Carbonite Availability vs. Quest Migration Manager & Migrator

I believe it would work well with continuous replication in a DR scenario with no time limits and having the ability to fail back is a bonus, but in a one off move the decision to restrict the time it can sync for has proven to be an issue for us.

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Dell ChangeBASE is well suited in migrating an OS to a new version, or 32/64-bit. It's also helpful when virtualizating workstations into Thin Clients for use with Citrix or other thin provisioning services.

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• A product is worthless in my opinion if you don't have a great support team to work with. I've had issues with replication jobs that were resolved quickly and easily by the support team.
• DR - Doubletake is the only tool that I'm aware of that can handle DR replication of both physical and virtual environments. There sre others, but they use a snapshot technology, where doubletake has continuous replication of data.
• Move - we have moved physical and virtual environments from around the world without ever having to leave the office. One of the companies we migrated started off with their equipment in Switzerland, and after the servers were in a fully protected state in the US, that failover to the new location took 45 min.

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• OS Patch Testing - We further used this to test Microsoft's Patch Tuesday releases before we put them in production.
• Web Dashboard - The latest version added a fully customization dashboard with widgets to give you an at-a-glance view.
• Application comparability - We used this to test our Windows XP to Windows 7 migration.

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• The initial set-up can be challenging in some regard.
• Would like to see version updates that support all OS. Unfortunately we use several OS and are on an older version with 7 of our 8 servers.
• Will be doing the upgrades to version 8 shortly and hope the software is compatible with all OS.

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• Initial setup can be tricky - We needed to contact support for some help.
• Prior to the latest version, there wasn't an easy way to view all of our results. The new dashboard has rectified this.

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Cabonite Availability is a very practical and useful tool that can help any business weather any type of IT disaster. The ease and quickness of restoring data helps us provide as seamless an experience as possible. Many times our customers will never know there was an outage. This brings confidence in our brand and improves our organization's standing and reputation.

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Once through to support it is very good and they have assisted us through a number of issues. I don't always think that they provide a solution, more a workaround, but in a move situation where each copy is moving once, that isn't an issue. I'd be more concerned if we were using it to manage a DR scenario.

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It is better for critical apps than Veeam due to the lower RPO. Veeam is favoured by some customers due to it's attractive price point. Zerto is a very strong product and is innovating continuously. I don't see so much of this from DoubleTake.

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Dell ChangeBASE is more costly when compared to Admin Studio, I believe the price was almost double. However, Admin Studio did not provide a comfortable level of support and we felt we were in better hands with Dell's patching schedule. Admin Studio wasn't able to answer our question on when they released software updates and how complex an upgrade would be.

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• From data recovery perspective for customers- Carbonite DoubleTake is a good solution.
• The honest price for Carbonite DoubleTake and for the ROI -it's a good transaction for the customer.

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• ROI was seen after 10 months of use.
• Greatly sped up the application testing process by several weeks, and allowed our existing development team to continue working on other projects.

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