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Quorum OnQ pros and cons

Vendor: Quorum

4.5 out of 5

22 reviews
95% willing to recommend

Pros & Cons summary

Quorum OnQ enables disaster recovery testing without affecting production networks by utilizing virtual server copies. It offers robust file recovery to states just hours before incidents, with rapid virtual machine spinning from backups. Automated system testing ensures recoverability, bolstered by Bare Metal Restore for emergencies. Tech buyers require integration with Azure, Office 365, and support for iSCSI, Ubuntu. While cost concerns exist, the need for consolidated disaster recovery views and technician shortages are noted.

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Prominent pros & cons

PROS

Quorum OnQ enables testing of virtual copies without affecting the production network, ensuring disaster recovery is precise and safe.

File recovery features can restore systems to a state only hours prior, proving crucial for combating issues like ransomware.

The ability to virtualize failed servers instantly on Quorum OnQ hardware offers significant downtime reduction.

Bare Metal Restore (BMR) capability has been instrumental in emergency situations, allowing full system recoveries.

Quorum OnQ supports one-click recovery, significantly simplifying the restoration process.

CONS

Lack of a single pane of glass for disaster recovery testing, requiring users to access each server individually.

Insufficient number of technicians leading to delays in response times.

Needs option to offload to tape for better data protection through an air gap.

Improvements in support for other operating systems like Ubuntu are needed.

The high cost is a major concern, with suggestions for a more competitive pricing structure.

Quorum OnQ Pros review quotes

WE

Network Manager at Century Savings Bank

Mar 24, 2020

From a disaster-recovery point of view, one of the things I really like is that I can test the virtual copy of the physical server on a test network and compare the servers side-by-side, without interfering with the production network. So I can see and make sure that the latest copy of the server is the physical copy of the server, without interfering with production.

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CM

Server Administrator at CBX Global

Nov 7, 2019

The biggest feature is being able to do a file recovery to the original server. That is extremely useful and has saved us a few times when we've had ransomware. In some of those cases, people's computers were locked down by viruses which spread to things they had access to, including server shares. But we were easily able to just restore to four hours prior, instead of a day or two or more ago.

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KK

Director of IT at City of Gainesville Texas

Nov 13, 2019

One of the biggest features is that, even on the absolutely run-of-the-mill box, if I lose any one of my servers I can automatically bring it up virtually on the physical onQ Quorum device.

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IT Manager at Wineland-Thomson Adventures

Nov 14, 2019

I have used the BMR (Bare Metal Restore) in several emergencies and it has absolutely saved my bacon.

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RC

IT Adminsitrator at Rekon Technologies

Nov 14, 2019

The most valuable feature is spinning up a ready-to-go VM in a test or production environment that is based on a backup stored on the Quorum device.

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BH

Director of Technology at P&S Investment Company, Inc.

Nov 14, 2019

Being able to spin up a machine in a sandbox is amazing because it allows us to test things that we otherwise would not be able to do.

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DD

VP Director of Information Technology at a financial services firm with 11-50 employees

Dec 6, 2019

It's easy to implement, easy to spin up, easily configurable, to drop-in appliances and network. There wasn't a lot of time needed to spin it up.

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Director of Computer Services at a non-profit with 51-200 employees

Dec 16, 2019

When it comes to recovering what you need from a backup, it's really easy. You just drill through the directory, find the file and the date that you want, and click to recover. You then pick the directory you want to save it in. Usually, it takes a minute or two and it's done. It's quick and easy.

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Rajesh Kumar Ramachandran

Team Lead ESS - Sr. Customer Support Engineer, Linux / Storage at OHI TELECOMMUNICATION CO LLC

Apr 23, 2020

I like this product because it is easy to use.

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SD

IT Manager at Trinity Logistics Corp

May 4, 2020

The change in the way that Quorum processes data has made a tremendous improvement in backup and replication times. While the familiar interface remains, the underpinnings have been finely tuned and the speed is incredible. My large Exchange Server went from 5- to 6-hour backups down to 22 minutes.

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Quorum OnQ Cons review quotes

WE

Network Manager at Century Savings Bank

Mar 24, 2020

One thing that could be done to improve it would be a single pane of glass for doing disaster recovery testing, where I could have remote consoles in one place... I still have to go to each location in a browser and then bring up the console. I'd like to see them integrate that into a single pane of glass so I don't have to go to each server.

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CM

Server Administrator at CBX Global

Nov 7, 2019

There seems to be a lack of technicians. Sometimes they are very busy and I don't hear back for a day or two. The technicians they have are great. They are fantastic, but it seems difficult, at times, to get in contact with anyone.

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KK

Director of IT at City of Gainesville Texas

Nov 13, 2019

I would really like it if they followed comparable products from other vendors and had an option where you could offload to tape. I know it sounds incredibly antiquated, but the benefit I see is that there would be a better air gap than you have with backing up to an online source.

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IT Manager at Wineland-Thomson Adventures

Nov 14, 2019

I don't love the scheduler, as I think that interface could use an overhaul.

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RC

IT Adminsitrator at Rekon Technologies

Nov 14, 2019

We found that some of the live SQL databases we were backing up would be inconsistent when we would restore them.

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BH

Director of Technology at P&S Investment Company, Inc.

Nov 14, 2019

At times the email notifications don't go out, but a quick reset always fixes that problem.

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DD

VP Director of Information Technology at a financial services firm with 11-50 employees

Dec 6, 2019

It feels to me like it's going to be a little bit more work than I originally anticipated when upgrading the appliance. I haven't done that yet so I can't speak from true experience, but I went through the project plan and it feels to me like there's quite a number of pieces and components and things that have to be done. Quorum is going to manage the rollout, but in starting the initial conversation there were a lot of unanswered questions

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Director of Computer Services at a non-profit with 51-200 employees

Dec 16, 2019

The one thing they could do is some tweaking on the web solution that's supposed to monitor everything from one page, rather than having to bring each server up on its own webpage. It doesn't always accurately show what the system's state is at the time, and we have to restart that process now and then.

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Rajesh Kumar Ramachandran

Team Lead ESS - Sr. Customer Support Engineer, Linux / Storage at OHI TELECOMMUNICATION CO LLC

Apr 23, 2020

Better integration with cloud-based solutions like Azure and Office 365 is needed.

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SD

IT Manager at Trinity Logistics Corp

May 4, 2020

I would like to see iSCSI support added so that NAS storage servers could be protected. We heavily utilize NAS storage and the risk there is minimal backup options. Currently, we are backing up NAS to NAS which is costly and slow. Being able to integrate NAS server backup would be the last item on my Quorum bucket list.

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