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What is Asigra?
Asigra is an enterprise-level, agentless, cloud-based recovery software to provide data backup and recovery of servers, virtual machines, endpoint devices, database, and SaaS/IaaS-based applications. Asigra charges customers by the amount of data they recover rather than the amount they…
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What is Asigra?
Asigra is an enterprise-level, agentless, cloud-based recovery software to provide data backup and recovery of servers, virtual machines, endpoint devices, database, and SaaS/IaaS-based applications. Asigra charges customers by the amount of data they recover rather than the amount they back up.
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What is Asigra?
Trusted since 1986, Asigra provides
organizations around the world the ability to recover their data now
from anywhere through a global network of partners who deliver cloud
backup and recovery services as public, private and/or hybrid
deployments. As the industry’s first enterprise-class agentless
cloud-based recovery software to provide data backup and recovery of
servers, virtual machines, endpoint devices, databases and applications,
SaaS and IaaS based applications, Asigra lowers the total cost of
ownership, reduces recovery time objectives, eliminates silos of backup
data by providing a single consolidated repository, and provides 100%
recovery assurance. Asigra’s revolutionary patent-pending Recovery
License Model provides organizations with a cost effective data recovery
business model unlike any other offered in the storage market.
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| Mobile Application | No |
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Asigra is an enterprise-level, agentless, cloud-based recovery software to provide data backup and recovery of servers, virtual machines, endpoint devices, database, and SaaS/IaaS-based applications. Asigra charges customers by the amount of data they recover rather than the amount they back up.
Reviewers rate Availability highest, with a score of 8.8.
The most common users of Asigra are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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Comprehensive and Versatile Platform: Many users have found Asigra's Agentless Backup and Recovery solution to be a comprehensive and versatile platform that can protect various platforms and services. This eliminates the need for multiple point solutions and simplifies management.
Secure and Reliable Solution: Several reviewers have praised Asigra's solution for its security, reliability, scalability, and ease of administration. The use of features like Autonomic Healing and Validation Restore ensures consistent and accurate data recovery.
Agentless Architecture: Users appreciate the agentless architecture of Asigra, which reduces complications associated with installation, configuration, and management of individual servers. This saves time and effort for IT staff while making it easier to manage compared to agent-based alternatives.
Outdated GUI: The graphical user interface GUI of Asigra has been described as confusing and outdated by users, who eagerly anticipate the promised new GUI in the next release.
Difficult Support Ticket Process: Some users have criticized the process to open a support ticket, describing it as clumsy and cumbersome. This has caused frustration among reviewers who expect a smoother and more efficient way to seek assistance when encountering issues with the software.
Expensive for Small Data Sets: The cost of Asigra is considered high by some users, particularly for small data sets. Reviewers feel that the pricing structure does not align well with their needs, making it less affordable for smaller companies or organizations.
Users commonly recommend the following from their experience with Asigra:
Reading the documentation: Users suggest starting by thoroughly reading the detailed documentation provided by Asigra before deploying the software. This helps users gain a comprehensive understanding of the platform and its capabilities.
Seeking assistance from the Asigra team: Many users recommend reaching out to the Asigra team for on-boarding assistance. This ensures a smooth implementation process and allows users to take full advantage of the software's features.
Evaluating and comparing with competitors: Users advise evaluating Asigra thoroughly and comparing its benefits with other backup solutions in the market. This helps users make an informed decision based on their specific needs and requirements.
Overall, users recommend investing time in understanding the documentation, seeking assistance from the Asigra team, and conducting a thorough evaluation before making any decisions about using Asigra for backup and restore operations.
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October 08, 2019
Asigra Backup Solution
Score 10 out of 10
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I did work with a Asigra Partner. Asigra Solution was implemented in our organisation and our customers as well
- Agentless Architecture: Minimal End-Point resource utilization
- De-Duplication and Compression
- Encryption
- Backup on cloud
- Reporting should be more interactive
- Agentless Architecture, De-Duplication, Encryption
For end client Backup Asigra stands on top with the features like agentless, de-duplication/compression and encryption
September 30, 2015
Asigra, whats the score?
