Azure Site Recovery vs IBM Disaster Recovery Services comparison

Azure Site Recovery vs. IBM Disaster Recovery Services

Download the complete report

Helped 831,158 peers since 2012

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Categories and Ranking

Azure Site Recovery

Ranking in Disaster Recovery as a Service

2nd

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

IBM Disaster Recovery Services

Ranking in Disaster Recovery as a Service

6th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

8.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2025, in the Disaster Recovery as a Service category, the mindshare of Azure Site Recovery is 26.9%, down from 29.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of IBM Disaster Recovery Services is 3.1%, down from 4.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Disaster Recovery as a Service

Featured Reviews

RituparnaBhattacharya

Senior Infrastructure Engineer at Mic global

The time-saving aspects allow us to write PowerShell scripts to automate failover processes

First of all, we initially faced a challenge as Azure Site Recovery was not supporting shared disk options on SQL clusters with VMs, which are important for a Windows cluster mode. Additionally, the setup is quite easy, only requiring the creation of a vault. Its time-saving aspects allow us to write PowerShell scripts to automate failover processes.

Read full review

MertPolatay

General manager at SM

Ease of use, performance, availability, and scalability

The initial setup is very easy, user-friendly, and not complex. It mostly comes with all installed, an operating system, database, and security, all included in Power Systems. So users can easily install, configure, and use it. It's integrated with other systems. You can run different systems from IBM Power Systems, AIX Linux, or IBM I operating system. It's also integrated into Windows systems and other databases and servers.

Read full review

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"We use the solution across hospitality and healthcare domains. We use it for custom development. It helps us develop a seamless omnichannel for the healthcare industry."

"Provides generally good performance, from protection to production to failover to data recovery."

"Azure Site Recovery helps to save costs."

"Azure Site Recovery is obviously a time-saving solution, and I can write PowerShell scripts to automate failover on or off processes."

"The solution is secure, reliable, and scalable."

"They're moving a lot of their workload to cloud and aiming for a seamlessly integrated product."

"Azure Site Recovery allows my company to save around 30 percent of the time on every VM that we need to back up and restore."

"Azure Site Recovery is an easy-to-use and fairly stable solution for disaster recovery."

More Azure Site Recovery pros

"Disaster Recovery Services is stable."

"The solution works well for very large organizations. It can scale quite well."

"The initial setup is very easy and user-friendly."

Cons

"One area for improvement with Azure is helping customers predict usage more accurately."

"It would be good if we could replicate the solution to multiple locations simultaneously because we are currently allowed to replicate to just a single location."

"When it runs, it runs well but when it doesn't run, the solution needs to make it clearer as to why and what the troubleshooting process is. All this would be possible if the error logging was streamlined a bit."

"The support team took a lot of time to respond and was not very professional."

"I conveyed the feedback to the agent, suggesting an increase in the agent count in our VNS in the USA. I also addressed notification concerns, as some issues didn't trigger alerts during a recent call."

"Azure Site Recovery does not support shared disk options."

"we lack a straightforward method to automate the restart of services, which can be quite time-consuming."

"We need to be able to move the virtual servers and not build and then port them across. They need to improve the hypervisor."

More Azure Site Recovery cons

"Stability could always be better."

"The infrastructure level of IBM's recovery systems could be improved."

"Disaster Recovery Services could provide better value for money."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It should have more straightforward billing. The billing was what got funky. It was really cheap. We would pay based on the usage. We paid around $225 a month for site-to-site replication."

"They have a license to pay."

"I'm not sure about the Azure Site Recovery pricing, but my organization gets monthly bills from providers."

"Azure Site Recovery is affordable."

"The tool's licensing is yearly and not expensive."

"Azure Site Recovery is a very reasonably priced product."

"The tool is expensive. What is expensive to me might not be expensive to you. As I mentioned, we seek ways to reduce our costs. If the price goes down, that would be great. I rate the tool's pricing a six out of ten."

"Azure Site Recovery is neither very expensive nor very cheap."

"The pricing of the solution is based on the scale of the project or business. It's based on the server amount and the amount of data being stored. For our client, based on the amount of data they have, it may be around $20,000 USD. It could get much more expensive on the customer side."

"Disaster Recovery Services is expensive."

See which vendors are best for you

Use our free recommendation engine to learn which Disaster Recovery as a Service solutions are best for your needs.

See recommendations

831,158 professionals have used our research since 2012.

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

19%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Manufacturing Company

Insurance Company

No data available

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

No data available

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Azure Site Recovery?

Azure Site Recovery allows my company to save around 30 percent of the time on every VM that we need to back up and restore.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Azure Site Recovery?

Its bit costly for long term use

What needs improvement with Azure Site Recovery?

Currently, Azure Site Recovery does not support shared disk options. Moreover, it does not support services like AppConfig or App Services. Integrating these services would make the solution more a...

What do you like most about IBM Disaster Recovery Services?

Disaster Recovery Services is stable.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for IBM Disaster Recovery Services?

The pricing is perfect. It's not expensive because it's all-inclusive. The operating system, database, security, different file systems. So, overall, it's cheaper than Oracle or UNIX systems with O...

What needs improvement with IBM Disaster Recovery Services?

Nothing, it’s almost perfect.

VMware Live Recovery vs Azure Site Recovery

Comparisons

Compared 19% of the time

Veeam Data Platform vs Azure Site Recovery

Compared 18% of the time

Zerto vs Azure Site Recovery

Compared 17% of the time

AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery vs Azure Site Recovery

Compared 17% of the time

Nutanix Disaster Recovery as a Service vs Azure Site Recovery

Compared 7% of the time

More Azure Site Recovery Competitors

Precisely Assure MIMIX vs IBM Disaster Recovery Services

Compared 100% of the time

More IBM Disaster Recovery Services Competitors

Product Reports

Azure Site Recovery

Download Azure Site Recovery product report

Disaster Recovery as a Service

Download IBM Disaster Recovery Services product report

Learn More

Microsoft

IBM

Overview

Help your business to keep doing business - even during major IT outages. Azure Site Recovery offers ease of deployment, cost effectiveness, and dependability. Deploy replication, failover, and recovery processes through Site Recovery to help keep your applications running during planned and unplanned outages. Site Recovery is a native disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS), and Microsoft been recognized as a leader in DRaaS based on completeness of vision and ability to execute by Gartner in the 2018 Magic Quadrant for Disaster Recovery as a Service.

IBM Resiliency Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) can provide end-to-end integrated services using private, public and/or hybrid cloud. IBM Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) provides continuous replication of critical applications, infrastructure, data and systems to the cloud so users can recover within minutes of an IT outage. Intelligent Orchestration offers a unified DR management approach that delivers real-time readiness validation.

Sample Customers

Russell Reynolds Associates, Union Insurance, Rackspace

i-Virtualize, QD, Continuum Managed Services LLC, Royal Arctic Line, Department of Science and Technology of the Republic of the Philippines, Idwala Industrial Holdings Limited, A-Plant c.a.r.u.s. Information Technology GmbH Hannover, eASPNet Taiwan Inc., Mobile Mini Inc., TriDatum Solutions Inc., M7 Managed Services Ltd., Hospital de la Concepci‹n

Azure Site Recovery vs. IBM Disaster Recovery Services