Kaminario K2 (discontinued) vs. SkyKick

Kaminario K2 (discontinued)

Kaminario K2 (discontinued)

1 Reviews and Ratings

SkyKick

SkyKick

11 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Kaminario K2 (discontinued)	Score 8.0 out of 10	N/A	Kaminario K2 was an on-premise flash array storage. Silk updated its brand and focus to reflect the move of customers to the cloud. The former Kaminario K2 product is no longer available.	N/A
SkyKick	Score 7.3 out of 10	N/A	SkyKick headquartered in Seattle offers a total cloud migration solution, featuring cloud backup and cloud management features for control of customer access to cloud resources.	$249 per month

Pricing

Kaminario K2 (discontinued)

SkyKick

Editions & Modules

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Basic: $249
per month
Standard: $549
per month
Professional: $1,149
per month

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Kaminario K2 (discontinued)	SkyKick
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
	Kaminario K2 (discontinued)	SkyKick
Top Pros	Pro Super simple Pro Simple to use	Pro Support team Pro Office 365 Pro Cloud backup
Top Cons	Minus Support is lacking Minus Data reduction Minus Third party	Minus Integration with 3rd Minus 3rd party Minus 3rd party apps

Best Alternatives
	Kaminario K2 (discontinued)	SkyKick
Small Businesses	DBeaver Score 8.6 out of 10	VMware Cloud Director Score 10.0 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	DBeaver Score 8.6 out of 10	IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions Score 7.5 out of 10
Enterprises	DBeaver Score 8.6 out of 10	VMware Cloud Director Score 10.0 out of 10
All Alternatives	View all alternatives	View all alternatives

User Ratings
	Kaminario K2 (discontinued)	SkyKick
Likelihood to Recommend	8.0 (1 ratings)	8.9 (2 ratings)
Support Rating	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (1 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Kaminario K2 (discontinued)	SkyKick
Likelihood to Recommend	Silk K2 works well in our mixed-use virtual environment. I would not hesitate to place any workload on K2, it has always performed well. We use fiber-channel connectivity as it replaced our large legacy storage array, replacing one rack of spinning disks with 4U of flash. Incentivized EE Eric Ellerman Infrastructure Architect Read full review	SkyKick SkyKick does a great job on migrations to Office 365. Their technicians are very helpful in planning the whole process, and the tool itself is quite reliable and resilient. Their cloud backup works OK but it does not provide the most friendly or fastest recovery. It also sits on the expensive side as they charge separately for Exchange and Onedrive/Sharepoint backups. Incentivized PM Pablo Magliola IT Operations Manager Read full review
Pros	Silk Great performance Great support Super-simple to use Incentivized EE Eric Ellerman Infrastructure Architect Read full review	SkyKick Customer Interface for Backups Migration support team Comprehensive backup suite Incentivized Gregory McKiernan President & CEO Read full review
Cons	Silk Not well known, so third-party support is lacking Data reduction is good, but not as good as expected (actual 2.7:1) Incentivized EE Eric Ellerman Infrastructure Architect Read full review	SkyKick Response time and [ease] to get hold of Integration with 3rd party apps for billing Incentivized PM Pablo Magliola IT Operations Manager Read full review
Support Rating	Silk No answers on this topic	SkyKick Responsive, technically capable, and friendly. Ive always had a good experience working with SkyKick su[[ort. Incentivized Gregory McKiernan President & CEO Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Silk We performed a bake-off with K2 and one other vendor and they performed identically. K2 pricing was aggressive, performance was great, and it offered the features that we needed at a price that we could afford Incentivized EE Eric Ellerman Infrastructure Architect Read full review	SkyKick For migration purposes, we have chosen SkyKick over and over again. Their tool just works and does a great job with multiple different sources. Their support team is awesome albeit could be somewhat faster sometimes. Regarding cloud backup, it seems like that space is quite commoditized as every vendor offers the same. SkyKick does have some good promotions on migration costs when signing up for cloud backups as well which makes them more competitive than other vendors. Incentivized PM Pablo Magliola IT Operations Manager Read full review
Return on Investment	Silk Installing K2 reduced runtime of one of our batch processes, freeing up one employee for other tasks. Less time managing storage. Incentivized EE Eric Ellerman Infrastructure Architect Read full review	SkyKick Profitable migration business Profitable backup solution Delivers peace of mind to clients and improves our brand as trusted cloud vendor Incentivized Gregory McKiernan President & CEO Read full review
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