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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    IDERA SQL Safe Backup

    Score5.3 out of 10
    N/ASQL Safe Backup from Houston based software company Idera is a data recovery and protection option.

    $1,036

    per instance with first year maintenance included

    Scality ARTESCA

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AScality in San Francisco offers scalable file and object storage for media, healthcare, cloud service providers, and others.N/A
    Pricing
    IDERA SQL Safe BackupScality ARTESCA
    Editions & Modules
    Standard via eCommerce
    1,036.00
    per instance with first year maintenance included
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    IDERA SQL Safe BackupScality ARTESCA
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—Contact vendor for booking demo and pricing information.
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    Features
    IDERA SQL Safe BackupScality ARTESCA
    Data Center Backup
    Comparison of Data Center Backup features of IDERA SQL Safe Backup and Scality ARTESCA
    Feature
    IDERA SQL Safe Backup
    8.7
    2 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Scality ARTESCA
    -
    Ratings
    Instant recovery10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Recovery verification10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multiple backup destinations10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Incremental backup identification10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Backup to the cloud6.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Deduplication and file compression10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Snapshots5.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Flexible deployment8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Management dashboard8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform support8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Retention options9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Encryption10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    IDERA SQL Safe BackupScality ARTESCA
    Likelihood to Recommend
    4.0
    (2 ratings)
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.9
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    IDERA SQL Safe BackupScality ARTESCA
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Idera, Inc.
    SQL Safe is appropriate and well-suited for any backup scenario. Having used SQL Safe, I probably wouldn't want to manage a set of servers in the future without it. If you only have a couple of SQL servers, it might not be worth the spend as there are well-maintained free options that are very functional (though they do require more technical knowledge). But I can't think of a scenario where SQL Safe wouldn't be appropriate.
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    Scality
    The team in charge of implementing Scality has to be full stack in order to guarantee the correct functioning of the entire system. However, you have to think very carefully about the balance between servers and disks, perhaps adopting smaller fully populated servers instead of large semi-populated servers, which would mean that over time our disk updates will not have a fully useful life.
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    Pros
    Idera, Inc.
    • History visibility
    • Very intuitive
    • Easy to set up
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    Scality
    • I love the redundancy of the software.
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    Cons
    Idera, Inc.
    • When you're adding a new SQL server, sometimes the install from the management server to the SQL server will fail. I'm guessing this happens because of some version difference in Windows components or similar. Not a huge deal because you can just copy the agent to the SQL server and install it there, but considering how easy everything else is, I would expect this to be a little more fluid.
    • I ran into a situation where part of our business decided to move their servers to a third-party data center. When they took away a SQL server that I was managing with SQL Safe, anything having to do with that policy took forever. Click. Wait 10 minutes. Window reacts. I'm guessing this is because the Management Console is trying super hard to contact the server in question, but I wish it handled losing a server better than it does.
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    Scality
    • The overall packaging is not very good. I think it could be more efficient for installation.
    • There are many components in storage servers. This can generally be complex to understand, you have to be patient.
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    Usability
    Idera, Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Scality
    As an organization, it took us a while to understand the shift from a traditional black box SAN to software-defined storage, but now we are much more certain of what this means. The time invested and the resources were not very high, thanks on the one hand to the technical support and on the other to the coherence and good development of the platform.
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    Support Rating
    Idera, Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Scality
    I have seen Scality in the office meeting with our VP and get the feeling that they are here to support us.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Idera, Inc.
    IDERA SQL Safe Backup winning thanks to the pricing, nothing more.
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    Scality
    Due to the nature of our business we require extensive encryption and availability for sensitive customer data. The erasure encoding that Scality provides gives us the assurance that documents are rest are never in a state of being downloaded or available to a casual data thief. This is something that can be found with other vendors but at a fraction of the same cost. Having this kind of performance, availability and redundancy at the cost that Scality provides has made a large difference to our organization.
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    Return on Investment
    Idera, Inc.
    • SQL Safe allows me to spend less time managing my DR plan and still maintain confidence that my backups and restores are solid. Saving my time means saving money.
    • SQL Safe does an amazing job at backup compression over and above SQL's native compression. SQL backups are probably our single largest consumer of network drive space. Any product that helps reduce my network footprint, saves money.
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    Scality
    • Keeping sensitive customer data secure is a must for our organization and Scality has great features to make this happen.
    • We replaced a single SAN with a Scality ring and found performance to improve as we store more and more customer data.
    • Being able to lose various portions of our Scality ring and allow it to continue to service customers while maintaining high performance has been key to our business.
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