--- title: Object First Reviews meta_title: 'Object First Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Object First works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.9 review_count: 7 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-09-22' parent_category: name: Storage Management url: https://www.g2.com/categories/storage-management --- # Object First Reviews **Vendor:** Object First **Category:** [Object Storage Solutions](https://www.g2.com/categories/object-storage-solutions) **Average Rating:** 4.9/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 7 ## About Object First Object First Ootbi delivers secure, simple, and powerful backup storage that’s absolutely immutable and purpose-built for Veeam. It can be installed in 15 minutes or less with no security expertise required. High performance is a given, with support for lightning-fast backups (8 GBs/sec) and supercharged Instant Recovery. Built on Zero Trust principles, Ootbi delivers Absolute Immutability, which means that no one—neither cybercriminals nor insiders—can alter the firmware, operating system, storage layer, or backup data. Third-party tested and verified to be secure, Object First ransomware-proofs organizations and makes them simply resilient to cyber threats. ## Object First Pros & Cons Pros and Cons are compiled from review feedback and grouped into themes to provide an easy-to-understand summary of user reviews. **What users like:** - Users value the **quick and secure backup options** of Object First, ensuring their data remains protected and accessible. (1 reviews) - Users value the **cloud integration** of Object First for its impressive scalability and performance with Veeam. (1 reviews) - Users value the **robust data security** features of Object First, ensuring reliable backup protection and integrity. (1 reviews) - Users find **Object First's ease of use** outstanding, with quick setup and simple navigation enhancing their experience. (1 reviews) - Users highlight the **installation ease** with Object First, thanks to attentive support from the technical team. (1 reviews) - Performance (1 reviews) - Scalability (1 reviews) - Users value the **built-in security** of Object First, ensuring their backups remain safe and immutable. (1 reviews) - Users appreciate the **setup ease** of Object First, enabling quick and straightforward deployment within 30 minutes. (1 reviews) - Users appreciate the **extremely simple setup** of Object First, completing the process efficiently in under 30 minutes. (1 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users feel the **pricing is higher** compared to other similar immutable storage appliances, affecting their purchasing decision. (1 reviews) - Users find the **scalability issues** of Object First discouraging, especially for larger customer needs. (1 reviews) ## Object First Reviews ### 1. OOTBI is a marvel!! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Diego D. | Responsable de Infraestructura, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through a business email account **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was not provided any incentive by G2 for completing this review. **AI Translated:** This review has been translated from Spanish; Castilian using AI. **Reviewed Date:** June 09, 2026 **What do you like best about Object First?** The ease of setup was what stood out the most, super simple to add it to my Veeam. Fast and efficient, the support is wonderful. **What do you dislike about Object First?** The price, very excessive, I understand that the current situation may influence it but anyway it seemed excessive to me. **What problems is Object First solving and how is that benefiting you?** the ease of setting up immutable backups in my environment. ### 2. Veeam Integration with Scalability and Performance **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Joseph D. | Assistant Network Administrator, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through a business email account **Source: Organic:** Organic review. This review was written entirely without invitation or incentive from G2, a seller, or an affiliate. **Reviewed Date:** February 10, 2026 **What do you like best about Object First?** Veeam integration, scalability, and performance. **What do you dislike about Object First?** The product has a lack of online community forums **What problems is Object First solving and how is that benefiting you?** The device gave us backup immutability, and integration was simple. We purchased a second unit and scaling was simple. Support has been great as well. ### 3. Set it. Forget it. Sleep better. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Zachary Y. | Director Of IT, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through a business email account **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal incentive as thanks for completing this review. **Source: Seller invite:** Invitation from a seller or affiliate. This reviewer was offered a nominal incentive as thanks for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** March 28, 2024 At G2, we prefer fresh reviews and we like to follow up with reviewers. They may not have updated their review text, but have updated their review. **What do you like best about Object First?** ObjectFirst has done a great job of making the Ootbi extremely simple to setup and performant. The process is very straight forward and well documented. The entire process from rack, stack, config, and deploy can be accomplished in under 30 minutes. After that, you live with the comfort of "immutable bliss" moving forward!

