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    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

    Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows

    Score9 out of 10
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    Carbonite ServerVeeam Agent for Microsoft Windows
    Editions & Modules
    Power
    $800.04
    per year
    Ultimate
    1,300.08
    per year
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Carbonite ServerVeeam Agent for Microsoft Windows
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    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.—
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    Carbonite ServerVeeam Agent for Microsoft Windows
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    Carbonite, an OpenText company
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Features
    Carbonite ServerVeeam Agent for Microsoft Windows
    Data Center Backup
    Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Carbonite Server and Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows
    Feature
    Carbonite Server
    8.6
    21 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows
    9.1
    5 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Universal recovery8.37 Ratings9.74 Ratings
    Instant recovery8.28 Ratings9.34 Ratings
    Recovery verification7.97 Ratings9.34 Ratings
    Business application protection10.014 Ratings9.25 Ratings
    Multiple backup destinations10.015 Ratings8.85 Ratings
    Incremental backup identification10.019 Ratings9.75 Ratings
    Backup to the cloud10.020 Ratings9.54 Ratings
    Deduplication and file compression7.612 Ratings9.55 Ratings
    Snapshots10.010 Ratings8.35 Ratings
    Flexible deployment7.99 Ratings8.85 Ratings
    Management dashboard7.59 Ratings9.05 Ratings
    Platform support7.510 Ratings8.55 Ratings
    Retention options7.711 Ratings8.75 Ratings
    Encryption8.511 Ratings9.25 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Carbonite ServerVeeam Agent for Microsoft Windows
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (35 ratings)
    9.2
    (5 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    4.8
    (6 ratings)
    -
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    Usability
    5.5
    (1 ratings)
    9.2
    (4 ratings)
    Support Rating
    5.5
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Implementation Rating
    6.4
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    User Testimonials
    Carbonite ServerVeeam Agent for Microsoft Windows
    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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    Veeam Software
    We use it as a Simple Deployment. As a simple deployment scenario, the roles of the backup server, VMware backup proxy, and backup repository are assigned to a single machine. These roles are assigned automatically to the machine where we installed Veeam Backup & Replication. The drawback of the simple deployment scenario is that only the backup server handles and stores all data which is a single point of failure.
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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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    Veeam Software
    • File level restore
    • Backing up of difficult Laptops that are in and off the network
    • Reporting
    • Integration into other Veeam Products
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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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    Veeam Software
    • Stop the backup job from the console instead of having to stop from the client.
    • Don't consume too many resources while taking a backup.
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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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    Veeam Software
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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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    Veeam Software
    Overall, Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows is a great backup solution and supplies extremely useful tools to configure backups to suite our needs and our clients requirements. I have only taken some points off as the user interface could be easier to navigate when configuring backups and the ability to update Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows from within the software would be appreciated.
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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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    Veeam Software
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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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    Veeam Software
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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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    Veeam Software
    Veeam is just on another level compared to most other software vendors who tend to make backup solutions complicated. Veeam uses intuitive GUI's that make sense to most people and take the stress out of systems recovery at high and low levels by simply explaining the process step by step.
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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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    Veeam Software
    • It allows end users to easily self-serve their own file restores, freeing up IT resources
    • It provides a seamless DR solution for the resources it backs up
    • It frequently take a long time to resolve problems when they do occur
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