Remember to test out full backup and restore of a entire server to see if you like the way it works. Also - make sure that don't use this product if you have to run transactional replication - SQL Server doesn't work with .SAFE file types and running the Idera conversion utility took 5 times longer to create SQL backup file from a SAFE backup file than it does to just take the backup in SQL Server mode to begin with.

I evaluated several products. This is one we chose, and this is the one we stuck with. We evaluated LiteSpeed and one other solution.

The main rivals was Dell's Lightspeed but is two times more expensive.