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Actifio vs Infrascale Backup & Disaster Recovery comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 11, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
1.0
Actifio boosts productivity by reducing storage costs, improving data management, and enhancing disaster recovery, offering substantial ROI.
Sentiment score
5.9
Infrascale Backup offers a favorable ROI with quick restores, reduced downtime, and cost savings over previous solutions.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
5.5
Actifio's customer support is mostly praised, though some users report expertise gaps, especially when involving IBM or Google.
Sentiment score
7.3
Infrascale's support is praised for responsiveness, expertise, and personalized service, with high ratings despite initial time zone challenges.
Their knowledge isn't great.
Tech Lead / Informix DBA at a wholesaler/distributor with 5,001-10,000 employees
Their average mean time to resolve open tickets is an hour.
President at IT1 Service
The right expertise, a timely response, and being able to get to the right person to help you resolve the problem are very important.
President at a media company with 11-50 employees
The most valuable aspects of Infrascale’s support for my company are the turnaround time and the resolution time.
President at LET US DEAL WITH IT, LLC
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
5.3
Actifio excels in scalable data management across sectors with optimal performance reliant on network and hardware resources.
Sentiment score
5.8
<p>Infrascale Backup &amp; Disaster Recovery is scalable, adaptable, and supports diverse environments, though some face storage and hardware challenges.</p>
One person can manage hundreds and hundreds of endpoints without any issues.
President at IT1 Service
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.5
Actifio is stable and reliable, with robust support and positive user feedback on performance and quick bug resolution.
Sentiment score
7.6
<p>Infrascale Backup &amp; Disaster Recovery is stable and reliable, with effective support resolving minor backup and cloud service issues.</p>
Once we sorted out all our problems with Actifio and our configuration of our database and other components, I would probably rate stability about a seven.
Tech Lead / Informix DBA at a wholesaler/distributor with 5,001-10,000 employees
I would rate the stability a ten out of ten.
President at IT1 Service
There was a recent announcement in terms of moving Infrascale to the cloud, which makes it easier for the customer in terms of usability.
President at a media company with 11-50 employees
 

Room For Improvement

Actifio needs workflow flexibility, platform support enhancements, better integration, improved support, pricing features, AI, and seamless upgrades.
Users recommend enhancements in bandwidth control, licensing, data replication, hardware diversity, security, documentation, and cloud integration for Infrascale.
The most concerning issue is IBM support.
Tech Lead / Informix DBA at a wholesaler/distributor with 5,001-10,000 employees
Many customers do not rely on just one cloud provider and want to work with multiple clouds.
President at a media company with 11-50 employees
When the product works, there is really nothing to fix, but they can allow different types of backups, such as differential or incremental backups.
President at IT1 Service
 

Setup Cost

Actifio is praised for its supportive pricing and professional services, offering affordability and rapid implementation despite learning curves.
<p>Infrascale's Backup &amp; Disaster Recovery pricing varies, with competitive flexibility for some but challenges and negotiation needed for others.</p>
To someone considering Infrascale but is concerned about the price, I would say that they should get Infrascale's service no matter what it costs because any downtime or any loss of data is substantially worse than any cost for backup.
President at IT1 Service
We recently renewed one of our agreements with them, and even though we were going to renew anyway, they added more margin in terms of a discount for us for renewing early.
Co-Founder | Director | CTO | vCISO | Lead Consultant Infrastructure & Cloud at UBIQUITY Ltd
The per-terabyte pricing is very competitive compared to the others.
President at a media company with 11-50 employees
 

Valuable Features

Actifio is praised for its Golden Copy, cloud integration, user-friendly interface, cost efficiency, and excellent support team.
Infrascale excels in rapid recovery, flexible architecture, and user-friendly management, offering fast local or cloud data recovery.
What really stands out in Actifio is that it can provide us full copies of the database without having full copies of the database.
Tech Lead / Informix DBA at a wholesaler/distributor with 5,001-10,000 employees
What I like the most about it is that backups and restores are simple, straightforward, and clean.
President at IT1 Service
Performing backup and recovery can be done very intuitively with the solution and the interface that is part of the solution.
President at a media company with 11-50 employees
 

