Acronis Files Connect vs. Arcserve OneXafe

Acronis Files Connect tools are easy to access and the management of different project documents and storage of all the business files on one platform is perfect. Organizing files on Acronis Files Connect is very easy for all users and the training guidance that Acronis Files Connect team provides is an effective and excellent support desk.

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For SMB file storage Exablox is great, but as an ESXi datastore it still needs work.

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• Spotlight Search
• Mac Connectivity
• Fixing bad behavior of Mac Office, Adobe Apps, etc.

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• Exablox is simple to setup and relatively easy to use.
• Exablox is priced very competitively and is a good value for the cost.
• Exablox has good customer service.

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• Everything is perfect only the interface setting to new users.
• Tools for big data management are complicated.
• Huge files access is a very complex task.

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• Exablox is still in its infancy as a company and in some respects the product feels like a version 1.0.
• Integration with VMware ESXi has some bugs that need to be figured out.

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The price for Exablox was very appealing. If we can resolve the NFS datastore issues we are seeing in VMware, this is a perfect solution for a ESXi datastore. Once that issue is resolved, I will give Exablox a higher rating.

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Again, the initial install, setup and config was simple through a web browser.

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Since the day we installed Exablox we have not had any down-time. The storage resources have been available 100% of the time.

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SMB file access has been very responsive. We have not seen any slowness. Also, in using Exablox as tier 1 storage in our VMware environment, the VMs performed great. No slowness issues.

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Exablox has been very responsive to our requests. They communicate very well and are extremely knowledgable

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Straightforward and simple implementation. We completed the implementation in less than 2 hours.

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Exablox was much less expensive than other storage arrays and I think there are a lot of reasons to purchase them. I believe that as the product matures, it will be a great option for storage.

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We have not tried to scale Exablox so we are not familiar with this.

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• Been a great ROI. We wouldn't be able to function without it, given how many Mac users we have.

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• We purchased Exablox specifically for our ESXi environment, so we are hoping to get the wrinkles worked out to see a greater return on our investment.

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