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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Asigra

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AAsigra is an enterprise-level, agentless, cloud-based recovery software to provide data backup and recovery of servers, virtual machines, endpoint devices, database, and SaaS/IaaS-based applications. Asigra charges customers by the amount of data they recover rather than the amount they back up.N/A

    Avast Cloud Backup

    Score7.8 out of 10
    N/AAvast Business Cloud Backup Service is designed to keep data secure and ensures business continuity by protecting endpoint devices with an automated backup process that is easy to deploy and manage. With it, users can set up backup schedules on devices, centrally manage from one dashboard to ensure all data is backed up and available, and recover data in the case of an unexpected event.

    $118.49

    per year Backup & Disaster Recovery (100GB/Quantity)

    BDRShield

    Score6.4 out of 10
    N/AVembu 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
    AsigraAvast Cloud BackupBDRShield
    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
    AsigraAvast Cloud BackupBDRShield
    Free Trial
    NoNoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    AsigraAvast Cloud BackupBDRShield
    Considered Multiple Products
    Asigra
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    83%
    Would buy again
    20 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    79%
    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    78%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    92%
    Implementation went as expected
    22 Answers
    Features
    AsigraAvast Cloud BackupBDRShield
    Data Center Backup
    Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Asigra and Avast Cloud Backup and BDRShield
    Feature
    Asigra
    8.8
    1 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Avast Cloud Backup
    -
    Ratings
    BDRShield
    9.6
    61 Ratings
    14% above category average
    Backup to the cloud10.01 Ratings00 Ratings8.436 Ratings
    Flexible deployment8.01 Ratings00 Ratings9.854 Ratings
    Management dashboard9.01 Ratings00 Ratings9.659 Ratings
    Platform support8.01 Ratings00 Ratings9.459 Ratings
    Encryption9.01 Ratings00 Ratings9.851 Ratings
    Universal recovery00 Ratings00 Ratings9.950 Ratings
    Instant recovery00 Ratings00 Ratings9.651 Ratings
    Recovery verification00 Ratings00 Ratings9.952 Ratings
    Business application protection00 Ratings00 Ratings9.243 Ratings
    Multiple backup destinations00 Ratings00 Ratings9.743 Ratings
    Incremental backup identification00 Ratings00 Ratings9.758 Ratings
    Deduplication and file compression00 Ratings00 Ratings9.848 Ratings
    Snapshots00 Ratings00 Ratings9.745 Ratings
    Retention options00 Ratings00 Ratings9.857 Ratings
    Enterprise Backup
    Comparison of Enterprise Backup features of Asigra and Avast Cloud Backup and BDRShield
    Feature
    Asigra
    8.3
    1 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Avast Cloud Backup
    -
    Ratings
    BDRShield
    -
    Ratings
    Continuous data protection8.01 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Replication8.01 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Operational reporting and analytics8.01 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Malware protection9.01 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Score7.9 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Carbonite by OpenText
    Score7.1 out of 10
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    Score8.6 out of 10
    Enterprises
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    Score9.4 out of 10
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    Score9.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    AsigraAvast Cloud BackupBDRShield
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (25 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    6.4
    (64 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.6
    (13 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (4 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (6 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.4
    (62 ratings)
    Availability
    8.8
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.5
    (6 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (6 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    4.5
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    1.2
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    Configurability
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    4.5
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    -
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    Vendor pre-sale
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    User Testimonials
    AsigraAvast Cloud BackupBDRShield
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Asigra
    If implemented as a Cloud Service provider (Public Cloud), In House Solution (Private Cloud) or a mixture of both (Hybrid Cloud):
    • The Agentless Architecture means there are less support burdens.
    • Encryption at Source gives the customer confidence their data is secure.
    • WAN Optimisation (Compression & Block Level Incremential Forever and De-deupe of Data), enables a large amount of Data to be protected offsite.
    • One step Backup to both Local and Offsite storage enables LAN speed restores with offsite peace of mind.
    • Asigra Replication from DS-System to DS-System enables another geographically separate copy of the data.
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    Gen (NortonLifeLock, Avast, Avira, AVG)
    Excellent tool to create computer backup routines through automation by date, time and actions. Backups are not lost and updates are added to the file total. The centralized platform allows managing and also monitoring all computers and analyzing incidents and attempted attacks. This reduces our team's time and makes it easier to handle security incidents more efficiently. We really like the restore feature that can recover a computer in case of any kind of software failure or attack. It's fast and effective. The backup is all in the cloud and is stored in the AVG cloud with AES 256bit encryption and security. Anyway, I can say that it is a cost-effective tool that fulfills the promise but loses in the technical support that needs to be improved.
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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
    Asigra
    • Provides capability of local backups while maintaining remote copies on cloud to ensure faster recoveries of recent data and remote protection of all data.
    • Helps reduce cost of long term retention by leveraging the BLM functionality.
