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CTERA Edge X Series (discontinued) vs. Dell AppSync

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    Dell AppSync

    Score7 out of 10
    N/ADell AppSync is copy data management designed to empower application owners to satisfy copy demand for data repurposing, operational recovery, and disaster recovery. AppSync is designed to simplify, orchestrate, and automate the process of generating and consuming copies of production data.N/A
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    CTERA Edge X Series (discontinued)Dell AppSync
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    CTERA Edge X Series (discontinued)Dell AppSync
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    CTERA Edge X Series (discontinued)Dell AppSync
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    User Ratings
    CTERA Edge X Series (discontinued)Dell AppSync
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    1.0
    (1 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    CTERA Edge X Series (discontinued)Dell AppSync
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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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    Dell Technologies
    Dell AppSync maintains consistent and automated backups and in case of disaster recovery the software provides all the options of automatically generated daily copies to choose from. Integration can take place in different environments such as VMware, SQL, Oracle, Microsoft and others. Built-in management and compatibility makes work easier and lets you keep the always-on service up and running. We recommend Dell AppSync.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    Discontinued Products
    • Standard File Backup
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    Dell Technologies
    • Easy Configuration
    • Ease of Use
    • Set and Forget
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    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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    Dell Technologies
    • We had no failures in performing backups and testing with disaster recovery.
    • Documentation not available in Portuguese.
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    Alternatives Considered
    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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    Dell Technologies
    Dell EMC Storage products are in use accross the estate so is more suited to use Dell software to manage the replicaiton of data between storage arrays. Provides us with a stable and trouble free mehtod to replicate data across luns. Good product to have implemented during an datacenter outage
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    Discontinued Products
    • NONE, it about put us out of business
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    Dell Technologies
    • It brought more security of network data.
    • Automation and agility in business processes.
    Incentivized
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