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afi.ai vs. Veeam Backup for Azure

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
afi.ai
Score 10.0 out of 10
N/A
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
Veeam Backup for Azure
Score 7.1 out of 10
N/A
Veeam® Backup for Azure delivers native, policy-based protection for reliable recovery from accidental deletion, ransomware and other data loss scenarios. With an API-first approach, immutable backups and full- and file-level restores ensure resilient protection that’s easy and cost-optimized, freeing up time and resources for more strategic IT priorities. Immutable and Encrypted - Data integrity through WORM state and encryption Logically…
$40
per year per Azure VM (Back up and recover in Azure only with 24/7 production support)
Pricing
afi.aiVeeam Backup for Azure
Editions & Modules
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BYOL edition
$40
per year per Azure VM (Back up and recover in Azure only with 24/7 production support)
Free Edition
Free
Backup up to 10 Azure VMs FREE with no limitations on features or number of restores.
BYOL edition (Hybrid-/multi-cloud)
VUL Portable licensing
Backup and recover anything, anywhere via Veeam Universal License for any supported workload – cloud, virtual and physical – interchangeably
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
afi.aiVeeam Backup for Azure
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
afi.aiVeeam Backup for Azure
Considered Both Products
afi.ai
Verified User
Anonymous
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 …
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose afi.ai
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.
Verified User
Anonymous
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.
Verified User
Anonymous
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.
Verified User
Anonymous
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 …
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose afi.ai
Slow, very limited Microsoft Teams support.
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose afi.ai
We used Backupify before, and decided to move as the system overall became very unreliable (lost data, inaccessible UI, sluggish, etc.).
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose afi.ai
Hard to use interface, support was very slow to respond. Recovery of large files took multiple days.
Veeam Backup for Azure
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Veeam Backup for Azure
Veeam Backup for Azure is the first and only cloud backup product we've used. So far I've seen no reason for us to explore other other options.
EK
Edgars Kodorans
IT administrator
Chose Veeam Backup for Azure
Our organization selected Veeam Backup for Azure as it is a cloud-native backup and recovery solution what is designed especially for Microsoft Azure. Another feature of Veeam Backup for Azure is it support hybrid cloud computing environments. Such feature enables for …
Exequiel Enriquez | TrustRadius Reviewer
Exequiel Enriquez
Technical Specialist
Chose Veeam Backup for Azure
We used this tool which was very hard to create jobs, edit jobs, restore objects, also did not have the granularity in own veeam
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Veeam Backup for Azure
Veeam Backup for Azure is a much easier product to setup and configure vs other options we've used in the past, the initial install and setup is very straight forward and the interface to manage on-going backups and settings isn't confusing either.
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Veeam Backup for Azure
Easy to use.
Licensing model and pricing.
No learning curve for our users and administrators.
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Veeam Backup for Azure
License cost is low compare to other and configuration and administrator are easy and straight forward.
AS
Andrew Sparks
Network System Administrator
Chose Veeam Backup for Azure
Backup Exec was a very clunky application and took forever to backup to and restore from. We would backup to SSD external hard drives from a flash array, but the process still took forever to finish. Sending our data to the Azure blob storage via Veeam is a faster and more …
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Veeam Backup for Azure
Veeam came recommended to over other options based on how our resources are set up and used by end-users. Some machines are bare-metal, virtual, and a few resources are mobile. Veeam also supports Windows, Mac OS and Linux. While we are trying to move to more easily supported …
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Veeam Backup for Azure
Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 is an excellent backup solution that provides fast and reliable backups. The software is easy to use and has a great interface. The backup process is quick and efficient, and the software provides excellent support. I would highly recommend Veeam …
Stephen Maunder | TrustRadius Reviewer
Stephen Maunder
Infrastructure Analyst
Chose Veeam Backup for Azure
Veeam allows much more flexibility in scheduling backup jobs, It also allows you to copy backups to an on prem server or another cloud if you wanted to, it also allowed you to restore Azure VMs on premise or to another cloud.
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Veeam Backup for Azure
The other products we considered had higher overall costs and appeared to offer less functionality/customisation. We had also experienced reliability issues with one of the other products so did not have confidence it would provide a suitable backup and DR solution.
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Veeam Backup for Azure
Azure Backup services give reliable backups with the bare minimum needed to get the job done.
Veeam Backup takes it several steps further with better management, better features, better reporting and better integration with on-prem backups. It does the same job, it just does it …
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Veeam Backup for Azure
Compared to others where it has been quite complicated, Veeam has a good GUI which is self explanatory and doesn't require too much experience on the same tool.
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Veeam Backup for Azure
  • the licensing model is good
  • good support
  • excellent restore time
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Veeam Backup for Azure
Veeam is much easier to understand and restore times are much faster.
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Veeam Backup for Azure
Veeam ticked the boxes for education purposes for us. The price was good too.
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Veeam Backup for Azure
Veeam Backup for Azure is very similar to all the above. its just how large a backup set you have, what backup storage systems do you have, backup network requirements, recovery point objectives, ransomware protection level you want, recoverability options, and how much you …
