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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...
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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.
Asigra Technical Details
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Frequently Asked Questions
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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February 03, 2016
Asigra Backup Solution
Management of the company is poor at best. They do not care about the clients unless they are huge. We have been bounced between accounts managers at least 4 times in the last 2 years. Ability to resolve account issue is poor, most times you do not get an acceptable response.
Asigra is solely used as a Backup product. We use Asigra to backup servers (physical and virtual), applications and desktops/laptops. Asigra is used when its placement and product limitations fit a clients requirements. We have been able to address the ability to automate process and backup set creation using the Asigra platform.
Asigra is solely used as a Backup product. We use Asigra to backup servers (physical and virtual), applications and desktops/laptops. Asigra is used when its placement and product limitations fit a clients requirements. We have been able to address the ability to automate process and backup set creation using the Asigra platform.
- Templating of backup sets and client settings
- Mass deployment
- Redundency
- Management
- All around features and ability to quick add new features
- User interfaces
- N/A
- CommVault,Zenith BDR,Acronis
Asigra does well at file level backups. It is great at controlling the life cycle of file generations along with meeting requirements of long life retention.
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Account managers, NOC Engineers, C Levels, Clients
4
Yes
Commvault
Efolder
AppAssure
Efolder
AppAssure
- Price
- Product Features
- Product Usability
- Analyst Reports
We would have taken the Management at Asigra into consideration as the Management is not very customer aware and will not work with you for Training. They refuse to correct know issues and training short comings and don't care that their documentation is different/wrong.
- Implemented in-house
Yes
Each part of the application requires a different setup and configuration. Its not just a tier deployment, it is a do this and then do something else different. The product is not consistent between its sub parts.
Change management was minimal
- Poor documentation
- No consistency
- Online training
- In-person training
- Self-taught
No, manuals contradict itself and common knowledge is learned through trial and error of the product. Training is required as the manuals are extremely lacking and best practices are not made easily available without a support case.
Go through training, but keep in mind their training is full of errors and misinformed information which they refuse to resolve.
Some - we have done small customizations to the interface
You have to pay to be able to modify the interface.
Yes - we have added extensive custom code
Not easy, documentation is lacking.
Yes
You are required to pay for support unless you are an ACE.
Yes
Resolved months after reported. Or ignore due to a new release.
No.
- None
- Each part of asigra requires an additional application to be installed to manage
- Difficult to manage and control endpoints without console access
- Interface is very Java heavy which causes issues
Yes
Not well, only works on the device and is unmanageable by another machine.
- Internal API and SQL/PostgreSQL integrations
- All systems
- API (e.g. SOAP or REST)
Integration is not easy and will most likely require their professional services as they did a poor job making integration easy/turn key.
None.
Be caution of their training. It is not training, just a test. They give you poorly documented manuals which are included in the product and then charge you thousands to take a test. The manuals are not accurate and in most cases contradict themselves.
Yes
Upgrades sometimes go smoothly, just wait until they have patches for a new release. Their releases are normally buggy.
- None
- A working product
- A product that is not half developed
- A product that is fully QA'ed prior to release and fully functional.
- A product that is not years behind the curve in features.
No
No
August 19, 2015
Trust in your partner and use of reliable software are key for successful Backup and Recovery
Asigra Software enables matrix technology AG to offer "Cloud-Backup made in Germany" - an easy to use, reliable and scalable backup and recovery solution for mid range businesses.
All customer data is backed up on our multitenant infrastructure vault in Datacenters all in the Munich area.
All data is encrypted and kept as long as needed for 7 x 24 restore availability.
In case of a desaster customers would be up and running within a very short RTO on our shared multitenant infrastructure platform to continue their business.
All customer data is backed up on our multitenant infrastructure vault in Datacenters all in the Munich area.
All data is encrypted and kept as long as needed for 7 x 24 restore availability.
In case of a desaster customers would be up and running within a very short RTO on our shared multitenant infrastructure platform to continue their business.
