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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    VMware Site Recovery (DRaaS)

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AVMware offers Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) via the VMware Site Recovery DRaaS for on-premise workloads or AWS, VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery on-demand DRaaS delivered as a SaaS solution, or Cloud Provider Disaster Recovery Solutions DRaaS offerd through accredited VMware partners.N/A
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    InfrascaleVMware Site Recovery (DRaaS)
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    InfrascaleVMware Site Recovery (DRaaS)
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeRequiredNo setup fee
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    User Ratings
    InfrascaleVMware Site Recovery (DRaaS)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
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    Support Rating
    9.0
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    7.0
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    User Testimonials
    InfrascaleVMware Site Recovery (DRaaS)
    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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    VMware by Broadcom
    VMware Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery tools are well suited for customers who are heavily integrated with vSphere and VMs for their on-premises data centers today. VMware Cloud on AWS is great for customers who do not have DR sites and want to leverage the public cloud to build a DR site on demand quickly.
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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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    VMware by Broadcom
    • Integration with VMware environments
    • Simple to use for current VMware admins
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    Cons
    Infrascale
    • More expensive than Backblaze
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    VMware by Broadcom
    • vSphere replication not as feature rich as storage replication
    • Third party software necessary if looking into public cloud
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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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    VMware by Broadcom
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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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    VMware by Broadcom
    VMware support is typically outstanding, of course, they have multiple departments, and you need to work with the specific teams to get advanced support for things specific to VMware Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery. In contrast, other companies that deal directly with that technology may be more responsive to those specifics. Typically VMware is excellent and helpful in critical outages. For smaller to medium issues, it can take some time to get addressed appropriately.
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    Alternatives Considered
    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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    VMware by Broadcom
    VMware is software and typically hardware agnostic, this does require extra design and consideration versus putting in backup appliances. Some other solutions are a software as well and can be layered on top of vSphere to enhance existing environments. We need to weigh the benefits of licensing versus software costs and the management cost of having multiple tools.
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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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    VMware by Broadcom
    • Requires running vSphere at target DR sites
    • Potential licensing cost for cold/standby locations
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