    • It does not need specialized hardware for it to work. Customers and Service Providers can choose their own infrastructure and do not need to rely on any OS or storage based replication even for deploying replication of backups.
    • Supports wide range of environments including virtual environments with remarkable features like remote VDR with incremental restores.
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    Gen (NortonLifeLock, Avast, Avira, AVG)
    • Centralized management with an intuitive and easy-to-use dashboard.
    • Automated processes for backup and restore routines.
    • Protection against malware and external attacks.
    • Optimized and customized reports for information security.
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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
    Asigra
    • We would like to see Asigra come out with a Replication Model for quick Recovery of systems upon Disaster. We can have quicker recovery, DR, with Virtual Machines but we would like to have Physical Machine recovery in less than 2 hours. Replication can accomplish this...
    • We would like to see Geolocation and remote wipe for endpoint devices
    • We would like to see the solution provide easy "roll back" after a disaster.
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    Gen (NortonLifeLock, Avast, Avira, AVG)
    • Inefficient support and needs improvement in incident response.
    Incentivized
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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
    Asigra
    • Asigra is a great entry way into the cloud.
    • Compliance is a tricky thing. Jumping backup software means having to deal with previous copies somehow. Asigra is built for the long haul.
    • Asigra is continuing to increase their feature stack. They have made huge steps in the VM backup in the last 3 years and continue to implement features there.
    • As far as cloud backup software goes, there are many that can do it, but none that do it as well as Asigra.
    Incentivized
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    Gen (NortonLifeLock, Avast, Avira, AVG)
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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
    Asigra
    It is a bit rough around the edges and the GUI feels like a wrap around of a CLI but it is simple to use. The problem comes in when there is an error code you are usually chasing down the error code in the specific vendor's forums rather than Asigra's
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    Gen (NortonLifeLock, Avast, Avira, AVG)
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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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    Reliability and Availability
    Asigra
    Over 6 consecutive years our Asigra Backend had 99.99% uptime and provided 7x24 data restore availability.
    Software is robust in operations, provides N+1 node architecture to protect against failure of half of the nodes (majority of the nodes still up) and software based replication to protect against data loss across two geographically independent datacenter locations. Why not 10 points? Some major upgrades still require short downtime within a planned maintenance windows.
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    Gen (NortonLifeLock, Avast, Avira, AVG)
    No answers on this topic
    Vembu Technologies
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Asigra
    They respond quickly on your request. They ask for details at the time of logging the support request itself ensuring the first response is not for collecting the basic details only. They refund you the support request if they find it as a functionality issue. They follow up on you to ensure you are satisfied and happy with the response and resolution that they have provided.
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    Gen (NortonLifeLock, Avast, Avira, AVG)
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    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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    Online Training
    Asigra
    Anything training past level 1 and level 2 is a waste of time. They do not offer training, just an exam and require you to read 2500 pages of their documentation as their training. They are selling you something which you already have. Training exams are far fetched and cover topics hidden within the documentation. A lot of their documentation does not match across itself. They don't even follow the standard versions Major.Minor.ServicePack.Hotfix. They use the MAJOR.MAJOR.MAJOR.Hotfix method, which doesn't match their documentation. They require you to take training in order to keep your engaged hybrid partnership. If you ask me personally, their training is a scam to make more money.
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    Gen (NortonLifeLock, Avast, Avira, AVG)
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    Vembu Technologies
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    Asigra
    Quick to install, easy to create jobs, schedules and retention policies. No large cycles of setting up backup volumes or trash volumes. Retention job itself configures the BLM functionality so you don't need an expertise to handle the BLM module separately.
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    Gen (NortonLifeLock, Avast, Avira, AVG)
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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
    Asigra
    I would say that it has the same functionality as the three mentioned above in their respective fields (might have a bit less than some of them) but Asigra offers all of this and more so if you are looking for a single backup solution across the entire firm then Asigra is the much better choice
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    Gen (NortonLifeLock, Avast, Avira, AVG)
    No answers on this topic
    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
    Asigra
    • Our entire Asigra environment can be easily monitored through one plane of glass thanks to their DS-Operator and Asigra Management Console.
    • It's quite simple to use and navigate.
    • Never has restoration fallen short.
    • Data from several generations can be saved and retrieved.
    • After a hardware failure, an edge server can be easily and quickly rebuilt.
    Incentivized
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    Gen (NortonLifeLock, Avast, Avira, AVG)
    • Improved workstation backup policies.
    • Scheduling backups has optimized employees' time.
    • Malware protection.
    Incentivized
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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
    Incentivized
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