Arctera InfoScale vs. BDRShield

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Arctera InfoScale
Score 9.7 out of 10
N/A
InfoScale delivers a common availability platform across physical, virtual, and cloud infrastructures. Through direct integration with enterprise applications, it provides high availability and disaster recovery for a wide array of critical business services. InfoScale helps enterprises to increase application uptime and optimize performance.N/A
BDRShield
Score 7.0 out of 10
N/A
Vembu BDR Suite is a universal backup solution catering to the backup, recovery, and disaster recovery needs of diverse IT environments. It is also optimized for service providers who deliver BaaS and DRaaS to their customers.
$12
per year per endpoint
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Endpoint / Workstation Backup
$12
per year per endpoint
SaaS Backup
$12
per year per user
VMs, Servers & Cloud Backup
$48
per year per VM
Apps & DB Backup
$72
per year Apps
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Arctera InfoScaleBDRShield
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Features
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Data Center Backup
Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Product A and Product B
Arctera InfoScale
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Ratings
BDRShield
9.4
61 Ratings
11% above category average
Universal recovery00 Ratings9.850 Ratings
Instant recovery00 Ratings9.451 Ratings
Recovery verification00 Ratings9.852 Ratings
Business application protection00 Ratings8.943 Ratings
Multiple backup destinations00 Ratings9.543 Ratings
Incremental backup identification00 Ratings9.458 Ratings
Backup to the cloud00 Ratings8.536 Ratings
Deduplication and file compression00 Ratings9.748 Ratings
Snapshots00 Ratings9.545 Ratings
Flexible deployment00 Ratings9.654 Ratings
Management dashboard00 Ratings9.259 Ratings
Platform support00 Ratings9.459 Ratings
Retention options00 Ratings9.757 Ratings
Encryption00 Ratings9.651 Ratings
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User Ratings
Arctera InfoScaleBDRShield
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(2 ratings)
6.9
(64 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(4 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
6.8
(62 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(6 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(3 ratings)
User Testimonials
Arctera InfoScaleBDRShield
Likelihood to Recommend
Arctera US LLC
Veritas InfoScale Operations Manager is great for the orchestration and management of its data protection workflows, with a leading multi-cloud integration solution and multiple storage location options. The downside of Veritas InfoScale Operations Manager it's the high price, compare to similar solutions that claimed the same results, but are less known.
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Vembu Technologies
It provides reliable daily backup tasks and it is important for us to have no worries of system crush. BDRSuite is full featured, I had been using BDRSuite to replicate servers from Hyper-v to ESXi, it's quite useful and easily to process than other VM migration tools between different platform. BDRSuite costs less than other backup product because I can decrease/increase/allocate license between VMs easily. The license charge two ways, server or VM. We choose VM license.
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Pros
Arctera US LLC
  • Replication
  • Reliability
  • Escalation
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Vembu Technologies
  • Seed an offsite backup. A simple checkbox to seed a large backup prior to backing it up to our datacenter. Previously with another well knows backup provider this was convoluted and time-consuming.
  • Backup Speed. Vembu BDR is fast and allows me to schedule multiple jobs within time constraints that prohibit some backup products from working.
  • DR - Vembu BDR provides an option to mirror your backups to an offsite datacenter without taxing production servers with a secondary backup job.
  • Bare Metal Recovery: the ability to create a custom bootable ISO that you can quickly recover a failed physical server or workstation.
  • Ease of use: The console is consistent and very easy to use. From initial install to being fully configured takes just a few minutes.
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Cons
Arctera US LLC
  • More pricing option for small to medium size companies
  • More user-friendly reporting options for intrusion detection
  • Customizable user access rights and profiles (e.g the ability to schedule different notifications for user profiles)
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Vembu Technologies
  • User interface on the servers do not have enough tools to better monitor the systems and finding information is difficult.
  • User interface at portal is difficult to navigate and confusing
  • Support documentation is too generic and rarely answers my questions.
  • Licensing and acquisition. As a reseller and partner the licensing model is confusing and the portal interface to manage licensing should be scrapped and rebuilt. It is difficult to navigate and the available information is too vague.
  • Recently, communication with new channel contact. My previous contact was articulate and answered my questions.
  • Did I mention licensing? This is the most confusing and difficult process I've dealt with in 25 years. Makes Microsoft look simple.
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Likelihood to Renew
Arctera US LLC
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Vembu Technologies
Because of the product functions and possibilities: - it's easy to use through WEB browser - installation process is not complicated - Vembu BDR solution is reliable, and works properly. It does the job. This product could get extra points for the appliance that could be imported to virtual environment (no need for windows server license or some linux knowledge).
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Usability
Arctera US LLC
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Vembu Technologies
Friendly web interface very clear, nicely and professionally designed. Usability, setup and forget. It has all features you need for hybrid environments even if you don't use it. You know the features are there when you needed. Email report is so informative. You get all the details about completed backup without logging in the system
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Support Rating
Arctera US LLC
No answers on this topic
Vembu Technologies
It often takes a very long time to get an issue fixed. the support folks seem committed to getting it fixed but they often seem to be trying different things and hoping something works. I did not get the sense that they had a clear idea what was wrong.
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Implementation Rating
Arctera US LLC
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Vembu Technologies
It wasn't difficult at all, it fact, it was mostly simple, implementation doesn't require much skills and knowledge, but the configuration part does require some skills to create the jobs and configure certain settings, overall, its an easy implementation, especially for experienced IT People
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Alternatives Considered
Arctera US LLC
Due Company's strategy we selected Veritas InfoScale Operations Manager. Due to some strategy alignments, we choose Veritas InfoScale Operations Manager in order to have the replication to be managed by OS layer and not Storage one - where it's possible to System Administrators have the replication status and to check if everything is fine or not. If not the Sysadmin will able to try to stop/start replication from themselves.
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Vembu Technologies
I tested Vembu against Veeam and for the price, Vembu was the better option. I also had a great support experience as I had to contact Vembu twice after mistakes I made. While using Veeam the software was not as intuitive and support responses were not as swift and accurate.
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Return on Investment
Arctera US LLC
  • By keeping the data safe, with scheduled deletion options of certain sensitive information, we keep our company safe and avoid fines, reputational damage.
  • While the overall cost of Veritas InfoScale Operations Manager solutions are high, choosing or changing the location of where the data is stored in EU comes free of charge.
  • Automatic backup and recovery of data helps us maintain of certain level of trust, less disturbance in daily operations, reducing the high cost that tech data outages would cause.
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Vembu Technologies
  • For organizations that use different tools for Backup and recovery, this could be the single tool for Storage and Backup Administrators to automate and work effectively.
  • Software cost is lesser thus the money can be invested for other tools/software procurement
  • I don't think there is any negative impact as of now
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ScreenShots

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