APPLICATION NOTE: VEEAM COMPETITIVE COMPARISON

APPLICATION NOTE: VEEAM COMPETITIVE COMPARISON Eversync s Virtual Backup Software is designed for mid-market companies with virtual environments running VMware to back up and replicate their virtual, physical and application servers. Veeam s Backup and Replication software is available for protecting customers virtual environments. Overview All-in-one Backup, Archiving, and Disaster Recovery Solutions Eversync provides small- and medium-sized businesses an enterprise class of data protection products at a mid-market price. Eversync has the only truly capacity-based all-in-one backup, archiving, and DR solution with no per-server, per-client, per-license, per-socket, or per-user fees. Features include: backup of both virtual and physical servers support for Microsoft Exchange 2003, 2007, and 2010 (including large installations of more than 100 mailboxes) with granular level restores support for Microsoft SQL Server support for Microsoft SharePoint bare metal restores up to 10X effective backup capacity increase with SSD enhanced deduplication flexible replication configurations up to 1.4 TB/hour backup and restore speed backs up VMware and Hyper-V virtual machines

What makes Eversync better than Veeam? Support for both physical and virtual backup with one solution. Complete support for Linux, Windows, and a host of other guest operating systems without requiring additional agents. Enterprise class scalability. Twice the deduplication efficiency of Veeam means half the storage is required. Superior performance with up to 1.4TB/hr sustained backup and restore speed using our SSD enhanced deduplication and network optimization. Eversync Integrated Appliance Solution that is Easy to Deploy Affordable Solution with Investment Protection Critical Built-in Features Multiple Disaster Recovery Options Integrated Customer Support Veeam In benchmark comparisons of key metrics, Eversync Virtual Backup Software outperforms Veeam on every metric, including deduplication storage efficiency, backup and restore sustained performance, and system resource usage, as shown below. February 2013. Eversync. All rights reserved. Page 2 of 8

System Resource Usage During Backup 100% 80% 60% 40% 20% 0% Eversync Veeam CPU Util. Memory Usage Our award-winning software is the industry s only solution with both an easy-to use web-based interface and a mobile app for anytime, anywhere management of your backups. Eversync Virtual Backup Software comes in simple and affordable packages with subscription-based pricing to allow customers the flexibility of paying for only what they use with no heavy up-front licensing fees. Eversync Virtual Backup Software is priced based on the capacity of storage needed to hold backups. In addition, Eversync requires only half the storage as Veeam does for the same backups because of Eversync s efficient deduplication. Gartner predicts that capacity-based pricing will result in lower costs for over 80% of customers, while providing customers with a more palatable structure than paying additional fees every time they add a server to be backed up. In head to head pricing comparisons, Eversync is at or below Veeam pricing for typical configurations, while providing a rich enterprise-class feature set, as shown in the table below. February 2013. Eversync. All rights reserved. Page 4 of 8

$70,000 $60,000 $50,000 Eversync vs Veeam Price Comparison (2 sockets and 1 TB per host) $40,000 $30,000 $20,000 $10,000 $0 Backup Storage Capacity (TB) Eversync Basic Eversync Enterprise w/replication Veeam Enterprise Eversync Enterprise Veeam Standard Pricing comparisons have been calculated by normalizing Veeam's socket-based licensing with Eversync's capacity-based subscription. The charts show Eversync pricing for varying amounts of backup storage capacity with different assumptions about the capacity and number of sockets per backed up server. In all cases, an Eversync three year subscription has been used to compare to Veeam's license and maintenance fees over the same time period. February 2013. Eversync. All rights reserved. Page 5 of 8

$90,000 Eversync vs Veeam Price Comparison (4 sockets and 1.5 TB per host) $80,000 $70,000 $60,000 $50,000 $40,000 $30,000 $20,000 $10,000 $0 Backup Storage Capacity (TB) Eversync Basic Eversync Enterprise Eversync Enterprise w/replication Veeam Standard Veeam Enterprise February 2013. Eversync. All rights reserved. Page 6 of 8

$140,000 Eversync vs Veeam Price Comparison (2 sockets and 0.5 TB per host) $120,000 $100,000 $80,000 $60,000 $40,000 $20,000 $0 Backup Storage Capacity (TB) Eversync Basic Eversync Enterprise Eversync Enterprise w/replication Veeam Standard Veeam Enterprise February 2013. Eversync. All rights reserved. Page 7 of 8

Product Feature Competitive Comparison Eversync Veeam Integrated Appliance Solution that is Easy to Deploy excellent poor integrated appliance yes no clients for all OS/platforms yes partial back up physical servers yes no back up VMware servers yes yes back up Hyper-V servers yes yes SSD to accelerate deduplication/backup yes no available as a physical appliance yes no available as a packaged virtual appliance yes yes mobile management app yes no multiple 1 GbE connectivity with port aggregation yes no easy to use web-based management console yes partial 10 GbE connectivity yes no Affordable Solution with Investment Protection excellent poor deduplication effectiveness high low raw storage 2 176 TB varies scalability yes no file deduplication yes no block deduplication yes partial inline deduplication partial no no per-client or per-server licensing yes no Critical Built-in Features excellent good bare metal restore yes no Microsoft Exchange message level restore yes yes Microsoft Sql Svr object level restore yes yes supports agents yes no agentless in VMware yes yes encryption yes yes VM-based backups have synthetic full backup yes yes full support for file-level restores in VMware yes yes full support for Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft Sql Svr object level yes yes back up VMs using iscsi and Ethernet yes yes limit number of backup streams to prevent network overload yes yes sustained backup/restore speed > 1 TB/hour yes no Multiple Disaster Recovery Options excellent poor active/active site-to-site replication yes yes many-to-one replication yes no integrated removable archive media yes no cloud based disaster recovery yes no Integrated Customer Support excellent poor free installation and configuration support yes no disaster recovery guarantee yes no February 2013. Eversync. All rights reserved. Page 8 of 8