We have had problems with this. Again, this is down to us not really understanding the product in the first place. In the case of the company, where we had problems with last year, when it came to bringing the VMs onto the appliance, we had to download them from the cloud. We got the VMs back onto the appliance, then we found that trying to boot them and the hardware was insufficient to support their product. So, the product ran like a dog when it was booted up on the appliance. So, it was unusable for the customer. That was down to us. When we were trying to size the product, it was a misunderstanding of, "What would be the minimum that would allow this server to run?" Well, we know that the minimum a server will run on is 8 GB. However, when the customer's product is on there, 8 GB is insufficient to run the server. So, it caused some problems.

One of our companies, who has had the product for three years, is at the point where I don't think the appliance has now got enough space to back up what they have. The only way that we can do anything with it is to keep getting rid of backups, which we probably shouldn't do, but that is what we are going through at the moment. So, we have to really micromanage the backup that is happening so it doesn't go over. The customer could upgrade it, but our customer isn't realistically going to put his hand in his pocket and pay any more at the moment.

For all the people that we have on it, we have six terabytes of space in the cloud for the cloud backup solution as well as four appliances. I am the one who looks after all of it. I monitor it, and if there is a problems, then I deal with it. The guys who work for us run the IT support side of things, and I look after the backup side of things.

We have a couple of thousand endpoints. We are quite a small IT support company.

Scalability is connected to hardware. When you sign up with Infrascale, there is a sheet where you provide your information and they configure the machine for you. Sometimes, growth projections concerning data or servers can change. For example, if a company grows 50 percent, instead of the projected 10 percent per year, there might be an issue where you have to replace the appliance earlier. I have not run into this issue and I don't know exactly how they would handle it if it happened.

This is a pretty scalable product. We started with just our deployment in our office and now we deploy these out pretty quickly to our end-users. If growth happens from a partner standpoint, which is good, Infrascale helps us out with that. They make sure that we have whatever upgraded equipment we need, which is all part of the agreement.

We have four people that are the primary ones who work on Infrascale. They're our NOC services team and they manage our toolset and proactive stuff for our customers. Included in the team is their primary backup person, who uses it on a daily basis. The role includes double-checking everything, making sure we're not getting any errors, making sure everything's getting backed up, and things like that.

About 50% of our customers are using the full IBDR solution. We have some stragglers that are using an old legacy solution, as well.

Other than the issue I mentioned where different Infrascale devices don't know about each other, the scalability is fine.

Scalability is good. There are no issues.

The speed of the solution’s backup functionality is very good. The backup functionality depends on the amount of data or storage that you are backing up. Overall, compared to other solutions that we have used or tested, it is very good. However, it is a sliding scale based on the amount of data that you are backing up.

We have 101 DRaaS solutions currently deployed across various clients.

Scalability is excellent. You can scale it as far as you want or scale it back as much as you want it to. 

We have from small businesses all the way up to multi-international companies. It all varies. There are places that have 10 sites running across America, the United States, and Canada, there are sites that only have two computers. So, it varies. We have from the top to the bottom. But in regards to Infrascale, they work perfectly. I may have multiple servers, but each server does its own backup and stuff. I don't have a problem that way. We're good.

Scaling is fairly straightforward. If I run out of space, I call them and they add more space, and they up my bill.

I don't know if I'm going to add any more clients to it, but that's not because I don't like the solution. It's just because I don't think I need to back up those machines.

We have adopted Infrascale 100% in our environment. The system is definitely scalable; it can scale much higher than anything we have to deal with.

We have 13 network technicians that regularly work with the product.

The scalability of the solution is effective, based on the appliances and the way they are sized, as well as the variables that are factored into sizing for scaling.

But in terms of overage, or outgrowing capacity with backups, I have an issue. I've had a couple of clients that, for some reason, have had their backups go over the capacity that we have. Fortunately, that doesn't stop the whole process of backups. But in terms of reducing the data that is stored to bring it back within the limits, that seems to be something that either cannot be done or I don't fully understand how to do it. The situation has come up a couple of times and there's one particular technician who has been very good in assisting, but it's not that we've been able to bring it below the limit. It's just that he has extended the limit and then spoken with the account manager to explain the situation. That is a concern for me.

We have not needed to expand, so I haven't had issues with scalability. We have approximately fifty users.