Azure StorSimple vs. CTERA Edge X Series (Cloud Storage Gateways)

Azure StorSimple

Azure StorSimple

4 Reviews and Ratings

CTERA Edge X Series (Cloud Storage Gateways)

CTERA Edge X Series (Cloud Storage Gateways)

3 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Azure StorSimple	Score 7.0 out of 10	N/A	StorSimple 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
CTERA Edge X Series	Score 8.0 out of 10	N/A	Israeli company CTERA offers a cloud storage gateway and NAS appliance the Edge X Series.	N/A

Pricing

Azure StorSimple

CTERA Edge X Series (Cloud Storage Gateways)

Editions & Modules

Virtual Appliance: $4.11
Per Day
Cloud Array: $4.11
Per Day
Physical Appliance: $43.84
Per Day

No answers on this topic

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Azure StorSimple	CTERA Edge X Series
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

No setup fee

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More Pricing Information

Community Pulse
	Azure StorSimple	CTERA Edge X Series (Cloud Storage Gateways)
Top Pros	Pro Private cloud Pro Web client Pro Plug and play	Pro Cloud access Pro File backup
Top Cons	No answers on this topic	Minus Backed up Minus Turn around time Minus Application process

Best Alternatives
	Azure StorSimple	CTERA Edge X Series (Cloud Storage Gateways)
Small Businesses	SugarSync Score 10.0 out of 10	DiskStation Score 9.1 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	Druva Data Resiliency Cloud Score 9.6 out of 10	DiskStation Score 9.1 out of 10
Enterprises	Druva Data Resiliency Cloud Score 9.6 out of 10	DiskStation Score 9.1 out of 10
All Alternatives	View all alternatives	View all alternatives

User Ratings
	Azure StorSimple	CTERA Edge X Series (Cloud Storage Gateways)
Likelihood to Recommend	9.0 (1 ratings)	1.0 (1 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	10.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Azure StorSimple	CTERA Edge X Series (Cloud Storage Gateways)
Likelihood to Recommend	Microsoft Onsite storage needs and backing up to Azure. Incentivized Scott Lerner Director of IT Read full review	CTERA This is all about the selling you a "Device" and prices vary greatly between resellers. The devices work well, but the pure cloud solutions need a lot of work. Lee Taylor CTO 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 Scott Lerner Director of IT Read full review	CTERA Standard File Backup Lee Taylor CTO Read full review
Cons	Microsoft Additional fail-over functionality Incentivized Scott Lerner Director of IT Read full review	CTERA SQL Backups just don't work reliably. For us, we lost all of our SQL data backed up through the CTERA Application process. Although the logs indicated a success, that was really not the case. This came close to putting us out of business. Luckily I had taken a genuine SQL backup to a folder. Unfortunately it was a month old. We had to pick-up the pieces from there. Don't use it for file sync and share. There are better products out there i.e. anchorworks.com Support sucks. Good luck with response time and answers that are inconsistent between team members. For example I had to rebuild a VM from scratch. When I re-installed the CTERA client It obviously thought I was adding another device. When I inquired to tech support, one member said "copy the old Data folder" (I still had the old VHD. That did not work). The other directed me to the correct spot to just change the associated folder. The turn-around time was over 24 hours for this simple fix. Documentation, plenty of fodder but no real tech there. Lee Taylor CTO Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	Microsoft If I wanted to use just onsite storage the StorSimple device is already paid for. Incentivized Scott Lerner Director of IT Read full review	CTERA No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	Microsoft Easy to use and highly compatible with our MSFT Hyper-V environment Incentivized Scott Lerner Director of IT Read full review	CTERA Unfortunately CTERA does not stack up well if you want a pure cloud BDR. I have use iDrive and Asigra. iDrive has similar support and SQL backup issues. Asigra can vary widely in support and price, but the software is solid. Lee Taylor CTO Read full review
Return on Investment	Microsoft Great Folks on the MSFT Implementation team Great value on year 2 Incentivized Scott Lerner Director of IT Read full review	CTERA NONE, it about put us out of business Lee Taylor CTO Read full review
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