SOS Online Backup

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SOS Online Backup

Product Information

Vendor
SOS Online Backup
SaaS
Yes
On Premise
N/A
Priced Per Unit
Server
Price Information
Pricing is available per server and includes 200 GB of cloud storage with each server. All reseller features, such as sales and marketing materials and Partner Dashboard, are included in the program. No hardware purchase is required.

SOS can be deployed on-premise or using the Infrascale cloud.

Features

- SOS 360 Degree Partner Program includes: Partner Dashboard, marketing and sales materials, and technology leading software.
- Secure online backup for Exchange servers, Windows servers, SQL/SharePoint servers, fileservers, and workstations.
- SOS Online Backup is a four time PC Magazine Editor's Choice Award Winner
- The SOS Online Backup s a white-label solution

The SOS 360 Degree Partner enables your company to become a provider of the industry's top rated online backup. Marketing and sales tools are included with SOS Online Backup products in order to help you succeed. With the powerful features, security, speed, and reliability, SOS Online Backup will help you deliver a quality product and enjoy a new source of recurring revenue. This partner program includes complete cloud backup for business. Backup all business servers, including Exchange backup and granular recovery. Perform bare metal backups of system data and application data such as SQL, SharePoint, and fileservers. There is no hardware purchase required with SOS's online backup reseller program.

Infrastructure: SOS provides the entire infrastructure necessary to power your cloud backup product. With millions of PCs being protected, SOS's global datacenter grid is unrivalled, with 11 datacenters around the world including in the United Kingdom, United States, Canada, and Australia. Software: SOS provides all the software necessary to power your online backup business, with white-label versions of SOS's award-winning software for Windows, Windows Server, Android & iPhone, including the ability to skin and rebrand our online backup solution to represent your company. Billing: The SOS reseller program provides you with e-commerce capabilities, giving you a consolidated invoice. You can also access to our comprehensive billing API that allows you to integrate provisioning and user-management directly into your applications. Marketing: As an SOS partner, you are provided world-class marketing materials, making you an expert in promoting and selling online backup to your new and existing clients. The Partner Resource Center is filled with templates, tools and guides that will make you a marketing pro. Sales: Once you're in the online backup market, our sales resources will work directly with you, providing sales support as if they were on your sales team. This includes the option to join you on calls and product demonstrations, either providing technical and product expertise, or just assisting you in closing larger deals. Training: SOS partners get access to our online training programs, hosted by our Product Manager and Sales Engineer. These weekly live webinars review administrative and technical components of the partner program. Technical Support: SOS provides support its partners and partner's customers on a case-by-case basis. Support is available by phone (877.896.3616) online ticket submission, or remote desktop. The SOS support team can also provide fully managed services to protect and monitor key infrastructure around the clock that can detect, escalate and resolve problems for you.

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call me before you make a huge mistake!
(Updated: November 14, 2013)
Rating: 
 
2.0
I am a current S.O.S. customer because I prepaid for a year to get better pricing. My name is Ed Camp owner of an I.T. company located in the midwest. The bottom line is that the promises of support, trainning, and marketing resources is based on a websites content and an absolute lie! I have recieved zero support and could not tell you my account reps name or if I even have one. The software is more complicated than anything I have ever seen in 17yrs. In technology. Support is horrible and response time is slow. Before you consider this company give me a call at xxxxxxx and get the facts and a look at there so called world class marketing materials. Empty promises, dismal product, lousy support, and overall a huge mistake!


Update posted by Admin.

Ed has asked for the following to be amended to the post, but feel that for openness, the original post should stay.

"I wrote this review and would like it removed, I have since changed my mind and SOS has changed as well"
EC
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Smoke and Mirrors?
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1.0
At the very onset the prices SOS charges its white label customers (VARS) is more than their own prices to end users on the website. SOS's VARS compete with SOS essentially. One sometimes wonders if VARS are a key revenue target not for the back up business they bring but for the mandatory fees that SOS charges them. SOS has now 700 VARs signed up and the minimum monthly payment alone is enough to sustain themselves. Pricing is low but that is because their model is to grow the VAR base as opposed to serious business building. My suggestion: never go with a provider who charges less on their website than they charge their channel, even with white label arrangements. Something about SOS does not seem right. From the folks leaving it to comments by their own team, the situation seems eerily uneasy. It is almost like they are trying phantom growth strategies. I would suggest looking elsewhere if you need white-labeled solutions for your clients. If you do not need white labeling, the options of much better companies are plentiful. Remember white label is not always a good thing with backups. Even small companies like the reliability of a big brand name on the backup contract. Its their precious data after all.
Owner's reply June 05, 2013

Hi Sam,

We're sorry to hear your concern, but please take another visit to our website. You'll see that our 1,200+ Partners are not in completion with SOS, but instead we aim to assist our Partners in their business in any way possible. I'd like to put you in touch with a Partner Specialist, it would be helpful to personally see an ROI analysis with someone on our team.

Thank you,
Carla

MS
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Not what they claim to be
Rating: 
 
2.0
I would like to pretty much contribute by supporting all negative comments mentioned above. Their support is a horror story, and pretty much none existent. SOS is simply not available for their partners. I am still with them, but very active in search of an alternative. Anything good that I may want to mention is completely obscured by their lack of support, and ice cold shoulder.
Owner's reply February 26, 2013

Hi Ami,

I'd like to put you in touch with your account manager to make sure all of your issues are resolved. Can you respond with the name of your company? Or email us at partnersupport(at)sosonlinebackup.com?

