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Azure Backup vs StorageCraft ShadowXafe [EOL] comparison

 

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Executive Summary

Review summaries and opinions

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

Valuable Features

Sentiment score
8.2
Azure Backup offers seamless, secure, and efficient cloud VM and file backups with user-friendly automation and flexible storage options.
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Room For Improvement

Sentiment score
6.1
Azure Backup needs UI clarity, app-level support, pricing updates, faster recovery, better integration, security, and enhanced notifications.
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Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.8
Azure Backup is highly rated for stability and reliability, surpassing traditional on-premise environments with its zone-redundant architecture.
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Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
8.6
Azure Backup efficiently scales for various client sizes, offering flexible expansion and seamless management, especially in Europe and North America.
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Customer Service

Sentiment score
10.0
Azure Backup customer service is satisfactory but inconsistent, with prompt critical support and varied effectiveness for non-urgent issues.
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Setup Cost

Sentiment score
6.5
Azure Backup offers competitive, pay-as-you-go pricing, but costs could be lower for large-scale storage options to enhance competitiveness.
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Categories and Ranking

Azure Backup
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
8.0
Number of Reviews
54
Ranking in other categories
Backup and Recovery (7th)
StorageCraft ShadowXafe [EOL]
Average Rating
0.0
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
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Featured Reviews

Terry Tull - PeerSpot reviewer
Straightforward to set up and manage and allows us to monitor all backups in one place
I would rate the easiness of the initial setup as an eight out of ten. Setting up Azure Backup was pretty straightforward, especially if you follow the steps in the right order. It might seem a bit complex at first, but with experience, subsequent setups become easier. Planning is key to optimizing its effectiveness. Deploying Azure Backup typically takes around half an hour to an hour to set up one VM, involving creating a recovery services vault, defining a backup policy, and configuring storage options. For a more comprehensive setup including proper recovery planning, it might take a few hours. The key steps involve creating a resource group, and a recovery services vault, selecting a storage type, and defining backup policies. I deployed the solution myself.
reviewer1281621 - PeerSpot reviewer
An expensive next-generation data recovery and backup software solution with poor data restoration
Their restoration protocols could be better. I pulled all my clients out of their cloud mostly because I wasn't confident that they could restore out of the cloud. This was backed up by friends who had been burned by stuff like that. We moved away because of the lack of resources to restore from a potential catastrophic failure. It's challenging, and in some cases, they couldn't do it because they didn't have enough resources. For example, if there was a major disaster, and everybody needed their images out of the cloud, they couldn't give them to everybody.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
14%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Government
8%
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Company Size

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Large Enterprise
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Small Business
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Questions from the Community

How does Azure Backup differ from Veeam Backup & Replication?
Veeam has a version for Azure but there are organizations, like ours, that are considering moving to an Azure environment and wonder if Azure Backup is better than Veeam Backup and Replication (Vee...
What do you like most about Azure Backup?
Azure Backup is easy to configure and restore.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Azure Backup?
Pricing is middle plus, and it's a bit high. We always wait for prices to reduce, however, Azure sometimes offers special discounts or packages if you commit for more years.
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Sample Customers

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