We were using Symantec prior to Quorum and we still have it because the system is still running. We keep a support contract with them. Our tape library is so large that we can hold six months' worth of backups. That gives us an extended range if we really needed to get some old data off of there. But generally, we go to the quorum first because it is just a lot simpler to use.

What prompted us to look into getting another solution was beefing up our disaster recovery plans, because of things like the hurricanes that we have. Ten or 15 years ago you'd get one hurricane every five or 10 years. Now we're getting to the point, with whatever's happening in the environment, that we have hurricanes two or three times a year. The onQ's are an "insurance policy" that if something fails, we've got a pretty complete system that we can bring online in a short amount of time. Or if we had to replace the hardware, we could copy everything back onto a new piece of equipment and it would work. It allows us to sleep at night.

Where I work right now, before this solution there was an old Symantec Backup Exec tape system. I came from the consulting industry prior to this, about five or six years ago, and I had set up numerous Barracuda backups, along with about three Unitrends appliances as well.

We were just using NAS devices to back up the data itself. If something were to happen, we would have to physically rebuild a server and import the data back into the server to be up and running.

We looked into Quorum for the ability to have a hot-standby server to power on. It was pretty enticing to not have to worry about rebuilding a server on the spot, if it failed. Being able to image the server back to the physical hardware was also enticing.

I have worked with other products including those by Veeam.

I have used many different solutions and at the time, none of them came even close to what OnQ provided. They were ahead of the game, everyone else had to catch up after going public with this product.

I've used a number of backup solutions over the years. Backup Exec, Windows Backup, cloud backup, various media types, and previously, the early generation of Quorum OnQ. The switch to the OnQ system was a huge paradigm shift in how I run my department.

Moving, again, to the latest revision of OnQ appliances and software has resulted in a substantial improvement in speed. Quite frankly, once you've used the Quorum OnQ system, you could not consider any alternative. I am frequently asked to consider Veeam but there is simply no consideration of Veeam or others on my part. They just do not compare when you run the numbers on RTO and RPO, and compare the simplicity.

We had a solution, but it was a very manual, labor-intensive, not-full-VM appliance. 

For us, partnering with an organization like Quorum, a company that basically hands it to you in a box and it's all ready to go and implement quickly and easily, without a lot of management resource on my end to keep the thing running — it just does what it's supposed to do — is the best approach at this point.

Previously, I used Veeam and then moved to Quorum because Veeam is only a backup solution but with Quorum I get to backup the whole virtual servers with OS. 

I have used Backup Exec with DLT and LTO type tapes. Tape backup is just a thing of the past and Backup Exec just didn't have good offsite options at that time.

 I have used EVault and similar remote solutions, but the bandwidth was always an issue. They didn't perform good delta backups and didn't offer BMR at all.

I used various, disparate solutions in the past to accomplish everything that OnQ does.

As resellers, we are also selling NetBackup and Commvault. One of the complaints from our customers is that the Quorum is expensive, and they question why it is on par with these other products.

I have also worked with Proxmox Backup. The main difference is that you can get Proxmox Backup for free, although we availed the support license, just to give back to the community. For the basic needs—backup, restoration, recovery—Proxmox Backup delivers quite well. 

We did not use another solution prior to this one.

We were using this kind of backup in the cloud for a while. Sometimes we used Acronis and Macrium Reflects, but we found that Quorum was much simpler. It was also much easier to understand the solution.

The biggest difference between Acronis and Quorum is that Quorum is open-source, and the file system is better. It's like other platforms, and most people know about it. Also, compared to products like Acronis and Zetta, Quorum OnQ isn't hard.