- Agentless design simplifies Backup for a wide range of traditional and cloud platforms including Windows, Novell, Linux, Unix, MacOS, iOS, Android, Office 365, Google Apps and Salesforce and more
- Backup distributed business data based on a highly secure and effective method to Cloud Datacenter Vaults and store it safe and encrypted as long as needed based on flexible scheduling and retention policies
- Provide reliable successful restores 7 x 24 with short RTOs
- Easy repeatable DR drills ensure desaster recovery when really needed
- The Service based architecture of Asigra Cloud Backup Software enables a broad range of Private, Hybrid an Public solution and service offerings for flexible customer best fit Service Provider Agreements
- Easy Client based secure VMWare replication simplifies DR Scenarios for VM based mid range customer environements dramatically and significantly shortens RTO
- Backup and Recovery is still a complex Topic. So the challenge remains to simplify User Interfaces for easiest possible access to the most common (daily) tasks in Backup and Recovery
- VMWare cloud director integration and even deeper integration with storage vendor APIs would increase the technical opportunities for more complex datacenter scenarios.
- High customer satisfaction based on high Service Quality and reliable Backup
- 7 x 24 restore availablity of > 99,9 close to 100% including planned maintenance Windows ensures restores whenever needed.
- Successful recoveries across all platforms returned value of investment to affected users in terms of no loss data and relief to continue business without major impact
There are several good products in the backup and recovery market, no doubt about that. We selected Asigra because it covers more public, hybrid and private cloud backup scenarios than other products. Asigra has proven to be a reliable Partner to us offering Backup and Recovery Services for over 10 years now. Successful backups mean a lot to us in daily business and restore success is key to us and our customers as we all rely on it when it is critically needed.
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Communication skills
Operational Experience
Technical expertise
Analytic and 2nd level support skills to identify problems and solve technical issues
Storage and Backup Software Know
How Know about backup interfaces of all OS Platforms and Applications
Be reliable and trustworthy as well as careful as they take care about their clients data
Always be ready for the unexpected (restore , recovery), like firefighters.
Operational Experience
Technical expertise
Analytic and 2nd level support skills to identify problems and solve technical issues
Storage and Backup Software Know
How Know about backup interfaces of all OS Platforms and Applications
Be reliable and trustworthy as well as careful as they take care about their clients data
Always be ready for the unexpected (restore , recovery), like firefighters.
- Implemented in-house
Yes
Yes:
1) Planning
2) Business Approval
3) Purchase and Delivery
4) Implementation
5) Documentation
Go Live.
July 08, 2015
Modern backup for small and large environments
We chose Asigra to provide cloud backup service to our Managed Services clients. Structured also uses it as our primary backup solution. It is agent-less, fully licensed, and can meet the DR needs of any company size.
- Offsite backups with compression and deduplication for maximum size savings
- Onsite backups for lower value data
- Offsite archive of old backup data to lower tiered storage and cost
- Centralized management web interface for simple operation oversight
- Offsite, On-premise, or hybrid deployment
- Replication feature for back end site redundancy
- Very secure product, loses minor flexibility
- Compression and deduplication decreases required back end storage
- Self service restores reduce helpdesk calls
- Various deployment options to meet RPO/RTO for any budget
Best of all options, covers most if not all scenarios, granular backup, scheduling, and retention options. Provides self-service restores, centralized web management interface, and granular reporting.
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Managed Services helpdesk that provides support to 50 clients, many of whom use Asigra as an on premise, cloud, or hybrid backup solution. Regular auditing helps show growth, backup errors, trends, backup and restore activities to management to show value and return on investment. Self service of Asigra lets users restore their files without having to open a helpdesk case.
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Knowledge of backup activities and methodologies, familiarity with backup software and native APIs/tools used by common applications to protect live data.
- Offsite backup and recovery
- Application protection
- Maximum compression and deduplication to reduce storage usage
- Backup and restore of non-Windows platform data
- Self service of other MSPs accessing our infrastructure
- Use object store as compatible S3 target for archive backup data
- Package tiers with automatic archiving of backup data
- Replication to multiple geographical data centers
- Remote VDR for hot spares of virtual machines
February 25, 2015
State of the Art Technology
We are Service Providers reselling Asigra for Private Cloud deployments and running our own Public Cloud vault that runs backups for various organizations ranging from small environments comprising of desktop/laptops to enterprises with MS Exchange, databases and file servers.
For our customers, it works as an ideal data protection solution for its capabilities of supporting multiple environments, features and public cloud allows remote data protection also.
- Provides capability of local backups while maintaining remote copies on cloud to ensure faster recoveries of recent data and remote protection of all data.
- Helps reduce cost of long term retention by leveraging the BLM functionality.
- It does not need specialized hardware for it to work. Customers and Service Providers can choose their own infrastructure and do not need to rely on any OS or storage based replication even for deploying replication of backups.
- Supports wide range of environments including virtual environments with remarkable features like remote VDR with incremental restores.
