| Datacastle Solution Advantage |
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Competitor weaknesses |
Continuous data protection updated as often as once per minute
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Don’t offer continuous data protection
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Secure data protection, online or offline, for all PCs and servers, using 256-bit AES encryption with patent pending encryption key management
Only the end user has access to the encryption key, so data always remains encrypted until the user unlocks it
Providers or IT organizations cannot access users' files, preventing unauthorized decryption |
Present significant security and privacy issues, exposing customers and service providers to unnecessary risks
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| Unlimited file versions |
File version control either weak or completely lacking |
Quick implementation of 1 to 2 weeks, including all the tools, training, and support needed to ensure a successful launch
Two licensing options: Pay-as-you-grow, or Subscription, each based on a per-device basis without regard to the amount of data transmitted or stored |
Expensive to implement and support |
| Can scale from a small server appliance to geo-replicated servers with millions of users |
Don’t scale well from a few users to millions of users |
| The Vault repository is completely disk-based with network access, eliminating cumbersome offsite tape logistics |
Offsite storage is cumbersome to implement and insecure (need to transport tapes offsite which risks losing them, swapping tapes, etc.)
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| Fully supports mobile PCs, whether online or offline | Difficulty in protecting valuable data residing in remote or mobile devices where large quantities of business data reside |
| End users perform all data protection operations, eliminating the need for expensive IT resource support | Difficult for end users to administer, requiring IT support |
| Data restore is self-service by the end user, and takes only a few minutes to configure (the total restoration time is dependent on the amount of data restored) | Cumbersome restore processes often requiring IT support over several hours or days |
| Datacastle is a software vendor, not a service provider, so there is no channel conflict with provider customers | Many online data protection solutions are service offerings from providers rather than a software product like Datacastle |
| Datacastle licenses our software at rates that many competitors cannot consider because they are also service providers and cannot sell their software to customers who would compete with their service | Other vendors rarely license their technology to service providers at reasonable rates, because doing so would compete with their own direct service offerings |
