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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

    Commvault Cloud

    Score7.7 out of 10
    N/ACommvault® Cloud is a cyber resilience platform built to meet the demands of hybrid enterprises. It delivers data security and recovery in the cloud, powered by advanced AI, to help organizations see, manage, and recover data wherever it lives.N/A

    Cove Data Protection

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/ACove Data Protection (formerly N-Able Backup) is designed to cover servers, datacenters, applications, and workstations, and is provided to ensure business continuity and at-a-glance assessment and fast issue resolution via customizable dashboard.N/A
    Pricing
    Azure StorSimpleCommvault CloudCove Data Protection
    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 StorSimpleCommvault CloudCove Data Protection
    Free Trial
    NoYesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptionalNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsCove offers one flat rate per server or workstation and one flat per-user price for Microsoft 365, with cloud storage included. Each license carries a defined amount of included storage that is pooled across an MSPs customers, so smaller devices that use less can offset larger ones.
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    Considered Multiple Products
    Microsoft
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    Commvault
    Chose Commvault Cloud
    Better price.
    Better solution.
    More solution options.
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    N-able
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    94%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    94%
    Implementation went as expected
    50 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    10 Answers
    Features
    Azure StorSimpleCommvault CloudCove Data Protection
    Data Center Backup
    Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Azure StorSimple and Commvault Cloud and Cove Data Protection
    Feature
    Azure StorSimple
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    Ratings
    Commvault Cloud
    7.2
    77 Ratings
    16% below category average
    Cove Data Protection
    9.5
    19 Ratings
    12% above category average
    Universal recovery00 Ratings8.067 Ratings8.616 Ratings
    Instant recovery00 Ratings7.064 Ratings9.515 Ratings
    Recovery verification00 Ratings7.068 Ratings9.617 Ratings
    Business application protection00 Ratings7.572 Ratings8.916 Ratings
    Multiple backup destinations00 Ratings5.371 Ratings8.817 Ratings
    Incremental backup identification00 Ratings7.077 Ratings9.817 Ratings
    Backup to the cloud00 Ratings7.559 Ratings10.018 Ratings
    Deduplication and file compression00 Ratings7.575 Ratings10.018 Ratings
    Snapshots00 Ratings7.571 Ratings10.012 Ratings
    Flexible deployment00 Ratings6.166 Ratings9.017 Ratings
    Management dashboard00 Ratings7.567 Ratings9.619 Ratings
    Platform support00 Ratings7.067 Ratings8.918 Ratings
    Retention options00 Ratings8.065 Ratings10.019 Ratings
    Encryption00 Ratings7.564 Ratings9.918 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Azure StorSimpleCommvault CloudCove Data Protection
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    6.5
    (79 ratings)
    7.7
    (19 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (8 ratings)
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    Usability
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    7.0
    (16 ratings)
    9.7
    (7 ratings)
    Availability
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    9.1
    (1 ratings)
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    Performance
    -
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    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Support Rating
    -
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    8.6
    (52 ratings)
    9.8
    (4 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
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    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Online Training
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    9.1
    (1 ratings)
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    Implementation Rating
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    9.1
    (4 ratings)
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    Ease of integration
    -
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    9.1
    (1 ratings)
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    Product Scalability
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    9.1
    (1 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    Azure StorSimpleCommvault CloudCove Data Protection
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Microsoft
    Onsite storage needs and backing up to Azure.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Commvault
    Commvault works well in a large environments with a variety of client types and data classes. With its policy-based configurations, it makes administration of large environments easier when configuring storage and retention, copies, schedules, client configs, etc. Commvault also backs up just about everything you can think of, and works with almost all storage and compute platforms, so there are rarely any cases where Commvault cannot accommodate.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    N-able
    Solarwinds Backup is ideal for individuals looking to keep a consistent backup of devices in their environment. We used it primarily for networking equipment. It is easy to set up, as it is one of the steps available when adding a new device to solarwinds. It is probably not an ideal product to use for long-term (1 month+) backups.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Pros
    Microsoft
    • Performance via the SSD drives.
    • Writes back to our Private Cloud via Azure.
    • Easy to Admin via Web client interface.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Commvault
    • Commvault is the Swiss Army knife for data protection in an Enterprise environment. You name the environment and Commvvault has something to protect it. Very helpful in this on-prem/off-prem world that is developing into a DevOps world.
    • Improves our Disaster Recovery
    • Starting to utilize for data migration for VMware in places where Zerto is too expensive
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    N-able
    • Backup Reporting: Email alerts, and a great, easy to read Dashboard with detailed error logs and an easy to search Solarwinds FAQ for a lot of them.
    • Restores: So far I have restored files, full VMs, and VMs to other hardware, and so far it has not only been flawless, but so flexible that I can't imagine going back to any other software.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Cons
    Microsoft
    • Additional fail-over functionality
