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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

    Cove Data Protection

    Score8.4 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

    Unitrends

    Score7.7 out of 10
    N/AThe Unitrends Recovery Series Backup Appliances are hardware developed for data backup and management. They cover enterprise backup, ransomware detection, recovery assurance, proactive monitoring, and cloud continuity into a single platform for organizations of all sizes.N/A
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    Azure StorSimpleCove Data ProtectionUnitrends
    Editions & Modules
    Virtual Appliance
    $4.11
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    Cloud Array
    $4.11
    Per Day
    Physical Appliance
    $43.84
    Per Day
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    Free Trial
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    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeOptional
    Additional Details—Cove 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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    N-able
    Chose Cove Data Protection
    Works well. Easy to use. If you use Ncentral, it's already tied in and even easier to deploy. Cloud storage is more expensive than competitors. There is no easy option to offload your backups to AWS, etc. It can create a local speed vault to have local backups as well. …
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    Features
    Azure StorSimpleCove Data ProtectionUnitrends
    Data Center Backup
    Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Azure StorSimple and Cove Data Protection and Unitrends
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    Azure StorSimple
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    Ratings
    Cove Data Protection
    9.5
    19 Ratings
    12% above category average
    Unitrends
    7.5
    360 Ratings
    11% below category average
    Universal recovery00 Ratings8.616 Ratings6.8302 Ratings
    Instant recovery00 Ratings9.515 Ratings8.7290 Ratings
    Recovery verification00 Ratings9.617 Ratings7.3288 Ratings
    Business application protection00 Ratings8.916 Ratings6.5262 Ratings
    Multiple backup destinations00 Ratings8.817 Ratings8.0268 Ratings
    Incremental backup identification00 Ratings9.817 Ratings8.3338 Ratings
    Backup to the cloud00 Ratings10.018 Ratings6.5213 Ratings
    Deduplication and file compression00 Ratings10.018 Ratings8.0326 Ratings
    Snapshots00 Ratings10.012 Ratings7.3243 Ratings
    Flexible deployment00 Ratings9.017 Ratings7.37 Ratings
    Management dashboard00 Ratings9.619 Ratings6.17 Ratings
    Platform support00 Ratings8.918 Ratings9.07 Ratings
    Retention options00 Ratings10.019 Ratings7.57 Ratings
    Encryption00 Ratings9.918 Ratings8.36 Ratings
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    Azure StorSimpleCove Data ProtectionUnitrends
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    User Testimonials
    Azure StorSimpleCove Data ProtectionUnitrends
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Microsoft
    Onsite storage needs and backing up to Azure.
    Incentivized
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    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
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    Kaseya
    We have a traditional stack and pretty typical needs as a manufacturer. I have used and evaluated everything out there, but the Unitrends solution fits very well and was competitively priced. I would think if it fits us, it could fit anyone like us with a similar stack.
    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.
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    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.
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    Kaseya
    • It has fully automated and customizable dashboards that can run with less administrative attention.
    • It should be able to run on virtual machines or be deployed as a virtual machine within MS Azure or AWS.
    • It's AI-based ransomware detection helps to understand data characteristics and alerts for ransomware attacks.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Microsoft
    • Additional fail-over functionality
    Incentivized
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    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
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    Kaseya
    • Errors on backup jobs could be more clearly explained. As the administrator of the device for my company, I often don't know what caused an error, and can't tell from the error information what happened or caused the error.
    • Updates of the devices should have an automatic option. It takes to much time to do an update to the devices if updates haven't been maintained.
    • Shutdown and restarting the device should be available from the main UI screen to eliminate some time when doing updates or if you're doing some maintenance on the device.
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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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    N-able
    No answers on this topic
    Kaseya
    We have grown very attached to the Unitrends appliances and their use for recovery and other file restoration needs as well as data archival, data replication to other appliance and data migration to other servers or long term storage requirements. The appliances work well and the support for them is very good as well.
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    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
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    Kaseya
    I have never used such an easy product that is stable and scalable like Unitrends. I have been running backups for MANY years. On premise, tape, disk, cloud, you name it. Unitrends is very flexible, stable and has incredible reporting features. It's nice when management requests a report and it takes you 5 minutes to run it and dump it to PDF. How can you beat that?
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    Reliability and Availability
    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    N-able
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    Kaseya
    The appliances have been there when we need them and have rarely if ever gone down. Hardware issues have been resolved quickly.
    Incentivized
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    Performance
    Microsoft
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    N-able
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    Kaseya
    The hardware is adequate and speedy. The user interface responds quickly. Backups complete quickly.
    Incentivized
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    Support Rating
    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    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.
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    Kaseya
    They're incredible, attentive, thorough. They make sure my issue is resolved and follow up. I'm usually behind on giving them a reply or an update. They have always gone above and beyond for me, and I'll continue to do the same for them.
    Incentivized
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    Online Training
    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    N-able
    No answers on this topic
    Kaseya
    It was sufficient to get started. It was not super deep. We called support often to get going.
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    Implementation Rating
    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    N-able
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    Kaseya
    The Unitrends employees involved in the installation were very friendly and knowledgeable. A certain degree of hiccups can be expected during any installation but never shook my confidence because of the friendly and knowledgeable team that was assigned to my project.
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    Microsoft
    Easy to use and highly compatible with our MSFT Hyper-V environment
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    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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    Kaseya
    Symantec Backup Exec was the primary tool used for backups for years. We also used Veeam for some Office 365/Exchange backups. Unitrends once configured and set up works very well against the competition. Backup Exec interface was more user friendly. The search tool for exploring backups was much better than Unitrends as well. Unitrends is much faster if you need to restore an entire VM or large file folders. Also once you have Unitrends all set up, it is very low maintenance, it just works. If something fails 9/10 it will correct itself on the next backup that is scheduled to run
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    Scalability
    Microsoft
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    N-able
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    Kaseya
    Once you exceed the capacity of the appliances, you have to forklift a new appliance. This is very expensive.
    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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    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
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    Kaseya
    • It has saved some deleted file server data for our business department.
    • We have lost some reports for the business department due to an overlooked setting that make the backup reports look great, but the server was not being backed up in reality.
    • Less anxiety for the IT department, we have backup plan and that is worth a lot to us.
    Incentivized
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