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    Infrascale

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AThe Infrascale Platform is the flagship cloud storage, data protection, and disaster recovery platform from the California based company, Infrascale.N/A

    Smarsh

    Score7.5 out of 10
    N/AThe Smarsh Enterprise Platform is a unified, cloud-native solution designed to future-proof enterprise communications data strategies. Its technologies include elastic compute, natural language processing, machine learning and artificial intelligence.N/A
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    InfrascaleSmarsh
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    InfrascaleSmarsh
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    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeRequiredNo setup fee
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    User Ratings
    InfrascaleSmarsh
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    7.5
    (2 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
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    8.1
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    Usability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
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    Support Rating
    9.0
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    User Testimonials
    InfrascaleSmarsh
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Infrascale
    The Infrascale Platform solution we have in place is certainly not cheap - I believe we are paying about $2800/month for it, though it is quite robust. We have 18TB of on-site storage available, with the same available in a secondary - remote - device for replication. They do have a wide range of products available to any size business though, so I'm sure they have cheaper offerings as well. The on-site appliance is fantastic - in that in houses your backups, but can also be utilized as an emergency piece of hardware to spin up a backup and run it in the event of your primary hardware failing. You can also traverse full backups to grab single, contained, files if you so choose. We love that feature as we must perform file recovery monthly for audit purposes.
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    Smarsh
    This appliance is well suited for organizations that have a need to monitor, moderate, or log social networking site use or the use of any website. It is a very solid tool for any information security department to have at their disposal.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    Infrascale
    • Makes consistent, verifiable onsite backups of our corporate data.
    • Makes consistent, verifiable offsite backups of our corporate data
    • Plays very nice with VMware, the infrastructure we currently use
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    Smarsh
    • Discovery: It allows for easy discoveries by the compliance and cyber security departments.
    • Ethical walls: This keeps certain departments from talking to each other.
    • Very granular control. This is a big product meaning you can get very detailed with it.
    • Once it's configured and running, we hardly ever have any issues.
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    Cons
    Infrascale
    • More expensive than Backblaze
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    Smarsh
    • Its configuration options were very large and required a good deal of time to learn all of the various settings.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Infrascale
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    Smarsh
    It's the only product at this time that meets all of our requirements.
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    Usability
    Infrascale
    It is one of the best cloud back up data protection software and software platforms on the entire market for MSPs. There are not many other solutions that offer this level of customization and execution in the data protection and disaster recovery arena better than Infrascale. I highly recommend it for any MSP.
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    Smarsh
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    Support Rating
    Infrascale
    It is the cheapest way to truly protect data and has an amazing support team behind the product. You get what you pay for.
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    Smarsh
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    Infrascale
    Infrascale Platform is the most modern backup service/device we've utilized. EaseUs and Ghost were just software that would run within a Windows environment (at the time) and backup to a device that we kept on-site. EaseUs would fail quite often with Incremental backups - so I would spend a lot of time re-running full backups to ensure we didn't experience data loss in the event of a crash. Ghost was used when I was first hired at this district - so I didn't have much hands-on experience with it. But I know it was a bundled offering with Anti-Virus back when we utilized it ('07-'09ish).
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    Smarsh
    This was the only appliance of its kind that I have used. Other devices have different capabilities for web filtering such as the checkpoint firewalls, but none of them offered the overall solution that was deployed with this product at that time.
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    Return on Investment
    Infrascale
    • Peace of mind: our entire virtual environment is backed up both onsite and offsite
    • As stated, it is pricey. Since we haven't needed to do anything more than basic file restores, ROI is hard to measure. A full restore of a virtual server immediately would be priceless. So, on that note, ROI is good.
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    Smarsh
    • Faster investigative work has led to increased employee efficiency when working on security investigations.
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