Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage vs. Hornetsecurity VM Backup vs. Scality ARTESCA

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage
Score 8.6 out of 10
N/A
Backblaze, headquartered in San Mateo, provides cloud storage and online backup, boasting trust with over an exabyte of data from customers in 175 countries. A backup service specialist, Backblaze describes their B2 cloud object storage service as S3 compatible and purpose built to provide simplicity, reliability, and affordability. B2 Cloud Storage is available at $0.005/GB/Month, with single-tier pricing.
$6
per month per TB
Hornetsecurity VM Backup
Score 8.7 out of 10
N/A
Hornetsecurity VM Backup (formerly Altaro) is a backup and replication solution for Hyper-V and VMware virtual machines. VM Backup can manage large infrastructures, with the revamped backup repository providing long-term storage and more efficient use of disk space.
$59.80
per VM/per year
Scality ARTESCA
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
Scality in San Francisco offers scalable file and object storage for media, healthcare, cloud service providers, and others.N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Subscription License - Standard Edition
$59.80
per VM/per year
Subscription License - Unlimited Edition
$73.80
per VM/per year
Subscription License - Unlimited Plus Edition
$89.20
per VM/per year
Perpetual License - Standard Edition
$595
per host
Perpetual License - Unlimited Edition
$695
per host
Perpetual License - Unlimited Plus Edition
$875
per host
Free
Free
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
NoYesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesYesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsTwo pricing models are available: consumption-based pay-as-you-go, and capacity-based storage bundles. Pay-as-you-go consumption-based cloud storage costs $6/TB per month, with your first 10GB free. Egress is free up to 3x of average monthly data stored, and unlimited to many leading content delivery network (CDN) and compute partners. Capacity-based storage, called B2 Reserve, is designed for companies looking for all-inclusive pricing on a single invoice. Storage bundles start at 20TB and can be purchased for one, two, or three years. Egress is always free.Contact vendor for booking demo and pricing information.
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Community Pulse
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Features
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File Sharing & Management
Comparison of File Sharing & Management features of Product A and Product B
Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage
7.9
5 Ratings
5% below category average
Hornetsecurity VM Backup
-
Ratings
Scality ARTESCA
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Ratings
Versioning7.95 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Video files8.64 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Audio files8.64 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Document collaboration7.01 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Access control7.94 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
File search5.03 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Device sync10.02 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Cloud Storage Security & Administration
Comparison of Cloud Storage Security & Administration features of Product A and Product B
Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage
8.0
5 Ratings
8% below category average
Hornetsecurity VM Backup
-
Ratings
Scality ARTESCA
-
Ratings
User and role management7.94 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
File organization6.04 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Device management10.02 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Cloud Storage Platform
Comparison of Cloud Storage Platform features of Product A and Product B
Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage
9.3
5 Ratings
7% above category average
Hornetsecurity VM Backup
-
Ratings
Scality ARTESCA
-
Ratings
Performance8.85 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Reliability9.25 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Storage Reports10.02 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Center Backup
Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Product A and Product B
Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage
-
Ratings
Hornetsecurity VM Backup
9.5
1 Ratings
10% above category average
Scality ARTESCA
-
Ratings
Universal recovery00 Ratings10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Instant recovery00 Ratings8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Recovery verification00 Ratings10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Business application protection00 Ratings8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Multiple backup destinations00 Ratings10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Incremental backup identification00 Ratings10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Backup to the cloud00 Ratings10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Deduplication and file compression00 Ratings10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Snapshots00 Ratings7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Flexible deployment00 Ratings10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Management dashboard00 Ratings10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform support00 Ratings10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Retention options00 Ratings10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Encryption00 Ratings10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Enterprise Backup
Comparison of Enterprise Backup features of Product A and Product B
Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage
-
Ratings
Hornetsecurity VM Backup
9.0
1 Ratings
6% above category average
Scality ARTESCA
-
Ratings
Continuous data protection00 Ratings10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Replication00 Ratings10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Operational reporting and analytics00 Ratings6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Malware protection00 Ratings10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Multi-location capabilities00 Ratings8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Ransomware Recovery00 Ratings10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
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Score 4.1 out of 10
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Score 9.1 out of 10
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Score 9.0 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Druva Security Cloud
Druva Security Cloud
Score 9.4 out of 10
Druva Security Cloud
Druva Security Cloud
Score 9.4 out of 10
Azure Blob Storage
Azure Blob Storage
Score 9.0 out of 10
Enterprises
Druva Security Cloud
Druva Security Cloud
Score 9.4 out of 10
Druva Security Cloud
Druva Security Cloud
Score 9.4 out of 10
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Score 9.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
Backblaze B2 Cloud StorageHornetsecurity VM BackupScality ARTESCA
Likelihood to Recommend
8.8
(6 ratings)
9.0
(13 ratings)
8.0
(3 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
8.8
(3 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(10 ratings)
8.9
(2 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
Backblaze
Providing the option of purchasing a much longer archive if desired or limiting the length of time in maintaining what's been saved is brilliant. It makes all the sense in the world. At the very least, unless the retention period is clearly mandated somehow, it causes a decision maker (especially a small business owner) to think strategically about what the storage needs truly are.
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Hornetsecurity Inc.
Do you have VMWare? Yes I can back it up. Do you have Hyper-V? Yes I can back it up. That in itself should speak for itself. Altaro has really given a great deal into their software, not only making it easy to use, BUT also a really good and reliable product where you can support your workloads hassle-free, and super lightweight
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Scality