Categories and Ranking

Actifio
Ranking in Backup and Recovery
51st
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.4
Number of Reviews
9
Ranking in other categories
Test Data Management (8th)
Infrascale Backup & Disaste...
Ranking in Backup and Recovery
25th
Average Rating
9.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
17
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Backup (18th), Disaster Recovery as a Service (6th), Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (17th), SaaS Backup (10th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Backup and Recovery category, the mindshare of Actifio is 0.6%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Infrascale Backup & Disaster Recovery is 0.7%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Backup and Recovery Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Infrascale Backup & Disaster Recovery0.7%
Actifio0.6%
Other98.7%
Backup and Recovery
 

Featured Reviews

Jeff Poulton - PeerSpot reviewer
Tech Lead / Informix DBA at a wholesaler/distributor with 5,001-10,000 employees
Has reduced storage requirements for development environments but presents challenges during upgrades and support interactions
The most concerning issue is IBM support. The issue I have with IBM support is that sometimes they don't seem to know their product very well at times. I don't know where the support is coming from, whether it's from IBM or from Google through IBM. I'm not sure who physically does the support. Their knowledge isn't great. Plus, the way we use it is not the focus of Google nowadays. Google, as I understand it, bought the product as an add-on to Google Cloud or whatever as a backup and that's not how we use it. I do see some problems with Actifio, specifically keeping current with operating systems. It can be tricky to upgrade Actifio. It can be a challenge. When we've had to do it, we've had to work with their support people, and some of them are just people reading a sheet of instructions. When those instructions are obviously wrong at times because you can tell if you have half a knowledge of what you're doing, it takes ages for them to go off and find someone to explain what's going wrong. So it can be very laborious.
reviewer2649186 - PeerSpot reviewer
President at a media company with 11-50 employees
Its user-friendliness and consolidated dashboard make backups and recovery very easy
Having a single dashboard makes management and monitoring easier because you do not have to log into multiple services and multiple dashboards in order to gather the same information. It is always nice to have a consolidated view of your data and how you are performing your day-to-day operations with backup and recovery if you need to recover any file. It is very easy to restore data. The user interface or the dashboard is very intuitive. It is very easy to use, making it easy to recover or replicate any files. It is extremely important for us that Infrascale has the ability to recover data from any point in time. Data is the jewel crown of any business. If you do not have the right data, you are going to face many challenges in running your business. It is important to recover and restore the right data at the right time so that it does not impact your business and your bottom line.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
25%
Retailer
14%
Computer Software Company
9%
Insurance Company
8%
Computer Software Company
11%
Healthcare Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Performing Arts
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business1
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise5
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business17
Large Enterprise1
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Actifio?
Actifio is cheaper than other tools. I rate the pricing an eight out of ten.
What needs improvement with Actifio?
The most concerning issue is IBM support. The issue I have with IBM support is that sometimes they don't seem to know their product very well at times. I don't know where the support is coming from...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Infrascale Platform?
The pricing of Infrascale Backup &amp; Disaster Recovery is premium; if it went down, I would definitely be happy, but I don't want to see it go up. Their margin from what they're wholesale and the...
What needs improvement with Infrascale Platform?
The only thing that I want to be released is Infrascale Backup &amp; Disaster Recovery's ability to connect to Zoho, which they're working on right now. I've been in constant communication with the...
What is your primary use case for Infrascale Platform?
I don't personally use Infrascale Backup &amp; Disaster Recovery; I resell it and have it for a client who seems to like it. They're waiting for this upgrade and update that's going to allow more c...
 

Also Known As

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Infrascale Platform
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

IBM, Waste Industries, Nasdaq, Verizon, Sharp, Rosetta Stone, Dakine, JBS Australia, Texas Wesleyan University, Cintra, People's Choice Credit Union, Lotto NZ, Electric Insurance, Tyler Technologies, Intility, Corporate One Federal Credit Union, Bryant University, pc/nametag, Isagenix, Sungard Availability Services, Databank, Electrocraft, Lifescript, Westfleisch, Interstate National Corporation, RestorePoint, Net3, Access Community Health Network, Newmarket International, Rezolve Group Inc., Piri Reis University, MC Assembly, Grass-Merkur, dbMotion, Christian Broadcasting Network, Bezeq, Abilene Christian University, CNW Group, Softcat, Migliori, City of South Portland, NaviSite, News-Press & Gazette, Comtec, Equity Insurance, Admirals Bank, Assistra, Dassault, Henry Davis York Lawyers, SAI Global, Audax Group, DSM, Triad Retail Media, Euronet Worldwide, Palm Beach County School District, iGate, Emerald Queen Casino
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