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Azure Site Recovery vs IBM Disaster Recovery Services comparison

Microsoft and IBM are both solutions in the Disaster Recovery as a Service category. Microsoft is ranked #2 with an average rating of 8.2, while IBM is ranked #6 with an average rating of 9.5. Microsoft holds a 25.6% mindshare in DRS, compared to IBM’s 4.0% mindshare. Additionally, 90% of Microsoft users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of IBM users who would recommend it.
Azure Site Recovery
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90% willing to recommend
IBM Disaster Recovery Services
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100% willing to recommend
 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 14, 2024

IBM Disaster Recovery Services and Azure Site Recovery compete in the disaster recovery category. Azure Site Recovery seems to have the upper hand due to its comprehensive features and integration capabilities, outweighing potential pricing concerns.

Features: IBM Disaster Recovery Services offers high availability, managed services, and strong server and data protection. Azure Site Recovery provides automatic replication, monitoring, and seamless integration with Microsoft tools, emphasizing automated processes and easy compatibility as key strengths.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Azure Site Recovery enables smooth cloud integration with intuitive deployment models and extensive documentation. Its customer service, while sometimes facing delays, offers efficient online resources. IBM Disaster Recovery Services presents a more hands-on approach with tailored service options, leading to longer deployment times but more personalized support.

Pricing and ROI: IBM Disaster Recovery Services generally has lower setup costs with an attractive ROI for large-scale deployments due to tailored solutions. Azure Site Recovery's setup costs are higher but provide increased ROI over time through scalable solutions and automated processes, delivering extended value in the long term.

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Categories and Ranking

Azure Site Recovery
Ranking in Disaster Recovery as a Service
2nd
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
21
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
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Disaster Recovery as a Service category, the mindshare of Azure Site Recovery is 25.6%, down from 27.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of IBM Disaster Recovery Services is 4.0%, down from 7.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Featured Reviews

Mike Douthitt - PeerSpot reviewer
Jan 26, 2024
Useful for restoration purposes that ensures that the users get to save a lot of time
Speaking about how Azure Site Recovery has facilitated the migration of on-premises workloads to the Azure Cloud, I would say that my company is still in the testing phase, and we also use Veeam. My company is trying to find the best spot for recovery, disaster recovery, and migrations. Veeam plays a big part in what my company does in terms of backup and recovery, so we are just trying to figure out how a Microsoft tool will fit into our environment. I haven't faced any challenges using the product. I recommended the solution to those who plan to use it. I rate the overall tool a ten out of ten.
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MertPolatay - PeerSpot reviewer
Aug 25, 2024
Ease of use, performance, availability, and scalability
The use case is for high availability and disaster recovery I install it in organizations that work 24/7. They need a high-availability solution and a disaster recovery center because they don't want any downtime. I like its ease of use, performance, availability, and scalability. Nothing, it’s…
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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Azure Site Recovery helps to save costs."
"They're moving a lot of their workload to cloud and aiming for a seamlessly integrated product."
"You can create automation to move workloads and redirect traffic to another region."
"The solution is secure, reliable, and scalable."
"What I like best about Azure Site Recovery is that it's easier to use because my organization already has Azure as an Active Directory solution."
"The solution is very easy to use."
"It’s native to Azure and does exactly what it’s designed to do—recover one site to another without creating all the VMs on that site. This helps reduce costs on the secondary site."
"Site Recovery's most valuable features include its user-friendly console and the ease of migration."
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"The solution works well for very large organizations. It can scale quite well."
"Disaster Recovery Services is stable."
"The initial setup is very easy and user-friendly."
 

Cons

"The tool should improve synchronization."
"I would like to see more security features."
"The product's performance is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The support team took a lot of time to respond and was not very professional."
"It is for site-to-site replication. When something goes wrong on your site, you only get 15 minutes before it also goes wrong on your replicated site. There should be some way to be able to say that we want to restore it, but we want to restore it to the version from yesterday. It should support versioning. I would also like to see real-time scanning for advanced threat protection, more straightforward billing, and quicker turnaround on the tech support."
"We need to be able to move the virtual servers and not build and then port them across. They need to improve the hypervisor."
"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."
"The pricing predictability and clarity around the final cost of the plan of this solution could be improved."
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"Disaster Recovery Services could provide better value for money."
"Stability could always be better."
"The infrastructure level of IBM's recovery systems could be improved."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Azure Site Recovery is neither very expensive nor very cheap."
"Azure Site Recovery is affordable."
"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."
"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."
"I'm not sure about the Azure Site Recovery pricing, but my organization gets monthly bills from providers."
"They have a license to pay."
"The tool's licensing is yearly and not expensive."
"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."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
19%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Insurance Company
6%
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Company Size

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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.
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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Azure Site Recovery?
It is cost-effective.
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What needs improvement with Azure Site Recovery?
It can incorporate features related to monitoring the site to streamline the process. Personally, I often use automation for efficiency. This reduces dependency on support for those solutions, espe...
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What do you like most about IBM Disaster Recovery Services?
Disaster Recovery Services is stable.
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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...
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What needs improvement with IBM Disaster Recovery Services?
Nothing, it’s almost perfect.
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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
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