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Solix Enterprise Data Management Suite (Solix EDMS) vs. HPE Zerto Software

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Solix EDMS

    Score9 out of 10
    N/ASolix Enterprise Data Management Suite (Solix EDMS) is an information lifecycle management solution, from Solix Technologies in Santa Clara. Solix helps infrastructure and operations leaders implement the right policies, processes, and technology for application decommissioning and data retention, and helps users identify infrequently accessed historic data from production applications, and ‘move’ it to a secure archive with data integrity and access preserved. Solix EDMS also identifies…

    $7

    per month

    HPE Zerto Software

    Score9.4 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    HPE Zerto Software aims to enable customers to run an always-on business by simplifying the protection, recovery, and mobility of on-premises and cloud applications.N/A
    Pricing
    Solix EDMSHPE Zerto Software
    Editions & Modules
    Email Archiving
    $7
    per month
    File Archiving
    $523
    per month
    Application Retirement
    $723
    per month
    Database Archiving
    $723
    per month
    Enterprise Archiving
    $1,985
    per month
    No answers on this topic
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Solix EDMSHPE Zerto Software
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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    Community Pulse
    Solix EDMSHPE Zerto Software
    Considered Both Products
    Solix Technologies
    No answer on this topic
    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    No answers on this topic
    97%
    Would buy again
    34 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    No answers on this topic
    91%
    Delivers good value for the price
    30 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    No answers on this topic
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    35 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    32 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    97%
    Implementation went as expected
    34 Answers
    Features
    Solix EDMSHPE Zerto Software
    Data Center Backup
    Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Solix Enterprise Data Management Suite (Solix EDMS) and HPE Zerto Software
    Feature
    Solix Enterprise Data Management Suite (Solix EDMS)
    -
    Ratings
    HPE Zerto Software
    8.3
    3 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Universal recovery00 Ratings8.52 Ratings
    Instant recovery00 Ratings8.33 Ratings
    Recovery verification00 Ratings9.33 Ratings
    Business application protection00 Ratings8.73 Ratings
    Multiple backup destinations00 Ratings8.52 Ratings
    Incremental backup identification00 Ratings8.12 Ratings
    Backup to the cloud00 Ratings7.43 Ratings
    Deduplication and file compression00 Ratings7.73 Ratings
    Snapshots00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Flexible deployment00 Ratings8.73 Ratings
    Management dashboard00 Ratings9.13 Ratings
    Platform support00 Ratings7.03 Ratings
    Retention options00 Ratings9.03 Ratings
    Encryption00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Enterprise Backup
    Comparison of Enterprise Backup features of Solix Enterprise Data Management Suite (Solix EDMS) and HPE Zerto Software
    Feature
    Solix Enterprise Data Management Suite (Solix EDMS)
    -
    Ratings
    HPE Zerto Software
    8.3
    2 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Continuous data protection00 Ratings9.52 Ratings
    Replication00 Ratings8.52 Ratings
    Operational reporting and analytics00 Ratings7.52 Ratings
    Malware protection00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Multi-location capabilities00 Ratings9.52 Ratings
    Ransomware Recovery00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Disaster Recovery
    Comparison of Disaster Recovery features of Solix Enterprise Data Management Suite (Solix EDMS) and HPE Zerto Software
    Feature
    Solix Enterprise Data Management Suite (Solix EDMS)
    -
    Ratings
    HPE Zerto Software
    8.3
    3 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Disaster Recovery Planning00 Ratings8.73 Ratings
    Hot Sites00 Ratings8.03 Ratings
    Disaster Recovery Testing00 Ratings9.33 Ratings
    Automated Disaster Recovery00 Ratings7.02 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Solix EDMSHPE Zerto Software
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.3
    (54 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (4 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (29 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    4.0
    (34 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.7
    (16 ratings)
    Professional Services
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.7
    (5 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Solix EDMSHPE Zerto Software
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Solix Technologies
    Solix EDMS is the recognized global provider of enterprise data management solutions for information lifecycle management and compliance. It helps data migration for [application] sunsetting and upgrades, reduce storage, and secures sensitive data. Solix is considered a pioneer in providing a complete infrastructure platform to manage data across [applications], e-mail, and documents in an enterprise.
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    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    Zerto is well suited for disaster recovery and virtual machine replication between multiple data centers. DR testing for audit or regulations is much easier with Zerto, great reporting, dashboard etc. It is not well suited for physical server replication for disaster recovery or as a primary backup solution.
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    Pros
    Solix Technologies
    • Automates the process for archiving and purging of historical data.
    • Helps towards greater business agility without spending a fortune on servers and storage.
    • It is the foundation for E-Discovery through long-term data retention, data masking, database audit, and enterprise search.
