Actifio Enterprise vs. Unitrends

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Actifio Enterprise
Score 8.0 out of 10
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Actifio Enterprise is a copy data virtualization, & data center backup and recovery platform from Boston-based Actifio.N/A
Unitrends
Score 8.1 out of 10
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The Unitrends Recovery Series Backup Appliances are hardware developed for data backup and management. They cover enterprise backup, ransomware detection, recovery assurance, proactive monitoring, and cloud continuity into a single platform for organizations of all sizes.N/A
Pricing
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Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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Features
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Data Center Backup
Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Product A and Product B
Actifio Enterprise
9.3
1 Ratings
14% above category average
Unitrends
7.8
359 Ratings
4% below category average
Universal recovery9.01 Ratings7.3301 Ratings
Instant recovery9.01 Ratings8.0289 Ratings
Recovery verification9.01 Ratings8.0287 Ratings
Business application protection8.01 Ratings6.6261 Ratings
Multiple backup destinations10.01 Ratings7.9267 Ratings
Incremental backup identification10.01 Ratings8.2337 Ratings
Backup to the cloud9.01 Ratings7.3212 Ratings
Deduplication and file compression10.01 Ratings7.2325 Ratings
Snapshots10.01 Ratings8.0242 Ratings
Flexible deployment9.01 Ratings8.15 Ratings
Management dashboard8.01 Ratings8.05 Ratings
Platform support9.01 Ratings9.05 Ratings
Retention options10.01 Ratings8.15 Ratings
Encryption10.01 Ratings8.14 Ratings
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User Ratings
Actifio EnterpriseUnitrends
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(1 ratings)
7.9
(371 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
8.9
(25 ratings)
Usability
-
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8.2
(14 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
6.2
(2 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
5.6
(2 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
7.9
(23 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
7.1
(2 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.7
(12 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
7.1
(2 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
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5.0
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
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3.8
(2 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
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8.2
(2 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
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8.2
(2 ratings)
User Testimonials
Actifio EnterpriseUnitrends
Likelihood to Recommend
Actifio
Actifio is a good fit for anyone looking for draas or backup as a service with Bluechip.co.uk being able to tailor a solution to fit your need if you are a medium size business looking to protect over 20TB of source data on a mix of virtual and physical servers in your datacentre our hosted within our state of the art datacentres.
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Kaseya
We have a traditional stack and pretty typical needs as a manufacturer. I have used and evaluated everything out there, but the Unitrends solution fits very well and was competitively priced. I would think if it fits us, it could fit anyone like us with a similar stack.
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Pros
Actifio
  • Reliable and easy to deploy backup solution with low administration overhead.
  • Fast backup solution with low impact on production systems as it backs them up.
  • Dedup and replication of backed up data between sites and with streamsnap very quick recovery on dr site.
  • Great customer support with quick response to changing demands.
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Kaseya
  • It has fully automated and customizable dashboards that can run with less administrative attention.
  • It should be able to run on virtual machines or be deployed as a virtual machine within MS Azure or AWS.
  • It's AI-based ransomware detection helps to understand data characteristics and alerts for ransomware attacks.
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Cons
Actifio
  • Single file restore has always been an issue but hopefully will be added soon.
  • Physical server backup restoring has always been tricky but achievable.
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Kaseya
  • Errors on backup jobs could be more clearly explained. As the administrator of the device for my company, I often don't know what caused an error, and can't tell from the error information what happened or caused the error.
  • Updates of the devices should have an automatic option. It takes to much time to do an update to the devices if updates haven't been maintained.
  • Shutdown and restarting the device should be available from the main UI screen to eliminate some time when doing updates or if you're doing some maintenance on the device.
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Likelihood to Renew
Actifio
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Kaseya
We have grown very attached to the Unitrends appliances and their use for recovery and other file restoration needs as well as data archival, data replication to other appliance and data migration to other servers or long term storage requirements. The appliances work well and the support for them is very good as well.
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Usability
Actifio
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Kaseya
I have never used such an easy product that is stable and scalable like Unitrends. I have been running backups for MANY years. On premise, tape, disk, cloud, you name it. Unitrends is very flexible, stable and has incredible reporting features. It's nice when management requests a report and it takes you 5 minutes to run it and dump it to PDF. How can you beat that?
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Reliability and Availability
Actifio
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Kaseya
The appliances have been there when we need them and have rarely if ever gone down. Hardware issues have been resolved quickly.
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Performance
Actifio
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Kaseya
The hardware is adequate and speedy. The user interface responds quickly. Backups complete quickly.
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Support Rating
Actifio
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Kaseya
They're incredible, attentive, thorough. They make sure my issue is resolved and follow up. I'm usually behind on giving them a reply or an update. They have always gone above and beyond for me, and I'll continue to do the same for them.
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Online Training
Actifio
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Kaseya
It was sufficient to get started. It was not super deep. We called support often to get going.
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Implementation Rating
Actifio
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Kaseya
The Unitrends employees involved in the installation were very friendly and knowledgeable. A certain degree of hiccups can be expected during any installation but never shook my confidence because of the friendly and knowledgeable team that was assigned to my project.
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Alternatives Considered
Actifio
Actifio is quicker to deploy easier to manage and capacity plan with less components to keep patched.
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Kaseya
Symantec Backup Exec was the primary tool used for backups for years. We also used Veeam for some Office 365/Exchange backups. Unitrends once configured and set up works very well against the competition. Backup Exec interface was more user friendly. The search tool for exploring backups was much better than Unitrends as well. Unitrends is much faster if you need to restore an entire VM or large file folders. Also once you have Unitrends all set up, it is very low maintenance, it just works. If something fails 9/10 it will correct itself on the next backup that is scheduled to run
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Scalability
Actifio
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Kaseya
Once you exceed the capacity of the appliances, you have to forklift a new appliance. This is very expensive.
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Return on Investment
Actifio
  • We have managed to scale up the size of our environment without the need for extra admin overhead.
  • Over 99% backups complete.
  • Solution is robust and quick to scale to meet demands.
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Kaseya
  • It has saved some deleted file server data for our business department.
  • We have lost some reports for the business department due to an overlooked setting that make the backup reports look great, but the server was not being backed up in reality.
  • Less anxiety for the IT department, we have backup plan and that is worth a lot to us.
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