Carbonite Server vs Quorum OnQ comparison

"The efficiency and convenience are excellent."

"The solution is very stable."

"It seems reliable and easy to use."

"It does not slow down your computer or use a lot of resources as it works."

"Easy verification of things is the most valuable feature."

"Technical support handled all our issues quickly and effectively."

"The Granular Restore of SQL feature has been a lifesaver more times than I can count. One of the main reasons for looking at Carbonite was their support for platforms like AIX and AS/400 Series."

"The solution is a free engine to help work with the container."

"One of the biggest features is that, even on the absolutely run-of-the-mill box, if I lose any one of my servers I can automatically bring it up virtually on the physical onQ Quorum device."

"The biggest feature is being able to do a file recovery to the original server. That is extremely useful and has saved us a few times when we've had ransomware. In some of those cases, people's computers were locked down by viruses which spread to things they had access to, including server shares. But we were easily able to just restore to four hours prior, instead of a day or two or more ago."

"I have used the BMR (Bare Metal Restore) in several emergencies and it has absolutely saved my bacon."

"I like this product because it is easy to use."

"A very high level security environment for secondary data."

"Quorum OnQ provides an elevated ability to filter on everything from people's location to age to their voting history."

"Quorum OnQ has taken the guesswork out of backup/recovery and disaster recovery."

"Quorum OnQ has a good ransomware protection feature, and customer service and support were very good."

"The stability has room for improvement."

"The only thing that I would like to see improved is related to marketing. Currently, it is very difficult to find the right paper and stuff for me. Their marketing department should provide better information because currently, it is very difficult to find information on the internet. It was bought over by OpenText, and you won't be able to find a lot of information about this solution on their site. They should also provide training facilities for commercial purposes. Some of my colleagues recently went for pilot training, and they were technical. If I want to get trained, the training has to be more commercial. Currently, there is no such training for users like me."

"In the next release I would like to see an improvement in the auto failover option."

"The support for object storage isn't quite there yet. Its public cloud support can be improved. I would love to see the public cloud support for object storage, and it would be great, but what I always hear from the folks at Carbonite is that in a lot of cases, it directly competes with their cloud offering. So, I don't know when or where that will go or if that will go anywhere, but we are hopeful to see something. The dashboard is a little outdated. If they gave it a facelift and put some better design around their dashboard, that would be tremendous. I generally care less about the visual aesthetics of an application as long as it does what it needed to do, which is true in the case of this solution. We also have the Microsoft 365 platform. Because they're two separate platforms, I have to log in to my Microsoft platform to manage it, and I have to log into my Carbonite server backup platform to manage it. Having these two coexist together in one management console is really what we're looking for, but we went for it knowing this. We also knew that there would be some integration coming down the road. So, we're again hoping to see some of that coming in 2021."

"The Hyper-V backup has room for improvement."

"They do not yet have USB recovery but they are adding it in coming releases."

"It could be a little bit easier or faster to be able to access data files without having to download anything."

"There was a situation I faced in the past when I contacted the tool's support team, and it took them a while to respond."

"I don't love the scheduler, as I think that interface could use an overhaul."

"They need integration with other platforms."

"It would be beneficial if file culling could be more granular."

"I paid for subscription of Firewall. I paid for subscription of endpoint protection. Thet should introduce single subscription for all services."

"It feels to me like it's going to be a little bit more work than I originally anticipated when upgrading the appliance. I haven't done that yet so I can't speak from true experience, but I went through the project plan and it feels to me like there's quite a number of pieces and components and things that have to be done. Quorum is going to manage the rollout, but in starting the initial conversation there were a lot of unanswered questions"

"The cost could be reduced."

"The user interface needs to be improved."

"Its price is reasonable."

"The pricing is between $120 and $150 per year."

"We pay 9,000 dollars per year for our license."

"The solution is open source."

"When we quote the price of Quorum to customers, they find it expensive."

"The solution’s pricing is economical."

"When we first got the Quorum the licensing was different."

"Quorum OnQ can be described as a medium-priced product...There are no ingress and egress charges in the product."

"The cost is higher than other software and services, but it is an absolute must-have."

"The pricing is about $1,400 a month. It's a little bit on the higher side. But it's one of those situations where time is valuable for me. So if it costs a little bit more money for me to have a solution that just works and requires less of my day-to-day management, I'm willing to pay a little bit more."

"The initial expenditure for us was a little under $40,000 for the recent renewal. For the first three years after that, other than electricity, there's no cost. After that, their support contract has to be renewed annually. We spent close to $6,000, between the two offices, for support."

"The upfront cost of purchasing a license for the hardware is quite steep."