Asigra Reviews

Simplicity, very easy to restore user data. Means that we don't have to request off site tapes to be delivered to the office, can easily access the cloud data and restore most data within minutes.

As above, vastly improved user down time on important data that has been deleted. Tapes could often take hours if not over a day to retrieve, now that issue has been eradicated.

For me it does what it needs to.

2 years.

No issues with deployment.

No issues with stability.

No, have easily scaled up as we've increased the amount of data we now hold.

From the limited contact I've had it's been very good.

Excellent, always at the other end of the phone with a solution to most of the few issues we've had.

Just tape storage with a local firm.

I wasn't involved in this but from the sounds of it it was very simple. Most of our servers are virtualised so we just needed to set them up and our supplier did the rest.

Through a vender, they knew what they were doing and there was very little if any down time.

Symantec cloud was the only other product and it came down to cost, you had to install the client on all the servers which was done with a fee, with Asigra there's no such problem which makes it very cost effective.

Worthwhile, possible the initial setup of the hardware is costly but once you're going the costs are relatively cheap, it's the data costs that can rack up.

Agentless framework, simple implementation & configuration.

Smooth integration into customer's environment, interactive UI.

Personally speaking, I think the reporting should be more interactive.

2.5 years.

No issues with deployment.

We did not encounter any issues with stability.

None.

I would rate the customer service a 3/5.

I would rate the technical support a 3/5.

No.

Straightforward.

In-house implementation.

No.

Asigra’s multi-tenancy feature is most valuable as it allows the company to on-sell a private cloud backup and recovery solution to existing customers. I like the fact that agents are not required to be installed on any servers to be backed up, so no downtimes due to the backup solution.

For an IT Managed Services Provider, this product was selected due to its reliability and it’s flexible business model that it offered. The organization uses Asigra to offer/on-sell a reliable backup and recovery solution to customers. The organization built a private cloud for their customers to house their data and charged based on how much data is used. An in-house built Asigra appliance with considerable amount of disk space is provided to customers without charge, to store backups locally and transmit incremental backups to a private cloud.

The setup and configuration of this product is quite complex. There are too many adjustable parameters available. The options that must be configured and tweaked is also the reasons why this product is so powerful. However, I still think they should make their product easier to use.

I have worked with this solution in a managed services company for less than a year, 11 months to be exact. The resident Asigra expert had left the company and I was tasked to take over the deployment, maintenance and support for customers who purchased our Asigra cloud backup solution.

Yes, the initial backups and its transportation to the data centre can be painful when issues are encountered. The first backup for each customers must be transported to the data centre and imported before incremental backups can be run. Some customers are located hundreds of miles away and getting the initial backup to the data centre before the incremental backup grows too large for the internet connection to handle the upload can be an issue.

The customer’s internet connection speed can also be a problem because when the internet connection is slow enough, there are issues with timeouts which leads to failed backups. At times, failed backups or other issues can cause the whole backup set to be unrecoverable so the whole process must be started again by creating a new initial backup.

Another issue is that the firewall on all servers to be backed up must be turned off for Asigra to work.

Yes, slow internet connection speed can cause headaches with backup stability. The slow speed causes timeouts in the backup process which will fail afterwards if the retries are also not successful.

This product is highly scalable. It can be configured to suit the smallest customer to a large organisation. A few limitation that affects this product is the customer’s internet connection and how much backed up data they are willing to keep in the private cloud, which is the cost factor.

My company selected Xilocore to purchase Asigra from due to their willingness to provide training and support for us across the different time zone. Other companies approached were not so accommodating to our requirements.

We paid highly for the support agreement and we were very happy with what was provided. The support person assigned to us was extremely knowledgeable and flexible. His services and assistance to us were second to none.

As I was relatively new to the company, I’m not sure of the reasons for the switch to the current solution but my guess would be to provide a state of the arts cloud backup and recovery solution for our customers. The older solutions did not cater for offsite backup to the cloud. Asigra was considered to be the best product based on its features.

As a new user, I think the setup for this product can be tricky, however, as we had many customers taking up our private cloud backup solution, the process became easier. We provided each customers with an Asigra appliance built with a virtual windows 7 Asigra client on VMware with enough disk space to hold local backups of all servers as well as be able to restore and run most servers as virtual machines should it be necessary. Customer setups are created within the cloud portal first by selecting the New DS-client wizard on the DS-Operator program then a Registration file is exported. On the customer end, SQL Server Express is installed on a windows box then the Asigra client is installed before the Registration file is imported and a connection made to the DS-Operator program in the cloud, then necessary configurations are entered. An initial backup set is then organised.

Our vendor is based in USA and we are on the other side of the world so we implemented everything ourselves.

I’m unable to answer this as I wasn’t privy to the financial details, being a new member of the team at the time. However I was told that the licensing for Asigra was quite high.

I’m also unable to answer this as I did not have access to the financial details. With regards to day to day costs, the troubleshooting and maintenance of failed backups can be time consuming.

I’m unable to comment as I was not with this company when they were evaluating other options. However, we began to look into Iaso to see if it was easier to use. I was not around to find out the result.

The internet connection speed can make or break this product. Without good bandwidth there would be no point in considering any cloud backup solution. As with everything in IT, the more disk space you can afford in licensing costs, the better. Hopefully there are some cheat sheet or best practices out there for guidance. The Asigra forum has many helpful members as well.

Agentless backup, Desktop and laptop backup, BMR.

Since we have implemented Asigra we don’t have an administrator to do manual backup to tapes and external HDD. Everything is automated and no hassles for the administrator.

Backup of databases like Oracle and SAP.

3 years

No issues with deployment.

No issues with stability.

No issues with scalability.

8/10.

5/10, Due to different timezones it would always be difficult to get hold of a tech. Need to have more people on board for support which covers all timezones and should be an expert in the product.

We did not have a backup solution in place, ease of management is one key factor to use Asigra.

Since I work on backup and storage for more than 6 years it looked pretty straightforward.

In-house team.

80%.

Don’t recollect since it was handled by the procurement team.

Ease of use and management, one time setup is what all it requires to get going.