HPE StoreOnce vs Infrascale Backup & Disaster Recovery comparison

Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Infrascale are both solutions in the Disaster Recovery (DR) Software category. Additionally, 94% of Hewlett Packard Enterprise users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 90% of Infrascale users who would recommend it.

HPE StoreOnce

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94% willing to recommend

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90% willing to recommend

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

Categories and Ranking

HPE StoreOnce

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

106

Ranking in other categories

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

Infrascale Backup & Disaste...

Average Rating

9.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Backup and Recovery (61st), Cloud Backup (48th), Disaster Recovery as a Service (10th), Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (29th), SaaS Backup (37th)

Featured Reviews

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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Harry Vining

Owner at Vtek Systems

The overall ease of use and ease of management using the dashboard is excellent

I can't really think of anything that really needs to be improved from my perspective, because I only use the backup. Maybe someone who is using something else might have a different opinion on that. But for the online backup and recovery tool, I'm not going to say there's anything that needs improvement. They can always improve stuff. But from the top of my head, I can't think of anything. It does what it needs to do. That's it. It doesn't need to do anything more than what it does and nothing less than what it's doing. The Infrascale dashboard when it comes to centralized deployment and configuration is excellent. I have no problems with the solution. They could always make it better. They can always make the GUI a little bit nicer, the interface level a bit better. There's always room for improvement, but there's nothing on the top of my head that's saying, "Hey, this is what needs to be fixed." But, the programmers are probably working on their own things. So, there's always room for improvement.

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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

"The scalability is very good."

"The deduplication feature in this product is amazing."

"The most valuable feature of the solution is its UI. The product's UI makes it easy for users to configure the tool."

"It is very easy to implement."

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

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

"The speed and deduplication ratio are two of the most valuable features of the solution."

"The initial setup is one of the most user-friendly B2B user solutions. It's good, it's easy. Deployment usually takes less than one day. You only need one person for deployment and maintenance."

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"The most valuable feature is the ability to boot locally, as well as in Infrascale's cloud. This means that we can either do on-site failover or failover to their cloud."

"The most valuable feature is disaster recovery, where we have the ability to boot up VMs quickly in a disaster."

"The overall ease of use and ease of management of the solution using the Infrascale dashboard is excellent. I'd rate it 10 out of 10 because the dashboard is very simple to use. For someone with a technical background, it's a wonderful piece of software to be using in a cloud environment. But if you're not technical, then it might be a problem. It could be confusing for non-technical people. If you don't know what you're doing, you could kind of screw it up. Any human with two brain cells can do it. It's like anything else. So, once you train a human, they're good. Anybody can do it. Anybody with a competent brain can use it and go with a little bit of technical skill. It might be confusing in the beginning, but once you're trained up and you've used it a little bit, like anything else in your life, it'll be easy. They'll come as normal."

"The Infrascale Dashboard is very easy to understand, has a good overview, and gives me access to all my appliances without having to have a local VPN connection to the individual clients. It makes it very easy to find my way around."

"The recovery of data is the most valuable feature. The software backup, which is just a program that gets installed on a server, can back up to the cloud. You can install that on a server or PC, and that will simply back up a user's files and folders. If it is installed on the server, we just back up the relevant data. Recovering that, if there has been a malicious attack on a business or anything like that, has been invaluable in the past. The good features about that are obviously, if the physical hardware has a problem, then we can utilize the appliance, turn on the virtual machine, and carry on running the business while we put the hardware back and correct the issue."

"Its Critical Server Insurance feature for protecting physical and virtual servers, including Windows, Linux, VMware, and Hyper-V is mandatory for me and it makes me happy. If I had a backup solution that didn't do that, it would not be a backup solution and would not be any good."

"Given that we are in the hurricane belt, the spin-up of replicated servers in the cloud is among the most valuable features. If our site goes down we can just connect to the cloud appliance, spin up the servers, and we are good to go."

"The most valuable feature of this solution is that it is simple to use."

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Cons

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

"I would like to see an emphasis placed on making data deduplication and compression more powerful."

"HPE StoreOnce should come with a detailed installation guide."

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

"It is difficult to solve issues with this solution remotely. I prefer to use the knowledge base platforms. The response time could improve."

"In terms of areas for improvement, I believe HPE StoreOnce could learn from competitors like Dell's Data Domain and ExtraHop in refining its architecture."

"The latency is a bit high."

"We're outsourced with a partner who recalls a larger amount of problems with the stability of the product."

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"There is room for improvement by making the interface a little more intuitive when navigating to recover flat files or an old server."

