ConnectWise BCDR vs. Datto ALTO

Continuum is well suited for an MSP who has several clients running backups. Everyone knows how important backups are. Having Continuum Recover helps eliminate the need for a full-time employee to check backups. Backups can take a long time to check daily manually, but Continuum Recover helps eliminate that need.

Incentivized

Datto Alto has been best suited for our customers who do not have an extremely large amount of data (Less than 2TB). We have had issues with customers that had limitations to how useful the cloud option was based on their internet speed (Rural)

Incentivized

• The platform offers a powerful feature set that includes block-level backup, granular file recovery, and more.
• Not only we are able to recover data from our customers, but we're also able to backup and continue business operations whether a single or an entire server goes down.
• All our server and desktop patching is properly managed and tested.

Incentivized

• Support.
• Consistency of Backup.
• Ability to test backups with scripts.
• Reporting.

Incentivized

• Navigating the user interface can be tricky.
• I look forward to new features coming out this year.

Incentivized

• local backup size limitations

Incentivized

Support is pretty good. The issue is that they don't have any SLA so they get to you whenever. Though, if you hound them, they usually bump you up in the chain and get back to you. Their techs are fairly knowledgeable. Occasionally the first level support isn't the best, but once it bumps up to the next level, they are good.

Incentivized

We evaluated Infrascale, and that was a really bad product. When it worked, it was fine. But when it didn't, nobody knew what was going on. Seeing green checkmarks usually means good, but not with Infrascale. You really had to dig into each job to see if they were successful. There was way too much time consumption. That issue is eliminated with Continuum Recover

Incentivized

Datto has been the best so far for backing up servers. Support is quick to resolve issues, and the Code Red team during recovery is calming during the whole process. Recovery is easy to do and does not require reaching out to support for a hidden method to get the recovery to work

Incentivized

• Cloud-based replication and recovery.
• Unlimited storage.
• Instant virtualization.
• Low fixed monthly price per protected server or desktop.

Incentivized

• We are able to offer our customers a relatively inexpensive offsite data storage option that can also act as a stop-gap if they were to have major hardware failures
• we have not had any negative impacts from Datto
• The ease of installation/setup of Datto Alto has enabled us to mail out the device to a customer and have them plug it into their network to save us time delivering and setting up if the customer was a long distance from us.

Incentivized