Axcient x360Recover vs. VMware Cloud Director

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Axcient x360Recover
Score 8.5 out of 10
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Axcient x360Recover (formerly BRC) can not only recover a single server or desktop, but can automate the recovery of an entire customer site through its Virtual Office and automated Runbook features. In a disaster event, authorized users can log into the web application or Remote Management Console and create a virtual private cloud called a Virtual Office. The Virtual Office ensures security, privacy and reliability for every organization needing to run one or more failover virtual machines in…N/A
VMware Cloud Director
Score 9.4 out of 10
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VMware 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
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Axcient x360RecoverVMware Cloud Director
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Features
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Data Center Backup
Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Product A and Product B
Axcient x360Recover
8.4
37 Ratings
5% above category average
VMware Cloud Director
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Ratings
Universal recovery9.033 Ratings00 Ratings
Instant recovery4.536 Ratings00 Ratings
Recovery verification9.635 Ratings00 Ratings
Business application protection8.134 Ratings00 Ratings
Multiple backup destinations9.731 Ratings00 Ratings
Incremental backup identification9.636 Ratings00 Ratings
Backup to the cloud9.536 Ratings00 Ratings
Deduplication and file compression7.432 Ratings00 Ratings
Snapshots7.537 Ratings00 Ratings
Flexible deployment8.336 Ratings00 Ratings
Management dashboard8.837 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform support7.637 Ratings00 Ratings
Retention options7.736 Ratings00 Ratings
Encryption9.934 Ratings00 Ratings
Enterprise Backup
Comparison of Enterprise Backup features of Product A and Product B
Axcient x360Recover
8.8
34 Ratings
9% above category average
VMware Cloud Director
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Ratings
Continuous data protection9.927 Ratings00 Ratings
Replication8.032 Ratings00 Ratings
Operational reporting and analytics6.932 Ratings00 Ratings
Malware protection8.323 Ratings00 Ratings
Multi-location capabilities9.631 Ratings00 Ratings
Ransomware Recovery9.95 Ratings00 Ratings
Disaster Recovery
Comparison of Disaster Recovery features of Product A and Product B
Axcient x360Recover
8.6
37 Ratings
12% above category average
VMware Cloud Director
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Ratings
Disaster Recovery Planning9.533 Ratings00 Ratings
Hot Sites9.126 Ratings00 Ratings
Disaster Recovery Testing9.636 Ratings00 Ratings
Automated Disaster Recovery6.229 Ratings00 Ratings
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Small Businesses
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Score 8.8 out of 10

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Medium-sized Companies
Cove Data Protection
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Score 8.8 out of 10

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Enterprises
Keepit
Keepit
Score 9.4 out of 10

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User Ratings
Axcient x360RecoverVMware Cloud Director
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(53 ratings)
10.0
(5 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.1
(12 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
8.8
(3 ratings)
7.0
(1 ratings)
Performance
1.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
7.0
(2 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
2.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Axcient x360RecoverVMware Cloud Director
Likelihood to Recommend
ConnectWise
I feel that Axcient x360Recover is well suited for any environment, both large and small. Weather you build your own device, BYOD or purchase one of theirs, it all works great. I even use it at home via the direct to cloud option. Well work the investment. I am unable to find a downside at this time.
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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
ConnectWise
  • Setup and configuration is extremely easy.
  • The business continuity component for spinning up the desired recovery point as a virtual machine on the appliance in order to keep the business operational is rock solid.
  • Recovering the desired backup point back to the physical hardware or virtual environment and syncing the most recent changes to finalize the recovery is awesome.
  • The system documentation is concise and easy to use.
  • The support team is absolutely fantastic.
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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
ConnectWise
  • The only thing missing is the ability to cancel a backup as they appear to just continue to try to run even after rebooting the BDR and endpoint until a failure finally occurs.
  • The only other ask would be to expand support to Linux operating systems.
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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
ConnectWise
We've been using Axcient over the years and have worked with their development team to suggest new features, something that you would not normally be able to do with other companies. They listen to what we have to say and understand that we are a business, just like them. It's great to know that someone will always be there for you when you need them.
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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
ConnectWise
It is overall very easy to install and get working. Install the application, select the drives you want to backup or leave blank and backup all drives. It starts to run immediately. You configure all the backup retention and how often to run in the portal so once you deploy the agent it is very easy to get started. After the backup completes. The portal will perform a test boot and auto verification of the image.
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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
ConnectWise
Support is pretty good. The issue is that they don't have any SLA so they get to you whenever. Though, if you hound them, they usually bump you up in the chain and get back to you. Their techs are fairly knowledgeable. Occasionally the first level support isn't the best, but once it bumps up to the next level, they are good.
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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
ConnectWise
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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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Implementation Rating
ConnectWise
I had the miss fortune to go back to this device. Alot has changed since the first time I had used it. Now instead a full deployable network appliance, you have to download a preconfigured virtual machine that will only run on an ESXi server. What about Hyper-V? I have many clients that are Hyper-V only. I setup a test lab to get this thing up and running and it has been a nightmare to say the least. Will be looking at other options.
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VMware by Broadcom
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Alternatives Considered
ConnectWise
Security and encryption of Axcient is a top priority . Axcient have all the tools to provide solutions to different kind of businesses Best part is it has an MSP friendly console to manage multiples devices and clients at the same Dashboard. Deployment process is very easy in Windows an VMWare Devices.
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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
ConnectWise
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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
ConnectWise
  • The few customers I have I feel confident and comfortable that a disaster will make recovery easy and fast for my clients.
  • I can set it up and forget about it with reports and alerts
  • I recommend it to any client that requires a good solid backup solution;
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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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