
Cut backup management time by up to 85% with powerful automation and easy API integrations, freeing your team for more strategic tasks.
Ransomware-Resilient Backup
Keep critical student and institutional data safe with immutable backups that prevent encryption, deletion or tampering, on-prem or in the cloud.
Automation for Daily Backup Tasks
Configure pre-set policies and schedule tasks to run data protection workflows automatically.
Instant Recovery with Zero Disruption to Learning
Quickly recover full VMs, files or app data with near-zero RTOs, keeping classrooms, labs and online systems running without delays.
Performance That Scales Across Campuses
Reduce storage costs, accelerate backups and avoid network slowdowns – even during school hours or across distributed locations.
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Universities and Schools with NAKIVO
Multi-Platform Support
Protect virtual, physical, cloud, SaaS and mixed environments, including:
- VMware vSphere VMs
- VMware Cloud Director VMs and vApps
- Microsoft Hyper-V VMs
- Nutanix AHV VMs
- Proxmox VE VMx
- Amazon EC2 instances
- Windows servers and workstations
- Linux servers and workstations
- Microsoft Office 365 data
- Oracle Database via RMAN
- CIFS/NFS file shares
Strong Security and Compliance
Safeguard sensitive student and institutional data with enterprise-grade protection built for education environments. The NAKIVO solution offers end-to-end encryption, two-factor authentication and role-based access control to ensure only authorized users can access or manage backups. Defend backups against ransomware and accidental deletion with immutable storage onsite, in the cloud or on deduplication appliances. Before any data is restored, built-in malware scanning ensures recovery points are clean and safe. Meet strict compliance and auditing standards effortlessly with advanced retention policies and Global Search for quick data discovery across backups and replicas.
Advanced Storage Flexibility
Easily meet your institution’s data protection goals with flexible storage options designed to support the 3-2-1 backup strategy. Store backup copies onsite, offsite, on tape or on deduplication appliances. Or, cut storage costs and simplify management by integrating with the cloud. Send backups directly to Amazon S3, Wasabi, Backblaze B2, Azure Blob, or any S3-compatible platform.
Guaranteed Recoverability
Instantly verify that VM backups and replicas are recoverable. NAKIVO Backup & Replication automatically boots VMs with a turned-off network to check whether the OS is running. The solution then sends you an OS screenshot or a report by email. You can also view the results in the solution’s interface.
Flexible Recovery
Restore what you need, when you need it – whether it’s full VMs, physical servers to bare metal, or individual files, folders and application objects. NAKIVO supports application-aware recovery for apps like Microsoft Active Directory, Exchange and SQL Server, allowing fast, granular restores directly from compressed backups.
Automated Disaster Recovery
For disaster scenarios, preconfigure recovery workflows and instantly fail over to offsite replicas with a single click. When the unexpected happens, your institution stays up and running with minimal disruption.
Cross-Platform Protection
Simplify backup and recovery across mixed environments with cross-platform flexibility. Instantly restore Windows or Linux physical machines as VMware vSphere VMs using physical-to-virtual (P2V) recovery. Easily migrate or recover workloads between VMware ESXi and Microsoft Hyper-V servers without compatibility concerns. Whether your institution uses multiple platforms or transitions over time, your data stays protected and portable.
Multi-Tenancy for Campus and Departmental Control
Delegate data protection tasks across departments, schools or campuses while maintaining centralized oversight. With NAKIVO’s multi-tenant mode, you can create up to 100 isolated IT environments, each with its own resources, policies and user access. Tenants manage their own backups via the intuitive Self-Service Portal, while your IT team retains full control and visibility. Ideal for universities, school districts and multi-campus institutions.
Centralized Management and Simplified Administration
Easily manage all backup and recovery operations from a single, web-based dashboard accessible from any device, anywhere. Schedule and coordinate tasks using the intuitive Calendar view to avoid conflicts and ensure complete coverage. Automate routine workflows with policy-based protection rules and job chaining and tailor automation to your environment with support for custom criteria and third-party integrations via HTTP API.
High Performance and Efficient Resource Usage
Maximize backup speed and minimize impact on your network with performance-optimized data protection. Use fast, incremental backups and replicas that save only changed data blocks, reducing storage usage and backup windows. Monitor your VMware infrastructure in real time and allocate resources effectively with built-in IT monitoring tools. Prevent network slowdowns with bandwidth throttling during class hours, LAN-free data transfers and seamless integration with deduplication appliances.
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What’s New in NAKIVO Backup & Replication
Explore the latest features designed to help educational institutions strengthen data protection, streamline IT operations and support hybrid learning environments.
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Why NAKIVO
FAQ
How can I ensure compliance with the data protection policies of the education industry?
NAKIVO offers several features that help you establish security and privacy to guarantee regulatory compliance:
- Role-based access control (RBAC): Configure granular permissions to prevent unauthorized access.
- Two-factor authentication (2FA): Add an extra security check when logging in to your accounts.
- Advanced encryption: Apply encryption to backup data in transit or at rest.
- Microsoft Active Directory integration: Enhance user management and assign specific roles.
Additionally, you can retain backups on a long-term basis for archiving purposes, for example, with backup copies on tape. You can also easily search across your backups and recover data following a disaster using the Site Recovery functionality.
How does NAKIVO Backup & Replication simplify administration?
You can easily deploy the solution within minutes and start running your data protection activities. Automate your workflows by:
- Scheduling tasks using the Calendar dashboard.
- Running backup and replication jobs automatically one after the other with the Job Chaining feature.
- Configuring Policy-Based Data Protection to automatically back up the workloads that fit specific criteria.
How do I protect my backups from ransomware infections?
With NAKIVO, you can ensure data protection and prevent ransomware infections by making backups immutable when storing them in local Linux-based repositories, on deduplication appliances or in cloud storage platforms (Amazon S3, Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage, Backblaze B2 and Azure Blob).
Can I try NAKIVO Backup & Replication for free?
Yes. You can try a full-featured version of NAKIVO Backup & Replication for 15 days with the Free Trial. You can easily deploy the solution yourself or book a free deployment session with a technical specialist if you need assistance.