Amazon FSx vs. OpenText Storage Manager

Amazon FSx

OpenText Storage Manager

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Amazon FSx	Score 8.5 out of 10	N/A	Amazon FSx is a cloud storage service designed to make it easy and cost effective to launch, run, and scale feature-rich, high-performance file systems in the cloud. It supports a range of workloads boasting reliability, security, scalability, and broad set of capabilities. As a fully managed service, it handles hardware provisioning, patching, and backups, and supports four widely-used file systems: NetApp ONTAP, OpenZFS, Windows File Server, and Lustre.	N/A
OpenText Storage Manager	Score 8.7 out of 10	N/A	User and group file system management for Open Enterprise Server networks, formerly from Micro Focus and now from OpenText. It allows automated, policy-based management of OpenText™ Open Enterprise Server network file systems and user group storage. For Active Directory systems, Storage Manager is now OpenText™ File Dynamics.	N/A

Pricing

Amazon FSx

OpenText Storage Manager

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Amazon FSx	OpenText Storage Manager
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
	Amazon FSx	OpenText Storage Manager
Top Pros	Pro File server Pro One database Pro File storage	Pro Data storage Pro Secure storage Pro File management
Top Cons	Minus No missing functionality Minus Missing functionality Minus Advanced tools	Minus Big data Minus Data collection Minus Cloud deployment

Features

Amazon FSx

OpenText Storage Manager

File Sharing & Management

Comparison of File Sharing & Management features of Product A and Product B
	Amazon FSx 8.0 1 Ratings 5% below category average	OpenText Storage Manager - Ratings
Versioning	8.01 Ratings	00 Ratings
Video files	6.01 Ratings	00 Ratings
Audio files	6.01 Ratings	00 Ratings
Document collaboration	10.01 Ratings	00 Ratings
Access control	10.01 Ratings	00 Ratings
File search	8.01 Ratings	00 Ratings
Device sync	8.01 Ratings	00 Ratings

Cloud Storage Security & Administration

Comparison of Cloud Storage Security & Administration features of Product A and Product B
	Amazon FSx 10.0 1 Ratings 15% above category average	OpenText Storage Manager - Ratings
User and role management	10.01 Ratings	00 Ratings
File organization	10.01 Ratings	00 Ratings
Device management	10.01 Ratings	00 Ratings

Cloud Storage Platform

Comparison of Cloud Storage Platform features of Product A and Product B
	Amazon FSx 10.0 1 Ratings 16% above category average	OpenText Storage Manager - Ratings
Performance	10.01 Ratings	00 Ratings
Reliability	10.01 Ratings	00 Ratings
Storage Reports	10.01 Ratings	00 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	Amazon FSx	OpenText Storage Manager
Small Businesses	SugarSync Score 10.0 out of 10	Cyberduck Score 8.7 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	Druva Data Resiliency Cloud Score 9.6 out of 10	Cisco UCS Manager Score 9.4 out of 10
Enterprises	Druva Data Resiliency Cloud Score 9.6 out of 10	Cisco UCS Manager Score 9.4 out of 10
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User Ratings
	Amazon FSx	OpenText Storage Manager
Likelihood to Recommend	9.9 (2 ratings)	9.0 (4 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Amazon FSx	OpenText Storage Manager
Likelihood to Recommend	Amazon AWS - For any enterprise-grade storage, this is the best option. - EDA workloads are very strong with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP and NetApp's FlexCache technologies. - Random read workloads such as OLTP are awesome on Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP. - File Services are the best in class on FSxN. - DR sites from ONTAP on-premises are amazing. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	OpenText Excellent Cloud platform that has the powerful and very stable functionalities for the easy moving of many data across the entire Cloud services and thro9ugh a very secure platform. Integration to multiple other platform on Cloud services is amazing and even the data visualization tools are the best and collection of multiple data insights across websites is amazing. Incentivized Rahim Khan DevOps Engineer Read full review
Pros	Amazon AWS Enterprise grade unified storage in the cloud Multiprotocol access PV for EKS Data mobility Data security Integration with NetApp Cloud Manager Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	OpenText Nice solution for the easy incident management. Secure storage of different business data. The capacity offered for the data storage. Data migration platform. Incentivized John Silvester Application Developer Read full review
Cons	Amazon AWS Data Protection from AWS console Advance Matrix FlexGroups creating as part of AWS console Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	OpenText The tools on data importing from multiple storage solutions is not easy. Setting the security when new to the tool. Interface configuration to the learners is turf. Incentivized Bernado Carlos Materials Manager Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Amazon AWS I have not worked with other reliable and powerful platform that is as reliable as this product. This platform has given us room to concentrate on more productive activities leaving our data under a safe system. It automates file transfer and saves time in uploading documents across all team members. It interlinks all our applications systems to enhance teamwork and increase production. Incentivized Judith Perez Brand Manager Read full review	OpenText The software features are easily manipulated and amazing technical help offered and even the functions flexibility ie fantastic. The storage capacity available is incredible and the platform allows effective accessibility of any data from the system through a very secure environment that the tool provides. Storage utilization using the software is perfect and easy configuration. Incentivized John Silvester Application Developer Read full review
Return on Investment	Amazon AWS It improved our TCO by optimizing storage costs between SSDs and S3 It speeded our TTM with speedy deployment and orchestration It removed needed expertise from our engineers Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	OpenText Any user can generate reports through this software. Storage of all the company data. Data security on this software is good. Incentivized Hannah Caleb Quality Engineer Read full review
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