Arcserve Cloud Services vs. Azure StorSimple

StorageCraft Cloud Backup is scalable and easy to deploy and manage the product. In my opinion, it's great for MSPs or for anyone managing multiple sites where keeping standards is a priority. Compared to using ShadowProtect and Image Manager, it requires a lot less manual work to maintain and keep running smoothly. However options and customization are more restricted so I wouldn't recommend it for non-standard environments, or scenarios where each agent needs a different configuration.

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Onsite storage needs and backing up to Azure.

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• Easy file and folder backup and restoring.
• Easy file and folder restoring with versioning.
• StorageCraft has great tools that allow you to spin up virtual machines from bare metal backups.

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• Performance via the SSD drives.
• Writes back to our Private Cloud via Azure.
• Easy to Admin via Web client interface.

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• Reporting is not white-labelled and its design has room for improvement
• No automatic/scheduled virtual boot tests
• Customization is very limited

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• Additional fail-over functionality

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If I wanted to use just onsite storage the StorSimple device is already paid for.

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I haven't used many others, but Acronis is one of them. Acronis seemed to break for me very easily, a problem I don't have with StorageCraft. I couldn't find Macrium in the list, but it also has given me issues that I don't have with StorageCraft. StorageCraft, as I said before, just works, and I don't have to worry about my data.

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Easy to use and highly compatible with our MSFT Hyper-V environment

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• Reduced manual workload on managing backups by 50% compared to ShadowProtect and Image Manager
• Increased profitability as its price is very competitive

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• Great Folks on the MSFT Implementation team
• Great value on year 2

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