Item: OpenText Availability
Rating: 8
Author: Srinidhi S V

Overall Satisfaction with Carbonite Availability

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Carbonite Availability is installed on primary systems and the secondary target and creates a replica of the primary system at the secondary location. The problem which we were working to counter is the system crash or failure. Carbonite Availability has helped to solve this problem in a very effective way. When a failure occurs, the backup secondary systems are triggred and they go live and DNS re-routes and voila everything is back to as it was a few minutes back. We use this to protect most of our critical data systems, helping in disaster management which is part of our risk mitigation plan or process

Pros and Cons

Pros

Seamless switch to secondary systems
Data protection
Disaster management

Cons

Timing to switch between can be improved
Can be made more user friendly replication tool
User interface can be improved

Most Important Features

Disaster management
Data protection
Seamless working under failure

Return on Investment

Capital loss will be avoided
Data replication is easier between our physical and virtual systems
Time consumed while restarting the servers

Key Insights

Do you think OpenText Availability delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with OpenText Availability's feature set?

Yes

Did OpenText Availability live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of OpenText Availability go as expected?

I wasn't involved with the implementation phase

Would you buy OpenText Availability again?

Yes

Likelihood to Recommend

The problem which we were working to counter is the system crash or failure. Carbonite Availability has helped to solve this problem in a very effective way. When a failure occurs, the backup secondary systems are triggred and they go live and DNS re-routes and voila everything is back to as it was a few minutes back. We use this to protect most of our critical data systems, helping in disaster management which is part of our risk mitigation plan or process. As stated the timing of switch can be improved as well as some work on user interface to make it more and more user friendly.

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