I've been implementing Asigra for over 6 years as Public, Private and Hybrid Clouds. Its key features for me are: Agentless Architecture, WAN Optimisation, Incremental Forever, Encrypted at Source, FIPS-140-2 Certification. These features give service providers and customers the confidence that their data is protected and secure.
Asigra Backs up the data, and restores it when you need it. What more do you need?
Asigra Backs up the data, and restores it when you need it. What more do you need?
- Asigra's agentless architecture means it's much less labour intensive than agent-based alternatives.
- Encrypted at Source gives the customer and service provider the confidence that their data is secure.
- Continuous Development of the Asigra product suite by Asigra's dedicated engineers in Toronto means Asigra continues to protect data in the latest IT environments. Be that in the Office, Mobile Device, Cloud or Data Centre.
- File Level restore from Windows Hyper-V VHDX backups. This functionality is possible in VMware VMDK backups.
- DS-System GUI is outdated and needs bringing up to the same level as the new DS-User GUI.
- The reporting could be slicker of the DS-System to DS-System Asigra Replication which provides a second Geographically separate copy of the data.
- Customer Confidence. If Asigra backed it up, Asigra will restore it.
- Asigra's agentless architecture means its much less labour intensive than agent-based alternatives because matching agent revisions with operating system levels, researching compatibility issues, and other labour intensive tasks are non-existent when using the Asigra solution. It's also much easier to support, with the usual risks of agent-based solutions greatly reduced.
- The Asigra brand was a relatively unknown backup and data recovery solution even though it has been around for nearly 30 years. This is mainly due to Asigra not selling direct and instead using service providers. Asigra has remedied this over the last decade with strong marketing strategies, inclusion in the first and subsequent Gartner Magic Quadrant for enterprise backup software and integrated appliances along with a vast range of other strategies meaning Asigra has now become an established known solution in the market.
- Veeam
Veeam is great, it backs up VMs, great reporting but when looking at a backup solution as a cloud service provider Asigra provides a full suite from VM servers, physical servers, applications, third party SaaS based apps and portable devices. It's multi tenant capabilities mean it's a great all in one comprehensive solution.
We are a Service Provider and use Asigra to supply Private, Public and Hybrid Cloud Backup and DR to our customers.
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August 21, 2015
I love simplicity in my life & those that talk common sense
Originally as a Commercial Property Solutions company Fasset Ltd took the decision following 9 months of research and due diligence to implement Asigra across our UK sites to simplify our Backup process and anticipating the level of data growth, lower the risk to us as a business. This quickly moved to setting up a completely new division within our company called Fasset Technologies to resell Asigra to the Tenants at our sites. Within 12 months this is now in operation across our portfolio and to many of the business within.
What problems does it address for us?
1) Consolidation of Backup Platforms into one solution
2) Lowers our business risk
3) Supports the Backup of Microsoft 365 data following our recent migration
4) Enables us to support our remote sites with a Resilient Data Continuity Solution
5) From a BCP point of view it has enabled us to meet our planned objectives for RTO / RPO
What problems does it address for us?
1) Consolidation of Backup Platforms into one solution
2) Lowers our business risk
3) Supports the Backup of Microsoft 365 data following our recent migration
4) Enables us to support our remote sites with a Resilient Data Continuity Solution
5) From a BCP point of view it has enabled us to meet our planned objectives for RTO / RPO
- One solution / window to control all of your backup & recovery requirements.
- Fantastic de-dupe / compression to ensure best value. Our average has been circa 30% of its original size.
- A pricing model that makes common sense. You pay for the amount you backup and you pay a recovery sum based on historical usage.
- The security encryption levels mean that we can support businesses of all types and in still confidence in them.
- Before Version 13 the GUI was seen as a barrier to its success. Since Feb 15 this has been improved.
- Endpoint Devices - This is there but has not all the functionality seen in many bespoke products for mobile / tablets etc. From my understanding Asigra have 3 more version updates in the coming 12 months that will improve on this. For me it was a small price to pay for a product that does everything else so well.
- Customer Service - The ability to switch a business back on in within 30secs of a key server going down is where the future is.
- Productivity - Internal resource time required to managed the backup solutions across our portfolio has dropped by at least 50%.
