Azure Backup vs Carbonite Server | TrustRadius

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Score 8.9 out of 10

Based on 22 reviews and ratings

Score 8.2 out of 10

Based on 59 reviews and ratings

Feature Rating Comparison

Azure Backup

Carbonite Server

Versioning

Video files

Audio files

Document collaboration

Access control

File search

Device sync

Azure Backup

Carbonite Server

User and role management

File organization

Device management

Azure Backup

Carbonite Server

Performance

Reliability

Storage Reports

Azure Backup

Carbonite Server

Universal recovery

Live recovery

Recovery verification

Business application protection

Multiple backup destinations

Incremental backup identification

Backup to the cloud

Deduplication and file compression

Snapshots

Flexible deployment

Management dashboard

Platform support

Retention options

Encryption

Pros

Microsoft products (especially Azure) integration (Windows/Azure SQL instances).
Easy to implement and to administer.
Friendly interface, compatible to Azure visual identity.
Easy to back up and restore.
Relatively good backup performance.

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Verified User

Analyst in Information Technology

Oil & Energy Company, 10,001+ employees

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Carbonite Evault allows for easy management of backups. Once the system is integrated there is minimal hands on time. The system is smart enough to email you if there is an issue to give you the opportunity to fix it before it becomes a larger issue.
Carbonite Evault does restores very well also. Our favorite restores are the BMR (Bare Metal Restores). This type of back up allows you to restore the entire server configuration to a brand new box.
Carbonite Evault does a good job of allowing you to schedule backups when it is convenient to you with little impact on your bandwith.

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Senior IT Analyst

City of LancasterGovernment Administration, 201-500 employees

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Cons

Perhaps makes users a bit more dependent on the UI of the service to use it.
The lack of detailed APIs makes it a little harder to integrate into an automation chain.

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Vice-President in Information Technology

Marketing & Advertising Company, 501-1000 employees

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The backup report really needs improvement. It is really pathetic, as it gives wrong information. It is not suitable for auditing.
The Exchange DAG backup should support instead of configuring each exchange server.
Cloud infrastructure supports a lot of AWS and Azure instances that are coming up.

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Verified User

Analyst in Information Technology

Information Technology & Services Company, 51-200 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

No score

No answers yet

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Carbonite Server 4.8

Based on 6 answers

We packaged carbonite server with the end user product that they provide but we have had issues where the end user site has been down for days at time and backups for both server and user are backing up but we do not the get notification that it was completed for several days. There appears to be latency issues with the mail delivery for completed backups. Additionally, I have used other backup products and find the Carbonite website interface very clunkly and difficult to navigate.

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Engineer in Information Technology

Information Technology and Services Company, 201-500 employees

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Usability

No score

No answers yet

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Carbonite Server 5.5

Based on 1 answer

Product needs a lot of improvements in some features like Cloud and Reporting.

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Analyst in Information Technology

Information Technology & Services Company, 51-200 employees

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Support Rating

Azure Backup 8.9

Based on 4 answers

One of the differentials of the solution is the high level of guarantee and support of the Azure Backup solution. Microsoft is a reference in a technology company with a highly trained support team and helps us with any questions or technical problems with the tool. Service is fast and efficient with trained engineers.

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Analista de Suporte

OiInformation Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees

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Carbonite Server 5.5

Based on 2 answers

Some of the requests we could not get resolved on time. They took a long time to provide the reason for the issue we had raised.

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Verified User

Analyst in Information Technology

Information Technology & Services Company, 51-200 employees

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Implementation Rating

No score

No answers yet

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Carbonite Server 6.4

Based on 2 answers

We had appliance and we just needed to setup the Director Console which was straight forward and easy.

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Analyst in Information Technology

Information Technology & Services Company, 51-200 employees

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Alternatives Considered

Azure Backup is based on the most secure and encrypted cloud storage facility available...Microsoft. They have been doing this a long time and have ironed out all the kinks, leaving only the good and dependable solution in place. Azure Backup is fast also, you do not have major delays and internet throttling happening from Microsoft, unlike nearly all other competitors. Have you ever tried downloading a backup you have in the cloud from any solution other than Microsoft Azure Backup? If you have, you know they throttle the speed drastically and it could take you more than an hour to restore just 100mb of data. Most server backups are over 50 GB, some of mine are over 1.5 TB. With those slow speeds it could take weeks to recover your system just because you are waiting on the download to finish. Those companies then offer to send you an external drive with your data on it...but for a major price tag! You should not have to pay extra to get your data back and should not have to wait more than an hour to get it all downloaded either. Microsoft does not throttle Azure Backup downloads and I can almost guarantee that they have faster speeds than you have, meaning that you will be able to download at your maximum internet speeds and recover your systems quickly!

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IT Manager

Travel Planners InternationalLeisure, Travel & Tourism, 1001-5000 employees

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Netbak is a great product but we also had a secondary issue of having to backup several PC's on site and at remote locations. Carbonite helped with both and gave us one central admin console to be able to check the progress of all our backups, where netbak would have required us to setup a tunnel or use the internet to move data back to our main office.

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Realtor

RE/MAX Advantage RedlandsReal Estate, 51-200 employees

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Return on Investment

The ability to provide customers with peace of mind that their VM's are protected.
Low cost as you only pay for the storage.

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Technician in Information Technology

Information Technology and Services Company, 51-200 employees

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For a small firm, it has outsourced an important element to support our business continuity.
Email archiving was something we couldn't keep up with an EVault type of solution. We have more control of our file storage size than email, so we felt we were paying too much to archive spam and solicitations than important business communication. We went to a Google solution which was extremely cost effective and with more features.

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Trading, Operations, IT Support

Magee ThomsonInvestment Management, 1-10 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?

No

Azure Backup Editions & Modules

Edition

Storage in GB/Month	$0.0224 to $0.0569¹
Backup Instance <50GB	$5.00 + storage consumed
Backup Instance > 50 GB but < or = 500 GB	$10.00 + storage consumed
Backup Instance Instance is > 500 GB	$10 for each 500 GB increment + storage consumed

per GB

Additional Pricing Details

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General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Yes

Entry-level set up fee?

No

Carbonite Server Editions & Modules

Edition

Power	800.04¹
Ultimate	1,300.08¹

per year

Additional Pricing Details

Trial and paying customers have access to our valet install free of charge. Call and speak to a specialist who can remotely connect to your machine to ensure it's installed and configured correctly to protect your critical data.

Rating Summary

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