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    Egnyte

    Score9.3 out of 10
    N/AEgnyte provides a unified content security and governance solution for collaboration, data security, compliance, and threat detection for multicloud businesses. More than 16,000 organizations trust Egnyte to reduce risks and IT complexity, prevent ransomware and IP theft, and boost employee productivity on any app, any cloud, anywhere.

    $25

    per month

    StarWind Storage Appliance (SA)

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AStarWind SA helps organizations with fixed compute platforms meet storage performance and capacity growth requirements by providing them with high-performance and scalable storage covered by 24/7 support. StarWind Storage Appliance is designed to handle high-performance or unpredictable data growth. It serves storage as a single namespace to different environments via multiple uplink protocols: iSCSI, SMB3, NFS, including RDMA-capable iSER and SMB Direct. As an all-flash hyperconvergence…N/A
    Pricing
    EgnyteStarWind Storage Appliance (SA)
    Editions & Modules
    Team (1-10 employees)
    $10
    per employee/per month
    Business (10-100 employees)
    $20
    per employee/per month
    Enterprise (50+ employees)
    Contact sales team
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    EgnyteStarWind Storage Appliance (SA)
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    EgnyteStarWind Storage Appliance (SA)
    Considered Both Products
    Egnyte
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    15 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    14 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    93%
    Happy with the feature set
    14 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    10 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    11 Answers
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    Features
    EgnyteStarWind Storage Appliance (SA)
    Enterprise Flash Array Storage
    Comparison of Enterprise Flash Array Storage features of Egnyte and StarWind Storage Appliance (SA)
    Feature
    Egnyte
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    Ratings
    StarWind Storage Appliance (SA)
    9.6
    2 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Flash Array Performance00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Flash Array Integration00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Data Compression00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Non-Intrusive Upgrades00 Ratings9.92 Ratings
    Simplicity00 Ratings9.92 Ratings
    Power Savings00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    EgnyteStarWind Storage Appliance (SA)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (42 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (6 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (7 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    8.8
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.7
    (4 ratings)
    -
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    User Testimonials
    EgnyteStarWind Storage Appliance (SA)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Egnyte
    Egynte is best suited for companies that SharePoint is not the best fit for. This includes managers unfamiliar with SharePoint specifically, and those really looking for a replacement for a file server in the more traditional Windows sense. SharePoint has more or less done away with any management that resembles Active Directory or File Explorer. Egnyte's web portal is incredibly straightforward. I would say Egnyte is less suited for companies that have licensing access to SharePoint already and do not have a ton of files or granular sharing and security needs
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    StarWind
    It is well suited in data transfer and storage of files under secure environment. It has contributed to immediate Return on Investment with low cost performance. I totally recommend it to any company for its high speed performance under secure data channels. It does reliable reporting on data integration and analysis on daily basis pointing out areas that have challenging operations.
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    Pros
    Egnyte
    • Sharing files externally with passwords, link expiration and granular control of permissions
    • File syncing across end-user devices using a client installed onto the computer for seamless integration for end-users as if they had mapped a drive directly to their machine
    • Implements 2FA for secure access
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    StarWind
    • Very cost-effective. You choose the hardware.
    • Very reliable and performant.
    • Excellent proactive support. They call us when there is an issue.
    • Very flexible. Can mix and match spinning disk and SSD depending on capacity and performance needs.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Egnyte
    • The main drawback of the system that it is lacking in managing the uploading of large or huge files, even though the large files can be easily downloadable but the upload takes a lot of time.
    • While uploading the system sometimes starts lagging and the file after sometimes needs to upload again.
    • Egnyte is lacking in syncing multiple platforms at the same time. It gives access to one platform at a time which somehow hinders the work while migrating a large amount of data.
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    StarWind
    • Not sure what improvements are needed. The UI could possibly be more intuitive.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Egnyte
    We found that usage of Egnyte in our supported clients, with sufficient bandwidth, provided all the features and stability we required. The billing setup was fair and the support provided was ample for end users and well as our in house admins. There was a concern about high usage clients but this was taken into account during the vetting process.
    Incentivized
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    StarWind
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    Egnyte
    Really easy to use the interface. The web browser is very intuitive and I have not had any notable issues with this. It's easy to work on documents as a team, and the only issues we have to tend to come with Apple apps and downloading large files to WebEdit. It's very similar to the filing systems that come on Apple and Windows devices so not a steep learning curve.
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    StarWind
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    Egnyte
    Egnyte works very well across all platforms and as an add-on to other programs. Load time is close to nothing. Reports can be made in no time as well. All in all no performance issues. We can see that it depends on the local network connection. If you're running with fiber there won't be any issues.
    Incentivized
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    StarWind
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Egnyte
    I never had to reach out to customer support for Egnyte. I don't know any coworkers who have had to reach out to Egnyte for support either. As far as I am concerned, the support team is doing a good job since I have not had to reach out to them.
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    StarWind
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Egnyte
    At the time when this was implemented (over 5 years ago and still in production), there were issues with syncing and reliability that Egnyte did not have, and have continued to impress with. Other providers have improved a lot and Egnyte is fairly costly, but switching costs would be high to move away from it to similar solutions.
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    StarWind
    I have not been able to work with same featured product in our organization, however the performance of this platform has been excellent. The support center has been reliable and trustworthy giving us 100% support on daily basis when we deach them. It is affordable to any business enterprise that is ready to implement data storage and transfer programs. The maintenance and scalable cost is reasonable and and the services has been great.
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    Return on Investment
    Egnyte
    • Allows us to easily communicate important data securely with other offices (not just sending via email)
    • It allows everyone in our office to be working on the same information at the same time
    • It meshes so well with salesforce that I can't really picture what our practice would look like if we didn't have the combination.
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    StarWind
    • It enabled us to upgrade our storage and switch from FC to iSCSI at a reasonable cost.
    • iSCSi is so much less expensive to maintain.
    • StarWind is upgradable and you never lose your investment.
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