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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Ahsay Cloud Backup Suite

    Score7.9 out of 10
    Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
    Ahsay Backup Software is specifically designed for Managed Service Providers, System Integrators and IT Consulting Companies. It aims to empower users to offer secure managed, cloud hosted, and on-premises backup service to business end customers and earn recurring income. The whole solution is with server-client architecture. The server-side centralized management console (AhsayCBS) can be installed either on one's own backup server hosted in a datacenter, or on a cloud platform such as…

    $18

    Per Device Per Year

    Amazon S3 Glacier

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AThe Amazon S3 Glacier storage classes are purpose-built for data archiving, providing a low cost archive storage in the cloud. According to AWS, S3 Glacier storage classes provide virtually unlimited scalability and are designed for 99.999999999% (11 nines) of data durability, and they provide fast access to archive data and low cost.

    $0

    Per GB Per Month

    Scality ARTESCA

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AScality in San Francisco offers scalable file and object storage for media, healthcare, cloud service providers, and others.N/A
    Pricing
    Ahsay Cloud Backup SuiteAmazon S3 GlacierScality ARTESCA
    Editions & Modules
    AhsayACB client for workstation backup
    $18.00
    Per Device Per Year
    AhsayACB client for workstation backup
    $18.00
    Per Device Per Year
    AhsayOBM client for server backup
    $48.00
    Per Device Per Year
    AhsayOBM client for server backup
    $48.00
    Per Device Per Year
    AhsayCBS central management software
    $60.00
    Per Installation Per Year
    AhsayCBS central management software
    $60.00
    Per Installation Per Year
    Bulk Retrieval Pricing
    $0.0025
    Per GB Per Month
    Storage Pricing
    $0.004
    Per GB Per Month
    Retrieval Pricing
    $0.01
    Per GB Per Month
    Expedited Retrieval Pricing
    $0.03
    Per GB Per Month
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Ahsay Cloud Backup SuiteAmazon S3 GlacierScality ARTESCA
    Free Trial
    YesYesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNoNo
    Entry-level Setup Fee$500 Per CBS ServerNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsAhsayOBM client agent includes free File, Microsoft Exchange Server Database, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL Database, Windows System, Windows Systems State backup modules. If you need to backup VMware/Hyper-V guest VMs, Office 365, Exchange individual mailboxes, Synology/QNAP NAS, then corresponding add-on paid modules need to be added to AhsayOBM. See the modules pricing in Ahsay's website. AhsayACB client agent includes free File and Windows System backup modules.—Contact vendor for booking demo and pricing information.
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    User Ratings
    Ahsay Cloud Backup SuiteAmazon S3 GlacierScality ARTESCA
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
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    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    Usability
    -
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    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
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    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
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    8.9
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Ahsay Cloud Backup SuiteAmazon S3 GlacierScality ARTESCA
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Ahsay Systems Corporation Limited
    Being able to back up critical data in real time gives us a better edge in service delivery. Ahsay has sufficiently delivered in terms of secure storage for files and data. Ahsay version 9.1.4.0 is scheduled to be released soon (just received the notification earlier) and they claim it will have higher storage usage so the future with Ahsay is promising. Ahsay has incredible encryption source retention policies and will be suitable for all your confidential files.
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    Amazon AWS
    If your organization has a lot of archival data that it needs to be backed up for safekeeping, where it won't be touched except in a dire emergency, Amazon Glacier is perfect. In our case, we had a client that generates many TB of video and photo data at annual events and wanted to retain ALL of it, pre- and post- edit for potential use in a future museum. Using the Snowball device, we were able to move hundreds of TB of existing media data that was previously housed on multiple Thunderbolt drives, external RAIDs, etc, in an organized manner, to Amazon Glacier. Then, we were able to setup CloudBerry Backup on their production computers to continually backup any new media that they generated during their annual events.
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    Scality
    The team in charge of implementing Scality has to be full stack in order to guarantee the correct functioning of the entire system. However, you have to think very carefully about the balance between servers and disks, perhaps adopting smaller fully populated servers instead of large semi-populated servers, which would mean that over time our disk updates will not have a fully useful life.
