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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

    Microsoft System Center

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft System Center is an enterprise-grade IT Operations Management (ITOM) suite designed for the centralized administration of data center infrastructure, virtualized environments, and hybrid cloud workloads. The platform provides unified management across heterogeneous environments, including support for Windows Server, Linux, and Azure Stack HCI. System Center is Microsoft's ITOM stack for organizations that maintain a significant on-premise footprint, vs the company's Azure-based…

    $1,323

    per month

    Riverbed NetAuditor (discontinued)

    Score8 out of 10
    N/ARiverbed NetAuditor was a network configuration management solution used to dynamically create and maintains infrastructure diagrams. The product has been sunsetted and is no longer available. Riverbed offers its features instead through Riverbed NetIM.N/A
    Pricing
    AsigraMicrosoft System CenterRiverbed NetAuditor (discontinued)
    Editions & Modules
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    Standard Edition
    $1323
    Datacenter Edition
    $3607
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    AsigraMicrosoft System CenterRiverbed NetAuditor (discontinued)
    Free Trial
    NoNoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details
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    Community Pulse
    AsigraMicrosoft System CenterRiverbed NetAuditor (discontinued)
    Considered Multiple Products
    Asigra
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    Microsoft
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    91%
    Would buy again
    31 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    91%
    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    95%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    21 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
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    97%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    AsigraMicrosoft System CenterRiverbed NetAuditor (discontinued)
    Data Center Backup
    Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Asigra and Microsoft System Center and Riverbed NetAuditor (discontinued)
    Feature
    Asigra
    8.8
    1 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Microsoft System Center
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    Backup to the cloud10.01 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Flexible deployment8.01 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Management dashboard9.01 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform support8.01 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Encryption9.01 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Enterprise Backup
    Comparison of Enterprise Backup features of Asigra and Microsoft System Center and Riverbed NetAuditor (discontinued)
    Feature
    Asigra
    8.3
    1 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Microsoft System Center
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    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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    Score7.1 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    AsigraMicrosoft System CenterRiverbed NetAuditor (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (25 ratings)
    9.3
    (58 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.6
    (13 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (6 ratings)
    8.4
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Availability
    8.8
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.5
    (6 ratings)
    9.0
    (14 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)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    4.5
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
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    Vendor post-sale
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
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    Vendor pre-sale
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    AsigraMicrosoft System CenterRiverbed NetAuditor (discontinued)
    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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    Microsoft
    For companies with more than 10 Windows devices and needing to standardize the OS, AV, access, share resources, and install software. SCCM is the way to go. This software is unnecessary if the business is all remote users and not in an office-type setting. There are cloud offerings or none to accomplish what a business needs.
    Incentivized
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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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    Microsoft
    • Allows the grouping of devices by user.
    • Allows controlling updates being deployed to user devices.
    • Allows for the repurposing of machines by being able to load new or updated software on machines that already are in the system.
    • Allows us the ability to wipe a machine clean and restore it back to the configuration that was assigned the machine.
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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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    Microsoft
    • The product could improve in the area of having better mechanisms in place with how the SCEP client is deployed/installed from the server on the management side. We have run into this firsthand with the client not installing on an endpoint, and then having to take the time to investigate why it was not installing.
    • A second improvement that can be made is to keep trying to improve the products detection rate for finding malware/viruses. The case can be made that there are some products out there that do a better job at this and have a higher detection rate.
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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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    Microsoft
    Microsoft System Center Operations Manager is tightly integrated to Microsoft Windows servers os monitoring with great product support.
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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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    Microsoft
    It is not user-friendly for the most part. With IT infrastructure, sometimes it cannot handle excess requests. Every few months, you will need an upgrade in terms of server resources to keep up with incoming alerts and requests. This does not happen all of the time, but it does happen when there are too many requests.
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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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    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Discontinued Products
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    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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    Microsoft
    There is a fair amount of documentation out there to help you when you have questions or run into issues with this product as well as tutorials on some of the more common tasks. Between the documentation and the overall ease of use we haven't had to deal with direct Microsoft support for this product.
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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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    Microsoft
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    Discontinued Products
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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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    Microsoft
    Easy to install with intuitive interactive interface during the installation process a and integration to MS SQL was smooth
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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
    Incentivized
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    Microsoft
    We previously used a mix of FOG and Clonezilla to image machines. The biggest issues with these products is that changing one piece of the image required you to rebuild the entire image itself. These pieces of software also did not allow you to manage applications and Windows Updates, causing IT to have to constantly touch machines after they were imaged and update or manage them with a much more hands on approach.
    Incentivized
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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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    Microsoft
    • It has allowed the enterprise to standardize on a single platform for monitoring.
    • Easier troubleshooting of issues with Microsoft platforms.
    • Greater visibility of issues across platforms when applications are hosted in a mixed environment.
    • Additional costs for monitoring systems that are not directly supported with additional packs (iSeries, Linux on Power).
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