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 backup feature is most valuable. That's why we took it."
"I have found the product's LiveBoot feature to be most valuable."
"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."
"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 most valuable feature is unlimited data storage on the cloud. Even if the employee has left the company for a few years, the backup will still be maintained."
"The product is easy to install and use while doing what it is expected to do."
"Easy, immediate protection for data that is virtually infinitely scalable."
"NinjaOne helps us view the status of software patching, whether the PC is locked or unlocked."
"Good at managing updates and for remote support."
"The most important aspect of this tool is the security it provides our company."
"It helps us to be able to have visibility into the overall performance of the servers, laptops, and desktops that we are managing currently."
"The solution's most valuable feature is related to its remote access...I know that NinjaOne's technical support is good."
"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."
"NinjaOne's best feature is its monitoring."
"It just works as advertised and serves the purpose for which we got it."
"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."
"Their technical support is not very good. You never know what they are doing and what is the issue. Customers need to know what is happening. This is our main concern and the only thing that can be improved in this solution. I would like to have more visibility about what is going on when something happens. I need to know what was done to solve the issue."
"I would like to see the automatic backup of critical applications to the cloud."
"Setting up Barracuda Backup is straightforward."
"Some features like CIFS are not supported that would help speed and flexibility."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"The graphical user interface could be improved."
"NinjaOne's dashboard could be easier to use."
"The solution could improve by optimizing the internet connection being used."
"NinjaOne's pricing and user interface needs improvement."
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 and Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), 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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