The team in charge of implementing Scality has to be full stack in order to guarantee the correct functioning of the entire system. However, you have to think very carefully about the balance between servers and disks, perhaps adopting smaller fully populated servers instead of large semi-populated servers, which would mean that over time our disk updates will not have a fully useful life.
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Pros
Backblaze
  • Tight integration with OEM backup application
  • Among the lowest price per TB cloud backup provider
  • AWS S3 service integration
  • Optional services for initial seeding of large backup data sets
  • Optional services for physical backup retrieval to speed up recovery
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Hornetsecurity Inc.
  • Fast and simple setup. I didn't need to read through ANY documentation to set up and have a backup running.
  • Easy and cost-effective licensing. I didn't need to count CPU's or VM's or other random facts to work out my licensing. Just how many hosts, and then one of 3 feature levels of which two have unlimited VM licensing. Hosts x Feature Set = Cost.
  • Easy Restores. Backing up is one thing, but restoring and having confidence in the restore is another. It just works, simple and effective.
  • Help is easy to find if you need it. From within the app, it gives you options of email, phone, and live chat, which is usually available even with odd time zones in play.
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Scality
  • I love the redundancy of the software.
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Cons
Backblaze
  • Deleting the data is not simpler and requires manual intervention
  • Integration with third party tools needs much improvement as there are very less tools that can be integrated.
  • Fewer data centres presently that restrict options to meet specific geographic redundancy or data sovereignty requirements.
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Hornetsecurity Inc.
  • More cloud-based storage options. Currently, only Azure is supported, which is excellent, but it would be good to have AWS and Google storage options too.
  • It would be AWESOME if they could do a restore from Azure cloud direct to an Azure VM instance. Currently, you need to set up an Azure VM machine with nested Hyper-V, install Altaro on that, and then restore into a nested VM, this gets crazy expensive.
  • Better notification of errors, or more around having a threshold, so if it misses one backup of a constant backup that happens every 5 minutes but recovers at the 10 minutes back, it is ok. Just think it needs to identify significant or long-running issues better than the occasional little issues.
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Scality
  • The overall packaging is not very good. I think it could be more efficient for installation.
  • There are many components in storage servers. This can generally be complex to understand, you have to be patient.
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Likelihood to Renew
Backblaze
No answers on this topic
Hornetsecurity Inc.
It simply works and it is making our lives easier. The renewal process is also really good
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Scality
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Usability
Backblaze
Since Backblaze added S3 compatibility a few years ago, it's become the most perfect online backup solution.
I also like their transparency in describing their platform and the reports of hard drive reliability are very interesting.
The free egress is priceless, too.
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Hornetsecurity Inc.
A lot of people in the technical industry deliver what I would call snack crackle pop topics, where the software gets over complicated, and they drown people in all the "fancy" features. Altaro, from my point of view" has designed the software to be super usable, easy to implement, as well as support. It is really one of the best designs
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Scality
As an organization, it took us a while to understand the shift from a traditional black box SAN to software-defined storage, but now we are much more certain of what this means. The time invested and the resources were not very high, thanks on the one hand to the technical support and on the other to the coherence and good development of the platform.
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Support Rating
Backblaze
No answers on this topic
Hornetsecurity Inc.
One of the most important benefits of the Altaro HyperV backup solution is the support. From the free edition, you're able to chat with the support that can assist you in a remote session an find a quick solution that solves the issue. It is always available. The email support is also.
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Scality
I have seen Scality in the office meeting with our VP and get the feeling that they are here to support us.
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Implementation Rating
Backblaze
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Hornetsecurity Inc.
Altaro has really designed their product so well that you can honestly implement this within a couple of minutes
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Scality
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Alternatives Considered
Backblaze
Backblaze is definitely the cheapest and most cost effective out of the 6 other services I've used in the past. For personal use, they are by and away the best service available. For business use, I believe they are a very strong contender to be the #3 guys behind AWS and Linode.
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Hornetsecurity Inc.
The only other competitor I am personally familiar with is Carbonite. I use that for file-level backups throughout my network and it works well but while it does offer backups for virtual machines, I have never found it to be a reliable option. Jobs failed for me regularly for no apparent reason. In the handful of times I have needed support, they were helpful and straight-forward.
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Scality
Due to the nature of our business we require extensive encryption and availability for sensitive customer data. The erasure encoding that Scality provides gives us the assurance that documents are rest are never in a state of being downloaded or available to a casual data thief. This is something that can be found with other vendors but at a fraction of the same cost. Having this kind of performance, availability and redundancy at the cost that Scality provides has made a large difference to our organization.
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Return on Investment
Backblaze
  • Difficult to quantify the peace of mind Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage services provides.
  • Based on the reported experiences of other Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage clients, recovery has been smooth. We have not yet had the need to use that function.
  • Because Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage's service has been seamless, I feel much more confident in their ability to deliver what they promise when we have the need to expand or enhance what we are purchasing from them.
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Hornetsecurity Inc.
  • Restoring our primary ERP VM has already saved many hours of rebuilding from data backups, so that in itself already gave us an excellent ROI for having Altaro running.
  • The quick and easy setup also makes sense for a fast ROI as we didn't need to spend much time or effort in its set up.
  • Lastly, any other restores we have done for retrieving files or testing backups were so simple and easy to do that the process didn't take long and saved us time and cost.
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Scality
  • Keeping sensitive customer data secure is a must for our organization and Scality has great features to make this happen.
  • We replaced a single SAN with a Scality ring and found performance to improve as we store more and more customer data.
  • Being able to lose various portions of our Scality ring and allow it to continue to service customers while maintaining high performance has been key to our business.
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ScreenShots

Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage Screenshots

Screenshot of Files are stored in BucketsScreenshot of B2 Cloud Storage Dashboard