Axcient x360Recover vs. Hornetsecurity VM Backup

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Axcient x360Recover
Score 8.0 out of 10
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Axcient x360Recover (formerly BRC) can not only recover a single server or desktop, but can automate the recovery of an entire customer site through its Virtual Office and automated Runbook features. In a disaster event, authorized users can log into the web application or Remote Management Console and create a virtual private cloud called a Virtual Office. The Virtual Office ensures security, privacy and reliability for every organization needing to run one or more failover virtual machines in…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
YesYes
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
Axcient x360Recover
8.3
33 Ratings
5% above category average
Hornetsecurity VM Backup
9.5
1 Ratings
11% above category average
Universal recovery8.230 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Instant recovery8.033 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Recovery verification8.431 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Business application protection8.531 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Multiple backup destinations8.328 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Incremental backup identification8.432 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Backup to the cloud8.832 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Deduplication and file compression8.028 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Snapshots8.733 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Flexible deployment8.833 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Management dashboard7.833 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Platform support7.633 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Retention options8.432 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Encryption8.531 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Enterprise Backup
Comparison of Enterprise Backup features of Product A and Product B
Axcient x360Recover
8.4
30 Ratings
2% above category average
Hornetsecurity VM Backup
9.0
1 Ratings
10% above category average
Continuous data protection8.624 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Replication8.828 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Operational reporting and analytics7.628 Ratings6.01 Ratings
Malware protection7.921 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Multi-location capabilities8.627 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Ransomware Recovery8.62 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Disaster Recovery
Comparison of Disaster Recovery features of Product A and Product B
Axcient x360Recover
7.8
33 Ratings
5% above category average
Hornetsecurity VM Backup
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Ratings
Disaster Recovery Planning8.329 Ratings00 Ratings
Hot Sites7.624 Ratings00 Ratings
Disaster Recovery Testing8.132 Ratings00 Ratings
Automated Disaster Recovery7.426 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Axcient x360RecoverHornetsecurity VM Backup
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(47 ratings)
9.9
(13 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.1
(12 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
7.3
(1 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Performance
1.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
1.0
(1 ratings)
10.0
(10 ratings)
Implementation Rating
2.0
(1 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Axcient x360RecoverHornetsecurity VM Backup
Likelihood to Recommend
Axcient
I feel that Axcient x360Recover is well suited for any environment, both large and small. Weather you build your own device, BYOD or purchase one of theirs, it all works great. I even use it at home via the direct to cloud option. Well work the investment. I am unable to find a downside at this time.
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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
Axcient
  • Setup and configuration is extremely easy.
  • The business continuity component for spinning up the desired recovery point as a virtual machine on the appliance in order to keep the business operational is rock solid.
  • Recovering the desired backup point back to the physical hardware or virtual environment and syncing the most recent changes to finalize the recovery is awesome.
  • The system documentation is concise and easy to use.
  • The support team is absolutely fantastic.
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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
Axcient
  • The only thing missing is the ability to cancel a backup as they appear to just continue to try to run even after rebooting the BDR and endpoint until a failure finally occurs.
  • The only other ask would be to expand support to Linux operating systems.
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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
Axcient
We've been using Axcient over the years and have worked with their development team to suggest new features, something that you would not normally be able to do with other companies. They listen to what we have to say and understand that we are a business, just like them. It's great to know that someone will always be there for you when you need them.
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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
Axcient
Easy to use and doesn't require a lot of training.
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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
Axcient
Issues with failing backups drag out for months at a time. Axcient hardware replacements are quick to be suggested by support but as the issues are most often with the software architecture this almost never helps. Support often uses their access to the appliance as a back door into customer environments without our consent and despite our repeated complaints, accessing our customers servers and executing disruptive diagnostics like chkdsk in the middle of production hours for that customer environment. More recently they've been blaming their frequent off-site transfer failures on our customer's firewalls (of all makes and models) and insisting that the only possible resolution is to increase the TCP session timeout dangerously high (multiple hours), putting every client environment at substantial disk of even accidental Denial of Service attacks. Talking to any two support individuals, even when escalated all the way to their development team, often yields entirely different and contradictory answers regardless of the problem.
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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
Axcient
I had the miss fortune to go back to this device. Alot has changed since the first time I had used it. Now instead a full deployable network appliance, you have to download a preconfigured virtual machine that will only run on an ESXi server. What about Hyper-V? I have many clients that are Hyper-V only. I setup a test lab to get this thing up and running and it has been a nightmare to say the least. Will be looking at other options.
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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
Axcient
Security and encryption of Axcient is a top priority . Axcient have all the tools to provide solutions to different kind of businesses Best part is it has an MSP friendly console to manage multiples devices and clients at the same Dashboard. Deployment process is very easy in Windows an VMWare Devices.
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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
Axcient
  • The few customers I have I feel confident and comfortable that a disaster will make recovery easy and fast for my clients.
  • I can set it up and forget about it with reports and alerts
  • I recommend it to any client that requires a good solid backup solution;
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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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