HPE StoreOnce vs. Unitrends

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
HPE StoreOnce
Score 8.4 out of 10
N/A
HPE StoreOnce is a backup and recovery hardware solution from Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, providing disk-based backup, deduplication, and long-term storage. StoreOnce offerings can support virtual and cloud environments for small business, mid-size organizations, and enterprises.
$1,061.46
Unitrends
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
The Unitrends Recovery Series Backup Appliances are hardware developed for data backup and management. They cover enterprise backup, ransomware detection, recovery assurance, proactive monitoring, and cloud continuity into a single platform for organizations of all sizes.N/A
Pricing
HPE StoreOnceUnitrends
Editions & Modules
Gen10 Server
$1,061.46
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
HPE StoreOnceUnitrends
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
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HPE StoreOnce

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Unitrends
Top Pros
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Features
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Data Center Backup
Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Product A and Product B
HPE StoreOnce
8.7
5 Ratings
6% above category average
Unitrends
7.8
359 Ratings
5% below category average
Universal recovery9.14 Ratings7.1301 Ratings
Instant recovery8.04 Ratings8.0289 Ratings
Recovery verification8.14 Ratings8.0287 Ratings
Business application protection8.35 Ratings6.1261 Ratings
Multiple backup destinations8.35 Ratings8.0267 Ratings
Incremental backup identification8.35 Ratings8.2337 Ratings
Backup to the cloud10.02 Ratings7.1212 Ratings
Deduplication and file compression9.65 Ratings7.1325 Ratings
Snapshots9.95 Ratings8.0242 Ratings
Flexible deployment8.54 Ratings8.05 Ratings
Management dashboard8.04 Ratings8.05 Ratings
Platform support8.34 Ratings9.05 Ratings
Retention options9.04 Ratings8.05 Ratings
Encryption7.94 Ratings8.04 Ratings
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HPE StoreOnceUnitrends
Small Businesses
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Score 9.4 out of 10
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Medium-sized Companies
Bacula Enterprise
Bacula Enterprise
Score 9.7 out of 10
Bacula Enterprise
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Score 9.7 out of 10
Enterprises
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Bacula Enterprise
Score 9.7 out of 10
Bacula Enterprise
Bacula Enterprise
Score 9.7 out of 10
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User Ratings
HPE StoreOnceUnitrends
Likelihood to Recommend
9.1
(5 ratings)
8.0
(371 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(1 ratings)
8.9
(25 ratings)
Usability
10.0
(3 ratings)
8.2
(14 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
6.2
(2 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
5.6
(2 ratings)
Support Rating
10.0
(2 ratings)
7.9
(23 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
7.1
(2 ratings)
Implementation Rating
10.0
(1 ratings)
8.7
(12 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
7.1
(2 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
5.0
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
3.8
(2 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(2 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(2 ratings)
User Testimonials
HPE StoreOnceUnitrends
Likelihood to Recommend
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
If you are looking for a backup infrastructure which is efficient and compatible for both file system and block level backup, then HPE StoreOnce is a great choice. It's easy to configure and easy to manage. We didn't have to hire a separate storage expert to set up StoreOnce for us. The HPE team helped our system admins and it was a easy to configure.
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Kaseya
We have a traditional stack and pretty typical needs as a manufacturer. I have used and evaluated everything out there, but the Unitrends solution fits very well and was competitively priced. I would think if it fits us, it could fit anyone like us with a similar stack.
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Pros
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
  • We really like the deduplication feature of HPE StoreOnce. It helps reduce storage footprint by 1:3 to 1:10 depending on type of files being stored.
  • It's easy to manage files on HPE StoreOnce servers using command line options.
  • We use Veeam Backup Server software to manage our backups on HPE StoreOnce.
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Kaseya
  • It has fully automated and customizable dashboards that can run with less administrative attention.
  • It should be able to run on virtual machines or be deployed as a virtual machine within MS Azure or AWS.
  • It's AI-based ransomware detection helps to understand data characteristics and alerts for ransomware attacks.
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Cons
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
  • Could be more user-friendly when deploying.
  • Cost is as friendly as Pure Storage Array.
  • HPE does well support this technology.
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Kaseya
  • Errors on backup jobs could be more clearly explained. As the administrator of the device for my company, I often don't know what caused an error, and can't tell from the error information what happened or caused the error.
  • Updates of the devices should have an automatic option. It takes to much time to do an update to the devices if updates haven't been maintained.
  • Shutdown and restarting the device should be available from the main UI screen to eliminate some time when doing updates or if you're doing some maintenance on the device.
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Likelihood to Renew
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
It just works and the support contract we have is good enough for the company needs
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Kaseya
We have grown very attached to the Unitrends appliances and their use for recovery and other file restoration needs as well as data archival, data replication to other appliance and data migration to other servers or long term storage requirements. The appliances work well and the support for them is very good as well.
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Usability
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
It is quite efficient and easy to administer. You don't really get into trouble with HPE StoreOnce often.
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Kaseya
I have never used such an easy product that is stable and scalable like Unitrends. I have been running backups for MANY years. On premise, tape, disk, cloud, you name it. Unitrends is very flexible, stable and has incredible reporting features. It's nice when management requests a report and it takes you 5 minutes to run it and dump it to PDF. How can you beat that?
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Reliability and Availability
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
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Kaseya
The appliances have been there when we need them and have rarely if ever gone down. Hardware issues have been resolved quickly.
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Performance
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
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Kaseya
The hardware is adequate and speedy. The user interface responds quickly. Backups complete quickly.
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Support Rating
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
We had couple of incidents so far and HPE support team was very proactive through the process until the incident was closed satisfactorily.
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Kaseya
They're incredible, attentive, thorough. They make sure my issue is resolved and follow up. I'm usually behind on giving them a reply or an update. They have always gone above and beyond for me, and I'll continue to do the same for them.
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Online Training
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
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Kaseya
It was sufficient to get started. It was not super deep. We called support often to get going.
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Implementation Rating
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
It was pretty smooth, at least smother that a Dell EMC Unity we set it up last week
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Kaseya
The Unitrends employees involved in the installation were very friendly and knowledgeable. A certain degree of hiccups can be expected during any installation but never shook my confidence because of the friendly and knowledgeable team that was assigned to my project.
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Alternatives Considered
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
HPE StoreOnce is a great value for money.
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Kaseya
Symantec Backup Exec was the primary tool used for backups for years. We also used Veeam for some Office 365/Exchange backups. Unitrends once configured and set up works very well against the competition. Backup Exec interface was more user friendly. The search tool for exploring backups was much better than Unitrends as well. Unitrends is much faster if you need to restore an entire VM or large file folders. Also once you have Unitrends all set up, it is very low maintenance, it just works. If something fails 9/10 it will correct itself on the next backup that is scheduled to run
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Scalability
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
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Kaseya
Once you exceed the capacity of the appliances, you have to forklift a new appliance. This is very expensive.
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Return on Investment
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
  • While not completely eliminating tape, it has relegated the use of tape to monthly and annual backups for compliance. It has reduced the recurring expense of tape media.
  • It has increased the length of the retention period because of its efficiency in storing backups.
  • The online backup repositories are now replicated to the secondary datacenter, a capability not possible with tapes.
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Kaseya
  • It has saved some deleted file server data for our business department.
  • We have lost some reports for the business department due to an overlooked setting that make the backup reports look great, but the server was not being backed up in reality.
  • Less anxiety for the IT department, we have backup plan and that is worth a lot to us.
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