Google Vault vs. Cove Data Protection

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Google Vault
Score 9.5 out of 10
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Google Vault is an ediscovery and archiving service for messaging and content created through some applications in G Suite. Users can retain, search, and export an organization’s data from select apps with Vault for G Suite Business and Enterprise editions.N/A
Cove Data Protection
Score 8.8 out of 10
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Cove Data Protection (formerly N-Able Backup) is designed to cover servers, datacenters, applications, and workstations, and is provided to ensure business continuity and at-a-glance assessment and fast issue resolution via customizable dashboard.N/A
Pricing
Google VaultCove Data Protection
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Google VaultCove Data Protection
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsCove offers one flat rate per server or workstation and one flat per-user price for Microsoft 365, with cloud storage included. Each license carries a defined amount of included storage that is pooled across an MSPs customers, so smaller devices that use less can offset larger ones.
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Community Pulse
Google VaultCove Data Protection
Considered Both Products
Google Vault
Chose Google Vault
Greater security in terms of messages. The integrated system of recovery after failures. Searches are displayed, messages are displayed, and it controls how long email messages will be kept. You can specify policies for your entire domain, and acts as a backup service (backup). …
Chose Google Vault
Google Vault has a much better UI compared to Bloomberg and hence helps in navigation within the software. Bloomberg has better pricing and is much lower than Google Vault. The export feature in Bloomberg is also better than Google Vault by miles. But due to brand value and …
Chose Google Vault
I have not used a competitor to Google Vault, so I am not able to compare to other offerings, but as a company that uses the Google Suite for almost everything, it made sense to add this along. We also heard positive reviews from other companies and other resources so we felt …
Chose Google Vault
Google Vault has an advanced and secure way of storage, and access restrictions for different levels of employees thereby creating more impact on the cloud users.
Chose Google Vault
Veritas Enterprise Vault although the best backup solution present was quite expensive and difficult to implement at an org level. Google Vault is very smooth and easy to implement with orgs already using Google Workspace for business. The only reason for selecting Google …
Chose Google Vault
Proofpoint Enterprise was difficult to initially deploy while Google Vault was straightforward and easy to use from the get-go. Proofpoint Enterprise base eDiscovery product does not include case management and is an add-on and an additional cost which is not the case with the …
Chose Google Vault
Google Vault, unlike the above platforms, has an effective Cloud performance which helps save project time and cost, and its analytical functionalities are the best. Managing multiple information through Google Vault is also an easy operation and its data archiving capabilities …
Chose Google Vault
To be very honest, I have not used any other products. I have been only using Google Vault for my requirements, and I am very happy with it up till now. Google is a big brand, and this product has definitely stood up to that name. Kudos to the Google team. Looking forward to …
Chose Google Vault
The product is similar offering but it is already well integrated into the other g-suite products that we use. It works really well in terms of searching and indexing documents. Other products seemed more elaborate and were complex to implement and use. Since our use case was …
Chose Google Vault
We evaluated Informatica Data Archive before implementing Google Vault. What made us consider Google is ease of integration, affordability, functionality, and mobility.
Cove Data Protection
Chose Cove Data Protection
Easy and Quick installation, Cloud-Always backup , very good and generous retention options, verification testing options, ...
Chose Cove Data Protection
Cove Data Protection compares well against Veeam, as it provides a cloud-first option to save data, reducing worries of ransomware locking out the backup target. Additionally, whereas Veeam is an image-based backup, Cove provides file-based backup which can make restoration of …
Chose Cove Data Protection
Cove is able to cover all aspects of backup in a single package. From the same dashboard I can check servers, workstations, and even Office 365. Cove is a much better solution in terms of overall management for a company such as ours. It also provides integration options with …
Chose Cove Data Protection
We had a huge partner that let us discover this great service provider.
The target is the same as the other vendors, but SolarWinds wins with the dashboard. with the dashboard n-able you can monitor everything starting from the state of the backups of an important server.. …
Chose Cove Data Protection
We prefer N-able as it seems more secure and also easier to recover the backups.
Chose Cove Data Protection
Provide storage infrastructure which Veeam didn't provide with their software. For us that is a major point.
Chose Cove Data Protection
Works well. Easy to use. If you use Ncentral, it's already tied in and even easier to deploy. Cloud storage is more expensive than competitors. There is no easy option to offload your backups to AWS, etc. It can create a local speed vault to have local backups as well. …
Chose Cove Data Protection
So the live recovery of VEEAM is awfully nice, and it's GUI is laid out and easy to use. Windows Server Backup is about a bare-bones as it gets. It's been my experience that Solarwinds Backup just wins at every turn. It's fast, easy to deploy (well, if using N-central), and …
Chose Cove Data Protection
We started with Vision Works many years ago then went to IASO/GFI. After working with them for a couple of years we got tired of un-kept promises and poor service so we moved to Solarwinds and have been very happy with them in all scenarios. The product goes in as it is …
Chose Cove Data Protection
I did not make the decision to purchase Solarwinds Backup.
Chose Cove Data Protection
Solarwinds Backup provides the most comprehensive backup system. After testing all other systems the weaknesses of Solarwinds Backup are much less severe or risky compared to others. As well the overall cost of Solarwinds Backup's value is the main reason for choosing …
Chose Cove Data Protection
Technically, Datto is a better option for business continuity and local backups. However, we considered using Solarwinds Backup for redundancy because it's a simple cloud backup solution that has good deduplication. Personally, I believe that the Datto offsite transfer process …
Chose Cove Data Protection
I have used in the past EVault, Datto, Veeam, Veritas etc. The lower cost compares to Veeam and EVault. Easier to manage than Datto. More reliable than Veritas.
