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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Amazon S3

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/AAmazon S3 is a cloud-based object storage service from Amazon Web Services. It's key features are storage management and monitoring, access management and security, data querying, and data transfer.N/A

    Carbonite Safe

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/ACarbonite Safe is a personal cloud backup solution offered on pricing tiers to backup a single computer to multiple computers, to an insfrastructure consisting of endpoints and servers. Users of the former Mozy product (an online data backup service which allows users to back up their hard drive and, in the event of a computer catastrophe, perform a full restore of all files) are migrated to Carbonite Safe. Mozy was acquired by Carbonite from Dell in March 2018.

    $83.99

    per year

    Pricing
    Amazon S3Carbonite Safe
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Basic
    $83.99
    per year
    Plus
    $119.99
    per year
    Prime
    $149.99
    per year
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Amazon S3Carbonite Safe
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Amazon S3Carbonite Safe
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    Amazon AWS
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Would buy again
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    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    40 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    36 Answers
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    5 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    97%
    Implementation went as expected
    38 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    5 Answers
    Features
    Amazon S3Carbonite Safe
    Data Center Backup
    Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) and Carbonite Safe
    Feature
    Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)
    9.0
    8 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Carbonite Safe
    8.7
    3 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Universal recovery9.07 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Instant recovery7.97 Ratings3.33 Ratings
    Recovery verification8.05 Ratings9.82 Ratings
    Business application protection8.65 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Multiple backup destinations9.47 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Incremental backup identification9.33 Ratings9.82 Ratings
    Backup to the cloud9.48 Ratings9.43 Ratings
    Deduplication and file compression8.73 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Snapshots9.55 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Flexible deployment9.28 Ratings8.83 Ratings
    Management dashboard8.18 Ratings8.83 Ratings
    Platform support8.78 Ratings8.83 Ratings
    Retention options10.05 Ratings5.93 Ratings
    Encryption9.86 Ratings9.93 Ratings
    Enterprise Backup
    Comparison of Enterprise Backup features of Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) and Carbonite Safe
    Feature
    Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)
    8.8
    8 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Carbonite Safe
    8.4
    3 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Continuous data protection9.48 Ratings8.33 Ratings
    Replication9.27 Ratings8.32 Ratings
    Operational reporting and analytics8.48 Ratings6.83 Ratings
    Malware protection8.02 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Multi-location capabilities9.58 Ratings8.12 Ratings
    Ransomware Recovery8.01 Ratings10.02 Ratings
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    Score9.7 out of 10
    NAKIVO Backup & Replication
    Score9.7 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Druva Security Cloud
    Score9.7 out of 10
    Druva Security Cloud
    Score9.7 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Druva Security Cloud
    Score9.7 out of 10
    Druva Security Cloud
    Score9.7 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Amazon S3Carbonite Safe
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.2
    (74 ratings)
    8.9
    (14 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    5.9
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    7.6
    (12 ratings)
    8.7
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.8
    (21 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Amazon S3Carbonite Safe
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Amazon AWS
    Amazon S3 is a great service to safely backup your data where redundancy is guaranteed and the cost is fair. We use Amazon S3 for data that we backup and hope we never need to access but in the case of a catastrophic or even small slip of the finger with the delete command we know our data and our client's data is safely backed up by Amazon S3. Transferring data into Amazon S3 is free but transferring data out has an associated, albeit low, cost per GB. This needs to be kept in mind if you plan on transferring out a lot of data frequently. There may be other cost effective options although Amazon S3 prices are really low per GB. Transferring 150TB would cost approximately $50 per month.
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    Carbonite, an OpenText company
    Mozy Pro is a great fit, especially for small businesses that don't want to pursue a very large number of licenses, and don't have many TB of data to backup. The price per user is reasonable, and well within the budget of smaller businesses needing workstation backup solutions. For larger enterprises, there are other products that provide a lot more storage and better performance. We found Code42's product to be better for larger data backup needs.
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    Pros
    Amazon AWS
    • Fantastic developer API, including AWS command line and library utilities.
    • Strong integration with the AWS ecosystem, especially with regards to access permissions.
    • It's astoundingly stable- you can trust it'll stay online and available for anywhere in the world.