- Image level VM backups need to quickly help doing file level restores.
- Need support for larger environments like Sybase etc. as these databases are catching the market along with SAP.
- Better deduplication on Oracle databases.
- Better Customer pre-sales engagement through Asigra tools like LAN discovery & Statistical backups.
- Better Customer Service.
- Better reputation in market.
- Faster lead conversion.
- emc,Symantec
To be precise, you don't get one single product that has all the features that you have in Asigra.
To begin with is being hardware independent not binding you with a particular hardware. You don't need to worry about licensing based on no. or type of devices, databases & processors OR even features. All of them get licensed the single way.
Features like Agentless architecture (quicker deployment & support), BLM (low cost of retention), inbuilt replication (No hardware or OS dependent DR) & Remote VDR (Automatic incremental recovery of a VM), support for various devices & databases are exceptionally well and I don't see any other product having all these in one.
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The entire organization is mandated to use the product for their financial, sales and support data. These include business functions: Customer Support, Corporate Finance, Sales & Marketing AND Operations.
5
They just need to be Engineers that have the desire to work with a good technology. They should be having some basic knowledge about storage & backup functionality. They don't need any special skills to support Asigra.
It is an added advantage to have worked with a couple of other products as that helps understand what is better in Asigra and appreciate it more.
- VM protection for a News Channel.
- Protecting PACS image data for a large hospital.
- Protecting designs & data for a large real estate company.
- Backing up PACS image data
- Local and remote protection for small nursing homes of a large hospital.
- Oracle database backups for a construction company.
No
- Product Features
- Product Usability
- Vendor Reputation
- Positive Sales Experience with the Vendor
- Analyst Reports
Analysts Report Which helped analyse the product, get more details on the product's acceptance in the market and get feedback on the organization functionality helped us the most.
I would like to first layout my requirement and ask the vendor to confirm if they can be addressed. Then I would like the vendor to specify what can he additionally do for us using his product.
This would be followed by a detailed Proof Of Concept to have a real life experience of the product.
- Implemented in-house
No
- Network connectivity.
- VSS Services.
No
Generally not reqd. for Asigra product.
No
Well they generally do it every time.
Once such situation occurred when we had trouble backing up Oracle backups for a customer and their team helped us understand the functionality better and work with the customer DBA team to set it right in a few hours.
- Configuring backup volumes i.e. extensible storage.
- Configuring backup jobs.
- Implementing the basic product itself.
- Oracle DB backup configurations are sometimes difficult to handle.
December 18, 2014
Asigra is not just backup. It is secure, cloud backup.
Daymark Solutions is both an Asigra provider and an Asigra consumer. We offer public, hybrid, and private cloud implementations of the product. Daymark utilizes Asigra for all backups, from laptops to servers. Asigra provides automated, offsite, and secure backups for Daymark by protecting Microsoft Windows servers, including Exchange and SQL, as well as virtual file shares on a NetApp filer.
- Asigra provides well integrated use of the Microsoft APIs to backup Microsoft applications they way Microsoft wants them backed up.
- Asigra provides lightweight laptop clients with user friendly GUI's, mass deployment options, and small resource consumption.
- Asigra integrates naturally with NetApp storage arrays, taking advantage of the NetApp APIs to provide snapshot-base backups form the NetApp storage.
- Asigra operates within the realm of the APIs provided by the application vendors. If there are limitations in the Microsoft or VMWare API, there will be a limitation to how Asigra protects that data.
- Asigra is currently working on an overhaul on the GUI experience. This overhaul is much needed. They are promising this new GUI hopefully in the next release.
- Reduced backup software licensing cost.
- More efficient offsite protection of data.
- Regulation compliance
Asigra licensing model is more straight forward than eVault and has an easier user interface.
Asigra is more robust and feature rich than Mozy or Carbonite.
Asigra offers true multi-tenancy, where the Symantec products do not offer such features.
Asigra's feature stack holds water against the other competitors out there. As far as cloud backup goes, it is the most mature cloud backup software on the market. As well as being mature, the security exemplified by the NIST FIPS 140-2 encryption certification is far ahead of its competitors.
Asigra is more robust and feature rich than Mozy or Carbonite.
Asigra offers true multi-tenancy, where the Symantec products do not offer such features.
Asigra's feature stack holds water against the other competitors out there. As far as cloud backup goes, it is the most mature cloud backup software on the market. As well as being mature, the security exemplified by the NIST FIPS 140-2 encryption certification is far ahead of its competitors.