Features
Google VaultCove Data Protection
Data Center Backup
Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Product A and Product B
Google Vault
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Ratings
Cove Data Protection
9.5
Ratings
12% above category average
Universal recovery00 Ratings8.60 Ratings
Instant recovery00 Ratings9.50 Ratings
Recovery verification00 Ratings9.60 Ratings
Business application protection00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Multiple backup destinations00 Ratings8.80 Ratings
Incremental backup identification00 Ratings9.80 Ratings
Backup to the cloud00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Deduplication and file compression00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Snapshots00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Flexible deployment00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Management dashboard00 Ratings9.60 Ratings
Platform support00 Ratings8.90 Ratings
Retention options00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Encryption00 Ratings9.90 Ratings
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Google VaultCove Data Protection
Small Businesses
Cove Data Protection
Cove Data Protection
Score 8.8 out of 10
Veeam Data Platform
Veeam Data Platform
Score 8.9 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Cove Data Protection
Cove Data Protection
Score 8.8 out of 10
Bacula Enterprise
Bacula Enterprise
Score 8.6 out of 10
Enterprises
Microsoft Exchange
Microsoft Exchange
Score 8.7 out of 10
Bacula Enterprise
Bacula Enterprise
Score 8.6 out of 10
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User Ratings
Google VaultCove Data Protection
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
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Usability
9.0
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9.7
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Support Rating
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9.8
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User Testimonials
Google VaultCove Data Protection
Likelihood to Recommend
Google vault is good to use when you have large document files which needs to be put in cold storage or turn cold storage to hot storage in case the documents need to be retrieved. I t works well on automating tasks around till how long one needs to hold on to the data and then retire the documents as well. Some areas where the Google Vault would be less useful is if some documents needs to be used frequently and they are put in the vault as Google Vault is expensive to use very frequently.
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Solarwinds Backup is ideal for individuals looking to keep a consistent backup of devices in their environment. We used it primarily for networking equipment. It is easy to set up, as it is one of the steps available when adding a new device to solarwinds. It is probably not an ideal product to use for long-term (1 month+) backups.
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Pros
  • Archiving - Archiving of emails, chats, etc, Pretty easy to use and have some amazing features wrt to duration, access, etc.
  • Search - Post archival, Google Vault makes it pretty easy to search for relevant content and eDiscovery.
  • Auditing - Workspace manager can easily audit user activities. Helps security at the org level.
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  • Daily backups are easy to create and activate and run on schedule as desired by the client.
  • Easy SQL backups no matter your SQL favor, it's just a few clicks to back them up.
  • Very good system state backups that several of our older clients have used (out of necessity) to recover systems and data from dead machines.
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Cons
  • More export options are available to the user, specifically allowing exported data to be imported into a new account easily
  • The interface is very basic and easy to use, but the dashboard could show more information to make it more usable
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  • To perform restores on a different location, there's a need to install a standalone application call the Recovery Console, which makes it too much trouble. Instead, this should have been performed over the same backup management portal, where you should have been able to select in which location you want to restore.
  • The business continuity features, available for the system state backups, like restoring a backup as a virtual machine or performing a bare-metal restore, also require to install different standalone applications for each. And in disaster scenarios, both tasks take too much time to get everything running.
  • The retention of the backups (the archiving feature) needs to be set up individually for each server at a time, when this is something that should be more easily managed by the service provider (not expecting to be set up by the customer in each device) as a general setting within the Backups Profiles or Product Management.
  • There should be a better reporting tool, that would allow to export backup and restore events, as well as user activities.
  • The configurations for Backup Profiles and Product Management could be redundant and confusing.
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Usability
Using Google Vault is straightforward
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Cove Data Protection is very usable as it's easy to tell that it is made to not only do backup very well, but it's also easy to deploy. The agent-based deployment allows for flexible deployment options while ensuring a minimal amount of manual work is needed on the dashboard end. Recovery is also very easy, especially as it relates to one-off file recovery
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Support Rating
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We have an Italian support partner, they are been very good b7y the first moment.
All the partners are followed with a lot of attention, even the little ones.
there is a site where you can learn everything, the single parts of the product are described perfectly.
Every it specialist should evaluate it.
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Alternatives Considered
Veritas Enterprise Vault although the best backup solution present was quite expensive and difficult to implement at an org level. Google Vault is very smooth and easy to implement with orgs already using Google Workspace for business. The only reason for selecting Google Vault was a quick TAT for implementation but if your org has time for that, Veritas Vault is the best option wrt Storage, discovery, post-sales support, pricing, etc.
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Solarwinds Backup provides the most comprehensive backup system. After testing all other systems the weaknesses of Solarwinds Backup are much less severe or risky compared to others. As well the overall cost of Solarwinds Backup's value is the main reason for choosing Solarwinds Backup as the primary backup/DR provider.
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Return on Investment
  • Positive ROI- able to conveniently store and access files/data that otherwise would not have been as organized. Not only makes my day more efficient but leads to a better client experience.
  • Organized storage.
  • Easy interface once you get used it it- give it about a month.
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  • I can't speak to every dollar and cent involved, but I can tell you that the daily task of checking backup status has changed from at least an hour just to check VEEAM and Windows Backup statuses for multiple clients, to checking two pages and then digging into any problems. So as far as productivity goes, it's been wonderful!
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