John K.

Chief Information Officer

Marketing and Advertising

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

8/18/2015

"Actifio Review"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Actifio?

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Actifio?

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Actifio:

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Actifio solving and how is that benefiting you?

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.