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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Actifio Enterprise

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AActifio Enterprise is a copy data virtualization, & data center backup and recovery platform from Boston-based Actifio.N/A

    Carbonite Server

    Score1 out of 10
    N/ACarbonite Server (also replacing the former EVault products acquired from Seagate in 2016) is a full backup and discovery solution. Designed to recover anything from a single file to an entire system with the click of a button, Carbonite Server users can protect virtually any type of file on both physical and virtual servers, NAS, SAN and external hard drives. The vendor’s value proposition is that their solution assures that users without an IT department and those that are the IT department…

    $800.04

    per year

    Pricing
    Actifio EnterpriseCarbonite Server
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Power
    $800.04
    per year
    Ultimate
    1,300.08
    per year
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Actifio EnterpriseCarbonite Server
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsTrial and paying customers have access to our valet install free of charge. Call and speak to a specialist who can remotely connect to your machine to ensure it's installed and configured correctly to protect your critical data.
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    Features
    Actifio EnterpriseCarbonite Server
    Data Center Backup
    Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Actifio Enterprise and Carbonite Server
    Feature
    Actifio Enterprise
    9.3
    1 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Carbonite Server
    8.6
    21 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Universal recovery9.01 Ratings8.37 Ratings
    Instant recovery9.01 Ratings8.28 Ratings
    Recovery verification9.01 Ratings7.97 Ratings
    Business application protection8.01 Ratings10.014 Ratings
    Multiple backup destinations10.01 Ratings10.015 Ratings
    Incremental backup identification10.01 Ratings10.019 Ratings
    Backup to the cloud9.01 Ratings10.020 Ratings
    Deduplication and file compression10.01 Ratings7.612 Ratings
    Snapshots10.01 Ratings10.010 Ratings
    Flexible deployment9.01 Ratings7.99 Ratings
    Management dashboard8.01 Ratings7.59 Ratings
    Platform support9.01 Ratings7.510 Ratings
    Retention options10.01 Ratings7.711 Ratings
    Encryption10.01 Ratings8.511 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Actifio EnterpriseCarbonite Server
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (35 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    4.8
    (6 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.5
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.5
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Actifio EnterpriseCarbonite Server
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Actifio
    Actifio is a good fit for anyone looking for draas or backup as a service with Bluechip.co.uk being able to tailor a solution to fit your need if you are a medium size business looking to protect over 20TB of source data on a mix of virtual and physical servers in your datacentre our hosted within our state of the art datacentres.
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    Carbonite, an OpenText company
    More than enough for small companies with several on-prem servers. In 2021, it wouldn't be wise to pit all important data to a single backup service. Carbonite Server is solid, but it's not 100% reliable so I'd definitely recommend having multiple backup services either on the cloud in conjunction with other backup services so the user has multiple safety nets in case of disaster and failed granular restorations.
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    Pros
    Actifio
    • Reliable and easy to deploy backup solution with low administration overhead.
    • Fast backup solution with low impact on production systems as it backs them up.
    • Dedup and replication of backed up data between sites and with streamsnap very quick recovery on dr site.
    • Great customer support with quick response to changing demands.
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    Carbonite, an OpenText company
    • The end-user experience is as simple and robust as I have ever seen from a backup solution. The end-user dashboard, should you choose to allow them access, is intuitive and granular.
    • eVault has the best bandwidth management I have experienced. The endpoint target is available for all operating systems and is intelligent and efficient using very low overhead. It includes data de-dupe and encryption while using very little system resources. Combine these features with bandwidth throttling and you can backup a large amount of data over any size wire.
    • eVault's deployment options will fit any budget and size environment. You can deploy using your own hardware, even. They really focus on providing the right solution for each customer instead of making each customer fit into their pre-determined box.
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    Cons
    Actifio
    • Single file restore has always been an issue but hopefully will be added soon.
    • Physical server backup restoring has always been tricky but achievable.
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    Carbonite, an OpenText company
    • The backup report really needs improvement. It is really pathetic, as it gives wrong information. It is not suitable for auditing.
    • The Exchange DAG backup should support instead of configuring each exchange server.
    • Cloud infrastructure supports a lot of AWS and Azure instances that are coming up.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Actifio
    No answers on this topic
    Carbonite, an OpenText company
    We packaged carbonite server with the end user product that they provide but we have had issues where the end user site has been down for days at time and backups for both server and user are backing up but we do not the get notification that it was completed for several days. There appears to be latency issues with the mail delivery for completed backups. Additionally, I have used other backup products and find the Carbonite website interface very clunkly and difficult to navigate.
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    Usability
    Actifio
    No answers on this topic
    Carbonite, an OpenText company
    Product needs a lot of improvements in some features like Cloud and Reporting.
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    Support Rating
    Actifio
    No answers on this topic
    Carbonite, an OpenText company
    Some of the requests we could not get resolved on time. They took a long time to provide the reason for the issue we had raised.
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    Implementation Rating
    Actifio
    No answers on this topic
    Carbonite, an OpenText company
    We had appliance and we just needed to setup the Director Console which was straight forward and easy.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Actifio
    Actifio is quicker to deploy easier to manage and capacity plan with less components to keep patched.
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    Carbonite, an OpenText company
    Netbak is a great product but we also had a secondary issue of having to backup several PC's on site and at remote locations. Carbonite helped with both and gave us one central admin console to be able to check the progress of all our backups, where netbak would have required us to setup a tunnel or use the internet to move data back to our main office.
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    Return on Investment
    Actifio
    • We have managed to scale up the size of our environment without the need for extra admin overhead.
    • Over 99% backups complete.
    • Solution is robust and quick to scale to meet demands.
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    Carbonite, an OpenText company
    • While EVault can become expensive if you have a lot of data to store, but you have to keep in mind that it does not cost you anything more to restore your data in the event of an emergency. Some systems give you a great upfront cost, until you actually need to retrieve your data.
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