Thank you,
Sheilin

A
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Different on the inside from what you read on the outside...
Rating: 
 
2.0
I am an active user of SOS (coming up on my 1st year in April 2013). I'm backing up about 50 computers with a total of almost 5TB of data.

First things first. I'm truely disappointed in their channel program. While they claim to be at your side 100% for MSP, they really aren't. My "channel manager" was/has never been there for me. It would take 3-4 phone calls or 3-5 emails to get his attention. Maybe I was a low on the list for asking for some help for a small 50GB client. Nevertheless, 10GB or 1TB, they should be there for me when I need some help. Their "360 marketing" is nothing but pre-defined PDF files...canned stuff that you can just slap your logo on.

Let's talk about their software:
- NO native Exchange of SQL backup. They give you a license for the Storage Craft Shadow Protect software and you must do full bare metal backup. That's how you backup exchange with SOS. A full bare-metal backup.

You must configure the software manually - one by one. Their management console does not provide any such way to create backup sets and apply them across the board to computers. You have to touch each and every computer you want to backup. And installing is no joke. They don't have any GPO you can apply to install through AD. They offer no URL you can email to clients to download/install. You just get an exe or msi and you're on your own.

Their software does not run as a server, but rather just a scheduled task and you must provide user credentials if you want to backup and the user isn't logged in. I had huge problems w/this setup because half the time, the software wasn't accepting credentials and the backup would fail. My fix was to set the credentials by editing the scheduled task. Even their support didn't know this. Software is buggy too. I ran into many different issues. All well documented in my countless emails with support. The interface on the client software is very poor. It's featureless basically. It's easy to use, but it's just ugly and lack key features you'd want in a solid client application.

Their support. Very poor. They might be fast, but they are not all that knowledgeable. They love to tell you to go read some KB article instead of helping and solving problems. In less than a year with SOS, I have well over 200 emails back and forth with support. Some issues, I just gave up chasing for a solution. I've even had conversations with the CEO and after promises and promises from him - failed to deliver.

Backing your data. Imagine this: You have a 15GB PST file and another 5GB of random files you want to back up. Ok, 20GB takes a while on your first backup. That's expected. But how about your 50th or 75th backup and it's still doing full backups nightly? Whoa! Where is the delta checking? Where are my incrementals? Ohh...they don't exist! I get full backups night. No wait..I take that back. Let's say there are 5000 files I'm backing up. Well, it taking about 8-9 hours....but wait. My report says it only backed up 100 files. Wow...did we really need to check all 5000 files during backup? Can't figure out how to delta checking better? Archive bit? Who knows. My point is their backups take a long time, regardless of the # of the files. And forget about restore, unless you want to loose your sanity. Summary of restore: You must know the file name or extension. You must know the date of the backup you want to browse through. This is strange. Many other backups apps I've used give you searching along with an Windows Explore type look and feel. SOS just provides you with a search box. Makes it all the more difficult to find something you want to restore.

When I signed up with SOS, I though it would be a wonderful partnership. After about a month, I've felt nothing but the cold shoulder from them and truely let down as a partner. Their 12-month commitment is steep too. Their per GB prices are fair (lower than industry average), but hey...you get what you pay for. And I got nothing but a headache from them.

I can't wait to leave them when my contract expires.
Owner's reply February 26, 2013

Hi Steve,
I'd like to be able to put you in touch with our head of support and your account manager. Can you email us at partnerassistance(at)sosonlinebackup.com?
Thank you,
Sheilin

S
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SOS Online Backup - Felt like a collection of seperate products,
Rating: 
 
4.0
I initially looked into this product in Jan 2012. The pricing and features appeared to be very comprehensive.

However after a short time (4 - 6 hours) trying the product I was left with the following :-

Pros
1. Your technical support and response was very timely.. Very impressed
2. Your response to my technical query about your datacentres etc was very much marketing speak.. I appreciate I should/could have pushed for more technical details but wanted to determine how much you volunteered
3. Your 360 marketing aspect was unique and is very attractive

Cons
4. It was clear to me that all products were separate and this was a concern. As each would have to be managed/updated separately. In addition each represents a weak link in a remote “hands-off” solution
5. Not running the latest version of Shadow Protect, this was a minor concern
6. Minimum 12 month contract, at my stage in business It would be difficult for me to commit to a 12 month period (this will likely be a non-issue for the majority of your client)

In the end I did not move ahead with the product.
RB
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Lots of Promises & Not Much Else
Rating: 
 
2.0
Worst experience of my life. Everyone has a horror story about some phone company, some restaurant, some taxi driver, whatever. SOS is my horror story.

My needs in the beginning were:
rebranded backup
exchange, sql and virtual plug-ins
high level of support, to help me learn the ropes

Pretty simple, right?

First problem: the method used for caching means that the cache store is almost as big as the backup itself! Massive problems with storage on large backups.

Second problem: noone available to help me/ not getting back to me soon enough to resolve issues.

Third problem: "Oh, you need additional software for brick level exchange backups"

Summary of many problems since then: 20GB upload limit. Big uploads can take days, interfering with work. No option for manual seeding. No option for emergency HDD recovery....

Maybe it's better if you actually LIVE in america, but this is not suitable for australia.
Owner's reply February 26, 2013

Hi Karl,

We do have some options for the issues you came across. We have released many software updates which can help with the speed of backups as well.
Please end us an email at partnerassistance(at)sosonlinebackup.com with your company name and we'll get in touch with you.

Best,
John

K
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