CTERA Edge X Series (discontinued) vs. DDN SFA7990XTM Hybrid Flash Storage Platform

CTERA Edge X Series (discontinued)

3 Reviews and Ratings

DDN SFA7990XTM Hybrid Flash Storage Platform

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
CTERA Edge X Series (discontinued)	Score8 out of 10	N/A	CTERA offered a cloud storage gateway and NAS appliance the Edge X Series. The product line has been discontinued.	N/A
DDN SFA7990XTM Hybrid Flash Storage Platform	N/A	N/A	The SFA7990XTM Hybrid Flash Storage Platform is designed to grow with the needs of accelerating business requirements. Select the optimal blend of price, performance and capacity, and the SFA7990X delivers, meeting the broadest range of workloads. The SFA7990X addresses intensive Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning application demands right through to supporting long-term retention of large volumes of infrequently accessed data. SFA7990X is presented as a platform for the consolidation of…	N/A

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User Ratings
	CTERA Edge X Series (discontinued)	DDN SFA7990XTM Hybrid Flash Storage Platform
Likelihood to Recommend	1.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	CTERA Edge X Series (discontinued)	DDN SFA7990XTM Hybrid Flash Storage Platform
Likelihood to Recommend	Discontinued Products This is all about the selling you a "Device" and prices vary greatly between resellers. The devices work well, but the pure cloud solutions need a lot of work. Lee Taylor CTO Read full review	DataDirect Networks (DDN) No answers on this topic
Pros	Discontinued Products Standard File Backup Lee Taylor CTO Read full review	DataDirect Networks (DDN) No answers on this topic
Cons	Discontinued Products SQL Backups just don't work reliably. For us, we lost all of our SQL data backed up through the CTERA Application process. Although the logs indicated a success, that was really not the case. This came close to putting us out of business. Luckily I had taken a genuine SQL backup to a folder. Unfortunately it was a month old. We had to pick-up the pieces from there. Don't use it for file sync and share. There are better products out there i.e. anchorworks.com Support sucks. Good luck with response time and answers that are inconsistent between team members. For example I had to rebuild a VM from scratch. When I re-installed the CTERA client It obviously thought I was adding another device. When I inquired to tech support, one member said "copy the old Data folder" (I still had the old VHD. That did not work). The other directed me to the correct spot to just change the associated folder. The turn-around time was over 24 hours for this simple fix. Documentation, plenty of fodder but no real tech there. Lee Taylor CTO Read full review	DataDirect Networks (DDN) No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	Discontinued Products Unfortunately CTERA does not stack up well if you want a pure cloud BDR. I have use iDrive and Asigra. iDrive has similar support and SQL backup issues. Asigra can vary widely in support and price, but the software is solid. Lee Taylor CTO Read full review	DataDirect Networks (DDN) No answers on this topic
Return on Investment	Discontinued Products NONE, it about put us out of business Lee Taylor CTO Read full review	DataDirect Networks (DDN) No answers on this topic
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