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    afi.ai

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AAfi Google Workspace (Formerly G Suite) and Microsoft 365 Backup offers data protection boasting a clean & responsive UI and SLA-based protection settings. Afi is powered by modern cloud architecture based on micro-services and leverages AI technology and machine learning to reduce manual administrative tasks and provide better resiliency. - Protect all Google Workspace data, including (team) Drives, Gmail, Calendars, Contacts and Sites with preserved user rights &…N/A
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    Chose afi.ai
    afi is next generation system, with our previous vendor we had to wait for a long time to access data, sometimes up to 24h.The reason for that was our scale according to the support team. ( 50TB +) With afi it takes a few seconds. The UI is super simple and easy to use, no …
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    Veritas is an old no-go monster, slow, clunky and unpredictable.
    Veeam is good, we use it for on-prem Hyper-V clusters. As for M365 - AFI is much cheaper, low maintenance, and easier to use.
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    Chose afi.ai
    Veeam requires you to maintain local hardware infrastructure (backup server, storage), which adds significant cost. Local is less secure, as its hosted in the same primary infrastructure. It doesn't scale well; we had to install an additional backup server per 3,000 user groups.
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    Chose afi.ai
    afi.ai shows faster backup performance and has live preview of mailbox data. Spanning backup can export Exchange online data in MBOX format, but it provides no live preview option.
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    Chose afi.ai
    We looked at a few vendors, the two most notable solutions being Spanning and Veeam. Spanning is good a well-recognized vendor; however, we found it not to be that flexible in terms of access control configuration. Teams backup is quite limited--neither private channels nor …
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    Chose afi.ai
    Slow, very limited Microsoft Teams support.
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    Chose afi.ai
    We used Backupify before, and decided to move as the system overall became very unreliable (lost data, inaccessible UI, sluggish, etc.).
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    Chose afi.ai
    Hard to use interface, support was very slow to respond. Recovery of large files took multiple days.
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    afi.ai
    Small Businesses
    Backupify
    Score5.6 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Spanning Backup
    Score7.4 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Veeam Data Cloud for Azure
    Score7.9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    afi.ai
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (9 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    9.7
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.8
    (4 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    afi.ai
    Likelihood to Recommend
    afi.ai
    1. Data backup for Exchange Online, SharePoint and Teams works very well and reliable. 2. MS Teams support is good, which includes Private channels. 3. Excellent security options ( ransomware detection, encryption keys hosted by us) 4. Self service for end users is a huge time saver for our helpdesk team 5. We kill two birds with one stone with user archiving, compliance and cost savings on MS licenses.
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    Pros
    afi.ai
    • Archiving of deleted Microsoft 365 users.
    • Backup of SharePoint lists and OneNote books.
    • Fast offline export of a mailbox and SharePoint items.
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    Cons
    afi.ai
    • Reporting API could be improved
    • Data center in the UK to be post-Brexit proof would be good (which, as I understand, is planned)
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    Likelihood to Renew
    afi.ai
    We will continue to renew the service for as long as we continue to use MS 365, unless Microsoft will release native Office 365 backup that provides all necessary features, including multi-geo admin roles, long-term affordable archiving storage tier, auto-conversion of email formats (MBOX, EML etc), point-in-time preview of previous file versions.
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    Usability
    afi.ai
    The UI is very intuitive and requires almost zero training to use. Our end users were able to use it with after just reading a simple one-pager.
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    Support Rating
    afi.ai
    Support is very technical and always eager to help us. The support team's responses are mostly relevant, with no generic/automated answers that would waste our time. The company's online product documentation is very clear and to the point; it answers most of the user questions in a detailed and clear manner.
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    Alternatives Considered
    afi.ai
    We used Backupify before, and decided to move as the system overall became very unreliable (lost data, inaccessible UI, sluggish, etc.).
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    Return on Investment
    afi.ai
    • We have used afi.ai to recover data 3 times since we signed up. The cost of potentially lost data was $1k+.
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