BitLocker Drive Encryption vs. Solix Enterprise Data Management Suite (Solix EDMS)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
BitLocker
Score 9.1 out of 10
N/A
Microsoft's BitLocker is an endpoint encryption option.
$100
One Time Fee
Solix EDMS
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
Solix Enterprise Data Management Suite (Solix EDMS) is an information lifecycle management solution, from Solix Technologies in Santa Clara. Solix helps infrastructure and operations leaders implement the right policies, processes, and technology for application decommissioning and data retention, and helps users identify infrequently accessed historic data from production applications, and ‘move’ it to a secure archive with data integrity and access preserved. Solix EDMS also identifies…
$7
per month
Pricing
BitLocker Drive EncryptionSolix Enterprise Data Management Suite (Solix EDMS)
Editions & Modules
Windows 10 Home
$100.00
One Time Fee
Email Archiving
$7
per month
File Archiving
$523
per month
Application Retirement
$723
per month
Database Archiving
$723
per month
Enterprise Archiving
$1,985
per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
BitLockerSolix EDMS
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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User Ratings
BitLocker Drive EncryptionSolix Enterprise Data Management Suite (Solix EDMS)
Likelihood to Recommend
8.1
(11 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.0
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
BitLocker Drive EncryptionSolix Enterprise Data Management Suite (Solix EDMS)
Likelihood to Recommend
Microsoft
It is well suited especially for users that access or store sensitive/confidential data on their computers. In the case of where users are accessing confidential data over the network, it is highly recommended to use Bitlocker to encrypt the computer. In the case where users are storing confidential data on their computer, it should be a requirement that BitLocker is used/enabled. It would be less appropriate if someone was using a computer and they were not dealing with any sensitive data, or in cases where the computer is used for recreational purposes (browsing the web, playing games, etc).
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Solix Technologies
Solix EDMS is the recognized global provider of enterprise data management solutions for information lifecycle management and compliance. It helps data migration for [application] sunsetting and upgrades, reduce storage, and secures sensitive data. Solix is considered a pioneer in providing a complete infrastructure platform to manage data across [applications], e-mail, and documents in an enterprise.
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Pros
Microsoft
  • Encrypts the entire drive and provides a high level of security.
  • In an Active Directory environment, you can set up BitLocker to automatically save keys to AD.
  • As part of Windows, no additional licensing costs.
  • Set up and configuration is relatively easy.
  • Uses TPM module to increase security.
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Solix Technologies
  • Automates the process for archiving and purging of historical data.
  • Helps towards greater business agility without spending a fortune on servers and storage.
  • It is the foundation for E-Discovery through long-term data retention, data masking, database audit, and enterprise search.
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Cons
Microsoft
  • Even if it's the best we tested, I think write performance could be improved. Maybe with dedicated hardware inside the TPM?
  • No integration with OS password is a shame as most others have it and it is Microsoft on Microsoft so they can probably do it better then anyone else and safer.
  • I wish they would support multiple passwords like FileVault on macOS. If it's a shared computer, you have to give the only password to Bitlocker to both users.
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Solix Technologies
  • Still some minor upgrade on indexes of records.
  • It was a bit tough to get started so user onboarding could be improved.
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Usability
Microsoft
Very easy to enable.
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Solix Technologies
No answers on this topic
Support Rating
Microsoft
Not good nor bad, BitLocker encryption is a symptom of our era, we need to protect ourselves and our data, BitLocker is a tool, as an IT we have to deal with it but it doesn't bring any benefit to my daily operations.
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Solix Technologies
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
Microsoft
BitLocker Drive Encryption solution offering is cheaper than the one that McAfee offers, it will help you with specific business concerns like "how many encrypted assets do I have?" it's easy to maintain, easy to deploy, and easy to track. It's best suited for companies that are not trying to go far away on the disk encryption matter
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Solix Technologies
At the core of Solix EDMS is the Solix Enterprise Metadata Manager which manages multiple applications metadata for all data types independent of the hardware platforms. By implementing Solix, companies will keep data growth in check and lower storage costs, and improve overall system and reporting performance.
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Return on Investment
Microsoft
  • The biggest positive impact it has on ROI is the cost savings, since there is no cost to using the software.
  • Since it's widely available to anyone with a Windows computer, and the program is built into the operating system, there is no need to really install anything. This helps to save time of the IT department having to do installs, and also keep track of licensing, etc.
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Solix Technologies
  • Helps create rapid database subsets for test and development.
  • Benefitted from faster backup and recovery.
  • Helped towards greater business agility without spending a fortune on servers and storage.
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