Azure StorSimple vs. N2WS Backup & Recovery

Azure StorSimple

Azure StorSimple

4 Reviews and Ratings

N2WS Backup & Recovery

N2WS Backup & Recovery

1 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
N2WS Backup & Recovery	Score 9.0 out of 10	N/A	N2WS Backup & Recovery is a lightweight tool built to integrate into any enterprise AWS environment.	$199 per month

Pricing

Azure StorSimple

N2WS Backup & Recovery

Editions & Modules

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

Basic: $199
per month

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Azure StorSimple	N2WS Backup & Recovery
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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More Pricing Information

Community Pulse
	Azure StorSimple	N2WS Backup & Recovery

Features

Azure StorSimple

N2WS Backup & Recovery

Data Center Backup

Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Product A and Product B
	Azure StorSimple - Ratings	N2WS Backup & Recovery 8.6 1 Ratings 2% above category average
Universal recovery	00 Ratings	10.01 Ratings
Instant recovery	00 Ratings	9.01 Ratings
Recovery verification	00 Ratings	9.01 Ratings
Business application protection	00 Ratings	9.01 Ratings
Multiple backup destinations	00 Ratings	9.01 Ratings
Incremental backup identification	00 Ratings	9.01 Ratings
Backup to the cloud	00 Ratings	8.01 Ratings
Deduplication and file compression	00 Ratings	9.01 Ratings
Snapshots	00 Ratings	8.01 Ratings
Flexible deployment	00 Ratings	9.01 Ratings
Management dashboard	00 Ratings	8.01 Ratings
Platform support	00 Ratings	8.01 Ratings
Retention options	00 Ratings	8.01 Ratings
Encryption	00 Ratings	8.01 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	Azure StorSimple	N2WS Backup & Recovery
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User Ratings
	Azure StorSimple	N2WS Backup & Recovery
Likelihood to Recommend	9.0 (1 ratings)	9.0 (1 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	10.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Azure StorSimple	N2WS Backup & Recovery
Likelihood to Recommend	Microsoft Onsite storage needs and backing up to Azure. Incentivized Scott Lerner Director of IT Read full review	N2W Software, Inc. N2WS Backup & Recovery is well suited for backing up aws and aws related services and workloads. The backup management is very easier using N2WS backup and recovery, restores are also fast and N2WS Backup & Recovery provides option to restore to different regions as well and that helps in Disaster recovery kind of testing scenarios Incentivized Verified User Anonymous 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	N2W Software, Inc. Faster Backup Faster restores Easier BackupManagement Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	Microsoft Additional fail-over functionality Incentivized Scott Lerner Director of IT Read full review	N2W Software, Inc. GUI can be improved Physical and Vmware servers backup Complexity of permissions Incentivized Verified User Anonymous 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	N2W Software, Inc. 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	N2W Software, Inc. For AWS based workloads N2WS Backup & Recovery suited best comparing the features and compatibility from the compared applications for backup testing. N2WS Backup & Recovery implementation is also faster and easy to setup. Restores is faster and also provided options to recover to different regions which is not available with the other backup applications at a easy level Incentivized Verified User Anonymous 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	N2W Software, Inc. Easier management Faster restores Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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