We performed a comparison between Barracuda Intronis Backup and ExaGrid EX Series based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Deduplication Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."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 configuration and the onboarding process are pretty good."
"It's a one-stop shop, meaning we just program and schedule the backups, decide what is being backed up, and then it automatically replicates and deduplicates."
"We perform backup drills to test the functionality, and we don't have any problems."
"The superior support from Barracuda in setting up, using, and helping with issues for the product."
"The most important feature in Barracuda Backup is the ability to archive the backup of emails."
"The performance is good and the interface is user-friendly."
"The most valuable features are the deduplication that analyzes data to identify duplicate patterns and granular restore."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of use and data deduplication. It's extremely easy to use and does a very good job of data deduplication and compression."
"It is a solid and a quite simple solution, which is a good combination. The customers like the simplicity and its scale-out capacity. They like the support pricing, and even the extension capacity pricing, a fixed price, which the executive is offering in Czech market."
"One of the main features is the landing zone, it is a particular space where the information is not duplicated."
"The tool has improved backup and recovery times. One of the key features contributing to this improvement is the landing zone and deduplication retention zone. When data is in the landing zone, the process is fast, ensuring smooth backup and recovery operations at high speeds. However, the process becomes slower for long-term backups moved to the retention zone due to fragmentation. So, if the data is older than a few days, the speed may be limited, especially for non-deduplicated data in the landing zone."
"The most valuable features of the solution are deduplication and landing zone."
"The solution easily integrates with the backup targets, such as Veeam."
"I would like to see the automatic backup of critical applications to the cloud."
"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."
"In the next release of this solution, I would like to see cloud support and deduplication functionality."
"Some features like CIFS are not supported that would help speed and flexibility."
"The web interface needs to contain a more up-to-date view of the hardware."
"The solution needs fine-grained backup capabilities to service individual users. But this is a minor issue considering all that the product does."
"I would like to see the Live Boot feature extended to Hyper-V machines, in addition to VMware machines."
"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 solution could improve by switching to a flash-type solution rather than the spinning drives that they currently use. However, we have not had any failure with the spinning drives. The flash-type drives are more up-to-date and are something that is in their roadmap."
"I would like for them to develop direct cloud integration with a third-party cloud. Direct integration with AWS and other cloud providers."
"When speaking about a scale-out, you want to have better equipment. You cannot just add a disc to the foreign equipment. You have to buy another one and put it together, like parallel."
"The tool reduces storage footprint. However, clients are now storing data for longer durations with increasing requirements to retain backups for longer periods, particularly as a defense against ransomware attacks. As a result, the retention zone with duplicated data is experiencing more demand, leading to space constraints. This necessitates using higher-end, more expensive models to address the issue."
"The product's documentation can be made more precise."
"The one place where we are sometimes losing the opportunity with ExaGrid is that a few customers still require a fiber channel connectivity, which is not always possible."
Barracuda Intronis Backup is ranked 10th in Deduplication Software with 24 reviews while ExaGrid EX Series is ranked 7th in Deduplication Software with 6 reviews. Barracuda Intronis Backup is rated 8.4, while ExaGrid EX Series is rated 9.0. 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 ExaGrid EX Series writes "Integrates well, reasonably priced, and provides high level support ". Barracuda Intronis Backup is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Rubrik, Acronis Cyber Protect, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and Azure Backup, whereas ExaGrid EX Series is most compared with Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), HPE StoreOnce, Veritas NetBackup Appliance, Quantum DXi Series and NetApp FAS Series. See our Barracuda Intronis Backup vs. ExaGrid EX Series report.
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