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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

    Barracuda Backup

    Score7.9 out of 10
    N/ADesigned to be simple to configure and manage, the scalable Barracuda Backup solution is offered via a capacity-based, all-inclusive subscription model allows you to pay for only what you need to protect today, avoiding large upfront hardware costs.N/A

    Experian Aperture Data Studio

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AExperian offers the Aperture Data Studio, a data quality management platform based on technology acquired by Experian with QAS, ltd.N/A
    Pricing
    AsigraBarracuda BackupExperian Aperture Data Studio
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    AsigraBarracuda BackupExperian Aperture Data Studio
    Free Trial
    NoNoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    AsigraBarracuda BackupExperian Aperture Data Studio
    Considered Multiple Products
    Asigra
    Chose Asigra
    Asigra matches up very well against other products. Features are very similar and pricing is close as well. This product seemed to be a better fit for our institution.
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    Barracuda Networks Inc.
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    Experian
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    86%
    Would buy again
    12 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    86%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    86%
    Happy with the feature set
    12 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    91%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    92%
    Implementation went as expected
    12 Answers
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    Features
    AsigraBarracuda BackupExperian Aperture Data Studio
    Data Center Backup
    Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Asigra and Barracuda Backup and Experian Aperture Data Studio
    Feature
    Asigra
    8.8
    1 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Barracuda Backup
    9.0
    37 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Experian Aperture Data Studio
    -
    Ratings
    Backup to the cloud10.01 Ratings9.536 Ratings00 Ratings
    Flexible deployment8.01 Ratings9.821 Ratings00 Ratings
    Management dashboard9.01 Ratings8.423 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform support8.01 Ratings8.923 Ratings00 Ratings
    Encryption9.01 Ratings9.019 Ratings00 Ratings
    Universal recovery00 Ratings8.030 Ratings00 Ratings
    Instant recovery00 Ratings8.532 Ratings00 Ratings
    Recovery verification00 Ratings9.632 Ratings00 Ratings
    Business application protection00 Ratings8.025 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multiple backup destinations00 Ratings8.634 Ratings00 Ratings
    Incremental backup identification00 Ratings8.735 Ratings00 Ratings
    Deduplication and file compression00 Ratings10.037 Ratings00 Ratings
    Snapshots00 Ratings9.328 Ratings00 Ratings
    Retention options00 Ratings9.123 Ratings00 Ratings
    Enterprise Backup
    Comparison of Enterprise Backup features of Asigra and Barracuda Backup and Experian Aperture Data Studio
    Feature
    Asigra
    8.3
    1 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Barracuda Backup
    -
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    Experian Aperture Data Studio
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    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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    User Ratings
    AsigraBarracuda BackupExperian Aperture Data Studio
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (25 ratings)
    8.6
    (37 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.6
    (13 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (6 ratings)
    9.1
    (6 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Availability
    8.8
    (5 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.5
    (6 ratings)
    9.2
    (7 ratings)
    -
    (0 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)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    4.5
    (1 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    AsigraBarracuda BackupExperian Aperture Data Studio
    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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    Barracuda Networks Inc.
    If you are a small business with a few machines and your backups aren't of servers that are public facing. If you had to restore a server from backup, it would take a day at least. So, if the server being restored was public facing, that may impact customer relations.
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    Experian
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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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    Barracuda Networks Inc.
    • Set and Forget. I rarely have to touch the Backup Servers. Once you specify your criteria, you really don't need to change it unless you have a physical change.
    • Alerts. When there are issues such as files failing to backup or a directory no longer present, you get an email giving you all the information you need. In addition you will typically get contacted by support about it.
    • Recovery is very simple. The restore browser is very good and it's just easy to find and restore data when you need it.
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    Experian
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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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    Barracuda Networks Inc.
    • The pricing solution has gone from allowing on-premise ownership to forced cloud extortion. Basically, if you buy now you will be ok, but those of us who "owned" our solution previously are now forced to subscribe to the cloud model or be stuck with a brick.
    • Speed of recovery could be improved.
    Incentivized
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    Experian
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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.
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    Barracuda Networks Inc.
    Love the units
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    Experian
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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
    Incentivized
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    Barracuda Networks Inc.
    Dashboards and interfaces within Barracuda Backup are very easy to navigate, with clear success/warnings shown. Setting up backup jobs is probably one of the most simplest tasks - compared to competitors we trialed. Trouble shooting backup issues is also simple due to clear errors (VSS errors shown in a understandable format for example)
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    Experian
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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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    Barracuda Networks Inc.
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    Experian
    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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    Barracuda Networks Inc.
    They are always quick to get you routed to a tech support person and always get follow up after contacting them. Last experience was amazing, she adjusted my boxes and they perform even better. I cannot say enough about the support. We had some trouble with one of the windows servers leaving the volume shadow copy out there and would fail. They worked with us to adjust and get working. After that it has been months since I have had to do anything with the server to keep the backups running.
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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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    Barracuda Networks Inc.
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    Experian
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    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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    Barracuda Networks Inc.
    Work on a backup agent for Mac OS X or any Apple OS.
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    Experian
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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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    Barracuda Networks Inc.
    Each backup solution has its pros and cons, and each customer has their needs, and budget constraints. Barracuda Backup has helped us dramatically in the area of being able to provide customers a cost-effective solution, that's easy to manage and is one of those things you're not having to check on daily, or switch out backup tapes, or hard drives.
    Incentivized
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    Experian
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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.
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    Barracuda Networks Inc.
    • Countless positive impacts from being able to restore lost or deleted files - or even restoring an entire server.
    • Being able to restore files for users and allowing them to recover lost work or preventing them from having to redo files at any level is priceless. You can't accurately measure lost time of employees having to recreate files. Especially things like 3D drawings and multi-sheet spreadsheet.
    Incentivized
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    Experian
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