HPE StoreOnce Reviews

We primarily use the solution for deduplication and replication. We occasionally also use it for disaster recovery.

The catalyst capabilities of the solution is the most valuable feature. Its capability is the best on the market. We tell our customers specifically about this feature. 

The interface is very user-friendly.

The solution's pricing could be improved. 

The solution is quite stable.

Technical support has been great. They are the best in the market. They're very responsive.

The initial setup was not complex. It was very, very easy. Deployment takes less than an hour. You just need one qualified person to handle it.

We are using the hybrid cloud deployment model. We use the Azure platform.

I would recommend the solution. They have a very good reputation. I would rate it eight out of ten.

Agnostic backups.

Quick recovery.

StoreOnce software is sometimes unstable.

10 years.

Sometimes unstable.

No.

At times not good, other times good.

Complex.

Do a detailed inside PoC.

VTL with deduplication because with deduplication, you can have spare storage space.

Interoperability with other vendors backup software.

I've used it for two and a half years.

In the beginning, we had a lot of problems with bad firmware.

We had problems with the various firmware versions.

No issues scaling the product.

It is very high.

Customer service is very high.

We did, and we switched because we needed a VTL solution with deduplication.

It was simple, especially to integrate it with our existing EMC network solution.

We implemented it in-house.

We also looked at EMC DataDomain. We chose StoreOnce because it was cheaper by more than 60,000 Euros.

Data deduplication.

Backups are much more optimized, and we can take more backups and more often because of data deduplication.

This is an entry level model, even more disk space would be valuable.

HP StoreOnce 2620 iSCSI Backup Storage - 1 year

No

So far, no.

No. This is an entry level model, and this one cannot be scaled.

Very good.

Very good.

Straightforward.

In-house.

No, this was the first choice, based on internet reviews.

Highly recommended the product, be sure to use the right backup application (Veeam or similar), so you can get the most out of it.

Deduplication and many integration options ie. NAS, VTL, Catalyst.

It's reduced costs for storage based on the previous deduplication hardware we were using.

We've been using it for two years alongside HP Data Protector.

Scalability can become an issue once you grow past the capacity of a single cluster pair. This will mean additional controllers and licensing and can be fairly costly.

Very good support for the hardware.

We moved from the previous solution due to the support cost of the old product.

Initial setup of the hardware was fairly straightforward.

Implemented through a third party vendor. There were some complications with delivery of the units and site surveys not being completed. After those issues things were fine.

We evaluated this against other products and based (mainly) on cost we selected the HP solution.

While we have been very happy with StoreOnce, HP Data Protector leaves a lot to be desired.

De-duplication is valuable because it is a technique to take backups of unique data only. We have to do backups on a daily and weekly basis, where the daily one is incremental and the weekly one is a full backup. When we ran this type of backup on a physical cartridge, it would take up a huge amount of space as there is no de-dupe with cartridges. When using de-dupe, backups take less space than they previously did, and this minimizes the costs to our company.

The de-duplication feature saves us storage space.

The performance could be improved.

I've been using it for one and a half years.

No issues encountered.

No issues encountered.

We're unable to expand our storage capabilities smoothly.

It's good.

We are not getting any direct support from HP, but we are getting support from their partner. The support is relatively good.

This is the first solution that we have used.

It is straightforward.

We used a vendor team who were 8/10.

This was done by the planning team.

I recommend using the upgraded version of this product.

The product was easy for me in terms of architecture, deployment and support. In comparison to other products I have worked with, these areas for HP have high scores.

It has provided flexible options accommodating a broad range of uses. For example, multiple data types can be isolated and segregated to provide multi-tenancy.

Reporting needs to be worked on.

I've used it for one year.

No issues encountered.

Yes we did, but it was resolved with a software upgrade.

No issues encountered.

Above average service.

Above average with excellent response times. In one case, I needed a hard drive replaced, and the person who took my call was the person who arranged the engineer/part to be replaced. Also, the person was knowledgeable about the product.

No previous solution was being used.

It was straightforward. We went from proof of concept to production in days as opposed to weeks.

We implemented it in-house.

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