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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    Cove Data Protection

    Score9.9 out of 10
    N/ACove Data Protection (formerly N-Able Backup) is designed to cover servers, datacenters, applications, and workstations, and is provided to ensure business continuity and at-a-glance assessment and fast issue resolution via customizable dashboard.N/A
    Pricing
    Carbonite ServerCove Data Protection
    Editions & Modules
    Power
    $800.04
    per year
    Ultimate
    1,300.08
    per year
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Carbonite ServerCove Data Protection
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    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.Cove offers one flat rate per server or workstation and one flat per-user price for Microsoft 365, with cloud storage included. Each license carries a defined amount of included storage that is pooled across an MSPs customers, so smaller devices that use less can offset larger ones.
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    Carbonite ServerCove Data Protection
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    Carbonite, an OpenText company
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    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
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    Data Center Backup
    Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Carbonite Server and Cove Data Protection
    Feature
    Carbonite Server
    8.6
    21 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Cove Data Protection
    9.5
    19 Ratings
    11% above category average
    Universal recovery8.37 Ratings8.616 Ratings
    Instant recovery8.28 Ratings9.515 Ratings
    Recovery verification7.97 Ratings9.617 Ratings
    Business application protection10.014 Ratings8.916 Ratings
    Multiple backup destinations10.015 Ratings8.817 Ratings
    Incremental backup identification10.019 Ratings9.917 Ratings
    Backup to the cloud10.020 Ratings10.018 Ratings
    Deduplication and file compression7.612 Ratings10.018 Ratings
    Snapshots10.010 Ratings10.012 Ratings
    Flexible deployment7.99 Ratings9.017 Ratings
    Management dashboard7.59 Ratings9.619 Ratings
    Platform support7.510 Ratings8.918 Ratings
    Retention options7.711 Ratings10.019 Ratings
    Encryption8.511 Ratings9.918 Ratings
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    Carbonite ServerCove Data Protection
    Small Businesses
    BDRShield
    Score6.4 out of 10
    BDRShield
    Score6.4 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Cove Data Protection
    Score9.9 out of 10
    Carbonite Server
    Score1 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Bacula Enterprise
    Score9.1 out of 10
    Bacula Enterprise
    Score9.1 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Carbonite ServerCove Data Protection
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (35 ratings)
    10.0
    (19 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    4.8
    (6 ratings)
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    Usability
    5.5
    (1 ratings)
    9.7
    (7 ratings)
    Support Rating
    5.5
    (1 ratings)
    9.8
    (4 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    Carbonite ServerCove Data Protection
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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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    N-able
    Solarwinds Backup is ideal for individuals looking to keep a consistent backup of devices in their environment. We used it primarily for networking equipment. It is easy to set up, as it is one of the steps available when adding a new device to solarwinds. It is probably not an ideal product to use for long-term (1 month+) backups.
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    Pros
    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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    N-able
    • Backup Reporting: Email alerts, and a great, easy to read Dashboard with detailed error logs and an easy to search Solarwinds FAQ for a lot of them.
    • Restores: So far I have restored files, full VMs, and VMs to other hardware, and so far it has not only been flawless, but so flexible that I can't imagine going back to any other software.
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    Cons
    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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    N-able
    • Restore complete settings: IP settings, the setting of CPU/Memory for VMs, etc. would decrease management during a restore.
    • Individual file backup: more granular settings for backup.
    • Change of device name after setup: at times, computer names change after restore so it would be great to rename the device name.
    • Option to recovery security key.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    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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    N-able
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    Usability
    Carbonite, an OpenText company
    Product needs a lot of improvements in some features like Cloud and Reporting.
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    N-able
    Cove Data Protection is very usable as it's easy to tell that it is made to not only do backup very well, but it's also easy to deploy. The agent-based deployment allows for flexible deployment options while ensuring a minimal amount of manual work is needed on the dashboard end. Recovery is also very easy, especially as it relates to one-off file recovery
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    Support Rating
    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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    N-able
    We have an Italian support partner, they are been very good b7y the first moment.
    All the partners are followed with a lot of attention, even the little ones.
    there is a site where you can learn everything, the single parts of the product are described perfectly.
    Every it specialist should evaluate it.
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    Implementation Rating
    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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    N-able
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    Alternatives Considered
    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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    N-able
    Cove is able to cover all aspects of backup in a single package. From the same dashboard I can check servers, workstations, and even Office 365. Cove is a much better solution in terms of overall management for a company such as ours. It also provides integration options with N-Able's RMM and Take Control solutions. This allows us to offer our customers with a full service suite in a single package.
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    Return on Investment
    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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    N-able
    • There has been NO negative impact to out ROI, but it definitely helps our bottom line. Affordable pricing and solid support make Solarwinds Backup almost a no brainer. That interprets to a growing ROI.
    • The best thing to happen to our ROI is the growth brought in by very happy clients.
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