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Asigra vs IDrive

Asigra
36 Ratings
IDrive
17 Ratings

Asigra

36 Ratings
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Score 7.7 out of 100

Based on 36 reviews and ratings

IDrive

17 Ratings
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Score 6.8 out of 100

Based on 17 reviews and ratings

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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Jeremy Wyatt | TrustRadius Reviewer
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IDrive

This is an economical way to back up less than 1000 GB of data. It can also back-up mapped drives, so you can do the back-up from a personal computer in addition to the server. Restoring tends to be a bit cumbersome, so this should be used as an emergency function, not regularly. Once I tried to add files from the server to another computer but it didn't work because the other computer didn't have the IDrive installed.

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Feature Rating Comparison

File Sharing & Management

Asigra
—
IDrive
3.7
Versioning
Asigra
—
IDrive
4.6
Video files
Asigra
—
IDrive
3.2
Audio files
Asigra
—
IDrive
3.2
Document collaboration
Asigra
—
IDrive
2.3
Access control
Asigra
—
IDrive
4.2
File search
Asigra
—
IDrive
5.1
Device sync
Asigra
—
IDrive
3.2

Cloud Storage Security & Administration

Asigra
—
IDrive
4.3
User and role management
Asigra
—
IDrive
2.5
File organization
Asigra
—
IDrive
6.4
Device management
Asigra
—
IDrive
4.0

Cloud Storage Platform

Asigra
—
IDrive
5.9
Performance
Asigra
—
IDrive
5.8
Reliability
Asigra
—
IDrive
6.6
Storage Reports
Asigra
—
IDrive
5.3

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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IDrive

  • Offers a cloud and a local backup option from the same app.
  • Fast upload speed.
  • It keeps old files forever, versioning, which helps protect against ransomware.
  • Can backup as a disc image.
  • Can search and restore for lost data. Makes finding lost files way easier than other solutions.
  • You can choose which folders to backup.

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Mike Calabro | TrustRadius Reviewer
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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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Matthew P. Grosso | TrustRadius Reviewer
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IDrive

  • The used to send your backed up data overnight on a hard drive (if you needed it). Now, they only have an option to download. I love that you can download your data if you need it. That is great, but I would still love the option to ship an actual hard drive because in some cases there is too much data and downloading it all could take days.
  • The UI could use an update/refresh.
  • If you are not tech-savvy it's not super obvious how to set things up. It would be helpful for some it were simplified in some aspects.

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Likelihood to Renew

Asigra

Asigra 8.5
Based on 14 answers
  • 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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IDrive

No score
No answers yet
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Usability

Asigra

Asigra 8.0
Based on 6 answers
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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IDrive

No score
No answers yet
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Reliability and Availability

Asigra

Asigra 8.8
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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IDrive

No score
No answers yet
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Support Rating

Asigra

Asigra 7.5
Based on 6 answers
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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IDrive

IDrive 5.6
Based on 8 answers
I have not had to use their tech support. I did call once but luckily figured out what to do while I was on hold so I disconnected. If I really needed them it would have been a very long hold time I suppose.

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Online Training

Asigra

Asigra 1.0
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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IDrive

No score
No answers yet
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Implementation Rating

Asigra

Asigra 1.2
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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IDrive

No score
No answers yet
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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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Njaal Michelsen | TrustRadius Reviewer
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IDrive

Backblaze is easier to set up, but it's not the better solution for me. I need to be able to backup to multiple locations. Backblaze didn't offer a way to do backups to an external HD. Backblaze didn't offer versioning when I picked iDrive. Backblaze wasn't able to throttle upload and download speeds which would slow things down when I have to deliver files to clients online.

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Mike Calabro | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Return on Investment

Asigra

  • One of the positive impacts is that the solution allows us to free up IT resources to focus on other tasks.
  • Asigra has one of the best channel partner programs I have come across.
  • This product is one of the few backup solutions that I've worked with that doesn't require an agent installed on the target device, making it easier to deploy to new devices.

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Mauro Carrillo | TrustRadius Reviewer
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IDrive

  • iDrive has saved us money as their pricing structure is fair and they allow multiple devices to be backed up under the same account - where others do not.
  • iDrive has saved us time as we no longer have to manually back up and sync files on our computers to external drives.
  • iDrive has lessened the burden of stress. We no longer worry that we may lose critical data that can no longer be recovered.

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Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Pricing Details

Asigra

General

Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
—
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—
Entry-level set up fee?
No

Asigra Editions & Modules

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Additional Pricing Details
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IDrive

General

Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—
Entry-level set up fee?
No

IDrive Editions & Modules

Edition
Personal$52.121
Business$74.651
  1. Per Year
Additional Pricing Details
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Rating Summary

Likelihood to Recommend

Asigra
9.0
IDrive
5.5

Likelihood to Renew

Asigra
8.5
IDrive
—

Usability

Asigra
8.0
IDrive
—

Reliability and Availability

Asigra
8.8
IDrive
—

Support Rating

Asigra
7.5
IDrive
5.6

In-Person Training

Asigra
4.5
IDrive
—

Online Training

Asigra
1.0
IDrive
—

Implementation Rating

Asigra
1.2
IDrive
—

Scalability

Asigra
4.5
IDrive
—

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