afi.ai vs. Carbonite Cloud-to-Cloud Backup

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
afi.ai
Score 10.0 out of 10
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Afi Google Workspace (Formerly G Suite) and Microsoft 365 Backup offers data protection boasting a clean & responsive UI and SLA-based protection settings. Afi is powered by modern cloud architecture based on micro-services and leverages AI technology and machine learning to reduce manual administrative tasks and provide better resiliency. - Protect all Google Workspace data, including (team) Drives, Gmail, Calendars, Contacts and Sites with preserved user rights &…N/A
Carbonite Cloud-to-Cloud Backup
Score 8.0 out of 10
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Carbonite Cloud-to-Cloud Backup includes comprehensive, automatic backup and recovery for Microsoft 365, SharePoint, Google Workspace, Salesforce, Box and Dropbox. It helps businesses quickly recover their SaaS data and reduce the impact of data loss to become more cyber resilient.N/A
Pricing
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
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Considered Both Products
afi.ai
Chose afi.ai
afi is next generation system, with our previous vendor we had to wait for a long time to access data, sometimes up to 24h.The reason for that was our scale according to the support team. ( 50TB +) With afi it takes a few seconds. The UI is super simple and easy to use, no …
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Veritas is an old no-go monster, slow, clunky and unpredictable.
Veeam is good, we use it for on-prem Hyper-V clusters. As for M365 - AFI is much cheaper, low maintenance, and easier to use.
Chose afi.ai
Veeam requires you to maintain local hardware infrastructure (backup server, storage), which adds significant cost. Local is less secure, as its hosted in the same primary infrastructure. It doesn't scale well; we had to install an additional backup server per 3,000 user groups.
Chose afi.ai
afi.ai shows faster backup performance and has live preview of mailbox data. Spanning backup can export Exchange online data in MBOX format, but it provides no live preview option.
Chose afi.ai
We looked at a few vendors, the two most notable solutions being Spanning and Veeam. Spanning is good a well-recognized vendor; however, we found it not to be that flexible in terms of access control configuration. Teams backup is quite limited--neither private channels nor …
Chose afi.ai
Slow, very limited Microsoft Teams support.
Chose afi.ai
We used Backupify before, and decided to move as the system overall became very unreliable (lost data, inaccessible UI, sluggish, etc.).
Chose afi.ai
Hard to use interface, support was very slow to respond. Recovery of large files took multiple days.
Carbonite Cloud-to-Cloud Backup
Chose Carbonite Cloud-to-Cloud Backup
Super slow, often corrupted data, Carbonite is such a better engine and architecture.
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Renew
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Usability
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Support Rating
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User Testimonials
afi.aiCarbonite Cloud-to-Cloud Backup
Likelihood to Recommend
Great for archiving of deleted SharePoint online sites and off-boarded Microsoft 365 users; unlimited number of on-demand backup runs that can be triggered in the application by system administrators.
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If you need to send information to someone and you don't want others to see in case the wrong person gets it, that you can encrypt it and just make sure the person has the password to open it. This program makes it very easy to send emails to others and inform people when you are away and when you will be available upon return.
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Pros
  • Archiving of deleted Microsoft 365 users.
  • Backup of SharePoint lists and OneNote books.
  • Fast offline export of a mailbox and SharePoint items.
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  • User profile data
  • Real time backup of all things
  • Nano speed recovery
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Cons
  • It would be handy to have SharePoint file versions comparisons in the UI
  • Email alerts on settings changes would be good to have too.
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  • More vocabulary to choose from when needing a different word to complete a sentence.
  • For example, when you point the arrow over Review that a list will appear for what is listed under that section as oppose to having to click on it.
  • Have a button that you can click on to demonstration how to use something for example graphs.
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Likelihood to Renew
We will continue to renew the service for as long as we continue to use MS 365, unless Microsoft will release native Office 365 backup that provides all necessary features, including multi-geo admin roles, long-term affordable archiving storage tier, auto-conversion of email formats (MBOX, EML etc), point-in-time preview of previous file versions.
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Usability
The UI is very intuitive and requires almost zero training to use. Our end users were able to use it with after just reading a simple one-pager.
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Support Rating
We needed to contact them three times over the course of two years, and it was very good. Very fast response, and the people are super technical and to the point.
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Alternatives Considered
afi is next generation system, with our previous vendor we had to wait for a long time to access data, sometimes up to 24h.The reason for that was our scale according to the support team. ( 50TB +) With afi it takes a few seconds. The UI is super simple and easy to use, no training required for end-users to work with the system. afi support is super responsive and very helpful.
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Super slow, often corrupted data, Carbonite is such a better engine and architecture.
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Return on Investment
  • It's hard to assess ROI here, however we were able to recover very important documents and full user accounts for executive team during the audit. It helped in a big way.
  • Self-Service is a life saver for IT helpdesk team, saved a lot of human hours.
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  • Helping busy staff members keep up with dates .
  • The reminders are perfect so you will not miss out on a meeting.
  • Being able to put the Team meeting on the calendar and all the person has to due to click the link to join the meeting. Fantastic!
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