    • Its static website hosting feature is a hidden gem-- it provides perhaps the cheapest, most stable, most high-performing static web hosting available in PaaS.
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    Carbonite, an OpenText company
    • Performance Settings: Mozy can be configured to run very smoothly in the background with minimal performance degradation. It provides network bandwidth throttling, backup speed, and backing up only when idle option. From my own experience I usually do not notice any performance degradation when Mozy is running. Of course a good network or Internet connection is vital.
    • Restore: file restoration is simple and intuitive. The user can restore logical backup sets (e.g. all photos) or file based (select the folder or file you want restored). Files and folders can be restored with the latest version or earlier version. Rename and overwrite options provide further flexibility.
    • Sync: with Mozy you can sync file across multiple devices including mobile. Access to your corporate files via smart phone is a secure manner is very useful.
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    Cons
    Amazon AWS
    • Web console can be very confusing and challenging to use, especially for new users
    • Bucket policies are very flexible, but the composability of the security rules can be very confusing to get right, often leading to security rules in use on buckets other than what you believe they are
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    Carbonite, an OpenText company
    • I would like to see backups for programs that I have installed on my machine. For instance I use Adobe CS6 and MS Office among other things. Instead of having to reinstall all these programs on my new machine, I would love for Mozy to be able to save the programs somehow and I can restore them as they were on the old machine with the same almost one-click process that I use to restore files. Basically like Time Machine, but for Windows.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Amazon AWS
    Due to princing, availability and scalability.
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    Carbonite, an OpenText company
    For the clients we have using this service, we fully plan to renew the subscription. However, that may change as our client's business grows and they have a need to add visualization and other server types to their environment
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    Usability
    Amazon AWS
    It is tricky to get it all set up correctly with policies and getting the IAM settings right. There is also a lot of lifecycle config you can do in terms of moving data to cold/glacier storage. It is also not to be confused with being a OneDrive or SharePoint replacement, they each have their own place in our environment, and S3 is used more by the IT team and accessed by our PHP applications. It is not necessarily used by an average everyday user for storing their pictures or documents, etc.
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    Carbonite, an OpenText company
    Out of all the vendor we deal with they are one of the best when it comes to customers service. Reliable,you can reach them by telephone easily, Great overall can not say anything to the contrary. Usibility is excellent. I recommend them highly whether you need a simple backup ofr more complex for servers etc.
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    Support Rating
    Amazon AWS
    AWS has always been quick to resolve any support ticket raised. S3 is no exception. We have only ever used it once to get a clarification regarding the costs involved when data is transferred between S3 and other AWS services or the public internet. We got a response from AWS support team within a day.
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    Carbonite, an OpenText company
    I usually find what I need to know by looking in the Carbonite knowledge base online. We haven't had any major problems, usually we just need clarification on a point or more details about a feature so we look it up. We haven't had to call in for help in quite awhile.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Amazon AWS
    Overall, we found that Amazon S3 provided a lot of backend features Google Cloud Storage (GCS) simply couldn't compare to. GCS was way more expensive and really did not live up to it. In terms of setup, Google Cloud Storage may have Amazon S3 beat, however, as it is more of a pseudo advanced version of Google Drive, that was not a hard feat for it to achieve. Overall, evaluating GCS, in comparison to S3, was an utter disappointment.
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    Carbonite, an OpenText company
    Carbonite Safe is a great solution for startup entities. It ranks nicely with Acronis and Carbonite Server Backup. Carbonite Safe is very good for backing up workstations including home computers. This is a good solution for home office users. Acronis does image level backups better than Mozy / Carbonite Safe whereas Barracuda Backup is a much more expensive (but worthwhile) investment. Barracuda Backup includes a physical BDR appliance.
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    Return on Investment
    Amazon AWS
    • It practically eliminated some real heavy storage servers from our premises and reduced maintenance cost.
    • The excellent durability and reliability make sure the return of money you invested in.
    • If the objects which are not active or stale, one needs to remove them. Those objects keep adding cost to each billing cycle. If you are handling a really big infrastructure, sometimes this creates quite a huge bill for preserving un-necessary objects/documents.
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    Carbonite, an OpenText company
    • Mozy is very affordable and pricing is very flexible and easy to add more space when needed. This allows us to only pay for what we need.
    • Having our critical files protected is the most important thing. The fact that it doesn't cost much for us to do that is just a bonus.
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