"One of the significant drawbacks of it is due to the fact that we're using two devices to manage the same vCenter, or virtualization environment, and they don't talk to each other. That means I can't easily see what VMs are already being protected. If I'm on Infrascale device "A" and I have protected these VMs, when I go over to device "B," I can't see that those VMs are already covered."

"The pricing model that they recently changed to is a little bit complicated, and the biggest area for improvement is a better way of figuring out how to price it."

"I would like to see more features for the section on the viruses and maybe another in reference to two-factor authentication."

"Having options to replicate between their data centers, once the data is offsite, would be an improvement that they could make."

"They set me up as a vendor, not as a client. So sometimes I end up in the wrong portal and I'm doing vendor things instead of client things, and I didn't realize that right away. Once I figured it out I just changed my favorites on my desktop to go to the client-side."

"There could be some room for improvement in the on-premises hardware selection. It is hard for them to deploy a lot of different hardware options. Depending on footprint size and overall capabilities, that is where there could be some flexibility in some cases. However, it is not a deal-breaker."

"I would like to be able to limit the bandwidth in cases, for example, where we are uploading the backup."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"To be honest, we were quite happy with the price, but we always want things cheaper than they are. I think for what we got, we felt that the price was quite reasonable comparing it to other products that provide that same level of functionality."

"Price-wise, it comes with a high price tag when compared to other products."

"The solution is pretty expensive."

"I would rate it around two or three because, compared to others, it tends to be higher priced."

"The licensing schemes could improve in HPE StoreOnce and the price is high. They should reduce the price."

"The solution's cost is above average."

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

"There are costs for additional storage and space."

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"It is super competitive. It is worth taking a look at it from a licensing and pricing perspective."

"The pricing is fair, and they are interested in working with MSPs as part of their market."

"You get unlimited clients and buy a bucket of space. In addition to the standard fees there were setup fees."

"Our licensing fees are billed every four months."

"The licensing structure was changed some time ago and it's a lot more efficient and the price points are a lot better. They're improving and heading in the right direction."

"The licensing is based on how much data you have plus what appliances you need."

"Infrascale's pricing, to me, was outstanding and was one of the major factors in my decision to go with Infrascale... My customer had a different solution before and his monthly payment was three times as much as the payment he now has with Infrascale."

"Pricing of the product could be improved. It definitely makes it a harder sell. They will usually end up getting close to the price we need, but I have to go through everybody to get the price reduced. Their list pricing is significantly higher than that of other solutions."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

17%

Government

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

20%

Computer Software Company

18%

Real Estate/Law Firm

10%

Healthcare Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

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 solution is quite expensive, possibly rated around seven and a half on a scale of one to ten. It aligns with the costs of similar high-quality solutions in the industry.

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What needs improvement with HPE StoreOnce?

The cost is at the forefront of everyone's mind. While the solution does everything expected, it would be beneficial if AI could be integrated for optimization and monitoring. This could improve th...

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Also Known As

HP StoreOnce

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Overview

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.

Infrascale overcomes the complexity of creating backup and disaster recovery solutions without sacrificing performance and reliability. We provide fast, secure recovery that enables customers to feel confident that their data is fully protected from any type of disaster, whether it be operational, environmental, or malicious. Infrascale provides data protection for SaaS applications, endpoints, and servers.

SaaS BACKUP

Protect Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Box, Dropbox, and Salesforce data from accidental deletion and malicious attacks. Infrascale Cloud Application Backup (ICAB) provides customers with essential data protection that isn’t included in their SaaS provider’s limited retention policies. It also protects the broadest set of SaaS applications and delivers ease of use and ease of deployment.

ENDPOINT BACKUP

Direct-to-cloud backup and recovery solution for endpoints. Infrascale Cloud Backup (ICB) provides unlimited retention and version history, MSI installer and single pane of glass management, and ransomware anomaly detection. This delivers ease of use, ease of management, and protection from cybersecurity threats.

SERVER BACKUP AND DISASTER RECOVERY

Boot ready in minutes to run your systems when they go down due to any reason including server crashes, ransomware attacks, or natural disasters. Infrascale Backup & Disaster Recovery (IBDR) provides boot-ready time for failover that averages 2 minutes as well as unlimited disaster recovery and failover testing. In order to eliminate downtime and data loss, IBDR also provides a centrally managed Infrascale Management Dashboard.

Sample Customers

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MSPs servicing small and mid-size companies VARs servicing mid-sized companies Direct SMB or mid-sized companies

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