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Amazon S3 Glacier vs. Solix Enterprise Data Management Suite (Solix EDMS)

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    Solix EDMS

    Score9 out of 10
    N/ASolix Enterprise Data Management Suite (Solix EDMS) is an information lifecycle management solution, from Solix Technologies in Santa Clara. Solix helps infrastructure and operations leaders implement the right policies, processes, and technology for application decommissioning and data retention, and helps users identify infrequently accessed historic data from production applications, and ‘move’ it to a secure archive with data integrity and access preserved. Solix EDMS also identifies…

    $7

    per month

    Pricing
    Amazon S3 GlacierSolix EDMS
    Editions & Modules
    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
    Email Archiving
    $7
    per month
    File Archiving
    $523
    per month
    Application Retirement
    $723
    per month
    Database Archiving
    $723
    per month
    Enterprise Archiving
    $1,985
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Amazon S3 GlacierSolix EDMS
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    User Ratings
    Amazon S3 GlacierSolix EDMS
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (8 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    Amazon S3 GlacierSolix EDMS
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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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    Solix Technologies
    Solix EDMS is the recognized global provider of enterprise data management solutions for information lifecycle management and compliance. It helps data migration for [application] sunsetting and upgrades, reduce storage, and secures sensitive data. Solix is considered a pioneer in providing a complete infrastructure platform to manage data across [applications], e-mail, and documents in an enterprise.
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    Pros
    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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    Solix Technologies
    • Automates the process for archiving and purging of historical data.
    • Helps towards greater business agility without spending a fortune on servers and storage.
    • It is the foundation for E-Discovery through long-term data retention, data masking, database audit, and enterprise search.
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    Cons
    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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    Solix Technologies
    • Still some minor upgrade on indexes of records.
    • It was a bit tough to get started so user onboarding could be improved.
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    Usability
    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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    Solix Technologies
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    Alternatives Considered
    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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    Solix Technologies
    At the core of Solix EDMS is the Solix Enterprise Metadata Manager which manages multiple applications metadata for all data types independent of the hardware platforms. By implementing Solix, companies will keep data growth in check and lower storage costs, and improve overall system and reporting performance.
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    Return on Investment
    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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    Solix Technologies
    • Helps create rapid database subsets for test and development.
    • Benefitted from faster backup and recovery.
    • Helped towards greater business agility without spending a fortune on servers and storage.
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