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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Cisco CloudLock

    Score10 out of 10
    N/ACloudLock is a cloud security option acquired by Cisco in August 2016.N/A

    CTERA Edge X Series (discontinued)

    Score8 out of 10
    N/ACTERA offered a cloud storage gateway and NAS appliance the Edge X Series. The product line has been discontinued.N/A
    Pricing
    Cisco CloudLockCTERA Edge X Series (discontinued)
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Cisco CloudLockCTERA Edge X Series (discontinued)
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Cisco CloudLockCTERA Edge X Series (discontinued)
    Considered Both Products
    Cisco
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    Discontinued Products
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    5 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    5 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    5 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    5 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    5 Answers
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    Best Alternatives
    Cisco CloudLockCTERA Edge X Series (discontinued)
    Small Businesses
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    DiskStation
    Score8.8 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
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    DiskStation
    Score8.8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    No answers on this topic
    DiskStation
    Score8.8 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Cisco CloudLockCTERA Edge X Series (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (5 ratings)
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Cisco CloudLockCTERA Edge X Series (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Cisco
    Cisco Cloudlock is a good fit for my organization consisting of 150 end users. While we have a small office product that can expand to cover any size organization, I would assume the overhead to monitor would increase. While my organization's business is in real estate, I would highly recommend this for all businesses that handle sensitive and private data. Being able to monitor our cloud infrastructure has allowed our security team to be more flexible in allowing approved users access as well.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    This is all about the selling you a "Device" and prices vary greatly between resellers. The devices work well, but the pure cloud solutions need a lot of work.
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    Pros
    Cisco
    • Cisco CloudLock offers a remote access options, very efficient and standard.
    • Robust data security and monitoring of the sensitive database.
    • Has an excellent self service, which is an option for quick operational progress.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    • Standard File Backup
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    Cons
    Cisco
    • Although alert mechanism is good but it delays a bit.
    • For implementation of DLP we had to hire a expert it took a lot of time to set up.
    • Support [in my experience] is not good.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    • SQL Backups just don't work reliably. For us, we lost all of our SQL data backed up through the CTERA Application process. Although the logs indicated a success, that was really not the case. This came close to putting us out of business. Luckily I had taken a genuine SQL backup to a folder. Unfortunately it was a month old. We had to pick-up the pieces from there.
    • Don't use it for file sync and share. There are better products out there i.e. anchorworks.com
    • Support sucks. Good luck with response time and answers that are inconsistent between team members. For example I had to rebuild a VM from scratch. When I re-installed the CTERA client It obviously thought I was adding another device. When I inquired to tech support, one member said "copy the old Data folder" (I still had the old VHD. That did not work). The other directed me to the correct spot to just change the associated folder. The turn-around time was over 24 hours for this simple fix.
    • Documentation, plenty of fodder but no real tech there.
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    Support Rating
    Cisco
    They are very quick to respond and go the extra mile to help address our issues. That said, we've only needed them at the early stages of implementation for support help and occasionally when we want to do a full re-scan of our site. They are very flexible in working with us on the timing of such scans.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
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    Alternatives Considered
    Cisco
    Amazon Macie is limited to an AWS environment and fulfills some of the same functions that CloudLock does in SaaS products. Both are very valuable tools, so the decision is not really which to use, but whether to use both for their respective environments. In general I feel CloudLock is a more powerful tool because it connects to Microsoft 365, which is more business critical for our organization, but that really is a personal call.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    Unfortunately CTERA does not stack up well if you want a pure cloud BDR. I have use iDrive and Asigra. iDrive has similar support and SQL backup issues. Asigra can vary widely in support and price, but the software is solid.
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    Return on Investment
    Cisco
    • Allowed data to be accessed.
    • Secured data.
    • Meet client security requirements.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    • NONE, it about put us out of business
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