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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Azure StorSimple

    Score7 out of 10
    N/AStorSimple was acquired by Microsoft in 2012. The StorSimple storage gateway appliance is now a part of Microsoft's Azure StorSimple Hybrid Cloud Storage solution.

    $4.11

    Per Day

    Bacula Enterprise

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/ABacula Enterprise is a data center backup, restore, and recovery solution from Swiss, Dracula-themed software company Bacula Systems.N/A

    Informatica Data Archive (legacy)

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AInformatica Data Archive is used to control data growth in production databases and retire legacy applications. It is a legacy product and will not receive further updates.N/A
    Pricing
    Azure StorSimpleBacula EnterpriseInformatica Data Archive (legacy)
    Editions & Modules
    Virtual Appliance
    $4.11
    Per Day
    Cloud Array
    $4.11
    Per Day
    Physical Appliance
    $43.84
    Per Day
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Azure StorSimpleBacula EnterpriseInformatica Data Archive (legacy)
    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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    Community Pulse
    Azure StorSimpleBacula EnterpriseInformatica Data Archive (legacy)
    Considered Multiple Products
    Microsoft
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    Bacula Systems
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    95%
    Would buy again
    41 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    95%
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Azure StorSimpleBacula EnterpriseInformatica Data Archive (legacy)
    Data Center Backup
    Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Azure StorSimple and Bacula Enterprise and Informatica Data Archive (legacy)
    Feature
    Azure StorSimple
    -
    Ratings
    Bacula Enterprise
    9.4
    49 Ratings
    11% above category average
    Informatica Data Archive (legacy)
    -
    Ratings
    Universal recovery00 Ratings9.11 Ratings00 Ratings
    Instant recovery00 Ratings10.034 Ratings00 Ratings
    Recovery verification00 Ratings10.042 Ratings00 Ratings
    Business application protection00 Ratings3.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multiple backup destinations00 Ratings10.047 Ratings00 Ratings
    Incremental backup identification00 Ratings10.048 Ratings00 Ratings
    Backup to the cloud00 Ratings10.029 Ratings00 Ratings
    Deduplication and file compression00 Ratings9.741 Ratings00 Ratings
    Snapshots00 Ratings10.036 Ratings00 Ratings
    Flexible deployment00 Ratings10.044 Ratings00 Ratings
    Management dashboard00 Ratings9.646 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform support00 Ratings10.048 Ratings00 Ratings
    Retention options00 Ratings9.749 Ratings00 Ratings
    Encryption00 Ratings10.038 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Azure StorSimpleBacula EnterpriseInformatica Data Archive (legacy)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (49 ratings)
    9.9
    (4 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (6 ratings)
    -
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    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (17 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Implementation Rating
    -
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    9.8
    (2 ratings)
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    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    Azure StorSimpleBacula EnterpriseInformatica Data Archive (legacy)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Microsoft
    Onsite storage needs and backing up to Azure.
    Incentivized
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    Bacula Systems
    Well suited: - I use it for on premise and cloud backup and recovery and it is excellent for this job. - I also experiment with different hypervisors and till now Bacula seems to work with all of them - Security is really important for me as I had many bad experiences in the past and Bacula solution makes me totally confident. Less appropriate - You need to be experienced Linux user, I had to learn few more things in system to make the best use of it. - It's definitely designed for scalability and bigger companies than mine
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    Discontinued Products
    To manage users, go to the admin dashboard, here is a section for users. In this users section here you can see which users are configured and you have the ability to suspend a user. If you want to edit or add users, you need to go to the Organization section, then click on another user section there, which then gives you the ability to edit or add users.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    Microsoft
    • Performance via the SSD drives.
    • Writes back to our Private Cloud via Azure.
    • Easy to Admin via Web client interface.
    Incentivized
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    Bacula Systems
    • Bacula has great plugins that work very accurately
    • Bacula is very simple to use, with a user-friendly web interface that facilitates operation.
    • Bacula performs the backups very accurately which is clearly noticed when a restore is performed
    • Its ease of use helps in training new support team members
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    Discontinued Products
    • Works well with curated data
    • Allows you to monitor data movements within an organisation
    • Advisable to use ILM if already using Informatica PowerCenter
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Microsoft
    • Additional fail-over functionality
    Incentivized
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    Bacula Systems
    • Our team always points out the same problems, I believe that, today, is our biggest complaint: The interface (both graphical and the CLI) still needs improvement.
    • There is no mobile app to manage backups and restores from smartphones
    • Manual installation is time consuming.
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    Discontinued Products
    • As we are still piloting the product at our company at this time the feedback is highly limited.
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Microsoft
    If I wanted to use just onsite storage the StorSimple device is already paid for.
    Incentivized
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    Bacula Systems
    Easy to use, proactive and effective customer support, and simple deployment method. The high configurability is what makes this tool so effective for my organization - at no point do I have any issues of trust as to the restorability of a fileset. The GUI provided gives clear actionable reports as to the effectivity of the jobs performed.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
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    Usability
    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Bacula Systems
    This is a hard question. Usability for whom? For someone who is very comfortable at the command line and willing to put in the time to learn Bacula Enterprise's configuration syntax, it's very usable. Just don't expect to be an expert immediately.
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    Discontinued Products
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    Support Rating
    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Bacula Systems
    They're excellent, fast to respond and knowledgeable. I can't fault the support provided at all. On every occasion that we've had a need to contact them during our evaluation, installation, and use of Bacula Enterprise, they've always given us the help that we required. The responses they provide are detailed and we always feel that they've taken the time to read and understand our issue and give a full and personalized answer.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    No answers on this topic
    In-Person Training
    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Bacula Systems
    The professor understood the tool very well, it was a fact that he had mastery over the system and knew what he was talking about, clearing up all doubts and passing on all the necessary knowledge so that we could handle Bacula Enterprise in our organization.
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    Discontinued Products
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    Implementation Rating
    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Bacula Systems
    Bacula Systems and especially Bacula Brazil were extremely attentive and served us very well, making all implementations or changes work perfectly
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    Discontinued Products
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Microsoft
    Easy to use and highly compatible with our MSFT Hyper-V environment
    Incentivized
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    Bacula Systems
    I used CTERA almost from the time they started up. In short, it was very easy to use but configuration was limited; and in the end the agents were troublesome and I could not restore files. They had one person on staff who was terrific with tech support, when he left support became difficult and I lost confidence. Acronis was my first experience with a bare-metal recovery operation and it was terrific. Really saved the day. I would still be using it except the licensing was difficult and expensive and the software wasn't Linux friendly.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    [The] customer support is quite good. Cost also has another point to add, along with process integration and ease of using new tool.
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    Microsoft
    • Great Folks on the MSFT Implementation team
    • Great value on year 2
    Incentivized
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    Bacula Systems
    • Our Disaster Recovery policy in regards to backups and archiving is made possible because of our use of Bacula Enterprise.
    • TCO is very low as the yearly subscription is very competitively priced. Management of the software is very low so we don't have to spend hours maintaining our backups.
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    Discontinued Products
    • it is also fully integrated with all other AWS services
    • manages the entire life cycle of the Certificates by itself, so it will reduce your work by a really big amount
    • it can also be easily integrated with ELB and front-end cloud services.
    Incentivized
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