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    Pros
    Ahsay Systems Corporation Limited
    • Supports backing to multiple destinations as a way of spreading risks in case of compromise.
    • Replicates the standard backups to a different destination and in real time.
    • Secures critical mission data with 2FA
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    Amazon AWS
    • Cheap storage of backup data.
    • Can be used as a part of the entire suite of tools from Amazon, without requiring you to leave the familiar stack.
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    Scality
    • I love the redundancy of the software.
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    Cons
    Ahsay Systems Corporation Limited
    • Whenever newer versions are being released, very insignificant features are added, we adapted to lowering our expectations.
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    Amazon AWS
    • Sometime due to slow drives there are operation failure noticed by us in testing
    • Cost of restoring data is high and if you have regular restoring them it is not good option and slow as well.
    • While we were setting up the system we took some support from AWS and in many cases their answers were not up to the mark.
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    Scality
    • The overall packaging is not very good. I think it could be more efficient for installation.
    • There are many components in storage servers. This can generally be complex to understand, you have to be patient.
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    Usability
    Ahsay Systems Corporation Limited
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    Amazon AWS
    It is difficult to delete the data as you have to wait for inventory and then bucket modification has to expire.
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    Scality
    As an organization, it took us a while to understand the shift from a traditional black box SAN to software-defined storage, but now we are much more certain of what this means. The time invested and the resources were not very high, thanks on the one hand to the technical support and on the other to the coherence and good development of the platform.
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    Support Rating
    Ahsay Systems Corporation Limited
    No answers on this topic
    Amazon AWS
    No answers on this topic
    Scality
    I have seen Scality in the office meeting with our VP and get the feeling that they are here to support us.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Ahsay Systems Corporation Limited
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    Amazon AWS
    Since the rest of our infrastructure is in Amazon AWS, coding for sending data to Glacier just makes sense. The others are great as well, for their specific needs and uses, but having *another* third-party software to manage, be billed for, and learn/utilize can be costly in money and time.
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    Scality
    Due to the nature of our business we require extensive encryption and availability for sensitive customer data. The erasure encoding that Scality provides gives us the assurance that documents are rest are never in a state of being downloaded or available to a casual data thief. This is something that can be found with other vendors but at a fraction of the same cost. Having this kind of performance, availability and redundancy at the cost that Scality provides has made a large difference to our organization.
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    Return on Investment
    Ahsay Systems Corporation Limited
    • We are shielded from ransomware attacks by backing up data to multiple offsite destinations.
    • Securely backing up critical data.
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    Amazon AWS
    • We seldom need to access our data in Glacier; this means that it is a fraction of the cost of S3, including the infrequent-access storage class.
    • Transitioning data to Glacier is managed by AWS. We don't need our engineers to build or maintain log pipelines.
    • Configuring lifecycle policies for S3 and Glacier is simple; it takes our engineers very little time, and there is little risk of errant configuration.
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    Scality
    • Keeping sensitive customer data secure is a must for our organization and Scality has great features to make this happen.
    • We replaced a single SAN with a Scality ring and found performance to improve as we store more and more customer data.
    • Being able to lose various portions of our Scality ring and allow it to continue to service customers while maintaining high performance has been key to our business.
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    ScreenShots

    Ahsay Cloud Backup Suite Screenshots

    Screenshot of AhsayCBS central management home screenScreenshot of Dashboard in AhsayCBS central management software for administrator to monitor and locate issues to fixScreenshot of System resources monitoring screen in AhsayCBS central management softwareScreenshot of Backup users management screen in AhsayCBS central management softwareScreenshot of AhsayOBM client backup software home screen. User can select to create new backup set, editing existing backup sets, trigger backup and restore, view reports from this screen.Screenshot of Backup schedule creation screen in AhsayOBM client backup software