We compared Barracuda Intronis Backup and NinjaOne across several parameters based on our users' reviews. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below:
Features: Barracuda Intronis Backup is praised for its strong backup capabilities, user-friendly cloud management portal, and staff training opportunities. NinjaOne is highly regarded for its effective monitoring and management features, remote device management, and streamlined software deployments.
Room for Improvement: The Barracuda Intronis Backup could improve its integration, speed, and orchestration capabilities. NinjaOne could benefit from improved remote connectivity, enhanced reporting, a more user-friendly ticketing system.
Service and Support: Customers have consistently praised Barracuda Intronis Backup for their excellent and knowledgeable technical support. However, some reviewers reported challenges with escalation and communication within the support team. NinjaOne generally earned positive feedback for its customer service. Customers expressed satisfaction with issue resolution and comprehensive documentation. However, some reported slow responses from technical support.
Ease of Deployment: The setup process for Barracuda Intronis Backup is simple and involves configuring IP settings and connecting to Cloud Control. NinjaOne's setup is generally uncomplicated. It may take a few minutes or a full day, depending on the situation.
Pricing: Barracuda Intronis Backup provides a comprehensive and reasonably priced setup package. NinjaOne offers negotiable pricing based on the number of devices, with discounted costs as the scale increases. However, some users perceive NinjaOne as costlier than alternatives.
ROI: Barracuda Intronis Backup provides added financial benefits and time efficiency. NinjaOne delivers a return over time by improving productivity.
Comparison Results: Barracuda Intronis Backup stands out for its extensive training resources and direct cloud mapping, but users would like to see better performance and integration. NinjaOne is praised for its ease of setup and valuable monitoring and management features. However, users say NinjaOne could do a better job optimizing internet connections and managing mobile devices.
"The superior support from Barracuda in setting up, using, and helping with issues for the product."
"It is very stable, and I'm very happy with this solution."
"The most valuable feature is the speed of backup, which is very good compared to other solutions."
"Of all the backup products we have used, this by far is the simplest to install and use."
"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."
"Most important is its ease of use. You plug it in, follow the steps, and you have your backup file."
"The cloud side of it is nice. Everything happens behind the scenes without you realizing it, which is nice. It doesn't interrupt usage. There is also the freedom and ease of use of the cloud portal, which you can use to manage your backup. One of the strong points of Barracuda is that you can go from zero to having your first backup running within 10 minutes. If you have access to admin accounts and everything else, it can happen in 10 minutes. The ability to go in and just restore a particular file without having to do a full restore is also very useful. You can just go in and pick the files that you need to restore, and the same is with email. You can just go in, find an email, and restore that email without having to do a full backup of all the data or a full restore of the data. I feel very safe because it is not just about the backup; it is about the protection of the data from outside threats. They have a lot of areas of ATP, that is, advanced threat protection. You don't see that much on the backup side. You see it more on the email side. In the email protection, you know it is there at the back. It moves the quarantine emails that come through into a sandbox area, and then you can choose in the sandbox. You can open up an email in the sandbox to make sure that if there is a virus, it can't harm you. You can also plan how often your backups run, such as every six hours or four hours. It is the same with email. They also have a great PhishLine package, which is phishing attack training. You can have the strongest and the best backup and security that you can, but the end user is always the weakest link. They send almost like testing emails to end users to help them identify and understand phishing emails and prevent user or phishing attacks. It is a very good package."
"The most important feature in Barracuda Backup is the ability to archive the backup of emails."
"NinjaOne's best feature is its monitoring."
"Good at managing updates and for remote support."
"The tool's most valuable feature is third-party application updates."
"The most important aspect of this tool is the security it provides our company."
"The policies are probably the most valuable features. They're similar in function to Microsoft group policies where we can have it monitor certain things or push out software on a schedule. I would rate the policies eight out of 10. They're robust, I could monitor most of the things that Windows Performance Monitoring keeps tabs on."
"We can use it for remote monitoring, and it also works great as a troubleshooting tool. We are able to open up a command line or a PowerShell session remotely without having to disrupt the user. They have a limited network device monitoring capability, but for workstation servers, we have the event logs. We can do performance monitoring, system changes, software deployment, and patch management. We can also push scripts. It has a very simple web interface. There are no additional things to do there. Security is also pretty good. It does the same things that the other competitor's tools do. One of the advantages of Ninja is that they have a more capable mobile app, which allows you to see the alerts immediately. I get alerted to major critical issues."
"The most valuable feature we have found currently is probably patch management."
"The installation is easy, it only took two minutes."
"The tool is not user-friendly. The solution should also improve its compatibility. It is also not license-based."
"The solution depends on your connectivity, so it is essential to have a proper connection to the cloud."
"I would like to see a way to increase space."
"The web interface needs to contain a more up-to-date view of the hardware."
"The backup feature could be a bit simpler to utilize. They should make the process of backing up individual files simpler."
"In the next release of this solution, I would like to see cloud support and deduplication functionality."
"Barracuda works great for smaller network environments, which are not that complex. It is hardware-based with a Linux core, which you don't have access to, and a lot of stuff happens on the back-end. Even from a troubleshooting perspective, it is a bit challenging."
"I would like to see better integration with third-party applications."
"NinjaOne's pricing and user interface needs improvement."
"The remote connectivity could be better. It works most of the time, but sometimes, there are issues."
"I wish that they integrated it with more antivirus solutions. Currently, they only push Defender, but it doesn't really have integration with SentinelOne. It also didn't integrate with Trend Micro, which we were using previously. I would also like to have more control from the mobile app. As of now, I am able to see some performance values, but I can't see, for example, disk activity or disk performance values. If they can improve their app a little bit, it would help greatly. They can also improve the tech interface. If I assign certain techs to a bunch of specific machines, they only get those alerts that they're assigned to."
"I would like to see more scripts for PowerShell commands."
"The solution could improve by optimizing the internet connection being used."
"The reporting is lackluster. NinjaOne is great for maintaining systems, but it's hard to use it to understand the state that systems are in without going in and mining the information myself. I rate the reporting two out of 10."
"Lacks sufficient integrations with other PSAs."
"It can have more integrations with third-party providers, such as Deep Instinct. They do partner with certain antivirus or remote access tool partners, but they can increase their portfolio to have more choices."
Barracuda Intronis Backup is ranked 5th in MSP Backup with 24 reviews while NinjaOne is ranked 4th in MSP Backup with 14 reviews. Barracuda Intronis Backup is rated 8.4, while NinjaOne is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Barracuda Intronis Backup writes "Finding data to restore is much easier than rummaging through tapes to find backups". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NinjaOne writes "A tool that helps with a lot of configurations and creates automation processes that work perfectly". Barracuda Intronis Backup is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Rubrik, Acronis Cyber Protect, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and Azure Backup, whereas NinjaOne is most compared with Atera, N-able N-central, Microsoft Configuration Manager, LogMeIn Central and ConnectWise Automate. See our Barracuda Intronis Backup vs. NinjaOne report.
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