Asigra vs Barracuda Backup

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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Jeremy Wyatt

Operations Director

Fantastic Cloud ServicesInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

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Barracuda Backup

For larger environments, with virtual infrastructure in place, and the network bandwidth to support it, a Barracuda backup is great. It's easy to back up an entire cluster, or just a single server. When it comes to restoring or spinning up a downed machine, the Barracuda Backup is second to none in these sort of environments.For the smaller clients, with budget concerns, only a few servers, not having the ability to spin up a failed server on the backup appliance itself is a little painful since we'd have to replace the physical hardware before getting services back online. I think having this ability would make for a great selling point to those smaller to medium size businesses that could benefit from this product.

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Josh McClelland

IT Consultant

Americom Imaging Systems, Inc.Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

Asigra

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Barracuda Backup

9.6

Universal recovery

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9.7

Live recovery

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9.2

Recovery verification

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9.8

Business application protection

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9.7

Multiple backup destinations

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9.4

Incremental backup identification

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9.6

Backup to the cloud

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9.8

Deduplication and file compression

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9.7

Snapshots

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9.0

Flexible deployment

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9.6

Management dashboard

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10.0

Platform support

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9.8

Retention options

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10.0

Encryption

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9.6

Pros

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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Verified User

C-Level Executive in Customer Service

Information Technology and Services Company, 11-50 employees

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Backups are readily available.
Error reports detail what is wrong. Barracuda customer support is very helpful and they're open 24/7.
We can manage all our clients under the Barracuda cloud control. Which is easier then switching websites.
We are given a detailed list of Office 365 items that are not being backed up. This allows us to make changed to each user and disregard what we don't what to get backed up.
Offsite vaulting has allowed us to put revisions to the cloud and their retention policies are easy to understand.

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Engineer in Information Technology

Accounting Company, 51-200 employees

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Cons

GUI can be sometimes not as straightforward to new users.

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James Chillman

Managing Director

UK Backup LimitedInternet, 1-10 employees

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More training material or courses could be included.
Notifications could have a bit more configuration.
Archive alerts would be nice.

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Eric Krueger

Infrastructure Manager

AccruePartnersComputer Software, 51-200 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

Asigra8.5

Based on 14 answers

Although Asigra has been around 25+ years the product is continually developed and still to this day remains a market innovator not only in terms of technology but also in commercial models.

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James Chillman

Managing Director

UK Backup LimitedInternet, 1-10 employees

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Barracuda Backup10.0

Based on 2 answers

Love the units

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Jhonna Flores

Senior Network Engineer

The Spence SchoolEducation Management, 51-200 employees

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Usability

Asigra8.0

Based on 6 answers

Easy to use, great scalability, feature packed... Asigra is truly an end-to-end enterprise solution, not simply a point product. Asigra handles backup and restoration of client data across multiple OS platforms- Windows, Linux, Unix, IBM AS400, Mac X, etc... They include servers, desktops, laptops, mobile devices, virtual and physical machines. Some key features to note: Deduplication, Continuous Data Protection, Agentless Backup, Replication (New), Silent mode installation, Best of breed/start of art Security, Storage Discovery/Assessment tools, Autonomic healing... and more.Asigra simplifies Cloud backup, period. Do your clients want a full Public Cloud, Hybrid... what about Private built solution? Asigra handles all, with ease and, with over 26 years of ZERO security breaches.

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Matthew P. Grosso

Executive Vice President, CTO

Data Storage CorporationInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

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Barracuda Backup9.5

Based on 2 answers

Usability and Performance

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Jhonna Flores

Senior Network Engineer

The Spence SchoolEducation Management, 51-200 employees

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Reliability and Availability

Asigra8.8

Based on 5 answers

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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Christian Buhn

Storage and Data Management Services

matrix technology AGInformation Technology and Services, 51-200 employees

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Barracuda Backup7.0

Based on 1 answer

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Support

Asigra1.3

Based on 4 answers

Support is very triage based now, for the price it should be full service support and not a cold hand off for a support case.

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Stephen Sifers

NOC Manager

SagissInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

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Barracuda Backup10.0

Based on 1 answer

Best support in business class

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Jhonna Flores

Senior Network Engineer

The Spence SchoolEducation Management, 51-200 employees

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Online Training

Asigra1.0

Based on 1 answer

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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Stephen Sifers

NOC Manager

SagissInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

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Implementation

Asigra1.2

Based on 3 answers

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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Verified User

C-Level Executive in Customer Service

Information Technology and Services Company, 11-50 employees

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Barracuda Backup8.0

Based on 1 answer

Work on a backup agent for Mac OS X or any Apple OS.

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Jhonna Flores

Senior Network Engineer

The Spence SchoolEducation Management, 51-200 employees

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Alternatives Considered

Asigra licensing model is more straight forward than eVault and has an easier user interface.Asigra is more robust and feature rich than Mozy or Carbonite.Asigra offers true multi-tenancy, where the Symantec products do not offer such features.Asigra's feature stack holds water against the other competitors out there. As far as cloud backup goes, it is the most mature cloud backup software on the market. As well as being mature, the security exemplified by the NIST FIPS 140-2 encryption certification is far ahead of its competitors.

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Matthew Brady

DPS Enterprise Manager

Daymark Solutions Inc.Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

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I found Backup Exec to be clunky and difficult to navigate. I definitely didn't want to have to go change out tapes every day for all of my servers. Other solutions had tape carousels etc but you still had to swap them out. I like that BBS is cloud based and easy to connect to via any browser and tapeless

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Engineer in Information Technology

Consumer Services Company, 51-200 employees

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Return on Investment

Reduced backup software licensing cost.
More efficient offsite protection of data.
Regulation compliance

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Matthew Brady

DPS Enterprise Manager

Daymark Solutions Inc.Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

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PRO: Faster data recovery
PRO: Removed need to be on premises for data restores
PRO: enabled painless offsite backups.
CON: Instant replacement is costly per year, and terms are subject to change without warning concerning product refresh.

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Engineer in Information Technology

Consumer Services Company, 51-200 employees

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Pricing Details

Asigra

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Additional Pricing Details

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Barracuda Backup

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Additional Pricing Details

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Asigra

Barracuda Backup

Feature Rating Comparison

Universal recovery

Live recovery

Recovery verification

Business application protection

Multiple backup destinations

Incremental backup identification

Backup to the cloud

Deduplication and file compression

Snapshots

Flexible deployment

Management dashboard

Platform support

Retention options

Encryption

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Reliability and Availability

Support

Online Training

Implementation

Alternatives Considered

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Pricing Details

Asigra

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

Additional Pricing Details

Barracuda Backup

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

Additional Pricing Details

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