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CTERA Enterprise File Services Platform pros and cons

Vendor: CTERA
4.5 out of 5
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PROS

CTERA Enterprise File Services Platform addresses uncontrollable file data growth by offering essential scalability.
Its flexibility allows separation of workloads across various hardware platforms, avoiding vendor lock-in and facilitating future infrastructure changes.
CTERA Enterprise File Services Platform excels in backing up workstations, a critical feature during increased off-site work.
Data eviction and rehydration features free up space and retrieve needed data from the cloud efficiently.
CTERA Enterprise File Services Platform integrates file-sharing, archiving, and backup into one comprehensive solution.

CONS

Monitoring features are available but come at an additional cost and are not included in the base package.
Version upgrades can impact users, potentially causing downtime.
An upgrade path for legacy customers to add new features without hardware replacement would be beneficial.
A global single-pane-of-glass view for all devices in different regions is desired.
There is potential for enhancement with AI and automation features like predictive storage analytics and intelligent alerts for monitoring.
 

CTERA Enterprise File Services Platform Pros review quotes

Richard Saini - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Infrastructure Architect at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
Sep 6, 2024
Our main reason for going for this solution was the uncontrollable growth of file data. It was unsustainable on our previous platform or technology. We needed something scalable like CTERA, so it was the scalability that we required.
Igal Muginstein - PeerSpot reviewer
Engineering & Network Division Storage, Backup & Os Team Manager at a comms service provider with 5,001-10,000 employees
Sep 11, 2024
The solution provides substantial flexibility, allowing the separation of workloads across various hardware platforms without vendor lock-in. This flexibility makes it adaptable to future infrastructure changes.
JP
Head of Technology at Glenn Davis Group Inc.
Sep 19, 2024
CTERA has been particularly capable of keeping all of our workstations backed up. That became a critical feature for us during the pandemic when computers were rarely in the office. Everybody went off-site with their computers, and we were accustomed to working with a centralized storage infrastructure where people would come to the office and connect to the server to use, create, and modify files. Everything was done directly to that server.
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reviewer2584275 - PeerSpot reviewer
Global Infrastructure Manager at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Oct 11, 2024
The solution provides data eviction, where unused data is evicted from the local file, freeing up space. It also allows data to be rehydrated from the cloud when needed.
reviewer2588745 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Infrastructure Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Oct 25, 2024
I like that the glass is always half full with CTERA file services. It keeps the data hot for users on location and then tiers off older data. If you need it, the stub is still there. You can click on it, and it's back on the device.
reviewer2593647 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Administrator at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees
Nov 13, 2024
It is a three-in-one solution for us. It is a file-sharing platform, an archiving solution, and also a backup solution.
KM
Business Development Manager at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
Nov 22, 2024
The CTERA Enterprise File Services Platform is a hybrid solution that supports both on-premises and cloud environments.
JL
Senior Manager of Global Support at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Dec 10, 2024
The features I find most valuable are in the gateways themselves. They have done a great job over the years of providing insight into what is happening with our products, with the batches that come through that are scanned. I enjoy that part of it, and it is fairly easy to use from our standpoint once we get to know the product.
reviewer733821 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Infrastructure Engineer at a performing arts with 501-1,000 employees
Feb 24, 2025
The best feature is the migration tool within CTERA.
Tim M. - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Nov 13, 2025
CTERA Enterprise File Services Platform helps us when they break something or lose things, and it makes people think I have my superhero cape on because they're thinking it's all lost, they're doomed, and we're able to quickly and effectively go back and say, 'Here you go,' and it's not hours, it's minutes.
 

CTERA Enterprise File Services Platform Cons review quotes

Richard Saini - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Infrastructure Architect at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
Sep 6, 2024
More monitoring from the platform would be good. There is some monitoring, but it is paid. It is a chargeable service. It would be good for that to be included in the base.
Igal Muginstein - PeerSpot reviewer
Engineering & Network Division Storage, Backup & Os Team Manager at a comms service provider with 5,001-10,000 employees
Sep 11, 2024
I am looking for a process where version upgrades do not impact the customers. There is no downtime.
JP
Head of Technology at Glenn Davis Group Inc.
Sep 19, 2024
The web portal that our users access to view data and backups could be optimized. CTERA could apply some of the improvements made to their administrative interface on the user side. The administrators are a much smaller group of people than the users, so it would be helpful if they targeted user experience resources to them.
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reviewer2584275 - PeerSpot reviewer
Global Infrastructure Manager at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Oct 11, 2024
The new Edge filer that they have comes with a lot more features than what we purchased. It would be better if we are able to add those extra features without having to swap out the hardware. A clear upgrade path for legacy customers would be beneficial.
reviewer2588745 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Infrastructure Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Oct 25, 2024
It would help to have a global single-pane-of-glass view of all my CTERA devices. We have different regions, and we must log in to each portal to see what's happening with those. It would be nice to have a single portal to see the health of the devices, versions, and firmware upgrades. Sometimes, we want to dive into something more complex, like investigating why CTERA storage usage grew from 2 terabytes to 4 terabytes in a week. That's a little challenging. It's something we would like to see on the road map.
reviewer2593647 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Administrator at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees
Nov 13, 2024
They fixed all the requirements that we had in the beginning. The beginning was a little bit rough, but we tuned it nicely. However, in some cases, they could improve performance.
KM
Business Development Manager at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
Nov 22, 2024
One suggested improvement for the CTERA Enterprise File Services Platform is the ability to distribute data across multiple active backend storage nodes rather than the current limitation of a single active node.
JL
Senior Manager of Global Support at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Dec 10, 2024
One of the bigger things that I would like to see is additional logging. There are logs in there. They provide us with the initial logs on what is happening on our CTERA device. I appreciate that, but they do not give us any further information. I would like to have more information on the logs themselves.
reviewer733821 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Infrastructure Engineer at a performing arts with 501-1,000 employees
Feb 24, 2025
AI and automation features could enhance the platform, such as AI-powered search, predictive storage analytics, and intelligent alerts for proactive monitoring. Predictive storage analytics will help with better capacity planning. There can be some sort of intelligent alerts for proactive monitoring.
Tim M. - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Nov 13, 2025
The issue we've had with CTERA Enterprise File Services Platform happened recently in a firmware upgrade where there was a major database back-end upgrade and that took some time.