Cove Data Protection vs. Smarsh Communications Intelligence Platform (with Actiance)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Cove Data Protection
Score 8.6 out of 10
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Cove Data Protection (formerly N-Able Backup) is designed to cover servers, datacenters, applications, and workstations, and is provided to ensure business continuity and at-a-glance assessment and fast issue resolution via customizable dashboard.N/A
Smarsh Communications Intelligence Platform
Score 7.5 out of 10
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Actiance was a social media compliance and archiving platform acquired by Smarsh in November 2017. It is now part of the technology underlying the Smarsh Communications Intelligence Platform. Actiance products Vantage and Socialite are now Connected Capture. Actiance Alcatraz is now Connected Archive.N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Cove Data ProtectionSmarsh Communications Intelligence Platform
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
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Features
Cove Data ProtectionSmarsh Communications Intelligence Platform (with Actiance)
Data Center Backup
Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Product A and Product B
Cove Data Protection
8.3
16 Ratings
2% above category average
Smarsh Communications Intelligence Platform (with Actiance)
-
Ratings
Universal recovery8.413 Ratings00 Ratings
Instant recovery9.213 Ratings00 Ratings
Recovery verification8.314 Ratings00 Ratings
Business application protection8.413 Ratings00 Ratings
Multiple backup destinations6.715 Ratings00 Ratings
Incremental backup identification8.015 Ratings00 Ratings
Backup to the cloud9.915 Ratings00 Ratings
Deduplication and file compression9.215 Ratings00 Ratings
Snapshots7.211 Ratings00 Ratings
Flexible deployment8.514 Ratings00 Ratings
Management dashboard7.816 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform support8.115 Ratings00 Ratings
Retention options9.116 Ratings00 Ratings
Encryption7.915 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Cove Data ProtectionSmarsh Communications Intelligence Platform (with Actiance)
Likelihood to Recommend
9.3
(16 ratings)
7.5
(2 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
8.1
(2 ratings)
Usability
9.6
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
9.8
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Cove Data ProtectionSmarsh Communications Intelligence Platform (with Actiance)
Likelihood to Recommend
N-able
Solarwinds Backup is ideal for individuals looking to keep a consistent backup of devices in their environment. We used it primarily for networking equipment. It is easy to set up, as it is one of the steps available when adding a new device to solarwinds. It is probably not an ideal product to use for long-term (1 month+) backups.
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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.
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Pros
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  • Backup Reporting: Email alerts, and a great, easy to read Dashboard with detailed error logs and an easy to search Solarwinds FAQ for a lot of them.
  • Restores: So far I have restored files, full VMs, and VMs to other hardware, and so far it has not only been flawless, but so flexible that I can't imagine going back to any other software.
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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
N-able
  • Restore complete settings: IP settings, the setting of CPU/Memory for VMs, etc. would decrease management during a restore.
  • Individual file backup: more granular settings for backup.
  • Change of device name after setup: at times, computer names change after restore so it would be great to rename the device name.
  • Option to recovery security key.
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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
N-able
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Smarsh
It's the only product at this time that meets all of our requirements.
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Usability
N-able
Because is a flexible, easy-to-use, complete solution.
it has a complete support site, you can find everything you need.
it can script everything on your network,
it can remote control the pc's and server of your customers.
it can restore from everywhere files and databases.
it can backup quickly and compress finely every kind of data
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Smarsh
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Support Rating
N-able
We have an Italian support partner, they are been very good b7y the first moment.
All the partners are followed with a lot of attention, even the little ones.
there is a site where you can learn everything, the single parts of the product are described perfectly.
Every it specialist should evaluate it.
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Smarsh
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Alternatives Considered
N-able
Cove is able to cover all aspects of backup in a single package. From the same dashboard I can check servers, workstations, and even Office 365. Cove is a much better solution in terms of overall management for a company such as ours. It also provides integration options with N-Able's RMM and Take Control solutions. This allows us to offer our customers with a full service suite in a single package.
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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
N-able
  • There has been NO negative impact to out ROI, but it definitely helps our bottom line. Affordable pricing and solid support make Solarwinds Backup almost a no brainer. That interprets to a growing ROI.
  • The best thing to happen to our ROI is the growth brought in by very happy clients.
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Smarsh
  • Faster investigative work has led to increased employee efficiency when working on security investigations.
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