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Azure Site Recovery vs IBM Disaster Recovery Services comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 14, 2024

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
22
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
3
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2025, in the Disaster Recovery as a Service category, the mindshare of Azure Site Recovery is 22.1%, down from 25.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of IBM Disaster Recovery Services is 2.1%, down from 2.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Disaster Recovery as a Service
 

Featured Reviews

RituparnaBhattacharya - PeerSpot reviewer
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.
MertPolatay - PeerSpot reviewer
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.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"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 setup is quite easy, just requiring the creation of a vault."
"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."
"The solution is secure, reliable, and scalable."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is the visibility of what is happening with our business as well as the good reporting and dashboards."
"Azure Site Recovery is an easy-to-use and fairly stable solution for disaster recovery."
"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 product's performance is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"Azure Site Recovery does not support shared disk options."
"In the newest version of Azure Site Recovery, the configuration was a little more complex, so this is an area for improvement."
"Site Recovery's scalability could be improved."
"The immutable backup could be better."
"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."
"The pricing predictability and clarity around the final cost of the plan of this solution could be improved."
"The support team took a lot of time to respond and was not very professional."
"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

"I'm not sure about the Azure Site Recovery pricing, but my organization gets monthly bills from providers."
"The tool's licensing is yearly and not expensive."
"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."
"Azure Site Recovery is affordable."
"Azure Site Recovery is a very reasonably priced product."
"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."
"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

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
17%
Financial Services Firm
12%
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.
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 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...
 

Overview

 

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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