Barracuda Backup Vs. SmartFiler Backup Appliance. Compare Online Backup Services

Why buy the SmartFiler Solution?

The SmartFiler backup solution is unique. It is the smart alternative to online backup services that charge monthly based on the backup data size. It enables businesses to own their offsite backup solution and pay no monthly service charges, while having full control of where and how their data is stored.

The SmartFiler Backup Appliance solution offers automated onsite and remote onlinebackup that is ideal for any business with 10GB to 10TB of backup data. The SmartFiler virtual appliances range from 10GB to 500GB and physical appliances range from 500GB to 10 TB. The physical and virtual appliances have identical user interface and features. The salient features are: (See all features)

Automated backup; onsite and offsite
No monthly service charges
No per server license fee – Backup all computers in a network
Works in heterogeneous network -- Backup Windows and Unix/Linux systems
Retain as many historical revisions as you need
Hourly snapshots – Create snapshot backup several times during the day
Data deduplication technology– Saves disk space
Seeding - Complete your initial full backup locally, at LAN speeds

And above all, it costs less than all our competitors. (See why)

See the chart below for the cost of SmartFiler Virtual Appliance solution compared to online backup service providers. Keep in mind that the online backup services do not provide onsite backup and lack enterprise class features offered by SmartFiler solution. (See comparison of physical appliance solution with competitors)

SmartFiler Virtual Appliance Compared to Competition
Online Backup Service Provider	Stated Price	Price for 5 PCs/Servers, and 100GB of data
		For 2 years	For 5 years
You (SmartFiler Virtual Appliance)	$399 per solution (Onsite and offsite)	$399	$399
Carbonite	$54.95/year/PC	$549.50	$1373.75
Mozy Pro	$6.95 + $0.50/GB/month	$1366.80	$3417
IDrive Pro	$199.50/year/100GB	$399	$997.50
Jungle Disk	$5 + $0.15/GB per month	$480	$1200
KineticD	$6.95 + $0.50/GB/month	$1366.80	$3417

Why SmartFiler online backup solution costs much lower than any service provider?

The answer is simple – you own the solution. When you pay a service provider for online backup you are paying for the backup servers, data center, maintenance, and Internet bandwidth. SmartFiler Backup Appliance solution lets you keep the offsite appliance at a secure place of your choice where you have Internet connectivity and power, for which you are already paying. The SmartFiler virtual appliance lets you use any desktop PC as backup appliance. There is no need to pay for these incidental costs to any online backup service provider. YOU KEEP THE $AVING$.

Compare the cost and features of SmartFiler physical appliance with our competitors

SmartFiler Physical Appliance Compared to Competition
Benefits	SmartFiler	Barracuda	Sonicwall	3X Systems
Onsite Backup	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Offsite Backup	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Backup or Restore Speed	Up to 1000 Mbits/sec	Typical 1.5 Mbits/sec. Limited by Internet Bandwidth	Typical 1.5 Mbits/sec. Limited by Internet Bandwidth	Typical 1.5 Mbits/sec. Limited by Internet Bandwidth
Typical time to backup 1TB offsite	4.5 Hrs, at 500 Mbits/sec. (at 50% of available LAN speed)	92 days, at 1 Mbit/sec (at 75% of available Internet speeds)	92 days, at 1 Mbit/sec (at 75% of available Internet speeds)	92 days, at 1 Mbit/sec (at 75% of available Internet speeds)
Typical Restore 1TB from offsite	Same as above + 1 day for overnight shipping of the Offsite SmartFiler Appliance	92 days. Same as above.	92 days. Same as above.	92 days. Same as above.
Initial cost of 1 TB solution	$3298	$4999	$7498 (Site-to-Site)	$8500 (No onsite backup)
2 year cost of 1 TB backup	$3298	$16999 ($500 per month for offsite backup)	$7498	$8500

SmartFiler Features and Benefits

Feature	Benefit
It’s an appliance solution.	No need to purchase and manage hardware and software from different manufacturers. No compatibility issues to deal with.
Simple, easy-to-use web interface.	Managing backup with SmartFiler doesn’t require any IT expertise. It can be configured in less than 15 minutes, ready to backup all data from your network. See screenshots http://smartpick.com/howitworks.htm.
Paired offsite appliance	This is the biggest benefit of SmartFiler Backup Appliance solution. You can do the initial backup, which is usually very large, by connecting the paired offsite SmartFiler in the same LAN with the onsite SmartFiler. This allows you to perform backup at LAN speeds and complete even terabytes of backup in hours, instead of months using your Internet speeds. You can also restore all the data from offsite (in case of a disaster) by bringing the offsite SmartFiler to onsite location (by overnight shipping!) instead of waiting for months to download terabytes of data from the cloud backup.
Hourly Snapshots	This feature allows you to create a snapshot backup of all your data several times during your business day. You can instantly restore data from a point-in-time snapshot and you don’t lose your precious day's work by restoring from last night's backup.
No monthly service charges	Since you own your offsite backup appliance there is no monthly service charges to pay. This can save you thousands of dollars in offsite backup costs over two or three years (see costs comparison chart at http://smartpick.com/pricing.html).
Works in heterogeneous network	Backup data from any system on the network whether it is Windows or Unix/Linux or Mac. SmartFilers can backup data from systems running any of these operating systems.
No host side software to be installed and maintained.	SmartFiler Backup Appliances comes with all the software and hardware built-in ready to backup data from your network. No software needs to be installed on your servers.
No per server license fee	You can backup unlimited number of servers on a SmartFiler Backup Appliance. There are no additional charges based on the number systems being backed up.
Historical versions	You can create backup policies to retain any number of daily backups and weekly backups.
Minimized duplicate data in backup (Data De-duplication technology)	Though many revisions of historical backups are retained per your backup policy, only one copy of an unchanged file is stored in the SmartFiler appliance by using advanced data de-duplication technology.
Instant Restore	To restore data from an incremental backup you do not need to restore a full backup first and apply all the incremental (like you would do in tape backup or by using incremental backup feature of any backup software). All historical revisions of backups are available to you for a drag-and-drop instant restore.
Minimized use network bandwidth	SmartFiler Backup Appliances minimizes network usage by transferring only the changed data (at block level) in a file instead of transferring the entire file.