When evaluating Asigra against Commvault we found the following:
Commvault - Expensive licensing, per socket, VM, agent, TB etc. = > HW costs, pro services = > TCO
Commvault - Did not at the time backup Office 365, Google Apps, Salesforce.com and could not be recovered locally
Commvault - Did not at the time Backup/Recover Docker Containers
Commvault - Expensive licensing, per socket, VM, agent, TB etc. = > HW costs, pro services = > TCO
Commvault - Did not at the time backup Office 365, Google Apps, Salesforce.com and could not be recovered locally
Commvault - Did not at the time Backup/Recover Docker Containers
We use Asigra to backup our internal systems but we are also a reseller of Asigra. As a reseller we run a public backup and recovery service cloud and also implement private clouds for organizations that can't use public cloud services because of internal and or outside rules/regulations. We use Asigra to typically replace tape backup infrastructure at client and partner sites.
- Asigra does a number of things well. First, it's a cross-platform data backup and recovery solution. This means you can use the same software to backup Microsoft, Linux, OS X and VMs. The same software can be used for servers, desktops and mobile devices which helps to smooth the delivery process as their are less moving parts.
- Key strengths include it's Agentless backup and recovery platform. As most people know when using traditional backup software an agent needs to be installed on each device you want to backup up - not so with Asigra. Software agents that consumes local CPU cycles to do data de-duplication, compression and encryption are not required to backup devices using Asigra. This saves a lot of time and effort and also makes POCs (proof-of-concepts) during the sales cycle much easier.
- Recent support for cloud services like Office365, Google, Salesforce and others provides a lot of service flexibility.
- One of the areas that we feel Asigra needs to address is software localization. Asigra's backup and recovery software is very granular and takes time to understand but with only three languages supported (English, Chinese and German) it makes it more difficult to implement and support.
- Error reporting (logs) can be difficult to understand. Obviously if a backup set doesn't complete or an error occurs during a process its best to be able to trouble-shoot quickly and efficiently. This is an area that we'd like to see Asigra improve upon.
- We view Asigra as having a positive impact on our business. Over the years we have supported many many different kinds of backup and recovery tools and most have too many holes to build your business around.
- In any sales cycle you hate to be eliminated early on because you can't address a client's technical requirement. With Asigra this almost never happens which means you always make the short list and by then it's less about technology and more about the economics of a deal.
- We use proof-of-concepts regularly during the sales cycle. As the Arigra technology is agentless we never really have to bother the client to install software on the target devices and no reboots are required. This makes getting the client up and running quickly very easy. Most software that we've used in the past just isn't built this way.
We've used Acronis, ARCserve, BackupExec, Code42, BackupAssist, LiveVault, and many others. Asigra stands head and shoulders above the rest with it's ability to support a variety of different operating systems and applications. Plus being agentless is a huge advantage.
July 08, 2014
Asigra is a Great Product for MSPs
This software was used by a Managed Services Provider to offer cloud based backup solutions to many clients. These clients ranged in size from very small (5 Employees) to mid sized (500 employees). Clients would run a small piece of software locally and backup to cloud at a central datacenter.
- Lightweight setup for clients.
- Agentless for most servers.
- Robust, can backup almost anything.
- De-duplication across multiple servers and tenants.
- Interface is very basic and can be convoluted. It is not pretty.
- Errorcodes are usually complicated and often need high level resources to figure out.
- Support system with manufacture is ticket based. Vendors are incentivized not to create tickets.
- Lead Generator - Foot in the door Product
- Easier access to Enterprise backup options for smaller clients.
Asigra is built with multitenant MSPs and companies in mind so its easier to use when managing many companies or isolated parts of a business. Asigra can stackup well in these situations against Avamar and Commvault. Cost can be lower but adds up quickly as you consume storage
Yes
Vendors/Partners pay for a buckets of Tickets. Its the only support offered.
Yes
Yes, next release it was fixed.
EMC doesn't
- DS-Client is easy to use.
- Setting up File Backups is fast and easy.
- DS-Server can be complex.
- Backup retention policies can be confusing and complex.
- BLM is very complex.