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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Scality ARTESCA

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AScality in San Francisco offers scalable file and object storage for media, healthcare, cloud service providers, and others.N/A

    Sonian (discontinued)

    Score4.8 out of 10
    N/ABarracuda Cloud Archive, or Sonian, was a file archiving option developed by Sonian and acquired by Barracuda Networks in November 2017. It has been discontinued.N/A
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    Scality ARTESCASonian (discontinued)
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Scality ARTESCASonian (discontinued)
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    User Ratings
    Scality ARTESCASonian (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.9
    (2 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Scality ARTESCASonian (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Scality
    The team in charge of implementing Scality has to be full stack in order to guarantee the correct functioning of the entire system. However, you have to think very carefully about the balance between servers and disks, perhaps adopting smaller fully populated servers instead of large semi-populated servers, which would mean that over time our disk updates will not have a fully useful life.
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    We have had a couple of legal inquiries which required us to review emails for a user or users. Using the Barracuda Cloud Archiving Service, we have been able to perform searches quickly, narrowing or expanding the search criteria is easy, resulting in exactly what we were looking for. This has saved us with claims for collections, as well as a couple of legal HR matters. It is my trusted go to application.
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    Pros
    Scality
    • I love the redundancy of the software.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    • Sonian search is rightly praised for ease of use, scale, performance and accuracy.
    • Sonian archive can be deployed rapidly without the need for costly professional service engagements.
    • Seamless process to import PST files into the archive.
    • Sonian has a high focus on compliance and governance which is reflected with their fast and accurate search function.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Scality
    • The overall packaging is not very good. I think it could be more efficient for installation.
    • There are many components in storage servers. This can generally be complex to understand, you have to be patient.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    • Speed is slow sometimes
    • The Outlook plugin does not always find all emails when searching
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    Usability
    Scality
    As an organization, it took us a while to understand the shift from a traditional black box SAN to software-defined storage, but now we are much more certain of what this means. The time invested and the resources were not very high, thanks on the one hand to the technical support and on the other to the coherence and good development of the platform.
    Incentivized
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    It performs as expected with no exceptions.
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    Support Rating
    Scality
    I have seen Scality in the office meeting with our VP and get the feeling that they are here to support us.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    We only need support when initially setting it up. We really have not had to call for user or help support on this product. It has always worked and is always easy to use.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Scality
    Due to the nature of our business we require extensive encryption and availability for sensitive customer data. The erasure encoding that Scality provides gives us the assurance that documents are rest are never in a state of being downloaded or available to a casual data thief. This is something that can be found with other vendors but at a fraction of the same cost. Having this kind of performance, availability and redundancy at the cost that Scality provides has made a large difference to our organization.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    Sonian is a pure SaaS solution and is easy to manage and use. It's cost effective and does exactly what it says on the tin
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    Scality
    • Keeping sensitive customer data secure is a must for our organization and Scality has great features to make this happen.
    • We replaced a single SAN with a Scality ring and found performance to improve as we store more and more customer data.
    • Being able to lose various portions of our Scality ring and allow it to continue to service customers while maintaining high performance has been key to our business.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    • We have been able to reduce a lot of store space by moving all PST files to the archiver.
    • Users love how easy it is to find old emails that were deleted long ago.
    • Some users now rely on this service
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