CTERA Edge X Series (discontinued) vs. Elastifile

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
CTERA Edge X Series (discontinued)
Score 8.0 out of 10
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CTERA offered a cloud storage gateway and NAS appliance the Edge X Series. The product line has been discontinued.N/A
Elastifile
Score 0.0 out of 10
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Elastifile, founded in 2013 and headquartered in Santa Clara, provides software to help deploy private and hybrid cloud storage solutions; they define this is a software-defined bring-your-own-hardware storage, and emphasize the elasticity and scalability gained from their software-defined approach.N/A
Pricing
CTERA Edge X Series (discontinued)Elastifile
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
CTERA Edge X Series (discontinued)Elastifile
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
CTERA Edge X Series (discontinued)Elastifile
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User Ratings
CTERA Edge X Series (discontinued)Elastifile
Likelihood to Recommend
1.0
(1 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
CTERA Edge X Series (discontinued)Elastifile
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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Elastifile
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Pros
Discontinued Products
  • Standard File Backup
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Elastifile
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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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Elastifile
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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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Elastifile
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Return on Investment
Discontinued Products
  • NONE, it about put us out of business
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Elastifile
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