IT Manager at a manufacturing company with 201-500 employees
Real User
2021-09-02T22:31:00Z
Sep 2, 2021
The price of licensing is a little bit high. We have a contract and we pay annually. The cost is per terabyte, and overall, the cost was reasonable when compared to some competitors. We planned accordingly; we knew how much data we had and we knew what our potential for growth was at the time, so we budgeted for that growth. Seeing as we've only reached 35% capacity of these devices, I can say that we definitely overbuilt for the storage and that was obviously reflected in the cost. However, I recall that on the last unit we replaced, it was priced reasonably. In fact, less than I had originally budgeted. There are costs in addition to the standard licensing fees but it is related to a third party. We pay for software licensing to utilize certain features of that software to communicate better with the QoreStor. For example, Symantec Veritas Backup Exec requires the purchase of a deduplication license, regardless of whether or not it's a Symantec deduplication product that's being used. We will be getting rid of that.
Manager, IT Systems Services at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
2021-04-19T14:39:00Z
Apr 19, 2021
QoreStor is capacity licensed. So we have acclimated all the capacity requirements for the next three years and we never have problems with the licensing. There are no additional costs in addition to standard licensing.
Executive Director at Fenway Library Organization Inc
Real User
2021-04-14T14:00:00Z
Apr 14, 2021
The price is acceptable, it was definitely within our means. The license is a perpetual license. Ours is a 5 TB license and, as long as my data stays within that limit for disk—they actually triple the amount you can put into the cloud—that license is going to keep me going indefinitely. I will probably purchase maintenance at some point, after a year or two, to get the upgrades to the software. The initial license came with three years of maintenance so we're still within that window and haven't had to buy additional maintenance yet. We had to make sure, on the storage side of the house, that we had enough disk space to allow for that short-term storage. Because we came from tape, we hadn't needed that so much, but going to more of a disk- and cloud-based backup, we had to buy up half a dozen disk drives to help build out the storage environment. If you have a lot of data and you're going to go disk to cloud, then you have to have the disk space in your environment or in your cloud environment.
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The price of licensing is a little bit high. We have a contract and we pay annually. The cost is per terabyte, and overall, the cost was reasonable when compared to some competitors. We planned accordingly; we knew how much data we had and we knew what our potential for growth was at the time, so we budgeted for that growth. Seeing as we've only reached 35% capacity of these devices, I can say that we definitely overbuilt for the storage and that was obviously reflected in the cost. However, I recall that on the last unit we replaced, it was priced reasonably. In fact, less than I had originally budgeted. There are costs in addition to the standard licensing fees but it is related to a third party. We pay for software licensing to utilize certain features of that software to communicate better with the QoreStor. For example, Symantec Veritas Backup Exec requires the purchase of a deduplication license, regardless of whether or not it's a Symantec deduplication product that's being used. We will be getting rid of that.
Its pricing model is very attractive. You have one price, and you get everything from QoreStor.
QoreStor is capacity licensed. So we have acclimated all the capacity requirements for the next three years and we never have problems with the licensing. There are no additional costs in addition to standard licensing.
The price is acceptable, it was definitely within our means. The license is a perpetual license. Ours is a 5 TB license and, as long as my data stays within that limit for disk—they actually triple the amount you can put into the cloud—that license is going to keep me going indefinitely. I will probably purchase maintenance at some point, after a year or two, to get the upgrades to the software. The initial license came with three years of maintenance so we're still within that window and haven't had to buy additional maintenance yet. We had to make sure, on the storage side of the house, that we had enough disk space to allow for that short-term storage. Because we came from tape, we hadn't needed that so much, but going to more of a disk- and cloud-based backup, we had to buy up half a dozen disk drives to help build out the storage environment. If you have a lot of data and you're going to go disk to cloud, then you have to have the disk space in your environment or in your cloud environment.