Actifio Reviews

Actifio is considered one of the best data management solutions due to several key factors:

Simplified Data Management: its easier to manage, protect, and use data across multiple systems and platforms.

Better Data Protection: Good data protection, including backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity capabilities. This helps organizations minimize the risk of data loss or downtime, and ensures that critical data is always available when needed.

One small drawback i observed was that even thought they are good at every fronts, they have limited functionalities, especially data recovery and protection, but i believe these will change as they grow.

Actifio is trying to solve several problems that organizations face when it comes to managing and protecting their data:

Our organization need to have a plan in place for backing up and recovering their critical data in case of a disaster or data loss. Actifio provides a unified solution for backup

Can handle my cloud and Database so easily and safely. so, it is great for me and helps me with a lot of exploring and it saves many of my time.

That provides

Easy to Use.

Ensure better security and encryption.

Recovery tools

There is not I can dislike but, sometimes problems with integrating on the other hand it was really good to use I recommend others for sure.

Handling Organizations Databases and cloud and Actifio can fulfill my requirements.

The ease to schedule the backup and check what error code it has thrown is the best in it.

Lol no one dislikes about actifio as that's the one everyone in our organization uses for backup related stuff

Backup scheduling, backup failure cause and errors that has occurred

Actifio Backup:-

It provides High end scalable , enterprises level solutions for large data backup and restore.

We can store data on primises or any kind of public cloud with securely.

Supports all kind of file types and infrastructure.

As per my experience need to improve the GUI bit , especially on home screen.

Apart from that everything is good , including all the features no issues to mention.

Server backup

Virtual machines backup

Database backup

Backup and restore.

Incremental backup.

Actifio has accomplished for information the board what virtualization accomplished for workers the executives. In one machine, it deals with all information support. There are zero personal time backups with various SLAs for dependent on needs oversaw consequently. All the more critically, anybody of those backups, including information bases and worker pictures, can be mounted in a split second from the Actifio reassure and accessible for use on any worker. It can even cover PII on backups so they can be mounted by advancement for testing. Furthermore, what is truly decent is that the entirety of this occurs from a solitary interface dashboard. Additionally, they have amazing client care. They assume liability for all overhauls and "telephone home" notifications.

There right now isn't an Active Directory block-level backup highlight. Staying aware of the most widely recognized backup source-types will be basic for Actifio to turn into a solitary item covering all of the organization's backup and rebuilding requirements. There is a constraint of 2 TB/LUNs on the off chance that you put the Actifio in-band rather than side-band. The main purpose to do this is in the event that you need Actifio to do obstruct level replication between locales. If you select sideband and utilize reflecting for the unstructured information that required constant synchronization between destinations. Also, the software may appear really expensive to many clients. Moreover, the software is slow in run time because of the large size.

Summing up I consider Actifio something over a backup device, which is a cost-focus attitude. How more would you be able to deal with your information or virtual duplicates of it. That is when utilizing Actifio will truly pay off when you can grow the utilization cases for it inside your association.

I like the unlimited backup space and instant recovery were the best features. My company stores a lot of sensitive data and I needed something cost efficient and able to store the data we generate daily.

There was not much I disliked about this product. I thought it was easy to use and effective at doing what I needed done. I'd recommend to others for sure.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

I like the unlimited backup space and instant recovery were the best features. My company stores a lot of sensitive data and I needed something cost efficient and able to store the data we generate daily.

There was not much I disliked about this product. I thought it was easy to use and effective at doing what I needed done. I'd recommend to others for sure.

I would recommend the product. I thought it was very useful and can see the benefits of this product. The unlimited cloud with the amount of data we store was crucial to our operations.

We are solving our storage and backup needs.

The consolidation of existing backup/recovery services to a single platform has been our favorite part of deploying Actifio. Also, the single pane of glass for our copy data has made administration a breeze. We've been able to rapidly reduce our tape footprint and drop our RTO/RPO for disk recovery down to minutes instead of hours or days.

There currently isn't an Active Directory brick-level backup feature. Because we can't perform our AD backups (system-state) we have to maintain a piece of our legacy backup infrastructure. Keeping up with the most common backup source-types is going to be critical for Actifio to become a single product covering all of a companies backup and restoration needs.

Do a full review of your backup/restore/DR/Copy products when talking to Actifio. There are many places where the product can fit that you might not have considered during initial fact-finding.

Our first priority was to get rid of our tape infrastructure. We were spending every month to move tapes back and forth for a backup solution that had a low success rate for restore and recovery. We had three different backup providers writing to our tape library which required excessive administration for everything from reporting to full system recovery. The slow speed of tape recovery was a sore spot that we immediately resolved with Actifio. We now can restore our data, even towards the end of retention, in less than 30 minutes instead of needing to recall tapes that can take days just for the delivery.

Actifio has done for data management what virtualization did for server management. In one appliance, it manages all our data maintenance. We have zero downtime backups with different SLAs for based on our needs all managed automatically. More importantly, any one of those backups, including databases and server images, can be mounted instantly from the Actifio console and available for use on any server. It can even mask PII on backups so they can be mounted by development for testing. Multiple developers can mount the same backup and it acts their own private copy without taking up valuable SAN storage.

Actifio also replicates our environment to our disaster site and has the ability to bring our disaster site on line with a single click based on a rule set we customize. And it brings servers on line within in a minute or 2, not 20 like many recovery software packages.

And what is really nice is that all of this happens from a single interface dashboard. Plus they have phenomenal customer support. They take responsibility for all upgrades, and "phone home" alerts.

The only complaint I have ever had is that there is a limit of 2 TB / LUNs if you put the Actifio in-band instead of side-band. The only reason to do this is if you want Actifio to do block level replication between sites. We opted for sideband and used mirroring for the unstructured data that needed real-time synchronization between our two sites. Works great. But knowing Actifio and their continual innovation, they will probably solve this restriction as well.

Talk to customers. There is so much power in this product, you need to hear how others are using it. We have even surprised Actifio with how we were utilizing their platform.

Also, don't discount the speed at which Actifio can mount a backup or bring a disaster server online. Actifio has made data protection, restoration, and management a non-issue. I never realized how much energy and time was devoted these data issues until we didn't have them anymore.

We were virtualizing our data center servers and storage and needed zero-downtime backups, copy data management to minimize the growth of expensive SAN storage, full managed disaster recovery at alternative site. We needed to manage data efficiently form a single interface and not from several packages cobbled together.

It’s one consolidated data management and protection tool for my team to use, for backup, DR and virtual clones for testing. We used to have 5 different software tools just for data protection plus storage on 4 different SAN, NAS and server platforms, which made managing all of our data a pain. It was hard to protect, retain and recover application data reliably until we got Actifio.

Plus, it saves us a ton of storage capacity through its data virtualization and then dedupe.

Reporting. They recently made some very necessary improvements and came out with a new version of their reporting tool, which looks better, but more can be done.

I think about Actifio as something more than a backup tool, which is a cost-center mentality. What more can you do with your data (or virtual copies of it)? That’s when using Actifio will really pay off – when you can expand the use cases for it inside your organization.

We started out solving basic data protection & DR problems, which it has been phenomenal at. My team can recover a copy of a production in 1 minute. 1 minute. Backups happen a lot faster as well. Needless to say, we’ve cut the staff time spent managing backups by 3/4s.