StorageCraft ShadowXafe [EOL] vs Veeam Data Platform comparison

"The most valuable feature is the backups."

"The technical support has been very good."

"I like that they have some new devices that are simpler to use because they kind of tie right into the cloud."

"The solution's most valuable feature is that its reports are detailed compared to other tools."

"Veeam is by far the solution that delivers a complete set of features for a small price, and the administration is much more easy."

"You will enjoy Veeam's resiliency."

"Instant recovery has revolutionised client DR plans, reducing recovery time objectives (RTO) and improving available recovery point objectives (RPO)."

"If you want to have a small and cheap system, that is not Veeam; but if you want performance, reliability, support, then this solution is best for that."

"Veeam is the gold standard for backup and recovery."

"Regarding the initial setup and configuration, I find it straightforward and it should not be more simplified because users are able to back up most environments within minutes."

"It automated backup to the point of almost no involvement needed and our backups can be checked, tested and verified at any time in accordance with our policies."

"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."

"I wouldn't use it. It failed me every time I tried to use it in a real-life scenario."

"StorageCraft ShadowXafe should improve the on-premises console management controls and protection and recovery."

"The price is slightly higher than its competitors."

"When you want to restore files, you first need to restore the machine, and then you have to mount it, and then restore the files."

"Technical support is not so good: Communication issues due to language differences and slow responses."

"I have a problem with the VM. When we started doing a backup, it takes a snapshot for our virtual machines, but when we try it two or three times, in some cases, our virtual machines go to a consolidated state. I don't know why this problem happens. But I still think Veeam is a top-ranking solution."

"There's a situation where VMs run on different locks. It's running on the VM while having a relationship with nearby solutions running on the same server and storage. This creates a bottleneck that needs to be eliminated."

"Veeam ONE could be improved if it had a better data recovery feature."

"The virtual sandboxes seem complex to setup, so I have not invested time in leveraging this feature. It would be nice if this feature was more user-friendly."

"Veeam Backup Replication has agents for Linux, but they are not supporting Cluster Shared Volumes. It would be great to have agents for Linux be cluster-aware, just like the Windows agents. That's the main pain point. In addition, we should be able to handle the automation of Oracle backups from the backup server. We should be able to schedule, control, and deploy them from the backup server rather than relying on scripts and/or the system you are backing up to perform the backup. Currently, we install the plug-in inside Oracle VMs and then use crontabs to handle the task schedule on each machine for scheduling the backups. Veeam Backup Replication should also support the automation of Nutanix backups from the backup server, not from the proxy. The other not so major thing is that they don't support legacy systems because Veeam is a new company. It is not as old as other companies. They don't support physical workloads that are really old, which a major challenge, but they do have a point. Legacy systems should be virtualized, and if they're virtualized, then the backup is not an issue with Veeam, but some customers like the physical setup, and they don't want to have it virtual."

"They are more expensive than some of the others out there. We have gone away from their cloud due to pricing."

"The price of Veeam Backup and Replication is expensive."

"The licenses are code-based or server-based for Veeam ONE. The last version is 12, and it is host-based, I don't like to move to a code-based solution."

"I consider that the product's price falls under the middle range category."

"Setup cost and licensing of Veeam are nothing to complain about when compared to similar products for enterprise backup recovery solutions."

"The pricing and licensing is better than the competitors, but it could be better."

"If you have Veeam Backup and Replication with the essential license then this solution is free. If you were to purchase Veeam ONE by itself it is priced cheaper than competitors."

"Veeam is more reasonably priced than some competing products."

"The product is expensive."