We didn't evaluate other solutions. A colleague of mine and I went to a lunch, to one of Quorum's seminars one day, and we were very impressed with the presentation. Everything they said made sense and we didn't really see any need to look any further. And we still don't or we wouldn't have bought another set of them.

Symantec is slow, at least for our solution. I'm sure they have cloud backups but, as I said, our resistance to putting any more in the cloud than we have to is pretty high. We're really trying to keep things in-house. And without spending a ton on hardware, tape is just slower. 

It was a cost thing primarily, but also speed. Personally, and not to bad-mouth competitors, Symantec's support is very difficult to navigate and to get any real attention from on a lot of issues, and that definitely doesn't happen in a timely manner. We don't have that problem with Quorum. They're very responsive.

The system installation is better with Quorum OnQ. Veeam is mostly all Windows-related, while Quorum OnQ’s server runs on Linux operating system, which is better.

A reason I chose them over Unitrends on my most recent purchase, is that the one thing I was seriously lacking was memory and CPU cores. When I got on with both Unitrends and Quorum I said, "Hey, I need this much memory and this many cores." Unitrends' solution was to move me up in physical boxes. So they moved me up a few tiers, which also resulted in significantly more drive space, which was the one thing I did not need. Quorum, on the other hand, took one of their lower-end boxes, one which had sufficient drive space for me but which was just lacking in memory and CPUs, and they threw a bunch more CPU cores into it and a bunch more memory, which fulfilled all of my requirements.

Among Quorum, Barracuda, and Unitrends, the Quorum is by far the easiest one to use in terms of sizing. Multiple times, I would put Barracuda solutions in and I don't know if it was their deduplication that kept messing me up, but I'd size it, and determine, "Okay, we should be able to get 90 days of backups out of this thing." But right-out-of-the box I was getting about 30 days. Clients weren't too terribly happy with me as a result. The bare metal restore was pretty rough on the Barracuda as well. I would probably not even suggest Barracuda to people now, unless they are interested in a cheap solution. One thing Barracuda does offer is a solution that is considerably cheaper than either of the other two.

The Unitrends appliance wasn't bad. It was easy to set up. I found that restoring and bringing up virtual machines was more difficult and it did not scale quite as well. I could not have nearly as many virtual machines running on the Unitrends appliance as I could have on the Quorum appliance, even though it was sized by the vendor. The maintenance was also more expensive on the Unitrends appliance than on the Quorum.

We looked at Veeam, Unitrends, Datto, and Dell.

We did not consider other options on this upgrade. We were so satisfied with the previous OnQ system that there was no suitable replacement to consider.

We evaluated other options and currently use Veeam and other backup data protection products.

We had just started using it when I was hired on, and I was just a helpdesk technician at the time. I was taught how to use it, but wasn't heavily involved in the process until a few years in. Earlier this year we did look at at least one other viable solution. After doing some cost analysis of both the other solution and Quorum, Quorum came out much cheaper, and we got way more for the money we were spending.

We evaluated a couple of other players, including Datto. Ease of use was one of the differences between Quorum and Datto. I think there were some problems with Datto, as I remember. I did a lot of research on forums and sites, like ITCentralStation.com, from an end-user perspective in different environments. That gave me an idea as to what the solution was like after it was implemented, installed, and up and running. I really relied on what the community was saying about the different solutions. Each one has its pros and cons.

For our organization, after reading all the reviews and commentary, and taking into consideration points that mattered to us, it really came down to Quorum, from many different angles, being the front-runner.

At this point, I haven't looked at other solutions in many years. I moved to OnQ thirteen years ago at my previous company and loved it. When I started at my new company and saw the mess their backup was in, I immediately switched to OnQ.

We did not evaluate other options before choosing OnQ.

We did not evaluate other options.