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CTERA Edge X Series (discontinued) vs. openSUSE Leap

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    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

    openSUSE Leap

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AGerman company SUSE supports the Linux distribution, openSUSE. Leap is the stable and regular release option for installing openSUSE. New and experienced Linux users get the most usable Linux distribution and stabilized operating system with openSUSE’s regular release. Receive updates and harden the OS with openSUSE’s latest major distribution. Presented as the platform of choice for Linux developers, administrators and software vendors.N/A
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    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    User Testimonials
    CTERA Edge X Series (discontinued)openSUSE Leap
    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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    SUSE
    OpenSUSE Leap is well suited for just about any Linux task. Especially I like to use it as Docker base image for my software deployments, because it has a wide variety of software packages available already precompiled and packages are well maintained - vulnerable software versions are patched in reasonable time. OpenSUSE Leap is rpm based system, and it wouldn't install Debian or other systems packages. If your software is not an rpm package then OpenSUSE Leap would not be suitable for your system.
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    Pros
    Discontinued Products
    • Standard File Backup
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    SUSE
    • Maintenance of software packages using YAST
    • Availability of patches when a vulnerability is discovered
    • Distribution upgrades
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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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    SUSE
    • Commercial packages not always available
    • Stable packages sometimes lag behind the latest releases
    Incentivized
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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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    SUSE
    openSUSE Leap has wide variety of already precompiled software packages in default repositories. It even has some specific packages in official repositories that are not available in other Linux distribution repositories. It is also very stable and reliable distro - we can predict when new versions will be released and when we should make system upgrades.
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    Return on Investment
    Discontinued Products
    • NONE, it about put us out of business
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    SUSE
    • More effective maintenance means a smaller headcount needed for running the production servers.
    • The easiness of deployment means more time we can spend on software development of company-specific applications.
    • Great community support and overlap with other Linux systems mean that an answer to nearly any problem is usually one google query away.
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