As an added bonus, everyone that I interacted with at ObjectFirst (From my sales rep to support) were extremely pleasant and knowledgeable. They have a great product and they are operating already like the gold standard in their class. **What do you dislike about Object First?** My only chief complaint, which is more of a shot at Veeam than ObjectFirst, is that Veeam has a 10-day immutable period configured that is not reflected in the UI. So you could potentially fill up your Ootbi unexpectedly, and then be unable to delete objects to clear up space. My advice for new ObjectFirst users is to slowly migrate your backup jobs. **What problems is Object First solving and how is that benefiting you?** Object First helps me migrate from my legacy storage (which was not immutable) to fast and modern immutable storage with ease and confidence. ### 4. Secure, robust easy to maintain backup appliance **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vince A. | Team Lead DC, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through a business email account **Source: Organic:** Organic review. This review was written entirely without invitation or incentive from G2, a seller, or an affiliate. **Reviewed Date:** December 10, 2024 **What do you like best about Object First?** The OOTBI array is truly a quick and easy solution to keeping your backups secure. With the built-in security and controls in place to keep the security in place, it truly is an immutable appliance. We leverage this for ourselves and our customers to provide a secure repository to store backups in. **What do you dislike about Object First?** Ability to scale. While this is on the roadmap to get bigger and better, the size at this time is a little turn off for the large customers. **What problems is Object First solving and how is that benefiting you?** OOTBI is solving the issues of having a secure and robust repository to store backups. Every IT professional knows, the number 1 rule is to have backups and most importantly, have valid and restorable backups. OOTBI provides that with the ability to store and secure those backups without having to worry and give it a second thought. ### 5. Unlocking Easy Set-Up and Configuration with Object First **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Chris C. | Lead Infrastructure Architect, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through a business email account **Source: Organic:** Organic review. This review was written entirely without invitation or incentive from G2, a seller, or an affiliate. **Reviewed Date:** December 10, 2024 **What do you like best about Object First?** Object First is amazingly easy to set up and can be running in under 30 minutes. The setup, configuration, and connectivity are very simple. Connecting the system to Veeam Backup afterwards is also extremely easy.

Simple, secure, easy to configure/setup, WebUI is clean and easy to navigate, updating is simple and connectivity to Veeam is very easy. **What do you dislike about Object First?** - SSL - need to be able to implement CA-signed certificates
- Keys - need to be able to assign keys to any user, not just the one logged in **What problems is Object First solving and how is that benefiting you?** Allowing us to test and determine feasibility of using Object First with offerings to customers that involved Veeam Appliances and offsite backups. ### 6. Cloud is great, but on-premises immutable storage is the fastest way to recover **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Matt B. | VP Technical Sales, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Source: Organic:** Organic review. This review was written entirely without invitation or incentive from G2, a seller, or an affiliate. **Reviewed Date:** December 10, 2024 **What do you like best about Object First?** Object First is looking for long-term customers and we were able to see that from the first interactions with their technical team to size and then assist with the installation in our data center. We were one of their first 10 customers and have been using the Ootbi appliance ever since with regular attention from their team. **What do you dislike about Object First?** The cost is higher than other immutable storage appliances **What problems is Object First solving and how is that benefiting you?** Immutable object storage is extremely complicated with millions of objects which need to be moved around constantly. Object First wrote new Linux code that interfaces with Veeam better than anything on the market. We are seeing 2 to 3 times the backup and restore speed when using Veeam and the Ootbi appliance. It is impressive how they figured out the performance enhancements ### 7. Immutable backups made easy. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) This reviewer's identity has been verified by our review moderation team. They have asked not to show their name, job title, or picture. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through Google One Tap using a business email account **Source: Organic:** Organic review. This review was written entirely without invitation or incentive from G2, a seller, or an affiliate. **Reviewed Date:** December 11, 2024 **What do you like best about Object First?** Drew Mitchell and his team did a fantastic job working with us to identify the right solution for our immutability concerns. **What do you dislike about Object First?** I have searched and cannot find any dislikes **What problems is Object First solving and how is that benefiting you?** On site immutability - [View Object First pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/object-first/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-10-02+13%3A51%3A26+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=ebb4ed1c-f03b-4790-af3f-6eeb245b569b&secure%5Btoken%5D=841593e14cab4140c89162d79e8ea263feb9fbc25803707fc320abd5889bb505&format=llm_user) ## Object First Features **Functionality** - Versioning - Scalability - Speed of access **Reliability** - Redundancy - Availability **Security** - Encryption - Auditing - Access control **Compatibility** - Infrastructure compatibility - Interoperability ## Top Object First Alternatives - [IDrive Online and SaaS Backup, Object Storage e2](https://www.g2.com/products/idrive-online-and-saas-backup-object-storage-e2/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (2,032 reviews) - [Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-simple-storage-service-s3/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (841 reviews) - [Google Cloud Storage](https://www.g2.com/products/google-cloud-storage/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (564 reviews)