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Zerto mindshare

As of January 2025, the mindshare of Zerto in the Disaster Recovery (DR) Software category stands at 15.3%, down from 20.1% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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CategoryDisaster Recovery (DR) SoftwareJan 22, 2025Download
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Top industries

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Computer Software Company
22%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Healthcare Company
8%
Educational Organization
7%
Government
5%
Retailer
4%
University
4%
Insurance Company
4%
Non Profit
3%
Construction Company
3%
Comms Service Provider
2%
Real Estate/Law Firm
2%
Media Company
2%
Legal Firm
2%
Energy/Utilities Company
2%
Wholesaler/Distributor
2%
Hospitality Company
1%
Outsourcing Company
1%
Consumer Goods Company
1%
Pharma/Biotech Company
1%
Recreational Facilities/Services Company
1%
Performing Arts
1%
Transportation Company
1%
 

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Network Engineer at PRICE TRANSFER, INC
Verified user of Zerto
Jul 12, 2022
Product discussed: 8.5
Allows rapid RTO and great customer support, in the simplest DR solution I have ever deployed

Pros

"The whole package is valuable. The most useful feature for the company is the rapid RTO, which offers a faster return to operations and brings us back online quicker. The last time we had an issue, we recovered within about 36 minutes, which was probably the most valuable thing for us because, previously, it took four to seven days."

Cons

"There are quite a few elements in the long-term retention areas that I wish were better. The bio-level recovery indexing of backups is the area I struggle with the most. That's probably because I desire to do tasks that ordinary users wouldn't do with the solution. The standard medium to large customer would probably never ask for anything like I ask for, so I think it's pretty good the way it is. I'm excited to see some of the new improvements coming in the 9.5 version. Some of the streamlines and how the product presents itself for some of the recovery features could be better."
TF
Senior Data Center Engineer at a manufacturing company with 1-10 employees
Verified user of Zerto
Mar 28, 2024
Saves millions and we can roll back by seconds or minutes

Pros

"Its ability to roll back if the VM or the server that you are recovering does not come up right is also valuable. You have the ability to roll back a few seconds or a few minutes. The rollback feature is great."

Cons

"While going in, we were looking at the backup tool so that we had a DR tool and a backup tool, but they stopped developing their backup solution built into it. That was a bummer for us, so now, we have a DR solution, and we have a backup solution."
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Sr Systems Engineer at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Verified user of Zerto
Jul 18, 2022
Product discussed: v9.0 update 3
With Zerto we can pick and choose what we want to fail over and at what time

Pros

"We have seen ROI. It reduced the time for failover and failback by 90%."

Cons

"You can create a VPG and put anywhere from one to 17 servers in that group. We build them one by one. If something changes in VMware, it would be nice to be able to go in and change that VPG, having it update without messing up. When you change them now, it only applies to the copies from the points when you changed it. I wish it would purge that older data from the past. Right now, we have to build a new VPG, which is not a big deal as it is just a few screens. "
JC
Director of IT at Arnott Inc
Verified user of Zerto
Sep 13, 2021
Product discussed: 7.5
Gives us business continuity capabilities during hurricane season and in case of ransomware

Pros

"If we had to deal with a ransomware event, Zerto would be one of the first things I would use, because it is going to be the fastest to restore data to a certain point. If there were a fire in our building, Zerto would be a big thing too, because we would shut down everything that's in our building. In most cases, Zerto is definitely one of the front lines. It's definitely going to be one of our prevalent DRBC layers of protection."

Cons

"If I were to nitpick, I would say that I wish I had a better account manager. Our sales guy has changed a couple of times. I would like a little more responsiveness from our account manager. I've had a couple of issues where getting in touch with him has been a little difficult, and I end up just going around him and dealing with support and support has handled it right away."
Shri Sharan - PeerSpot user
Solutions architect at Kyndryl
Verified user of Zerto
Apr 16, 2024
Is user-friendly, saves us time, and costs

Pros

"Zerto's most valuable features include its user-friendly interface, multi-tenancy capabilities, and near-zero downtime recovery."

Cons

"We encountered some issues during Active Directory recovery."
DR
Enterprise Data Management Supervisor at Southern Farm Bureau Casualty Insurance Company
Verified user of Zerto
Jul 15, 2020
Product discussed: 8.0
Instead of one mass disaster recovery exercise, we're easily able to perform up to 12 in the year

Pros

"In situations of failback or moving workloads, it saves us hours. If I were to have to move a four or five terabyte machine using something like VMware's virtual copy it has to install on the machine and copy the data over. Then it has to shut the machine down and do a final copy, which means there's a lot of downtime while it's doing the final copy. "

Cons

"The interface is the only thing that we've ever really had an issue with. It's gone through some revisions. The UI, it's not clunky, but it's not as streamlined as it could be. Some of the workflow things are not as nice as they could be."
Steve McFate - PeerSpot user
Systems Analyst III at St. Luke's
Verified user of Zerto
Dec 28, 2024
Helped us streamline our DR testing and notably reduce associated downtime

Pros

"The replication works really well. We perform multiple tests a month and annual tests for our tier-one and many of our tier-two apps... Migrating systems as a failover rollback or a system move are two of the functions that I like the most."

Cons

"When building out a VPG and doing the machine types within Azure, they were not coming across correctly. It would say it had a CPU and memory of a specific type, but it was not accurate... It was a bug and they were working on it."
Paul Mickenbecker - PeerSpot user
Senior Analyst, IS Infrastructure at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Verified user of Zerto
Jul 2, 2023
We have centralized and simplified our DR processes, and DR in Azure has enabled us to consolidate DCs

Pros

"We can failover to an isolated environment and validate the application without impacting the production environment. We can do more testing in a non-impactful way..."

Cons

"We do have some sites that are very low-bandwidth sites. Zerto is able to set throttling in the solution, but the throttling is set at a site-wide level. In those instances that have very low bandwidth, I can't reduce the throttling on that site. It would be nice if there were a way to control the throttling by the protection group for a specific workload."
Steve McFate - PeerSpot user
Systems Analyst III in the healthcare company industry
Verified user of Zerto
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