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    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    • Anyone with a large disk (VMDK) knows the issues of VMware snapshots. Most backup software is a "point in time backup" that uses snapshots. While the backup can be run multiple times per day the stress of the snapshot on the host and storage is eliminated by the continuous protection of Zerto log replication.
    • A client had a the disks on a VM go missing for some reason. We had them "flip the switch" for a real fail over and press the fail over button. The VM on our DR site started to come alive as the VM at the customer site was brought down. When the DR VM was fully up, automatic reverse replication started. The DR machine was available in a few minutes (to take into account different host hardware) for access. One the vm at both sites were in sync, we had the customer again repeat the fail over process and the DR site VM was turned off and the Production site VM was brought back on line. This was a 200 GB VM and the whole process was finished in about 3 hours.
    • Zerto also allows for "Test" fail overs that can be configured on many different functions, such as host, datastore, network and IP usage. Configuring the IPs is crucial to avoid inadvertent site cross contamination of the same VM.
    • Zerto can also retrieve files from any VM disk on the DR site without starting a VM. Very handy for retrieving files or directories.
    • Since Zerto is running continuous log replication, changes on the production VM are nearly instantaneously copied to the DR site. As with any data process, having sufficient bandwidth for "churn" peaks minimizes the delay in updating the DR site.
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    Cons
    Solix Technologies
    • Still some minor upgrade on indexes of records.
    • It was a bit tough to get started so user onboarding could be improved.
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    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    • Moving a VM from one protection group to another could be simplified.
    • I would like to see an executive-style report of recovery and testing for upper management.
    • The ability to deploy Zerto as a virtual appliance, without the need for a windows server.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Solix Technologies
    No answers on this topic
    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    We really like the easy setup of this replication solution, as well as the ease of management. Not to mention, our internal IT Economist determined that the Zerto solution would provide the best ROI out of the competing solutions we analyzed. So far, his calculations have been spot on, and we have saved substantially
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    Solix Technologies
    No answers on this topic
    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    Zerto is very easy to implement and support. Uses are broad, only issues are once something doesn't sync it is difficult to get assistance until your reach tier 2 or tier 3 support. Basic file and folder recovery is great. Live and test fail overs are also easy to implement without issue.
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    Support Rating
    Solix Technologies
    No answers on this topic
    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    Overall support is very good. We sometimes get pushback when asking Level 1 support to escalate to Level 2. This causes undue frustrations when you need a more knowledgeable support person to get involved. We've had to escalate to account reps a few times for this scenario. Zerto is very responsive and normally handles our requests very quickly.
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    Implementation Rating
    Solix Technologies
    No answers on this topic
    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    Make sure the end goal is in mind before implementing. That way results meet expectations.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Solix Technologies
    At the core of Solix EDMS is the Solix Enterprise Metadata Manager which manages multiple applications metadata for all data types independent of the hardware platforms. By implementing Solix, companies will keep data growth in check and lower storage costs, and improve overall system and reporting performance.
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    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    We started out using Backup Exec which was in service until we virtualized our environment where it didn't perform as well at the time. Then we switched to Veeam which worked well, but then as we started needing to do migrations and off-site DR, we found ourselves relying on Zerto more often.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Solix Technologies
    No answers on this topic
    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    For my organization, the pricing model was an upfront investment for the Zerto licenses. My organization prefers to pay upfront and not deal with month-to-month or year-to-year pricing models that most companies are moving to. But for some, the investment may be more than they can afford, and would prefer the year-to-year pricing model.
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    Professional Services
    Solix Technologies
    No answers on this topic
    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    I mean, it was 6 years ago, but we were up and going with all applications synchronizing in short order. The longest tasks was getting the 30 TB of application data synchronized between the datacenters.
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    Return on Investment
    Solix Technologies
    • Helps create rapid database subsets for test and development.
    • Benefitted from faster backup and recovery.
    • Helped towards greater business agility without spending a fortune on servers and storage.
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    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    • Zerto is like having the best possible insurance ... it just works, and often provides the backups taken overnight that are key in recovering data/work between overnight backups.
    • Zerto easily enabled the move of primary datacenters by allowing easy failover to a secondary site, and failback to the primary site.
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