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Carbonite Recover vs. VMware Site Recovery (DRaaS)

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    Carbonite Recover

    Score9.1 out of 10
    N/ALaunched in 2018, Carbonite now overs disaster-recovery-as-a-service (DRaaS) via Carbonite Recover, a service that helps IT administrators keep critical systems online during a disaster with push-button cloud failover.N/A

    VMware Site Recovery (DRaaS)

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AVMware offers Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) via the VMware Site Recovery DRaaS for on-premise workloads or AWS, VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery on-demand DRaaS delivered as a SaaS solution, or Cloud Provider Disaster Recovery Solutions DRaaS offerd through accredited VMware partners.N/A
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    Carbonite RecoverVMware Site Recovery (DRaaS)
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    Carbonite RecoverVMware Site Recovery (DRaaS)
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    User Ratings
    Carbonite RecoverVMware Site Recovery (DRaaS)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.0
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    8.0
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    Support Rating
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    7.0
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    User Testimonials
    Carbonite RecoverVMware Site Recovery (DRaaS)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Carbonite, an OpenText company
    I believe it works best for our small to medium size businesses customers. It quickly identifies if a file or folder is having backup issues. This user-friendly interface makes it easier to understand. Since there is no on-site IT staff it makes it easier for them to quickly check [their] backups.
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    VMware by Broadcom
    VMware Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery tools are well suited for customers who are heavily integrated with vSphere and VMs for their on-premises data centers today. VMware Cloud on AWS is great for customers who do not have DR sites and want to leverage the public cloud to build a DR site on demand quickly.
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    Pros
    Carbonite, an OpenText company
    • Simple install
    • Simple setup
    • Easy recovery
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    VMware by Broadcom
    • Integration with VMware environments
    • Simple to use for current VMware admins
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    Cons
    Carbonite, an OpenText company
    • Pricing for storage.
    • Sometimes errors [pop] up.
    • Ability to recover a lot of files faster.
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    VMware by Broadcom
    • vSphere replication not as feature rich as storage replication
    • Third party software necessary if looking into public cloud
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    Support Rating
    Carbonite, an OpenText company
    No answers on this topic
    VMware by Broadcom
    VMware support is typically outstanding, of course, they have multiple departments, and you need to work with the specific teams to get advanced support for things specific to VMware Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery. In contrast, other companies that deal directly with that technology may be more responsive to those specifics. Typically VMware is excellent and helpful in critical outages. For smaller to medium issues, it can take some time to get addressed appropriately.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Carbonite, an OpenText company
    Unitrends is a more robust software meant for larger businesses. I chose to compare to Unitrends to point out why we target small to medium customers with Carbonite. Unitrends does full VM and file backups while carbonite backups up files. Unitrends is expensive and harder to set up. Carbonite is quick and easy.
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    VMware by Broadcom
    VMware is software and typically hardware agnostic, this does require extra design and consideration versus putting in backup appliances. Some other solutions are a software as well and can be layered on top of vSphere to enhance existing environments. We need to weigh the benefits of licensing versus software costs and the management cost of having multiple tools.
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    Return on Investment
    Carbonite, an OpenText company
    • Makes customers feel their data is safe.
    • Reliability when files are recovered puts faith in company.
    • Saves end user downtime when files are recovered.
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    VMware by Broadcom
    • Requires running vSphere at target DR sites
    • Potential licensing cost for cold/standby locations
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