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Carbonite Server vs. vSphere Data Protection Advanced (discontinued)

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    Overview
    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

    vSphere Data Protection Advanced (discontinued)

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/AVMware vSphere Data Protection Advanced (or vDPA), now part of vSphere, was a VMware data protection and recovery offering. The product is no longer available standalone.N/A
    Pricing
    Carbonite ServervSphere Data Protection Advanced (discontinued)
    Editions & Modules
    Power
    $800.04
    per year
    Ultimate
    1,300.08
    per year
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Carbonite ServervSphere Data Protection Advanced (discontinued)
    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.—
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    Features
    Carbonite ServervSphere Data Protection Advanced (discontinued)
    Data Center Backup
    Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Carbonite Server and vSphere Data Protection Advanced (discontinued)
    Feature
    Carbonite Server
    8.6
    21 Ratings
    1% above category average
    vSphere Data Protection Advanced (discontinued)
    9.4
    1 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Universal recovery8.37 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Instant recovery8.28 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Recovery verification7.97 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Business application protection10.014 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Multiple backup destinations10.015 Ratings00 Ratings
    Incremental backup identification10.019 Ratings00 Ratings
    Backup to the cloud10.020 Ratings00 Ratings
    Deduplication and file compression7.612 Ratings00 Ratings
    Snapshots10.010 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Flexible deployment7.99 Ratings00 Ratings
    Management dashboard7.59 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Platform support7.510 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Retention options7.711 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Encryption8.511 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Carbonite ServervSphere Data Protection Advanced (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (35 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    4.8
    (6 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    5.5
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    5.5
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Carbonite ServervSphere Data Protection Advanced (discontinued)
    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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    Discontinued Products
    VMware vSphere Data Protection Advanced is well suited for a thin client environment, and/or an environment that runs multiple virtual servers. It is also well suited for an environment with disaster recover requirements that require backups of everything. vSphere is very expensive, so it would probably not be a very good choice for a startup that could use a cheaper alternative in the beginning, or a physical machine environment.
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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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    • Maintains backups of all virtual systems for disaster recovery compliance.
    • Supports plugins for backups of Microsoft systems.
    • As with most VMware products vSphere is incredibly easy to use.
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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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    • Reports are too complex, could be made clearer.
    • The interface could be simplified.
    • Backups of physical servers take a very long time.
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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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    Usability
    Carbonite, an OpenText company
    Product needs a lot of improvements in some features like Cloud and Reporting.
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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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    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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    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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    Discontinued Products
    CloudBacko is the only similar product that I have used, and while it worked by backing up my virtual machines to Google Drive, VMware vSphere Data Protection Advanced not only backs up the virtual machines, buton databases, physical servers and more, and backs them up to a centralized location, and has 24/7 live support.
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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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    Discontinued Products
    • Virtual machines and servers are backed up and secure
    • DR compliance is met
    • Multiple platforms backed up to a central location
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