We did look at some other products. It has been quite a few years, but there was another product that was probably very similar to Rapid Recovery in terms of the concept of how it works. We ultimately decided to go with the AppAssure product at that time primarily due to the vendor, and that was because it was marketed and being sold by Dell.

We are very heavily Dell-oriented in our environment. The majority of our equipment is Dell. We have a very good working relationship with them. So, if we were going to purchase something like this, it just made sense. We felt as though we would be in good hands given our previous experience and our relationship with Dell. I know that Quest has broken away from Dell, but from a customer standpoint, I do not feel as though there has been any degradation in their response or their service since they have broken away from Dell, at least not for me. Their service has been very consistent.

I am not sure about the cost aspects since it comes with other software as a bundle.

We evaluated Veeam and Nutanix against Quest Rapid Recovery. In terms of RPO, Quest Rapid Recovery has a five-minute RPO and that's a good point, while Veeam takes longer: fifteen minutes. Quest Rapid Recovery has VM standby as a native feature, while Veeam has replication on VMware. If you have VMware on both the DC and DR sides, you can replicate VMs from the Veeam console.

As for Nutanix, it has the native inbuilt plugin for Veeam that isn't present in Quest Rapid Recovery, but is in another Quest product: NetVault.

Evaluation of other options is the responsibility of the customer. My company handles multiple data products but this is the only option we offer for data recovery.

There were other products that I did look at, but I thought Quest was probably the best by far. For instance, there was Veeam and VMware that I considered. I just thought that the Quest product was probably the best for the school's situation.

I looked at the products from a support point of view and the hardware structure, and I thought that the Rapid Recovery product was most simplistic. It is easier for IT-savvy people to use it and the support is very good.

We also looked at VMware. We also use it. We find Rapid Recovery more impressive, however.

We have not evaluated anything recently. We might do that next year. We are analyzing whether to go for a cloud or an on-premises solution. We are debating about that currently.

Compared to similar solutions, it is pretty easy to use.

At that time, this solution did all that we needed.

We looked at three other vendors but we ultimately decided on this solution because it had the ability to function well with our existing infrastructure.