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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Barracuda Backup

    Score7.9 out of 10
    N/ADesigned to be simple to configure and manage, the scalable Barracuda Backup solution is offered via a capacity-based, all-inclusive subscription model allows you to pay for only what you need to protect today, avoiding large upfront hardware costs.N/A

    Microsoft System Center

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft System Center is an enterprise-grade IT Operations Management (ITOM) suite designed for the centralized administration of data center infrastructure, virtualized environments, and hybrid cloud workloads. The platform provides unified management across heterogeneous environments, including support for Windows Server, Linux, and Azure Stack HCI. System Center is Microsoft's ITOM stack for organizations that maintain a significant on-premise footprint, vs the company's Azure-based…

    $1,323

    per month

    OpenText Core Cloud-to-Cloud Backup

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AOpenText Core Cloud-to-Cloud Backup, formerly from Carbonite, includes comprehensive, automatic backup and recovery for Microsoft 365, SharePoint, Google Workspace, Salesforce, Box and Dropbox.N/A
    Pricing
    Barracuda BackupMicrosoft System CenterOpenText Core Cloud-to-Cloud Backup
    Editions & Modules
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    Standard Edition
    $1323
    Datacenter Edition
    $3607
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Barracuda BackupMicrosoft System CenterOpenText Core Cloud-to-Cloud Backup
    Free Trial
    NoNoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Barracuda BackupMicrosoft System CenterOpenText Core Cloud-to-Cloud Backup
    Considered Multiple Products
    Barracuda Networks Inc.
    Chose Barracuda Backup
    We actually ran both of these systems at once to provide end to end coverage. This worked extremely well for our internal email systems and provided great protection for our end users and great backups of all messages to and from the corporation. The combination of these two …
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    Microsoft
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    OpenText
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    86%
    Would buy again
    12 Answers
    91%
    Would buy again
    31 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    86%
    Delivers good value for the price
    12 Answers
    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
    33 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    86%
    Happy with the feature set
    12 Answers
    91%
    Happy with the feature set
    31 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    91%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    10 Answers
    95%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    21 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
    92%
    Implementation went as expected
    12 Answers
    97%
    Implementation went as expected
    28 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    Barracuda BackupMicrosoft System CenterOpenText Core Cloud-to-Cloud Backup
    Data Center Backup
    Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Barracuda Backup and Microsoft System Center and OpenText Core Cloud-to-Cloud Backup
    Feature
    Barracuda Backup
    9.0
    37 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Microsoft System Center
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    Ratings
    OpenText Core Cloud-to-Cloud Backup
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    Ratings
    Universal recovery8.030 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Instant recovery8.532 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Recovery verification9.632 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Business application protection8.025 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multiple backup destinations8.634 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Incremental backup identification8.735 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Backup to the cloud9.536 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Deduplication and file compression10.037 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Snapshots9.328 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Flexible deployment9.821 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Management dashboard8.423 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform support8.923 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Retention options9.123 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Encryption9.019 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Barracuda BackupMicrosoft System CenterOpenText Core Cloud-to-Cloud Backup
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.6
    (37 ratings)
    9.3
    (58 ratings)
    9.9
    (2 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    9.1
    (6 ratings)
    8.4
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Availability
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
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    Performance
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
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    (0 ratings)
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    Support Rating
    9.2
    (7 ratings)
    9.0
    (14 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Ease of integration
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Product Scalability
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
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    Vendor post-sale
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
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    Vendor pre-sale
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    User Testimonials
    Barracuda BackupMicrosoft System CenterOpenText Core Cloud-to-Cloud Backup
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Barracuda Networks Inc.
    If you are a small business with a few machines and your backups aren't of servers that are public facing. If you had to restore a server from backup, it would take a day at least. So, if the server being restored was public facing, that may impact customer relations.
    Incentivized
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    Microsoft
    For companies with more than 10 Windows devices and needing to standardize the OS, AV, access, share resources, and install software. SCCM is the way to go. This software is unnecessary if the business is all remote users and not in an office-type setting. There are cloud offerings or none to accomplish what a business needs.
    Incentivized
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    OpenText
    If you need to send information to someone and you don't want others to see in case the wrong person gets it, that you can encrypt it and just make sure the person has the password to open it. This program makes it very easy to send emails to others and inform people when you are away and when you will be available upon return.
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    Pros
    Barracuda Networks Inc.
    • Set and Forget. I rarely have to touch the Backup Servers. Once you specify your criteria, you really don't need to change it unless you have a physical change.
