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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    ConnectWise Cloud Backup

    Score7.4 out of 10
    N/ASkyKick is a cloud migration solution, from ConnectWise since the late 2024 acquistion. It features cloud backup and cloud management features for control of customer access to cloud resources.

    $200

    per month for MSPs

    IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions

    Score8.1 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions is designed to make cloud adoption easier, allowing the user to optimize the value of existing on-premises infrastructure, while leveraging the same tools, technologies and skills in the cloud. The solution provides rapid scalability, deployment in 35+ global data centers and access to disaster recovery, backup, security and compliance solutions from an array of ecosystem partners. To address varying workload needs, IBM Cloud…

    $0

    IBM Cloud Object Storage Cross-Regional Smart Tier 1 GB (hourly)

    Pricing
    ConnectWise Cloud BackupIBM Cloud for VMware Solutions
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Add-on
    $0
    IBM Cloud Object Storage Cross-Regional Smart Tier 1 GB (hourly)
    On-demand
    $0
    0.25 IOPs 1 GB
    Reserved (monthly or 730 hours)
    $0
    0.25 IOPs 1 GB (Per gigabyte of storage (hourly))
    Add-on
    $0
    IBM Cloud Block Storage 1 GB (hourly)
    On-demand
    $0.01
    Per vCPU (hourly)
    On-demand
    $0.09
    Per gigabyte of network and bandwidth egress (monthly)
    Reserved (monthly or 730 hours)
    $0.09
    Per gigabyte of network and bandwidth egress (monthly)
    Reserved (monthly or 730 hours)
    $12.80
    Microsoft license (monthly) per 1 vCPU²
    Add-on
    $13
    Veeam backup license
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    ConnectWise Cloud BackupIBM Cloud for VMware Solutions
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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    Community Pulse
    ConnectWise Cloud BackupIBM Cloud for VMware Solutions
    Considered Both Products
    ConnectWise
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    93%
    Would buy again
    14 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    93%
    Delivers good value for the price
    13 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    15 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    10 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    13 Answers
    Features
    ConnectWise Cloud BackupIBM Cloud for VMware Solutions
    Server Virtualization
    Comparison of Server Virtualization features of ConnectWise Cloud Backup and IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions
    Feature
    ConnectWise Cloud Backup
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    Ratings
    IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions
    8.5
    25 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Virtual machine automated provisioning00 Ratings7.525 Ratings
    Management console00 Ratings8.725 Ratings
    Live virtual machine backup00 Ratings9.024 Ratings
    Live virtual machine migration00 Ratings8.623 Ratings
    Hypervisor-level security00 Ratings8.725 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    ConnectWise Cloud BackupIBM Cloud for VMware Solutions
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.9
    (2 ratings)
    8.7
    (25 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    ConnectWise Cloud BackupIBM Cloud for VMware Solutions
    Likelihood to Recommend
    ConnectWise
    SkyKick does a great job on migrations to Office 365. Their technicians are very helpful in planning the whole process, and the tool itself is quite reliable and resilient. Their cloud backup works OK but it does not provide the most friendly or fastest recovery. It also sits on the expensive side as they charge separately for Exchange and Onedrive/Sharepoint backups.
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    IBM
    VMware Cloud Foundation for Disaster Recovery environment, when the client needs to deploy a pay-as-you-go service or if they need to migrate SAP workloads, you can use VMware Cloud Foundation for Classic and VPC. We are the unique SAP-Certified VMware cloud service provider.
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    Pros
    ConnectWise
    • Customer Interface for Backups
    • Migration support team
    • Comprehensive backup suite
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    IBM
    • Adaptable valuing relying upon size and scale.
    • The presentation is first rate. Our on-prem climate was continually experiencing slack and general languor. With IBM running everything, it's much smoother.
    • Start another group as little as one ESXi worker or scale a current bunch.
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    Cons
    ConnectWise
    • Response time and [ease] to get hold of
    • Integration with 3rd party apps for billing
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    IBM
    • Support is horrible and or non-existent
    • Documentation is out of date and incorrect for the most part
    • IBM employees and salespeople are not aware of features or offerings
    • Does not integrate the Zerto, only Veeam and has limited options for data migration
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    Usability
    ConnectWise
    No answers on this topic
    IBM
    It is easy to use and setting it up is simple. The only con is that the pricing is a little bit high as well as documentation is a little low; so we had to do some personal learning to be able to fully utilize the product, or hop on the phone with someone.
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    Support Rating
    ConnectWise
    Responsive, technically capable, and friendly. Ive always had a good experience working with SkyKick su[[ort.
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    IBM
    Overall, just a great experience here. No one in my opinion gets a perfect 10/10 rating (no one is ever perfect), so 9/10 is probably as good as it gets! From initial planning to post implementation support, the IBM Cloud and professional services has been there for my group as much as we have needed them. Great job!
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    Implementation Rating
    ConnectWise
    No answers on this topic
    IBM
    IBM professional services helped us plan and implement the project with great success. They guided the project from planning, scoping, pre-implementation, testing, roll-out, then production and post-production support. We were very impressed with their knowledge of VMware and really appreciated their desire to make our project a success. I would highly recommend them!
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    Alternatives Considered
    ConnectWise
    For migration purposes, we have chosen SkyKick over and over again. Their tool just works and does a great job with multiple different sources. Their support team is awesome albeit could be somewhat faster sometimes. Regarding cloud backup, it seems like that space is quite commoditized as every vendor offers the same. SkyKick does have some good promotions on migration costs when signing up for cloud backups as well which makes them more competitive than other vendors.
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    IBM
    IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions stacks up against them, we fully agree there are so many features in IBM cloud for VMware Solutions that make it unique and different. The system provides us hypervisor security level and the system even has live backup and storage capacity of data. This system provides us with accuracy that helps us to reduce errors and vulnerability.
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    Return on Investment
    ConnectWise
    • Profitable migration business
    • Profitable backup solution
    • Delivers peace of mind to clients and improves our brand as trusted cloud vendor
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    IBM
    • It has a positive impact on the cost required to maintain our vSphere environment by allowing us to get rid of our vsphere hardware and not worry about maintenance either.
    • There have been very few negatives, but one would definitely be the open-ended cost associated with cloud products in general.
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