We performed a comparison between Azure Backup and Barracuda Intronis Backup based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Backup and Recovery solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Our client’s infrastructure is protected by the tool."
"The scalability has been good."
"With a couple of buttons, we can configure a VM for a backup and use the wall service, the storage wall service, pretty seamlessly."
"When it comes to Azure Backup, the advantage is that it's native and it's very easy to configure. We don't require a separate tool or manage something on a separate server. At the backend, it's managed by Microsoft itself, and we don't need to manage it."
"All of the core features are valuable to us."
"You can select the tiering for your backup and manage your cost."
"It's easy to deploy."
"There is only one feature, and that is the backup."
"The most valuable feature is the speed of backup, which is very good compared to other solutions."
"Its interface is intuitive, and it is easy to use when I am restoring files. Barracuda does a really excellent job at compression, which makes it very efficient. Eight years later, I am only halfway through to the capacity, which is very good."
"Of all the backup products we have used, this by far is the simplest to install and use."
"The superior support from Barracuda in setting up, using, and helping with issues for the product."
"We perform backup drills to test the functionality, and we don't have any problems."
"Barracuda's support is probably one of the best things about them, even with all their solutions. With any problem that we have, or even questions, we get the assistance that we need. The turnaround is pretty quick."
"The main feature we like about Barracuda is that we can map devices directly to the cloud. It operates as a security device to run a backup of the cloud in case one of our physical machines goes down."
"They are the best support that we have had so far. When you contact or email them, they are very quick to respond. They always have someone available for us. That's what we want as a customer, we want someone to listen to us."
"The product must improve on a database level."
"We have a concern with the backup when were are working with VMs that are running in Barracuda Firewall because it usually fails."
"Azure Backup is limited to certain workloads. It would be helpful if Microsoft focused on enabling backups for Oracle and other unsupported databases."
"Lacks an AI system that would enable easier upgrading of the hardware."
"Ransomware protection is missing in Azure Backup."
"I would like to have the option to increase the frequency of the backups. Azure Backup does backups on an hourly basis, but I would prefer it to take backups more often."
"There is a limitation of 99 files restores per day which means that we can't complete a huge file restore. We would like Azure to increase the number of the possible file restorations."
"I would like to see better integration with more products, and more services."
"In the next release of this solution, I would like to see cloud support and deduplication functionality."
"The restore time can be improved. The restore time for large quantities of folders is slow. Sometimes, if I'm doing a full recovery of a server, it takes multiple hours, which probably is natural. It might also be because of our internet speed to the cloud."
"I would like to see the Live Boot feature extended to Hyper-V machines, in addition to VMware machines."
"Compared to Avamar and Data Domain (our other systems), the backup speed is slow."
"It is not always stable."
"I would like to see the automatic backup of critical applications to the cloud."
"I am working in some of the more rural areas of Sweden, and some of the customers here are a little bit wary of cloud technology at the moment. It is not like in Gothenburg or Stockholm, where people rely on it so much more. In the rural areas, companies are saying that we do need to use the cloud, and they are being very wary about their data, especially with GDPR and all that kind of stuff. Having more control and having an option for backing up locally, even if you don't want to use it, would be something very good. The cloud backup is brilliant, but there should be an option to take that cloud backup and save it locally as well. If you lose connection to the internet or you lose access to your data in the cloud, having a backup copy of the latest data on your server is helpful. You need to be able to get access to your customers' files, especially with GDPR, where you need to know where your customers' details are. If they're in the cloud and you've lost access to them, then you'll go into those GDPR regulations. This is somewhere where both Barracuda and Veeam haven't gone as far. As far as I have understood, with Veeam, you can back up your local servers to the cloud but not vice versa. I haven't worked on it much."
"Barracuda Backup could use some more integration."
Azure Backup is ranked 7th in Backup and Recovery with 50 reviews while Barracuda Intronis Backup is ranked 10th in Deduplication Software with 24 reviews. Azure Backup is rated 7.8, while Barracuda Intronis Backup is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Azure Backup writes "Straightforward to set up and manage and allows us to monitor all backups in one place". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Barracuda Intronis Backup writes "Finding data to restore is much easier than rummaging through tapes to find backups". Azure Backup is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Rubrik, Commvault Cloud, Acronis Cyber Protect and Veritas NetBackup, whereas Barracuda Intronis Backup is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Rubrik, Acronis Cyber Protect and Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain). See our Azure Backup vs. Barracuda Intronis Backup report.
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