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Scality ARTESCA vs. vSphere Data Protection Advanced (discontinued)

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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

    vSphere Data Protection Advanced (discontinued)

    Score6 out of 10
    N/AVMware vSphere Data Protection Advanced (or vDPA), now part of vSphere, was a VMware data protection and recovery offering. The product is no longer available standalone.N/A
    Pricing
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    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
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    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    Scality ARTESCAvSphere Data Protection Advanced (discontinued)
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    Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Scality ARTESCA and vSphere Data Protection Advanced (discontinued)
    Feature
    Scality ARTESCA
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    Ratings
    vSphere Data Protection Advanced (discontinued)
    9.4
    1 Ratings
    11% above category average
    Universal recovery00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Instant recovery00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Recovery verification00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Business application protection00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Snapshots00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Management dashboard00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Platform support00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Retention options00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Scality ARTESCAvSphere Data Protection Advanced (discontinued)
    Small Businesses
    Azure Blob Storage
    Score8.7 out of 10
    BDRShield
    Score6.5 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Everpure FlashBlade
    Score9.9 out of 10
    Bacula Enterprise
    Score8.6 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Google Cloud Storage
    Score9.2 out of 10
    Bacula Enterprise
    Score8.6 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Scality ARTESCAvSphere Data Protection Advanced (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.9
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Scality ARTESCAvSphere Data Protection Advanced (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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    VMware vSphere Data Protection Advanced is well suited for a thin client environment, and/or an environment that runs multiple virtual servers. It is also well suited for an environment with disaster recover requirements that require backups of everything. vSphere is very expensive, so it would probably not be a very good choice for a startup that could use a cheaper alternative in the beginning, or a physical machine environment.
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    Pros
    Scality
    • I love the redundancy of the software.
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    • Maintains backups of all virtual systems for disaster recovery compliance.
    • Supports plugins for backups of Microsoft systems.
    • As with most VMware products vSphere is incredibly easy to use.
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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.
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    • Reports are too complex, could be made clearer.
    • The interface could be simplified.
    • Backups of physical servers take a very long time.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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    CloudBacko is the only similar product that I have used, and while it worked by backing up my virtual machines to Google Drive, VMware vSphere Data Protection Advanced not only backs up the virtual machines, buton databases, physical servers and more, and backs them up to a centralized location, and has 24/7 live support.
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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.
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    Discontinued Products
    • Virtual machines and servers are backed up and secure
    • DR compliance is met
    • Multiple platforms backed up to a central location
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