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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    AWS Backup

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AAWS Backup is a fully managed backup service from AWS, designed to make it easy to centralize and automate the back up of data across AWS services in the cloud as well as on premises using the AWS Storage Gateway. Using AWS Backup, users can centrally configure backup policies and monitor backup activity for AWS resources, such as Amazon EBS volumes, Amazon RDS databases, Amazon DynamoDB tables, Amazon EFS file systems, and AWS Storage Gateway volumes.

    $0.01

    per GB per month

    OpenText HCMX

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AOpenText™ HCMX delivers visibility and operational consistency across clouds, enabling users to optimize cloud spend based on actionable insights, enable self-service that includes compliance guardrails, and orchestrate lifecycle management actions.N/A

    VMware Cloud Director

    Score9.6 out of 10
    N/AVMware Cloud Director (formerly vCloud Director) is a cloud service-delivery platform used by cloud providers to operate and manage cloud-service businesses. The vendor states that by using VMware Cloud Director, cloud providers deliver secure, efficient, and elastic cloud resources to thousands of enterprises and IT teams across the world.N/A
    Pricing
    AWS BackupOpenText HCMXVMware Cloud Director
    Editions & Modules
    Backup Storage - Cold Storage
    $0.01
    per GB per month
    Restore - Warm Storage
    $0.02
    per GB per month
    Restore - Cold Storage
    $0.03
    per GB per month
    Backup Storage - Warm Storage
    $0.095
    per GB per month
    Restore - Item-Level Restore
    $0.50
    per request
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    AWS BackupOpenText HCMXVMware Cloud Director
    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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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    90%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    9 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    90%
    Happy with the feature set
    9 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    7 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    9 Answers
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    Features
    AWS BackupOpenText HCMXVMware Cloud Director
    Data Center Backup
    Comparison of Data Center Backup features of AWS Backup and OpenText Hybrid Cloud Management X and VMware Cloud Director
    Feature
    AWS Backup
    8.9
    6 Ratings
    4% above category average
    OpenText Hybrid Cloud Management X
    -
    Ratings
    VMware Cloud Director
    -
    Ratings
    Management dashboard8.26 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Retention options6.66 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Encryption8.36 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Enterprise Backup
    Comparison of Enterprise Backup features of AWS Backup and OpenText Hybrid Cloud Management X and VMware Cloud Director
    Feature
    AWS Backup
    7.6
    3 Ratings
    4% below category average
    OpenText Hybrid Cloud Management X
    -
    Ratings
    VMware Cloud Director
    -
    Ratings
    Operational reporting and analytics7.73 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Malware protection7.73 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ransomware Recovery7.53 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    SaaS Backup
    Comparison of SaaS Backup features of AWS Backup and OpenText Hybrid Cloud Management X and VMware Cloud Director
    Feature
    AWS Backup
    7.6
    3 Ratings
    12% below category average
    OpenText Hybrid Cloud Management X
    -
    Ratings
    VMware Cloud Director
    -
    Ratings
    SaaS Product Integration8.01 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multiple Data Restoration Options7.13 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Auditing and Search7.53 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Storage in the Cloud or On-Premises7.83 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Cloud Management
    Comparison of Cloud Management features of AWS Backup and OpenText Hybrid Cloud Management X and VMware Cloud Director
    Feature
    AWS Backup
    -
    Ratings
    OpenText Hybrid Cloud Management X
    9.0
    2 Ratings
    3% above category average
    VMware Cloud Director
    -
    Ratings
    Cloud Management Security00 Ratings9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automation and Orchestration00 Ratings9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Cost Management00 Ratings9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Cloud Management Performance Monitoring00 Ratings9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Governance and Compliance00 Ratings9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Resource Management00 Ratings9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Systems Integration00 Ratings9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    AWS BackupOpenText HCMXVMware Cloud Director
    Small Businesses
    Backupify
    Score5.5 out of 10
    Rackspace Fabric
    Score6.3 out of 10
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    Medium-sized Companies
    Spanning Backup
    Score7.3 out of 10
    IBM Turbonomic
    Score8.5 out of 10
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    Enterprises
    Veeam Data Cloud for Azure
    Score7.9 out of 10
    IBM Turbonomic
    Score8.5 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    AWS BackupOpenText HCMXVMware Cloud Director
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.6
    (12 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    10.0
    (5 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    8.6
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.4
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    AWS BackupOpenText HCMXVMware Cloud Director
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Amazon AWS
    There is a cost involved with data retrieval. AWS Backup is truly that, a backup. If you need to access this data on a regular basis, there are better options out there. For long term, just in case incremental backups, AWS [Backup] checks all the boxes. Just set it up, start your backups, and rest assured your data is safe.
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    OpenText
    The best solution for the data processing and other Cloud operations acceleration software which allows data import from other various tools and the production of different operations reports using this Micros Focus platform is amazing. Data analytics which the solution offers are the best and quickly generated and the best cost management product.
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    VMware by Broadcom