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Commvault
    • For database restores, it has to restore the entire database in order to recover just one table.
    • Backups of virtual machines with direct attached storage is difficult.
    • I wish it covered cloud assets more thoroughly, like AWS ELBs and Security Groups.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    N-able
    • Restore complete settings: IP settings, the setting of CPU/Memory for VMs, etc. would decrease management during a restore.
    • Individual file backup: more granular settings for backup.
    • Change of device name after setup: at times, computer names change after restore so it would be great to rename the device name.
    • Option to recovery security key.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Likelihood to Renew
    Microsoft
    If I wanted to use just onsite storage the StorSimple device is already paid for.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Commvault
    It is serving it's purpose and for companies that have a smaller IT staff, it is not time consuming to manage. Support for the product when needed has been very good and they are responsive when tickets are opened for support. The product is scalable so as we grow we can easily increase the resources as needed on the backend.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    N-able
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Commvault
    Have a interface very user friendly. You do not need a lot of training, or any formal training really, to get up and going and use nearly all of the functionality of the product. This facilitates the post-implementation company as it reduces costs with backup specialists and any trained analyst can take care of its infrastructure. One negative point is not all the options and features are in the HTML view.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    N-able
    Cove Data Protection is very usable as it's easy to tell that it is made to not only do backup very well, but it's also easy to deploy. The agent-based deployment allows for flexible deployment options while ensuring a minimal amount of manual work is needed on the dashboard end. Recovery is also very easy, especially as it relates to one-off file recovery
    Read full review
    Reliability and Availability
    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Commvault
    Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery is designed to provide organizations with flexible and scalable software.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    N-able
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Commvault
    Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery is designed and provide to organizations with flexible and scalable software
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    N-able
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Commvault
    I would rate Commvault's support as an 'average' support. Now that we have a very experienced guy working with Commvault, most of the time we can fix or do anything by ourselves. We had some issues with their support taking a really long time to respond and fix some issues in the past. In most cases we ended up appealing to the community, other peers, or Commvault's SE team.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    N-able
    We have an Italian support partner, they are been very good b7y the first moment.
    All the partners are followed with a lot of attention, even the little ones.
    there is a site where you can learn everything, the single parts of the product are described perfectly.
    Every it specialist should evaluate it.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    In-Person Training
    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Commvault
    Traning is very easy very helpful
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    N-able
    No answers on this topic
    Online Training
    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Commvault
    Commvault training is very important and very helpful full for immplementation.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    N-able
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Commvault
    Plan well and make sure you collect all the required information and details before going for implementation. Organize it in step by step or break the setup into different modules to make it simple.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    N-able
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Microsoft
    Easy to use and highly compatible with our MSFT Hyper-V environment
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Commvault
    In the past it has been necessary to leverage multiple products to provide a complete data protection solution. Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery has been able to mirror the functions of competitive products while increasing functionality and management. Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery works cleanly in disparate environments that leverage dissimilar technologies and products.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    N-able
    Cove is able to cover all aspects of backup in a single package. From the same dashboard I can check servers, workstations, and even Office 365. Cove is a much better solution in terms of overall management for a company such as ours. It also provides integration options with N-Able's RMM and Take Control solutions. This allows us to offer our customers with a full service suite in a single package.
    Incentivized
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    Scalability
    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Commvault
    Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery is designed to provide organizations with flexible and scalable software
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    N-able
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    Microsoft
    • Great Folks on the MSFT Implementation team
    • Great value on year 2
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Commvault
    • I am not privy to ROI, but just having confidence and trust that Commvault will back up whatever needs backing up, and that we will always be able to restore it quickly, allows our technical people to concentrate on the problem at hand, knowing that we do not have to worry about the safety of the data. This saves time for some very expensive human resources and shortens schedules by eliminating a whole class of data safety and disaster recovery issues.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    N-able
    • There has been NO negative impact to out ROI, but it definitely helps our bottom line. Affordable pricing and solid support make Solarwinds Backup almost a no brainer. That interprets to a growing ROI.
    • The best thing to happen to our ROI is the growth brought in by very happy clients.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
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