afi.ai vs. Hornetsecurity VM Backup

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
afi.ai
Score 10.0 out of 10
N/A
Afi 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
Hornetsecurity VM Backup
Score 8.6 out of 10
N/A
Hornetsecurity VM Backup (formerly Altaro) is a backup and replication solution for Hyper-V and VMware virtual machines. VM Backup can manage large infrastructures, with the revamped backup repository providing long-term storage and more efficient use of disk space.
$59.80
per VM/per year
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Subscription License - Standard Edition
$59.80
per VM/per year
Subscription License - Unlimited Edition
$73.80
per VM/per year
Subscription License - Unlimited Plus Edition
$89.20
per VM/per year
Perpetual License - Standard Edition
$595
per host
Perpetual License - Unlimited Edition
$695
per host
Perpetual License - Unlimited Plus Edition
$875
per host
Free
Free
Offerings
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Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Features
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Data Center Backup
Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Product A and Product B
afi.ai
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Ratings
Hornetsecurity VM Backup
9.5
1 Ratings
11% above category average
Universal recovery00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Instant recovery00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Recovery verification00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Business application protection00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Multiple backup destinations00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Incremental backup identification00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Backup to the cloud00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Deduplication and file compression00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Snapshots00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Flexible deployment00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Management dashboard00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Platform support00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Retention options00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Encryption00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Enterprise Backup
Comparison of Enterprise Backup features of Product A and Product B
afi.ai
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Ratings
Hornetsecurity VM Backup
9.0
1 Ratings
10% above category average
Continuous data protection00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Replication00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Operational reporting and analytics00 Ratings6.01 Ratings
Malware protection00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Multi-location capabilities00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Ransomware Recovery00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
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User Ratings
afi.aiHornetsecurity VM Backup
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(9 ratings)
9.9
(13 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(2 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
9.7
(3 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
9.8
(4 ratings)
10.0
(10 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
afi.aiHornetsecurity VM Backup
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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Hornetsecurity Inc.
Do you have VMWare? Yes I can back it up. Do you have Hyper-V? Yes I can back it up. That in itself should speak for itself. Altaro has really given a great deal into their software, not only making it easy to use, BUT also a really good and reliable product where you can support your workloads hassle-free, and super lightweight
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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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Hornetsecurity Inc.
  • Fast and simple setup. I didn't need to read through ANY documentation to set up and have a backup running.
  • Easy and cost-effective licensing. I didn't need to count CPU's or VM's or other random facts to work out my licensing. Just how many hosts, and then one of 3 feature levels of which two have unlimited VM licensing. Hosts x Feature Set = Cost.
  • Easy Restores. Backing up is one thing, but restoring and having confidence in the restore is another. It just works, simple and effective.
  • Help is easy to find if you need it. From within the app, it gives you options of email, phone, and live chat, which is usually available even with odd time zones in play.
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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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Hornetsecurity Inc.
  • More cloud-based storage options. Currently, only Azure is supported, which is excellent, but it would be good to have AWS and Google storage options too.
  • It would be AWESOME if they could do a restore from Azure cloud direct to an Azure VM instance. Currently, you need to set up an Azure VM machine with nested Hyper-V, install Altaro on that, and then restore into a nested VM, this gets crazy expensive.
  • Better notification of errors, or more around having a threshold, so if it misses one backup of a constant backup that happens every 5 minutes but recovers at the 10 minutes back, it is ok. Just think it needs to identify significant or long-running issues better than the occasional little issues.
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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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Hornetsecurity Inc.
It simply works and it is making our lives easier. The renewal process is also really good
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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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Hornetsecurity Inc.
A lot of people in the technical industry deliver what I would call snack crackle pop topics, where the software gets over complicated, and they drown people in all the "fancy" features. Altaro, from my point of view" has designed the software to be super usable, easy to implement, as well as support. It is really one of the best designs
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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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Hornetsecurity Inc.
One of the most important benefits of the Altaro HyperV backup solution is the support. From the free edition, you're able to chat with the support that can assist you in a remote session an find a quick solution that solves the issue. It is always available. The email support is also.
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Implementation Rating
afi.ai
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Hornetsecurity Inc.
Altaro has really designed their product so well that you can honestly implement this within a couple of minutes
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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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Hornetsecurity Inc.
The only other competitor I am personally familiar with is Carbonite. I use that for file-level backups throughout my network and it works well but while it does offer backups for virtual machines, I have never found it to be a reliable option. Jobs failed for me regularly for no apparent reason. In the handful of times I have needed support, they were helpful and straight-forward.
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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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Hornetsecurity Inc.
  • Restoring our primary ERP VM has already saved many hours of rebuilding from data backups, so that in itself already gave us an excellent ROI for having Altaro running.
  • The quick and easy setup also makes sense for a fast ROI as we didn't need to spend much time or effort in its set up.
  • Lastly, any other restores we have done for retrieving files or testing backups were so simple and easy to do that the process didn't take long and saved us time and cost.
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