    If you have a lot of customers that all need to have a separate place to work in, without the possibility of getting in each other way, and you want to safe yourself a lot of work. Than I strongly recommend you Cloud director. Ofcourse, only if you have a VMware environment as your working environment. If you just have a small group of customers and you can easily handle the work that's coming from it, then it is overkill to add cloud director to your environment. In a later station, you can always introduce cloud director (so tis never to late if you still want to use it)
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    Pros
    Amazon AWS
    • Centralized management - single pane of glass to manage backups for multiple AWS services.
    • Encryption - integrates with KMS to encrypt backup data at rest and in transit.
    • Cross Account management - manage backups across multiple AWS accounts with AWS organizations.
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    OpenText
    • The excellent file organizing.
    • Reports are the best and profitable.
    • Storage system management is effective.
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    VMware by Broadcom
    • Building virtual racks
    • Managing the customers' network and security
    • Simplicity but the completeness of IaaS solution
    • Integration with major software providers
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    Cons
    Amazon AWS
    • Restoring the compute nodes of the cluster should be done always
    • Having the default Roles all the necessary permission, you have to add some depending on your configurations
    • Being able to see the Jobs status in a centralize account more graphically
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    OpenText
    • Only to those getting started it can take time.
    • Configurations of the system functionalities.
    • The technical team response.
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    VMware by Broadcom
    • The add-on/extension required on the internet browser sometimes are difficult to get working at first. We've experience instances where the add-on/extension latest versions will not work and have to downgrade to an older version.
    • The server console lacks features and tools. For example it would be useful to have a copy and paste tool or a file upload tool.
    • The vCloud Director management site uses Adobe Flash, which makes it impossible to use on a mobile device.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Amazon AWS
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    OpenText
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    VMware by Broadcom
    i give 10 for technically vCloud Director nearby with use case hyperscaller dashboard, but need improvement for billing need improve for integration with AVI Load balancer, NSX T, Surrounding 3rd party example for backyup as services purposes, can be create flavor for selective Operating System and also for specific sizing and
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    Usability
    Amazon AWS
    Overall because I can sell it white labeled and use my white labeled software like CloudBerry and the native backup apps on my synology NAS servers to store things in real time and do duplication and disaster recovery directly to it was game changing for my client in the advertising world they are never down now.
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    OpenText
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    VMware by Broadcom
    vCloud Director don't have any new feature, my feeling says that vCloud Director not become primary product of VMware, if this happen vCloud Director will be terminated. VMware should provide cloud management platform with agnostic with another virtualization technology example openstack, hyperv also with hyperscaller that will be have good feature
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    Support Rating
    Amazon AWS
    Support for AWS Backup is by Amazon itself so it is solid as always. If you have a business or higher level support plan you'll have no trouble getting engineers or other staff on the job to help you with whatever comes up.
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    OpenText
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    VMware by Broadcom
    Suppor Excellent with global support, also collaborate with Global Support, Easy to open case from desktop, Easy to maintenance support, Reachable support with a broadcom, but sadly we suffer for positioning vcloud director right now that we have to collaborate with management. We contact support and also create ticket for that icon
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    In-Person Training
    Amazon AWS
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    OpenText
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    VMware by Broadcom
    So far good when i get course vcloud director but with limit country for offline class at that time not included with exam so we can't claim any certfication for that (vCloud Director). Its good if this course also available online version so we can join from any place and any time
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    Alternatives Considered
    Amazon AWS
    I've tried a lot of different products. Backblaze, at least from a birds-eye view is significantly cheaper than AWS/the rest. Backblaze is a little more simpler, but it's well worth it. Linode also provides backup options, however I'm only familiar with their backup on their VPS's (however you make that plural), which never gave me a problem.
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    OpenText
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    VMware by Broadcom
    vCloud Director is definitely my favorite as far as cloud managers. The only thing that compares is Cisco UCS Director, but it has slightly different functionality and purpose. I understand why a lot of clients still go with vCloud Director even though VMware intends to sunset it
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    Scalability
    Amazon AWS
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    OpenText
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    VMware by Broadcom
    vcloud director have ui ux user friendy not complex and also can do many task exampe for providing copmpute allocation vcpu , ram and storage, Can Segregation Departement with ala carte virtual machine spesification. Can do dedicated portal for each organization this things to avoid mis provisioning workload virtual machine to another organization
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    Return on Investment
    Amazon AWS
    • Offsite means a failure at our cloud provider means we can redeploy quickly to another data center or another provider quickly.
    • The cost can't be best.
    • Pay only for what you use. No need to pay for extra data that you don't need.
    • No minimums
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    OpenText
    • It has been easy creating reliable and productive reports.
    • We can move a large amount of multiple data formats.
    • Secure data storage and secure data management platform.
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    VMware by Broadcom
    • Saves a lot of time, and time is money
    • Stable, so little to non downtime
    • With P1 , good support
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