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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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I love simplicity in my life & those that talk common sense
Trust in your partner and use of reliable software are key for successful Backup and Recovery
The elephant in the room - When did we last do a backup restore test and did it work!
Modern backup for small and large environments
Asigra can backup everything on anything
What about Asigra from the perspective of both User and Service provider
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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 Veeam Data Platform?
Veeam’s® premier product, Veeam Backup & Replication™, delivers availability for all cloud, virtual, Kubernetes and physical workloads. Through a management console, the software provides backup, archival, recovery and replication capabilities.
What is Veeam Backup for AWS?
Veeam® delivers native, automated AWS backup and disaster recovery to protect and manage Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS, Amazon EFS and Amazon VPC data. Veeam states it is built with simplicity, scalability, savings and security in mind, so users can eliminate the risk of data loss for AWS services.
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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.
Attribute Ratings
- 8.6Likelihood to Renew13 ratings
- 8.8Availability5 ratings
- 8Usability6 ratings
- 7.5Support Rating6 ratings
- 1Online Training1 rating
- 4.5In-Person Training1 rating
- 1.2Implementation Rating3 ratings
- 1Configurability1 rating
- 4.5Product Scalability1 rating
- 1Ease of integration1 rating
- 1Vendor pre-sale1 rating
- 1Vendor post-sale1 rating
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(1-5 of 5)Asigra Backup Solution
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
Efolder
AppAssure
- Price
- Product Features
- Product Usability
- Analyst Reports
- Implemented in-house
- Poor documentation
- No consistency
- Online training
- In-person training
- Self-taught
They require you to take training in order to keep your engaged hybrid partnership. If you ask me personally, their training is a scam to make more money.
- 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
- Internal API and SQL/PostgreSQL integrations
- All systems
- API (e.g. SOAP or REST)
- 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.
Trust in your partner and use of reliable software are key for successful Backup and Recovery
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
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:
1) Planning
2) Business Approval
3) Purchase and Delivery
4) Implementation
5) Documentation
Go Live.
Modern backup for small and large environments
- 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
- 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
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.
I have been working with backup solutions for around 14 years now. Asigra is one solution that has a wide range of features and functionalities while retaining the simplicity of usage and making it a very simple product to learn and start using.
What is also important is the post sales support wherein the product code is done so well that you rarely need to engage Asigra's support team for escalations and support calls. On top of it, Asigra technical support works very well to ensure you are taken care of well & quickly. This is one of the most important things that you look for while evaluating any product as you need to have the right people around you when you are in trouble.
- 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.
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.
From a business prospective, I am a service provider so I would always renew.
From a technical prospective, there has been enough written about it in earlier questions and this could go endless.
Overall, Asigra is a good organization to work with. They are concerned about what the partner and the customer needs and are always a phone call away to help in any situation. Therefore, apart from technology, you work with people always available to support their claims.
- Product Features
- Product Usability
- Vendor Reputation
- Positive Sales Experience with the Vendor
- Analyst Reports
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
- Network connectivity.
- VSS Services.
They respond quickly on your request.
They ask for details at the time of logging the support request itself ensuring the first response is not for collecting the basic details only.
They refund you the support request if they find it as a functionality issue.
They follow up on you to ensure you are satisfied and happy with the response and resolution that they have provided.
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.
As I have described in various earlier questions, Asigra provides a simple GUI, easy to configure and manage backup jobs, simple recovery interface and you don't need learning cycles to understand the product and its functionalities.
It is more of an on-the-fly easy to use product.
Asigra is not just backup. It is secure, cloud backup.
- 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.
One of the key things about Asigra is that they do not sell directly to customers. You have to go through an Asigra Partner. That is where the questions should be asked.
Is the service provider SSAE 16 SOC 2 compliant?
Is the service provider utilizing the Asigra replication module to provide two copies of your data?
Does the partner staff Asigra trained and certified professionals?
How does the provider bill? Stored data? Compressed data? Native size?
- Reduced backup software licensing cost.
- More efficient offsite protection of data.
- Regulation compliance
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 a great entry way into the cloud.
- Compliance is a tricky thing. Jumping backup software means having to deal with previous copies somehow. Asigra is built for the long haul.
- Asigra is continuing to increase their feature stack. They have made huge steps in the VM backup in the last 3 years and continue to implement features there.
- As far as cloud backup software goes, there are many that can do it, but none that do it as well as Asigra.
Data availability is strong via Asigra's replication module. Both bidirectional and unidirectional replication for the DS-System exist. Bidirectional replication requires the MSP to purchase double the licensing. That cost is going to be passed on to the customer. Many MSP's opt for the unidirectional, which requires a manual switch over on the DS-License server to change a replication vault to a production vault. With that being said, Asigra replication is very efficient and allows for multiple, in-region and out-region backup vaults.
The DS-System works best on Linux utilizing PostgreSQL for the backend database. Ideally, this should be clustered. Clustering a PostgreSQL database is not as straight forward as doing it with Microsoft. That adds some administrative overhead and requires some PostgreSQL expertise end users and MSP's have to find.
The Windows DS-Client, the piece doing the backup, can be gridded for a multi-node backup cluster. Unfortunately, the Linux DS-Client cannot be gridded.