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CTERA Edge X Series (discontinued) vs. LightEdge

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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

    LightEdge

    Score10 out of 10
    N/ALightEdge Services, headquartered in Des Moines, offers a suite of colocation and infrastructural services with support including security consulting, compliance consulting (e.g. HIPAA), and disaster-recovery-as-a-service (DRaaS) for users of its colocation services.N/A
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    CTERA Edge X Series (discontinued)LightEdge
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    CTERA Edge X Series (discontinued)LightEdge
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    CTERA Edge X Series (discontinued)LightEdge
    Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
    Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of CTERA Edge X Series (discontinued) and LightEdge
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    Ratings
    LightEdge
    8.0
    1 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Pre-configured templates00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
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    User Ratings
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    User Testimonials
    CTERA Edge X Series (discontinued)LightEdge
    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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    LightEdge
    OnRamp is great for medium or large size companies that need to organize information in a way that is easily accessible. It is not great for small companies who don't have a lot of customers.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    Discontinued Products
    • Standard File Backup
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    LightEdge
    • OnRamp does a great job at pulling up specific contact information about our donors
    • OnRamp allows for us to find detailed payment information regarding postings to our general ledger
    • It is very easy to run various reports with OnRamp
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    Cons
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    • 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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    LightEdge
    • I hear complaints from our donations department on how extractions can be difficult at times when pulling multiple years information
    • OnRamp can make room for improvement by allowing us to make changes from an admin standpoint on how we pull up certain reports
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    Alternatives Considered
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    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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    LightEdge
    OnRamp is much easier to use then Financial Edge with its user-friendly interface. Financial Edge seems dated and is much more complicated when running reports.
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    Return on Investment
    Discontinued Products
    • NONE, it about put us out of business
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    LightEdge
    • OnRamp saves us time on retrieving data
    • OnRamp helps us organize payment information and makes it easily accessible for users
    • The security of using OnRamp is the best investment a company can make.
    Incentivized
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