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"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.""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.""One of the main features is the landing zone, it is a particular space where the information is not duplicated.""The solution easily integrates with the backup targets, such as Veeam.""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."

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"The features we use for the data deduplication are nice because we're able to back up a much larger amount of data, yet it doesn't necessarily take up that much data on the devices.""Data deduplication and replication would be the top two features. The encryption and cloud tiering are also attractive for the future.""It integrates with various backup software solutions, which makes it compatible with existing backup workflows and processes.""Deduplication is the most valuable feature. It saves us a lot of space. When we back up 100 terabytes of data, after dedupe, it only uses maybe five to six terabytes for the disk space in QoreStor.""The dedupe and compression are pretty extreme. On disk, we're getting dedupe rates of up to 65 percent of data and compression of 34 percent. When you go to the cloud, it's more like 76 percent for dedupe and almost 50 percent for compression.""QoreStor has helped us to reduce our backup storage requirements on-premises. We've been using the same devices for quite a while, and so it lets us keep using them as opposed to having to rip out all that hardware and create a new on-prem solution. The advantage here is even if we had to retire the hardware tomorrow, the QoreStor part doesn't change. We just have to have additional hardware and put the solution back on whatever hardware we pick and it'll do the same thing."

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"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.""The product's documentation can be made more precise.""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.""I would like for them to develop direct cloud integration with a third-party cloud. Direct integration with AWS and other cloud providers.""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."

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"In terms of improvement, we would like to have an Air Gap feature to prevent a virus from attaching to something. So that when we don't do a backup, we want the QoreStor to stay offline. It would be a nice feature to have.""The ransomware protection of QoreStor could use improvement.""The installation could use improvement. The initial installation was a little touchy and it's not really user-installable. You have to have a connection to support to install.""The management interface is in need of improvement. The graphical user interface (GUI) for the web management tools appears clunky, and not super intuitive.""The setup of the software is definitely not the easiest thing. I worked a lot with Quest engineers, especially in the early days when we were first testing it and trying it out. I actually had some of the developers working with us at one point because they were going through these point releases, and I was having trouble getting it to work in this S3-compatible situation. We got it all working eventually, but setup is definitely not the easiest thing in the world.""They need to increase their maximum capacity. Other than that, they're doing a pretty good job."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "In comparison to other solutions, it's affordable. They're all too expensive."
  • "The current agreement has 21 terabytes of free space and it cost approximately $35,000."
  • "The previous solutions I have used both included the Backup Software and the Appliance making it hard to compare to this solution. However, overall the solution is reasonably priced for the features you receive. ExaGrid EX Series is priced better than HP, Dell, and possibly Commvault which I have compared in the past."
  • "My company had to pay 1,60,000 EUR for the system we use, and the payment was made just once for the system and five years of full support."
  • "I rate ExaGrid EX Series' pricing eight to nine out of ten."
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  • "Its pricing model is very attractive. You have one price, and you get everything from QoreStor."
  • "The cost is per terabyte, and overall, the cost was reasonable when compared to some competitors."
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    Top Answer:The most valuable features of the solution are deduplication and landing zone.
    Top Answer:Initially, a person might consider the product expensive, but if you look at the larger picture, all deduplication appliances are generally expensive. My company had to pay 1,60,000 EUR for the system… more »
    Top Answer:The product's documentation can be made more precise. The good thing is you can access the appliance when you go to the online documentation, which is always up-to-date. There needs to be a proper… more »
    Top Answer:Quest QoreStor can be used for multiple things besides data replication. For example, it can be trusted to make a backup of your data. You know that replication and backups are different, right… more »
    Top Answer:One of our favorite features of Quest QoreStore for data protection isn't the backup, actually, though we're using it actively (maybe just as much as data replication, to be honest). We absolutely… more »
    Top Answer:When I first found out about data replication and the many benefits it had, I couldn't help but wonder - what about the copies you don't need? Like it's unavoidable for some of the copies to get… more »
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    Overview
    The ExaGrid EX Series hyper-converged secondary storage for backup product line consists of eight appliance models. Each appliance is sized for a full backup and for long-term retention. Any ExaGrid appliance can be mixed and matched in the same scale-out system with any other size or age appliance, allowing customers to buy what they need as they need it. This pay-as-you-grow model allows up to 25 appliances in a single scale-out system.

    Software-defined platform for secure cloud storage, deduplication and replication.
    QoreStor® by Quest expands your data storage options while reducing your storage footprint and costs. Use QoreStor to quickly and easily shift data and object storage to the cloud for backup, disaster recovery and compliance purposes. Advanced compression and data/object deduplication algorithms slash storage requirements so you don’t exceed your storage budget.

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    NCI Group, North Attleborough Public School, North Kingstown School Department, NPS Pharmaceuticals, Prudential Douglas Elliman, Rathbone Brothers PLC, Rio Hondo College, Ruder Finn, Sarah Lawrence College
    American Airlines, at&t, Bank of America. Barclays, ebay, Ford
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    Government9%
    Financial Services Firm8%
    Manufacturing Company8%
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    Real Estate/Law Firm14%
    Financial Services Firm14%
    Non Profit11%
    Government9%
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    Midsize Enterprise29%
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    Midsize Enterprise18%
    Large Enterprise57%
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    Midsize Enterprise16%
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    ExaGrid EX Series is ranked 7th in Deduplication Software with 6 reviews while Quest QoreStor is ranked 13th in Deduplication Software with 6 reviews. ExaGrid EX Series is rated 9.4, while Quest QoreStor is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of ExaGrid EX Series writes "Integrates well, reasonably priced, and provides high level support ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Quest QoreStor writes "Multi-thread backups and snapshotting have eliminated the scheduling issues we had to deal with around backups". ExaGrid EX Series is most compared with Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), HPE StoreOnce, Quantum DXi Series, Veritas NetBackup Appliance and IBM ProtectTIER, whereas Quest QoreStor is most compared with Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), HPE StoreOnce and DD Boost.

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