Komprise vs. Relokia

As any other archiving solution, it is very well suited for environments with a large footprint of unstructured data (CIFS / NFS shares for user data) with a large amount of unused/old files and a need to keep those unused files for long term. In our scenario, due to some legal and contractual constraints we need to keep these files for 15 years. Archiving is a good choice to move the unused files to a cheaper storage tier, both on-prem or cloud.

Incentivized

The Relokia team ensured that every piece of data was transferred flawlessly. The migration process was smooth, efficient, and—most importantly—error-free. Their communication was clear throughout and it was really easy to get answers when needed. With Relokia, we were able to move forward with our new system without the usual headaches that come with complex data migrations. We highly recommend their services to any organization looking for a dependable and professional migration partner.

• It gives you a good overview on user data: files age, sizes, file types, owners, etc.
• It is very flexible on the archiving policies.
• The data scans are really fast without affecting storage's performance.
• It has a great alternative to STUB files, which they call 'bread crumbs' (symlinks to files).

Incentivized

• Communication
• Ease of use
• Transparency in pricing.

• Its licensing plan, which takes into account the amount of data analyzed instead of data transferred.

Incentivized

Their mapping UI is intuitive and powerful, selecting the fields you want to use is a breeze, and adding custom fields is awesome. If the field doesn't exist in the destination service, they create it with the same labels and options. I was really impressed.

We have used Veritas Enterprise Vault in the past, and besides its being a well-known player on the data archiving market, their tool is far more complex to implement, to manage and to keep working. Komprise is very robust and also very easy to implement, as most part of the job is done on Komprise side. The management console is delivered through a public URL as a SaaS platform. You only need to deploy a few VMs for scan/archiving/user access, which they call "Observer VMs." Komprise also doesn't uses Stub files, which is a poor implementation adopted by the competitor for file access. We had a lot of issues in the past with stub files. Komprise has implemented 'bread crumbs', which are CIFS symlinks to the files on the Observer. It is a very good implementation and it works really well.

Incentivized

• It allowed us to free up some space on our main storage during a time where we didn't have the budget to expand it.
• It allows us to move unused data to a cheaper storage tier (Azure Blobs).

Incentivized

• Saved us lots of time.