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Veeam Backup for Azure
Already had Veeam B&R so perfectly integrates in our current environment. Came out as best during our POC
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Veeam Backup for Azure
Veeam is the best tool i have seen because of how well it works natively with azure but also with my on prem datacenter. I think its the best tool in the industry.
ST
sue taing
Network Engineer
Chose Veeam Backup for Azure
It is much faster, easier to use, has multiple scale out repositories that are immutable. Azure backup works but it is slow when processing backups, and restoring backups. It is not flexible compared to Veeam.
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Veeam Backup for Azure
As we used already it for on-premises environments and have previous experience, we consider this as the main option for Azure cloud.
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Veeam Backup for Azure
We were already using an older version of Veeam in one data center, so the only other solution we really looked at for the Azure side was the free Microsoft Azure Backup Server and it was way too slow and clunky, as well as crashed constantly so it was definitely not worthy of …
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Veeam Backup for Azure
I don't have a similar product to compare to.
Features
afi.aiVeeam Backup for Azure
Data Center Backup
Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Product A and Product B
afi.ai
-
Ratings
Veeam Backup for Azure
8.3
Ratings
7% below category average
Management dashboard00 Ratings8.20 Ratings
Retention options00 Ratings8.30 Ratings
Encryption00 Ratings8.50 Ratings
Enterprise Backup
Comparison of Enterprise Backup features of Product A and Product B
afi.ai
-
Ratings
Veeam Backup for Azure
7.7
Ratings
11% below category average
Malware protection00 Ratings7.70 Ratings
SaaS Backup
Comparison of SaaS Backup features of Product A and Product B
afi.ai
-
Ratings
Veeam Backup for Azure
8.0
Ratings
13% below category average
SaaS Product Integration00 Ratings7.60 Ratings
Multiple Data Restoration Options00 Ratings8.10 Ratings
Data Storage in the Cloud or On-Premises00 Ratings8.40 Ratings
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User Ratings
afi.aiVeeam Backup for Azure
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(0 ratings)
8.0
(0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(0 ratings)
9.1
(0 ratings)
Usability
9.7
(0 ratings)
8.5
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
9.8
(0 ratings)
9.1
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
afi.aiVeeam Backup for Azure
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.
Verified User
Anonymous
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When migrating from on Prim to AWS then to AZure the process was a little challenging because of some of the way we configured up front but once we went from AWS to Azure it was no looking back. We didn't have the extra storage to move things around like most companies to but it worked out great and we were also able to store more cold backups on Azure due to the low cost of cold storage.
Joe listenbee | TrustRadius Reviewer
Joe listenbee
System Administrator
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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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Anonymous
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  • Reduce storage costs and minimizing the impact on network consuption.
  • Veaam Backup for Azure provides application-aware backups for Microsoft SQL Server, ensuring that our data is backed up and available for recovery correctly.
  • Replication: Veeam Backup for Azure helps us to replicate our workloads to another Azure region or on-premises environment for disaster recovery purposes and compliance needs.
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Anonymous
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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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Anonymous
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  • Documentation around service account permissions was a little sparse when we implemented it
  • It's sometimes hard to get the reason behind a (rare) job failure without going into logs
  • The UI around snapshots and backups could do with some clarity around the restore points that will be available
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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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Anonymous
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Plainly, the product just works. I don't have to babysit it.
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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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Still clunky compared to the on-prem version but getting better with every release. It does what it needs to do, and does it well. They are stuck with some limitations in the way Azure works so I don't know how much better they can make it but they've just added 365 backup management all from the same pane so it seems they're not done yet.
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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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Great support team!
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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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Anonymous
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Backup Exec was a very clunky application and took forever to backup to and restore from. We would backup to SSD external hard drives from a flash array, but the process still took forever to finish. Sending our data to the Azure blob storage via Veeam is a faster and more secure process than saving to the external hard drives with Backup Exec.
AS
Andrew Sparks
Network System Administrator
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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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  • We have had fast recovery of documents when needed; sub 10 minutes from start of restore to complete and in the users hands
  • Easily a value add for backing up files outside of the given Microsoft retention period; piece of mind
  • Easy tool to use with minimal training required to use it and set up backups
  • When you do change your cloud licensing it does require manual intervention to update backup data requirements. if the business makes changes then your backup person may not know to make these changes
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ScreenShots

Veeam Backup for Azure Screenshots

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