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Infrascale Backup & Disaster Recovery pros and cons

Vendor: Infrascale
4.6 out of 5
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Pros & Cons summary

Infrascale Backup & Disaster Recovery offers features like quick VM booting during emergencies and the flexibility of on-site or cloud failover. Critical Server Insurance protects multiple platforms, aiding recovery from malicious attacks and natural disasters. However, improvements are needed in its pricing model, local hardware supply, and direct cloud backup options, as well as better communication between devices managing VMs. Replication between data centers would also enhance the service.

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PROS

Disaster recovery with the ability to quickly boot up VMs in an emergency is highly valued.
Local and cloud booting capabilities allow for on-site or cloud failover.
Critical Server Insurance is crucial for protecting physical and virtual servers across platforms like Windows, Linux, VMware, and Hyper-V.
Data recovery has been invaluable, especially in protecting against malicious attacks and hardware issues.
The ability to spin up replicated servers in the cloud is essential for continuity during major disruptions like hurricanes.

CONS

The pricing model has recently become complicated, and the biggest area for improvement is a better way of figuring out how to price it.
Replicating data between data centers once the data is offsite would be an improvement.
Hardware appliances need to be delivered from America, causing delays since SSD drives are not locally sourced in the UK.
Managing the same vCenter with two devices that do not communicate leads to difficulties in tracking VM protection.
A direct backup-to-cloud option that does not require image backup and individual file and folder backups for restoration is needed.
 

Infrascale Backup & Disaster Recovery Pros review quotes

SS
Jul 10, 2021
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.
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HS
Nov 10, 2021
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.
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Harry Vining - PeerSpot reviewer
Sep 13, 2021
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.
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AC
Nov 9, 2021
For this particular client, the solution’s Critical Server Insurance feature that protects physical and virtual servers including Windows, Linux, VMware, and Hyper-V, was a very big factor as well. They have a bunch of physical servers, as well as virtual. The mix is predominantly virtual. They also have some NAS boxes that we back up using Infrascale.
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RS
Nov 16, 2021
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.
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JK
Oct 25, 2021
The overall ease of use and management of the solution using the Infrascale Dashboard is very good. We haven't had any issues. It is easy to learn. Most of our techs who deal with backups are usually up and running with the dashboard within a day or so. They don't have a lot of buried features where you have to dig through things to get to the resolution. It is pretty self-explanatory.
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DG
Jun 21, 2021
The most valuable feature is disaster recovery, where we have the ability to boot up VMs quickly in a disaster.
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CS
Jun 25, 2021
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.
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CS
Jun 21, 2021
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.
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GH
Aug 7, 2019
The most valuable feature of this solution is that it is simple to use.
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Infrascale Backup & Disaster Recovery Cons review quotes

SS
Jul 10, 2021
When you are ordering hardware appliances, they have to be delivered from America. In the past, hard drives on the appliance have been simple SSD drives that are installed. However, they don't have a local supply for the SSD drives in the UK. They have to be exported from the US, arrive, and then I have to go and install them. Then, they will rebuild it from their side of things. However, I could order that same SSD drive online and get it the next day. So, I have to wait days for things to come when I could get the exact same drive the next day in the UK, if I wanted to. That causes a bit of a problem. I don't know how many businesses they have in the UK, but I do think that having to import stuff from the US is a time-consuming problem. If there was a holding in the UK, then we wouldn't have that delay in time.
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HS
Nov 10, 2021
The only thing I would suggest, and I have talked to my manager about it already, is that they should have a direct backup-to-cloud solution. It should be something that does not require me to do an image backup, and then individual file and folder backups, to be able to restore individual files.
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Harry Vining - PeerSpot reviewer
Sep 13, 2021
They can always make the GUI a little bit nicer, the interface level a bit better. There's always room for improvement.
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AC
Nov 9, 2021
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.
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RS
Nov 16, 2021
There is room for improvement by making the interface a little more intuitive when navigating to recover flat files or an old server.
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JK
Oct 25, 2021
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.
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DG
Jun 21, 2021
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.
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CS
Jun 25, 2021
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.
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CS
Jun 21, 2021
Having options to replicate between their data centers, once the data is offsite, would be an improvement that they could make.
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GH
Aug 7, 2019
I would like to be able to limit the bandwidth in cases, for example, where we are uploading the backup.
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