CloudAlly by OpenText vs. Veeam Backup for Azure

CloudAlly by OpenText

Veeam Backup for Azure

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
CloudAlly by OpenText	Score 10.0 out of 10	Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)	CloudAlly, now from Opentext, which acquired CloudAlly parent company Zix in December, 2021, aims to offer an easy and reliable backup solution for leading online services such as Office365, Google Apps, Box and Salesforce. CloudAlly subscriptions include: - Unlimited secure Amazon S3 storage and unlimited retention of daily archives - Archive storage in Amazon’s U.S., E.U. or Australia Data Centers - One-click non-destructive…	$2 user, month
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

CloudAlly by OpenText

Veeam Backup for Azure

Editions & Modules

SharePoint Online and OneDrive backups for Business: $2
user, month
Backup Box for Business and Enterprise: $2
user, month
Gmail Backup: $2
user, month
Yahoo! Mail Backup: $2
user, month
IMAP Backup: $2
user, month
Amazon DynamoDB and SimpleDB Backups: $2
user, month
office-365-backup: $3
user, month
Google Apps Backup: $3
user, month
Salesforce Backup: $3
user, month

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
CloudAlly by OpenText	Veeam Backup for Azure
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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More Pricing Information

Community Pulse
	CloudAlly by OpenText	Veeam Backup for Azure
Considered Both Products	CloudAlly by OpenText Verified User Anonymous Chose CloudAlly by OpenText We chose CloudAlly because it had both Box and Salesforce as backup options so we were able to only setup one service, rather than two. The price point is also much better than OwnBackup, which was our second option. I like Skyvia for importing data, but their interface is not … Incentivized Helpful?	Veeam Backup for Azure JT Jozef Tlacháč Senior Administrator Chose Veeam Backup for Azure We only have Veeam. I can't compare another product now Incentivized Helpful? 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. Incentivized Helpful? 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 … Incentivized Helpful? 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 Incentivized Helpful? 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. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Veeam Backup for Azure Easy to use. Licensing model and pricing. No learning curve for our users and administrators. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Veeam Backup for Azure License cost is low compare to other and configuration and administrator are easy and straight forward. Incentivized Helpful? 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 … Incentivized Helpful? 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 … Incentivized Helpful? 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 … Incentivized Helpful? 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. Incentivized Helpful? 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. Incentivized Helpful? 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 … Incentivized Helpful? 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. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Veeam Backup for Azure the licensing model is good good support excellent restore time Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Veeam Backup for Azure Veeam is much easier to understand and restore times are much faster. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Veeam Backup for Azure Veeam ticked the boxes for education purposes for us. The price was good too. Incentivized Helpful? 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 … Incentivized Helpful? 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 Incentivized Helpful? 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. Incentivized Helpful? 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. Incentivized Helpful? SM Samuel MacDonald Systems Administrator Chose Veeam Backup for Azure Veeam Backup for AWS and Veritas Backup Exec Incentivized Helpful? 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. Incentivized Helpful? 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Veeam Backup for Azure I don't have a similar product to compare to. Incentivized Helpful?

Features

CloudAlly by OpenText

Veeam Backup for Azure

Data Center Backup

Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Product A and Product B
	CloudAlly by OpenText - Ratings	Veeam Backup for Azure 8.3 Ratings 7% below category average
Management dashboard	00 Ratings	8.20 Ratings
Retention options	00 Ratings	8.30 Ratings
Encryption	00 Ratings	8.50 Ratings

Enterprise Backup

Comparison of Enterprise Backup features of Product A and Product B
	CloudAlly by OpenText - Ratings	Veeam Backup for Azure 7.7 Ratings 11% below category average
Malware protection	00 Ratings	7.70 Ratings

SaaS Backup

Comparison of SaaS Backup features of Product A and Product B
	CloudAlly by OpenText - Ratings	Veeam Backup for Azure 8.0 Ratings 13% below category average
SaaS Product Integration	00 Ratings	7.60 Ratings
Multiple Data Restoration Options	00 Ratings	8.10 Ratings
Data Storage in the Cloud or On-Premises	00 Ratings	8.40 Ratings

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User Ratings
	CloudAlly by OpenText	Veeam Backup for Azure
Likelihood to Recommend	10.0 (0 ratings)	8.0 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	- (0 ratings)	9.1 (0 ratings)
Usability	- (0 ratings)	8.5 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	- (0 ratings)	9.1 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	CloudAlly by OpenText	Veeam Backup for Azure
Likelihood to Recommend	CloudAlly is a great backup for Salesforce and Box that is cloud based for a reasonable monthly/annual cost. Thankfully, we have rarely had to use our backups, but the service has been very reliable. It is less appropriate if you are not storing a lot in any of the platforms that they backup Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	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. Incentivized Joe listenbee System Administrator Read full review
Pros	Backup Services Salesforce Backup Box Backup Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	User interface could be easier to use Backups in Salesforce could be easier to view Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	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 Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	No answers on this topic	Plainly, the product just works. I don't have to babysit it. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Usability	No answers on this topic	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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	No answers on this topic	Great support team! Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	We chose CloudAlly because it had both Box and Salesforce as backup options so we were able to only setup one service, rather than two. The price point is also much better than OwnBackup, which was our second option. I like Skyvia for importing data, but their interface is not as easy to use. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	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. Incentivized AS Andrew Sparks Network System Administrator Read full review
Return on Investment	Extra layer of protection on our data Ability to retrieve past data if an issue occurs Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	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 Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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