Bacula Enterprise vs HPE StoreOnce comparison

The compared Bacula Systems and Hewlett Packard Enterprise solutions aren't in the same category. Bacula Systems is ranked #25 in BRS , with an average rating of 10.0, and holds a 1.0% mindshare in the category. Hewlett Packard Enterprise is ranked #2 in DS , with an average rating of 7.2, and holds a 18.5% mindshare. Additionally, 90% of Bacula Systems users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 93% of Hewlett Packard Enterprise users who would recommend it.

Bacula Enterprise

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90% willing to recommend

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93% willing to recommend

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Categories and Ranking

Bacula Enterprise

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Backup and Recovery (25th), Cloud Backup (12th)

HPE StoreOnce

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

108

Ranking in other categories

Deduplication Software (2nd), Disk Based Backup Systems (2nd)

Mindshare comparison

Bacula Enterprise and HPE StoreOnce aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Bacula Enterprise is designed for Backup and Recovery and holds a mindshare of 1.0%, up 0.6% compared to last year.
HPE StoreOnce, on the other hand, focuses on Deduplication Software, holds 18.5% mindshare, down 19.5% since last year.

Backup and Recovery Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Bacula Enterprise	1.0%
Veeam Data Platform	11.4%
Commvault Cloud	6.0%
Other	81.6%

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Deduplication Software Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
HPE StoreOnce	18.5%
Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain)	27.2%
Dell PowerProtect Data Manager	14.1%
Other	40.199999999999996%

Deduplication Software

Featured Reviews

GiovanniRamirez

Senior IT Consultant at Xerif

Solid backup tool with good scalability

The last scenario in which I used Bacula was for a customer who needed some open-source tool which could support encryption at that time. We managed to convince the customer to use Bacula to deploy it in their environment It was a very good project. The Bacula concept, topology, and networking…

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Andrew Mcbeath

Technical Director of Managed IT Division at base2

Maximized storage capacity and minimized costs and an easy setup

Most of our client base is between fifty to five hundred end users. We occasionally recommend high-end HPE products for larger clients needing performance and reliability. Our clients predominantly use HPE StoreOnce for small business purposes in industries like dairy and finance Our clients have…

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"It brought many advantages - such as the learning curve being very light."

"The solution has extensive documentation and a very active community."

"It can be used in virtually any environment we have onsite."

"It works great and it provides you with several standard tools to restore your backup, even after a big failure."

"It is easy to scale Bacula Enterprise even if your system is growing tremendously in data and servers."

"Bacula is pretty stable."

"The most valuable features are the special plugins such as SAP HANA databases, Microsoft SQL, and various types of virtualization."

"Bacula is very solid, very stable, and very scalable."

"I think the most valuable feature is the catalyst technology, which is in the StoreOnce appliance."

"The implementation is straightforward."

"HPE StoreOnce has high performance."

"The solution's licensing policy is more practical and not confusing."

"The product's most valuable feature is stability."

"Catalyst backup is used to back up Oracle databases, and provides very good throughput during backups."

"The stability of the solution is excellent."

"The implementation is not that complex for someone who has experience."

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Cons

"Easier setup and configuration, perhaps including a GUI, would be an improvement."

"The initial setup could be a bit easier."

"Bacula needs a graphical user interface because, for administrators, the command-line interface is okay, but for the average user it is not very easy."

"We would like to see an improvement in the functionality of the GUI."

"We are looking for a unique interface that can rule both enterprise and open source editions. Such a thing does not yet exist."

"A more user-friendly interface (GUI) can be developed."

"Many features have been converted to commercial licensing, which restricts their availability."

"It could improve its interface or offer a specific screen for the manager of the company."

"The appliance doesn't have the global deduplication, it has StoreOnce deduplication. It does not deduplicate across the appliance, it will deduplicate in one particular store. With the global deduplication, I could store more data."

"HPE StoreOnce needs to provide a SaaS solution by offering high-density disks."

"The GUI and its user-friendliness have some room for improvement."

"Cloud integration needs to be simplified."

"The solution would be improved if it could also be used as a data store for VMware."

"The cost is at the forefront of everyone's mind."

"improvement? HPE StoreOnce has a limitation with respect to controllers. Other tools offer more than one controller. I feel that the high availability of the view controller should be redundant. The tool’s control and UI part should be improved and made more advanced. The feature that helps with the manual movement of tapes should also be improved."

"We would like to see some improvements in the Veeam Backup & Replication integration. It's good, but it has a lot of room to improve. In particular around the inability to easily move data between StoreOnce appliances."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"This is an open-source solution."

"We have a perpetual license."

"The cost of HPE StoreOnce is very expensive."

"There are costs for additional storage and space."

"With the same capacity of Data Domain and ExaGrid, which is 80 terabytes, HPE is the cheapest one."

"We have got a perpetual license, and we have access to all the features. If you are using cloud banks, you can store the internal data in HPE Cloud if needed. You can offload the data to the HPE Cloud. It is a licensed product. We have got around 10 TB of cloud bank storage with a one-time payment. We specifically took 10 TB for very critical offsite backups. We can also increase it in blocks if needed."

"The price puts me off. It's definitely on the high side."

"The solution's cost is above average."

"The solution is pretty expensive."

"I think the product is competitive in terms of pricing. Other products like the one from Dell are costlier compared to the tool."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

17%

University

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

Computer Software Company

15%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Financial Services Firm

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	5
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	4

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	38
Midsize Enterprise	31
Large Enterprise	49

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Bacula Enterprise?

Bacula is more expensive than various other solutions. It’s almost completely commercial now. Products like Veeam software are much more expensive.

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What needs improvement with Bacula Enterprise?

Many features have been converted to commercial licensing, which restricts their availability.

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What is your primary use case for Bacula Enterprise?

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What do you like most about HPE StoreOnce?

I think StoreOnce's deduplication technology is crucial for cost efficiency and faster recovery, especially for backup and data protection purposes.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for HPE StoreOnce?

The setup cost is rated as four out of ten.

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What needs improvement with HPE StoreOnce?

To improve HPE StoreOnce, I think if HPE generates new models with lower capacities than 80 terabytes, it would be beneficial for the market. We face a significant issue with the current offerings....

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Compared 7% of the time

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Compared 6% of the time

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Compared 5% of the time

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HP StoreOnce

Overview

Bacula Enterprise is a highly scalable, especially robust and secure data backup and recovery software. Its unique low cost subscription model empowers data centers to truly escape data volume price traps. With a high degree of flexibility and customizability, Bacula offers native integration with a wide range of hypervisors, databases, file systems, cloud interfaces and containers. High numbers of enterprise organizations worldwide (incl. NASA, Bank of Austria, Swisscom or Sky PLC) have adopted Bacula Enterprise backup software in mission critical environments because of its advanced features and ability to handle high data volume at very low cost.

Bacula Systems

HP StoreOnce Backup is a data backup solution that provides a consistent, high-performance, scale-out architecture for your entire enterprise. Reduce the amount of backup data capacity by 95 percent, and choose between powerful dedicated appliances for data centers, or flexible virtual appliances for smaller and remote offices.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Sample Customers

NASA, SwissCom, Navisite, Turner Studios, Bank Austria, Caixa Bank, SdV Plurimedia, Leibniz University Hannover, Zeta Global, Tricore, NetLog, Siemens, LocaWeb, wbsGo, itesys, Queens School of Computing, Escrypt.

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