    • Alerts. When there are issues such as files failing to backup or a directory no longer present, you get an email giving you all the information you need. In addition you will typically get contacted by support about it.
    • Recovery is very simple. The restore browser is very good and it's just easy to find and restore data when you need it.
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    Microsoft
    • Allows the grouping of devices by user.
    • Allows controlling updates being deployed to user devices.
    • Allows for the repurposing of machines by being able to load new or updated software on machines that already are in the system.
    • Allows us the ability to wipe a machine clean and restore it back to the configuration that was assigned the machine.
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    OpenText
    • User profile data
    • Real time backup of all things
    • Nano speed recovery
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    Cons
    Barracuda Networks Inc.
    • The pricing solution has gone from allowing on-premise ownership to forced cloud extortion. Basically, if you buy now you will be ok, but those of us who "owned" our solution previously are now forced to subscribe to the cloud model or be stuck with a brick.
    • Speed of recovery could be improved.
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    Microsoft
    • The product could improve in the area of having better mechanisms in place with how the SCEP client is deployed/installed from the server on the management side. We have run into this firsthand with the client not installing on an endpoint, and then having to take the time to investigate why it was not installing.
    • A second improvement that can be made is to keep trying to improve the products detection rate for finding malware/viruses. The case can be made that there are some products out there that do a better job at this and have a higher detection rate.
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    OpenText
    • More vocabulary to choose from when needing a different word to complete a sentence.
    • For example, when you point the arrow over Review that a list will appear for what is listed under that section as oppose to having to click on it.
    • Have a button that you can click on to demonstration how to use something for example graphs.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Barracuda Networks Inc.
    Love the units
    Incentivized
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    Microsoft
    Microsoft System Center Operations Manager is tightly integrated to Microsoft Windows servers os monitoring with great product support.
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    OpenText
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    Barracuda Networks Inc.
    Dashboards and interfaces within Barracuda Backup are very easy to navigate, with clear success/warnings shown. Setting up backup jobs is probably one of the most simplest tasks - compared to competitors we trialed. Trouble shooting backup issues is also simple due to clear errors (VSS errors shown in a understandable format for example)
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    Microsoft
    It is not user-friendly for the most part. With IT infrastructure, sometimes it cannot handle excess requests. Every few months, you will need an upgrade in terms of server resources to keep up with incoming alerts and requests. This does not happen all of the time, but it does happen when there are too many requests.
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    OpenText
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Barracuda Networks Inc.
    They are always quick to get you routed to a tech support person and always get follow up after contacting them. Last experience was amazing, she adjusted my boxes and they perform even better. I cannot say enough about the support. We had some trouble with one of the windows servers leaving the volume shadow copy out there and would fail. They worked with us to adjust and get working. After that it has been months since I have had to do anything with the server to keep the backups running.
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    Microsoft
    There is a fair amount of documentation out there to help you when you have questions or run into issues with this product as well as tutorials on some of the more common tasks. Between the documentation and the overall ease of use we haven't had to deal with direct Microsoft support for this product.
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    OpenText
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    Barracuda Networks Inc.
    Work on a backup agent for Mac OS X or any Apple OS.
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    Microsoft
    Easy to install with intuitive interactive interface during the installation process a and integration to MS SQL was smooth
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    OpenText
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    Alternatives Considered
    Barracuda Networks Inc.
    Each backup solution has its pros and cons, and each customer has their needs, and budget constraints. Barracuda Backup has helped us dramatically in the area of being able to provide customers a cost-effective solution, that's easy to manage and is one of those things you're not having to check on daily, or switch out backup tapes, or hard drives.
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    Microsoft
    We previously used a mix of FOG and Clonezilla to image machines. The biggest issues with these products is that changing one piece of the image required you to rebuild the entire image itself. These pieces of software also did not allow you to manage applications and Windows Updates, causing IT to have to constantly touch machines after they were imaged and update or manage them with a much more hands on approach.
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    OpenText
    Super slow, often corrupted data, Carbonite is such a better engine and architecture.
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    Return on Investment
    Barracuda Networks Inc.
    • Countless positive impacts from being able to restore lost or deleted files - or even restoring an entire server.
    • Being able to restore files for users and allowing them to recover lost work or preventing them from having to redo files at any level is priceless. You can't accurately measure lost time of employees having to recreate files. Especially things like 3D drawings and multi-sheet spreadsheet.
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    Microsoft
    • It has allowed the enterprise to standardize on a single platform for monitoring.
    • Easier troubleshooting of issues with Microsoft platforms.
    • Greater visibility of issues across platforms when applications are hosted in a mixed environment.
    • Additional costs for monitoring systems that are not directly supported with additional packs (iSeries, Linux on Power).
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    OpenText
    • Helping busy staff members keep up with dates .
    • The reminders are perfect so you will not miss out on a meeting.
    • Being able to put the Team meeting on the calendar and all the person has to due to click the link to join the meeting. Fantastic!
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