Asigra vs Vembu BDR Suite

What users are saying about

Score 10 out of 10

Based on 37 reviews and ratings

Score 8.2 out of 10

Based on 83 reviews and ratings

Feature Set Ratings

Data Center Backup

Asigra

Feature Set Not Supported

N/A

7.7

Vembu BDR Suite

77%

Vembu BDR Suite ranks higher in 14/14 features

Universal recovery

N/A

0 Ratings

8.7

87%

43 Ratings

Live recovery

N/A

0 Ratings

7.9

79%

42 Ratings

Recovery verification

N/A

0 Ratings

8.2

82%

44 Ratings

Business application protection

N/A

0 Ratings

6.9

69%

35 Ratings

Multiple backup destinations

N/A

0 Ratings

7.2

72%

36 Ratings

Incremental backup identification

N/A

0 Ratings

7.4

74%

46 Ratings

Backup to the cloud

N/A

0 Ratings

6.6

66%

28 Ratings

Deduplication and file compression

N/A

0 Ratings

6.5

65%

36 Ratings

Snapshots

N/A

0 Ratings

8.5

85%

36 Ratings

Flexible deployment

N/A

0 Ratings

7.5

75%

44 Ratings

Management dashboard

N/A

0 Ratings

7.2

72%

48 Ratings

Platform support

N/A

0 Ratings

7.9

79%

48 Ratings

Retention options

N/A

0 Ratings

8.3

83%

45 Ratings

Encryption

N/A

0 Ratings

8.6

86%

42 Ratings

Attribute Ratings

Asigra is rated higher in 3 areas: Likelihood to Recommend, Likelihood to Renew, Support Rating
Vembu BDR Suite is rated higher in 2 areas: Usability, Implementation Rating

Asigra

90%

25 Ratings

8.0

Vembu BDR Suite

80%

51 Ratings

Asigra

85%

14 Ratings

6.4

Vembu BDR Suite

64%

3 Ratings

Asigra

80%

6 Ratings

8.2

Vembu BDR Suite

82%

49 Ratings

Asigra

88%

10 Ratings

Vembu BDR Suite

N/A

0 Ratings

Asigra

75%

12 Ratings

6.7

Vembu BDR Suite

67%

8 Ratings

Asigra

45%

1 Rating

Vembu BDR Suite

N/A

0 Ratings

Asigra

10%

1 Rating

Vembu BDR Suite

N/A

0 Ratings

Asigra

12%

6 Ratings

8.0

Vembu BDR Suite

80%

3 Ratings

Asigra

45%

1 Rating

Vembu BDR Suite

N/A

0 Ratings

Likelihood to Recommend

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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I've been working with nearly every backup program for more than 25 years from small shops to corporations with thousands of users. Vembu BDR [Suite] is a great product for any business, large or small. It is missing a couple of options that maybe the most popular one has but it doesn't prevent protecting your business. When budget is an issue it's by far the best option. Being able to provide it to our clients is an added bonus since that makes it so much easier to manage when everyone is using the same product. When it comes to technical support, I haven't experienced support like Vembu Support in years. They are quick to respond, happy to remotely connect if desired and seem to really understand their product well. Many others I've worked with refuse to help, and send responses that have nothing to do with my question or they simply provide a link to a document and basically tell me to read and figure it out myself. Often that document does not relate to my issue. I've always done my research before contacting support and that kind of response is one of the biggest reasons we decided to look elsewhere and after many trials and deep testing, ultimately switched to Vembu. Vembu has been rock solid, fast, and tech support has been top-notch.

The biggest place I would say that VembuBDR is less appropriate is when you have the desire to backup your physical systems to multiple internal storage devices and want a secondary backup as a safety net and don’t want to risk that the backup itself is corrupt or infected and your only other option is a mirrored copy of that data.

I know they are working hard on adding features and I’m excited to know version 5 is releasing soon.

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Dan Worrell

Datacenter Manager

CSSNWInformation Technology & Services, 1-10 employees

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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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Bare metal system images. These are incredibly flexible, enabling you to do dissimilar hardware restores, local or online backups and restore to VHD
Full, differential and transaction log backups for SQL server, ensuring rapid backup and restore, with maximum storage efficiency.
Incremental backups for files, meaning only the changes which have been made to a file are backed up, dramatically reducing time to backup and increasing storage efficiency.

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Tom Evans

Director

CognizantComputer Software, 1-10 employees

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Cons

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

Executive Vice President, CTO

Data Storage CorporationInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

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Although its interface is simple, a web-only interface for a backup solution isn't recommended as the main interface.
Using PostgreSQL as the configuration DB Source is OK. But, the lack of options for the Database isn't OK. Especially on a Windows Environment, admins prefer using a centralized MS SQL Instance, and this is not possible with Vembu.
More work needed on SharePoint, Active Directory, and Exchange Restores. All three are critical workloads in almost any infrastructure.
Reporting can be greatly improved.

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Verified User

Manager in Information Technology

Information Technology & Services Company, 11-50 employees

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Pricing Details

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?

Starting Price

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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?

Starting Price

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Likelihood to Renew

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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Matthew Brady

DPS Enterprise Manager

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

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Vembu BDR Suite 6.4

Based on 3 answers

I think the product will remain useful for us and as the company keeps improving features it will continue to be relevant and useful.We don't like switching technology much and BDR solutions shouldn't be something that a company replaces every few years., that's why most likely we will keep using it.

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Manager in Information Technology

Information Technology & Services Company, 11-50 employees

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Usability

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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Consultant in Information Technology

Information Technology and Services Company, 11-50 employees

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Vembu BDR Suite 8.2

Based on 49 answers

Vembu is a great solution, but it still requires some fine-tuning. The user interface for Managed Service Providers could be more streamlined. Support logs need to provide clearer information about an issue whenever there's a failure. Backup agents should have the ability to automatically update when there's a new version and support should be on-shore during US business hours.

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Colin Rosario

Principal Technologist

Genius Information SystemsComputer Networking, 1-10 employees

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Reliability and Availability

Asigra 8.8

Based on 10 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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No score

No answers yet

No answers on this topic

Support Rating

Asigra 7.5

Based on 12 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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C-Level Executive in Customer Service

Information Technology and Services Company, 11-50 employees

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Vembu BDR Suite 6.7

Based on 8 answers

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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Bruce Redfern

Higher Education, 51-200 employees

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Online Training

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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Stephen Sifers

NOC Manager

SagissInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

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No score

No answers yet

No answers on this topic

Implementation Rating

Asigra 1.2

Based on 6 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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C-Level Executive in Customer Service

Information Technology and Services Company, 11-50 employees

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Vembu BDR Suite 8.0

Based on 3 answers

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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Manager in Information Technology

Information Technology & Services Company, 11-50 employees

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Alternatives Considered

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

Servicedesk Consultant

Upheads ASInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

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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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Jesse Brandt

System Administrator

Mitchell Humphrey & Co.Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

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Return on Investment

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

Chief Information Technology Officer

Drummond Community BankFinancial Services, 201-500 employees

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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

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Anonymous

Financial Services Company, 51-200 employees

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