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 8.1, while IBM is ranked #6 with an average rating of 9.5. Microsoft holds a 26.1% mindshare in DRS, compared to IBM’s 4.4% mindshare. Additionally, 91% 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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91% willing to recommend

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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

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 December 2024, in the Disaster Recovery as a Service category, the mindshare of Azure Site Recovery is 26.1%, down from 28.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of IBM Disaster Recovery Services is 4.4%, down from 6.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Disaster Recovery as a Service

Featured Reviews

Mike Douthitt

Senior System Administrator at Douthitt.net

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

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.

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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

"The solution is very easy to use."

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

"What I love about Azure Site Recovery is its simplicity for basic configurations."

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

"Azure Site Recovery helps to save costs."

"The most useful thing is that it provides a snapshot of your environment in about 15 minutes. It is stable, and it always works. It is also scalable and easy to set up."

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

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

More Azure Site Recovery pros

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

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

"Disaster Recovery Services is stable."

Cons

"The immutable backup could be better."

"Site Recovery's scalability could be improved."

"Azure Site Recovery's deployment is complex. There are a lot of bugs, and it needs to improve stability."

"The pricing predictability and clarity around the final cost of the plan of this solution could be improved."

"The primary area for improvement in Azure Site Recovery is its pricing."

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

"Currently, Azure Site Recovery does not support shared disk options. Moreover, it does not support services like AppConfig or App Services."

"It could include more of a backup and recovery."

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

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

"Stability could always be better."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"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 a very reasonably priced product."

"Azure Site Recovery is affordable."

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

"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."

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

"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."

"Disaster Recovery Services is 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."

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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company

19%

Financial Services Firm

11%

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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?

Its bit costly for long term use

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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...

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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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