How Ahsay Stacks Up Against Asigra
(Last update: May 25, 2016)
Among all backup software available in the market, Ahsay comes with the most comprehensive features for businesses and MSPs. For those who is also looking into the features of Asigra, here's how our product stacks up against them.
Important
Information from Asigra is gathered from their website and other internet channels. No trial software has been installed and no testing has been conducted. Therefore, please be reminded that this comparison may not be 100% accurate.Centralized management software |  | Asigra |
|---|---|---|
| Web-based management control center | yes | yes |
| Installable in an enterprise or service provider data center, or in an IaaS cloud | yes | yes |
| Centralized backup configuration and management | yes | yes |
| View, edit and update the configuration of clients | yes | yes |
| Live status monitoring for backup and restore jobs | yes | yes |
| To-Do lists for all the backup and system errors that need to be fixed | yes | yes |
| Monitoring and notifications via email and SNMP traps | yes | yes |
| Reseller management | yes | yes |
| Run backup for selected client machines through web console | yes | yes |
| Replicate data and settings on centralized management console to a replication server | yes | yes |
| Switch clients' backups from a failed backup server to a replication server | yes | yes |
| High availability configuration | yes | yes |
| Set up Group Policies for different group of users through web console | yes | no |
| Clear overview of underlying system resources information (Including Java virtual machine, underlying operating system, CPU architecture, number of processor, committed virtual memory, physical memory, and swap space) | yes | no |
| Current CPU usage, memory usage and live thread monitoring of the underlying machine that the management software is running on | yes | no |
| Option for user to upload hashed encryption key to management console, so that when encryption is lost, system administrator can recover it by sending it to backup solution vendor for decryption | yes | no |
| Automatic users creation through Windows Active Directory integration | yes | no |
| Send daily consolidated report to administrator | yes | question |
| Block unwanted IPs from accessing management console | yes | question |
Destinations that clients can back up to | | Asigra |
|---|---|---|
| USB drive / local drive / network shares of user's machine | yes | yes |
| MSP's datacenter | yes | yes |
| Remote or branch offices | yes | yes |
| Amazon S3 | yes | no |
| Aliyun | yes | no |
| Amazon AWS Compatible Storage | yes | no |
| CTYun | yes | no |
| Dropbox | yes | no |
| Google Cloud Storage | yes | no |
| Google Drive | yes | no |
| Microsoft Azure | yes | no |
| Microsoft OneDrive / OneDrive for Business | yes | no |
| OpenStack | yes | no |
| Rackspace | yes | no |
| FTP / SFTP | yes | no |
Types of backup data supported | | Asigra |
|---|---|---|
| Raw File | yes | yes |
| Microsoft SQL Server | yes | yes |
| Microsoft Exchange Server | yes | yes |
| Microsoft Sharepoint | yes (by Command Line Tool) | yes |
| Windows System | yes | yes |
| iOS / Android | yes (in v7.9) | yes |
| IBM Lotus Notes | yes | question |
| IBM Lotus Domino | yes | yes |
| MySQL Database | yes | yes |
| Oracle Database | yes | yes |
| Windows System State | yes | yes |
| Guest Virtual Machine - VMware | yes | yes |
| Guest Virtual Machine - Hyper-V | yes | yes |
| Synology NAS | yes | no |
VMware backup features | | Asigra |
|---|---|---|
| Point in time backups | yes | yes |
| Run VM directly from a point in time backup | yes | yes |
| View and administer all VM protection options across all the VMs in your IT environment from the same GUI tool | yes | yes |
Backup features in client software | | Asigra |
|---|---|---|
| Backup scheduling | yes | yes |
| Incremental backup | yes | yes |
| Differential backup | yes | yes |
| Data filtering | yes | yes |
| Data retention policy | yes | yes |
| Continuous Data Protection | yes | yes |
| Bandwidth throttling for clients | yes | yes |
| Storage quota alert to client | yes | yes |
| Fast multi-thread backup | yes | yes |
| Windows open file backup through VSS | yes | yes |
| Multiple backup sets for each client machine | yes | yes |
| Backup data integrity checking and validation | yes | yes |
| Proxy server support | yes | yes |
| Run self written command before and after backup | yes | yes |
| Write backup/restore logs to Windows Event Log | yes | yes |
| Backup reminder during system logout in client | yes | yes |
| Off-line reminder in client | yes | question |
| Combine multiple clouds as one pooled storage | yes | question |
| Sequential or concurrent backup to multiple destinations | yes | no |
| Configurable maximum concurrent backups | yes | no |
| Remove server-side backup data from client | yes | no |
| Seed-load initial backup to cloud or datacenter (require cloud storage to have seed loading support, e.g. Microsoft Azure) | yes | no |
Data restore features | | Asigra |
|---|---|---|
| Point in time restore | yes | yes |
| Search for files or folders to restore | yes | yes |
| Restore data to original or different location | yes | yes |
| Restore multiple versions in single operation | yes | no |
| Restore anywhere through green client agent | yes | no |
Security / Privacy | | Asigra |
|---|---|---|
| 256-bit TLS transmission to cloud | yes | yes |
| 256-bit AES backup data encryption | yes | yes |
| All data stored in compressed and encrypted format | yes | yes |
| Password protection in client agent | yes | yes |
| Individual encryption key per backup set | yes | question |
| Lost encryption key recovery | yes | question |
| Filename and content encrypted when storing on cloud | yes | no |
Features for MSPs | | Asigra |
|---|---|---|
| OEM rebranding and customization | yes | yes |
| Auto upgrade client software to latest version pushed from server | yes | yes |
| Set storage quota for individual user | yes | yes |
| Set storage quota for user group | yes | question |
| Set user storage quota based on compressed or non-compressed data size | yes | no |
| Able to share storage quota among assigned users | yes | no |
| Able to set maximum percentage of shared storage quota that each user can use | yes | no |
| Customize client agent name and icon shown in public cloud storage authentication page (e.g. Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, etc.) | yes | no |
| Hide actual storage backend used by MSPs so as to make the storage transparent to users | yes | no |
| Hide unwanted features in client agents | yes | no |
| Hide unwanted storage options in client agents | yes | no |
| Set maximum no. of invalid login attempts allowed | yes | no |
| Display self-hosted advertisement banners in client agent user interface | yes | no |
| Enforce users to run preempted backup sets | yes | no |
| 20 languages support for serving worldwide customers | yes | no |
| Create unlimited trial accounts to potential customers without using paid license quota | yes | question |
| Create free trial account within client application | yes | question |
| Offer all features and modules to trial users | yes | question |
| Create multiple reseller accounts, each reseller manages its own backup users | yes | question |
| Each reseller can have its own backup server URL and branding | yes | question |
Licensing | | Asigra |
|---|---|---|
| Software license independent from backup / restore capacity | yes | no |
| Pricing is available to public | yes | no |