Carbonite Server vs Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup comparison

"The efficiency and convenience are excellent."

"It does not slow down your computer or use a lot of resources as it works."

"I find the BMR/image and the recovery pieces are valuable."

"Easy verification of things is the most valuable feature."

"The Granular Restore of SQL feature has been a lifesaver more times than I can count. One of the main reasons for looking at Carbonite was their support for platforms like AIX and AS/400 Series."

"The solution is a free engine to help work with the container."

"It seems reliable and easy to use."

"Technical support handled all our issues quickly and effectively."

"We use the latest feature in Altaro called CDP (Continuous Data Protection) to back up our VMs as often as every five minutes. It allows us to make sure no data is accidentally deleted or overwritten."

"The initial setup was simple and easy. Anyone without prior experience can install, configure, and use it."

"The interface is user-friendly and even if our tech isn't onsite, we can work with the owners to confirm that the data will be restored with no issues."

"Reverse Delta is Altaro proprietary backup deduplication technology. With Reverse Delta, the latest version of a file is always made available in its entirety, not as a delta file."

"Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup's most valuable features include its user-friendly interface and the ability to perform data compression updates, which enhance overall efficiency and effectiveness."

"Excellent compression and deduplication with off-site WAN backup included."

"Valuable features for us include quick recovery, compression, and deduplication."

"The ability to test the backups without having to manually mount the VHDs after restore allows us to check the integrity of the backups."

"The support for object storage isn't quite there yet. Its public cloud support can be improved. I would love to see the public cloud support for object storage, and it would be great, but what I always hear from the folks at Carbonite is that in a lot of cases, it directly competes with their cloud offering. So, I don't know when or where that will go or if that will go anywhere, but we are hopeful to see something. The dashboard is a little outdated. If they gave it a facelift and put some better design around their dashboard, that would be tremendous. I generally care less about the visual aesthetics of an application as long as it does what it needed to do, which is true in the case of this solution. We also have the Microsoft 365 platform. Because they're two separate platforms, I have to log in to my Microsoft platform to manage it, and I have to log into my Carbonite server backup platform to manage it. Having these two coexist together in one management console is really what we're looking for, but we went for it knowing this. We also knew that there would be some integration coming down the road. So, we're again hoping to see some of that coming in 2021."

"In the next release I would like to see an improvement in the auto failover option."

"The stability has room for improvement."

"It could be a little bit easier or faster to be able to access data files without having to download anything."

"The only thing that I would like to see improved is related to marketing. Currently, it is very difficult to find the right paper and stuff for me. Their marketing department should provide better information because currently, it is very difficult to find information on the internet. It was bought over by OpenText, and you won't be able to find a lot of information about this solution on their site. They should also provide training facilities for commercial purposes. Some of my colleagues recently went for pilot training, and they were technical. If I want to get trained, the training has to be more commercial. Currently, there is no such training for users like me."

"They do not yet have USB recovery but they are adding it in coming releases."

"The Hyper-V backup has room for improvement."

"Basically, how it works is that you have a single local drive, and then you have a cloud backup. It'd be nice if you could rotate the single local backup drive. As of now, you can't."

"The scalability of the solution is limited."

"If you look into the performance of a virtual machine and you look to the performance of the physical machine, the correlation between these is totally unclear."

"To improve Altaro, I would like to see the ability to choose more than one backup location at a time."

"Availability of physical server backup would be an added advantage."

"The cloud backup and VMware support (now available in the latest releases), could do with some improvement."

"Replication is not fast, the GUI could be more user-friendly, and technical support is lacking in Iran."

"The application could include a feature to install a set size of data, such as the ability to store a single application with all its registry information for easy transfer."

"The pricing is between $120 and $150 per year."

"The solution is open source."

"We pay 9,000 dollars per year for our license."

"Its price is reasonable."

"​By implementing the solution at multiple locations, significant cost savings were achieved."

"VMware is a little pricey, but it is a good solution and priced similar to other products."

"Altaro had the best prices and ROI in the whole bunch that we evaluated."

"There is a free version for Hosts with 2 VMs."

"No other product offers these features for this price. The ROI is great."

"The pricing is okay,"

"There is a free version for two VMs. I would advise to study the deployment environment well, prior to committing to order a license per host."

"The price is great for the utility you get and the licensing has never caused any issues with my company."