IBM ProtectTIER and BDRSuite Backup & Replication are both robust solutions in the backup and replication market. Users indicate BDRSuite has a slight edge due to its comprehensive features and overall cost-effectiveness, despite IBM ProtectTIER's commendable support and reliability.
Features: IBM ProtectTIER users value its strong deduplication capabilities, reliable performance, and commendable support. BDRSuite users appreciate its wide range of supported platforms, integration options, and greater flexibility. BDRSuite offers comprehensive features that cater to varied backup scenarios better.
Room for Improvement: IBM ProtectTIER could benefit from enhanced scalability options, smoother upgrades, and more user-friendly interfaces. BDRSuite users suggest improvements in reporting tools, a more intuitive configuration process, and enhanced automation capabilities.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: IBM ProtectTIER deployment is straightforward but can be complex for less experienced administrators. Users commend its reliable customer service. BDRSuite is praised for easy deployment, responsive customer service, and efficient customer support.
Pricing and ROI: IBM ProtectTIER has a higher initial setup cost but is seen as a long-term investment. BDRSuite offers a more affordable setup and quicker ROI, making it attractive for cost-conscious businesses. Despite higher costs, IBM ProtectTIER’s reliability justifies the expense for users, while BDRSuite's lower pricing and faster returns provide strong value.
BDRSuite by Vembu offers comprehensive and cost-effective Backup and Disaster Recovery software tailored to meet the diverse data protection requirements of Businesses and Service Providers. BDRSuite provides robust backup solutions for a wide range of IT workloads, including virtual machines, servers, endpoints, SaaS applications, cloud VMs, NAS/File Shares, and databases & applications. It offers the flexibility to store backups anywhere and centrally manage the entire backup infrastructure.
BDRSuite is designed to help businesses keep their data secure and ensure it is easily recoverable in the event of data loss or ransomware attacks. With BDRSuite, businesses can achieve reliable data protection and ensure business continuity – all at an affordable price.
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PRICING DETAILS
VMs, Servers & Cloud Backup at $48 per workload/year (VMware, Hyper-V, KVM, oVirt, Proxmox, Windows, Linux, AWS, Azure, File Share-500 GB)
Endpoint/Workstation Backup at $12 per endpoint/year (Windows, Linux, Mac)
SaaS Backup at $12 per user/year (Microsoft 365, Google Workspace)
DBs & Applications Backup at $72 per application/year (SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Microsoft Exchange Server, SharePoint Server)
IBM TS7650G ProtecTIER Deduplication Gateway is designed to meet the disk-based data protection needs of the enterprise data center while enabling significant infrastructure cost reductions. The solution offers industry-leading inline deduplication performance and scalability up to 1 petabyte (PB) of physical storage capacity per system, and can provide up to 25 PB or more backup storage capacity. Combined with IBM or third-party storage, TS7650G ProtecTIER Deduplication Gateway provides a powerful disk-based repository to improve the performance, retention and availability of backup and archive data in a small footprint for energy and cost efficiency.
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