1. StoreGrid over the SQL Enterprise Manager. 1. In case of SQL enterprise manager, you have to schedule all the backup jobs manually whereas StoreGrid is an automated backup solution with wide scheduling features taking backups at their exact scheduled times. 2. The backed up data can be compressed and encrypted efficiently using StoreGrid while SQL Enterprise Manager doesn't provide such data compression and encryption features as StoreGrid does. 3. With StoreGrid you can configure multiple database(s) for backup in single schedule and transfer the dumped data to remote backup server where as with Enterprise Manager, you cannot transfer data to remote machine.