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Pros
"Ability to restore to any host.""The ease of use of the solution is its most valuable feature. The interface is also excellent.""The intuitive interface allows you to set up and perform backups and restores easily.""It is an excellent product. It is easy to deploy, stable, and fast. Their support is excellent.""Excellent compression and deduplication with off-site WAN backup included.""This solution is stable.""The product has many valuable features for handling backup needs, including replication, live migration, and incremental disaster recovery.""Valuable features for us include quick recovery, compression, and deduplication."

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"What I found most valuable in Unitrends is its simple user interface. It also works reliably.""The ability to back up both physical and virtual appliances under one roof.""When I have had to use tech support, they've been very good.""I really like the reporting options you get for various email reports.""If you are a large organization, this is a product for you.""The backup feature and recovery option are good because they allow the instant recovery of Hyper-V nodes and files.""Stability-wise, I rate this solution a nine out of ten.""When we talk about a backup point of view, from a backup perspective, it's a good one."

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Cons
"It would be nice to be able to recover the items to their original location.""Improvement areas for Altaro VM Backup include enhancing backup and deduplication solutions for continuous operation and offering an all-in-one solution for hardware backup.""The cloud backup and VMware support (now available in the latest releases), could do with some improvement.""The application could include a feature to install a set size of data, such as the ability to store a single application with all its registry information for easy transfer.""Replication is not fast, the GUI could be more user-friendly, and technical support is lacking in Iran.""To improve Altaro, I would like to see the ability to choose more than one backup location at a time.""It would be nice to see a feature that backs up the host so that, in case of a server failure, an entire server could be restored all at once.""The scalability of the solution is limited."

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"I would like to see more storage options for the free version.""The ability to run just differentials without pulling the full on your archive.""Support is great for small simple issues, but anything more difficult, it is hard to get good resolutions without having to badger them and their management.""The solution’s support and onboarding process needs to be improved.""There's a lot that can be made better. For example, it could be more scalable.""The solution's base operating system needs to be improved.""Techs don't see to be well-versed in troubleshooting issues that arise and tickets stay opened for weeks for resolution.""If the interface could be less complex, it is would be great."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "There is a free version for Hosts with 2 VMs."
  • "There is a free version for two VMs. I would advise to study the deployment environment well, prior to committing to order a license per host."
  • "No other product offers these features for this price. The ROI is great."
  • "​By implementing the solution at multiple locations, significant cost savings were achieved."
  • "Altaro VM Backup is affordably priced. It is a best value for its price and has almost every feature that an expensive, popular product offers."
  • "The pricing is okay,"
  • "VMware is a little pricey, but it is a good solution and priced similar to other products."
  • "Altaro had the best prices and ROI in the whole bunch that we evaluated."
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  • "Make sure you do the homework to size the solution properly. Buy the Enterprise Plus licensing if you can afford it."
  • "When you purchase initially, get into the program which gives replacement hardware for free when you renew your support agreement."
  • "Initial pricing is competitive. Renewal pricing is steep, so make sure to project costs for the lifetime of the appliance(s)."
  • "Talk with the sales guys. They can work with you on the best package."
  • "We found that the cost of Unitrends was about the same as the Dell DR6300. We liked the fact that the Unitrends appliance was all-in-one."
  • "The cost of Unitrends definitely draws you in. The licensing is all included in the appliance, which is a great incentive."
  • "Pricing model constantly changes."
  • "You should be aware how much the monthly costs are to use, what the initial costs for hardware are, and what the options to expand are, if needed."
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    Top Answer:The most valuable feature of Unitrends for me is the automated feedback
    Top Answer:Unitrends is an expensive solution. We've negotiated deals where they've given us the $ 62,000 to $ 64,000 appliance for free but charged $ 90,000 for three years of support.
    Top Answer:In terms of improvement, the UI, especially in the recovery section, is unclear about which repository it uses—I had to hover over to find that information. Figuring out the scripting part wasn't… more »
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    Overview

    Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup is a powerful, reliable and easy-to-use backup and replication solution for Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware virtual machines (VMs) and physical Windows servers, to protect against enterprise data loss. The award-winning solution provides robust, streamlined and enterprise-level functionality.

    Reduce downtime and data loss: Thanks to Continous Data Protection (CDP) and WAN-optimized replication, your backup files are available in just minutes in the event of a data loss scenario and you can continue working as usual. The solution’s unique Augmented Inline Deduplication also gives you massive savings on your backup storage and dramatically reduces costs.

    Unitrends increases uptime, productivity and confidence in a world in which IT professionals must do more with less. Unitrends leverages high-availability hardware and software engineering, cloud economics, enterprise power with consumer-grade design, and customer-obsessed support to natively provide all-in-one enterprise backup and continuity. The result is a “one throat to choke” set of offerings that allow our customers to focus on their business rather than backup.
    Sample Customers
    Thomson Reuters, Microsoft, Amazon, Harvard University, MIT, Peugeot, Xerox
    NHL Players Association, Salvation Army, Sligro Food Group, Mason General Hospital, Tec Group, Saldab IT, Baker Tilly, Clinton Savings Bank, Ennit Magna Bank, Manukau Institute of Technology
    Top Industries
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    Comms Service Provider25%
    Government17%
    Financial Services Firm8%
    Computer Software Company8%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company16%
    Comms Service Provider11%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    Government7%
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    Wireless Company11%
    Non Tech Company11%
    Government11%
    Wellness & Fitness Company7%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company16%
    Government11%
    Real Estate/Law Firm8%
    Educational Organization7%
    Company Size
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    Small Business71%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise14%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business38%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise48%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business32%
    Midsize Enterprise44%
    Large Enterprise24%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business37%
    Midsize Enterprise16%
    Large Enterprise47%
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    Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup is ranked 54th in Backup and Recovery with 29 reviews while Unitrends is ranked 42nd in Backup and Recovery with 34 reviews. Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup is rated 8.6, while Unitrends is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup writes "Easy to use with a helpful dashboard, good support, and the deduplication feature saves heavily on storage space". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Unitrends writes "The solution can be used to back up servers and Hyper-V cluster nodes, but its support is super expensive". Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, NAKIVO Backup & Replication, Acronis Cyber Protect, Azure Backup and Datto Cloud Continuity, whereas Unitrends is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Rubrik, Acronis Cyber Protect, Commvault Cloud and Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain).

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