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Azure Site Recovery vs Infrascale Backup & Disaster Recovery 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:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
7.7
Azure Site Recovery provides cost-effective, reliable disaster recovery with 30% time savings on VM management compared to other solutions.
Sentiment score
8.0
Infrascale boosts ROI through cost-effective, fast disaster recovery, enhancing client satisfaction and profitability while minimizing downtime.
Azure Site Recovery, while being pricier than some providers, has a sufficient service level to justify costs.
Azure Site Recovery is time-saving, and its features allow us to automate processes and save resources.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
6.9
Azure Site Recovery support is mixed, with prompt service for some, but delays and expertise issues reported by others.
Sentiment score
8.5
<p>Infrascale Backup &amp; Disaster Recovery is praised for its responsive, expert customer service, quick resolutions, and proactive communication.</p>
Issues frequently require escalation.
We primarily rely on our Cloud Support Partner for support.
The right expertise, a timely response, and being able to get to the right person to help you resolve the problem are very important.
Their average mean time to resolve open tickets is an hour.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.2
Azure Site Recovery is highly scalable, effectively managing various enterprise sizes, though setup time may increase with server numbers.
Sentiment score
6.8
<p>Infrascale Backup &amp; Disaster Recovery efficiently scales for diverse businesses, aiding growth with strong support despite occasional data capacity challenges.</p>
Azure Site Recovery is a very scalable product and service mechanism.
One person can manage hundreds and hundreds of endpoints without any issues.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.3
Azure Site Recovery is praised for stability and scalability, frequently rated 8-10, despite occasional migration challenges.
Sentiment score
8.4
<p>Infrascale Backup &amp; Disaster Recovery is stable with high uptime, fast support, minimal maintenance, and improved cloud usability.</p>
I would rate the stability of Azure Site Recovery at eight to nine out of ten.
I would rate the stability a ten out of ten.
There was a recent announcement in terms of moving Infrascale to the cloud, which makes it easier for the customer in terms of usability.
 

Room For Improvement

Azure Site Recovery needs enhancements in error logging, pricing, compatibility, scalability, stability, synchronization, security, and support services.
Users seek improvements in Infrascale's bandwidth options, Linux support, SSD use, pricing, data diversity, security, and multi-cloud integration.
There is room for improvement in the release of patches, such as ensuring they are properly managed to avoid outages.
Moreover, it does not support services like AppConfig or App Services.
Many customers do not rely on just one cloud provider and want to work with multiple clouds.
When the product works, there is really nothing to fix, but they can allow different types of backups, such as differential or incremental backups.
 

Setup Cost

Azure Site Recovery costs vary based on usage, making long-term budgeting challenging due to complexity and regular adjustments.
Infrascale Backup offers competitive, flexible pricing ideal for small enterprises, though it requires negotiation and setup costs.
The pricing of Azure Site Recovery is around a four out of ten, being somewhat cost-effective.
To someone considering Infrascale but is concerned about the price, I would say that they should get Infrascale's service no matter what it costs because any downtime or any loss of data is substantially worse than any cost for backup.
The per-terabyte pricing is very competitive compared to the others.
 

Valuable Features

Azure Site Recovery offers seamless disaster recovery with automation, scalability, and integration, though potentially costly for smaller businesses.
Infrascale provides simple, rapid VM boot-up and robust backup, recovery, and protection for servers with a user-friendly interface.
Azure provides a 99.99% SLA for their uptime, ensuring that even during outages due to patch releases, there is no data loss, merely hindered accessibility.
Its time-saving aspects allow us to write PowerShell scripts to automate failover processes.
What I like the most about it is that backups and restores are simple, straightforward, and clean.
Performing backup and recovery can be done very intuitively with the solution and the interface that is part of the solution.
 

Categories and Ranking

Azure Site Recovery
Ranking in Disaster Recovery as a Service
2nd
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
23
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Infrascale Backup & Disaste...
Ranking in Disaster Recovery as a Service
9th
Average Rating
9.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
13
Ranking in other categories
Backup and Recovery (65th), Cloud Backup (48th), Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (27th), SaaS Backup (39th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2025, in the Disaster Recovery as a Service category, the mindshare of Azure Site Recovery is 23.5%, down from 25.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Infrascale Backup & Disaster Recovery is 2.7%, up from 2.2% 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.
Harry Vining - PeerSpot reviewer
The overall ease of use and ease of management using the dashboard is excellent
I can't really think of anything that really needs to be improved from my perspective, because I only use the backup. Maybe someone who is using something else might have a different opinion on that. But for the online backup and recovery tool, I'm not going to say there's anything that needs improvement. They can always improve stuff. But from the top of my head, I can't think of anything. It does what it needs to do. That's it. It doesn't need to do anything more than what it does and nothing less than what it's doing. The Infrascale dashboard when it comes to centralized deployment and configuration is excellent. I have no problems with the solution. They could always make it better. They can always make the GUI a little bit nicer, the interface level a bit better. There's always room for improvement, but there's nothing on the top of my head that's saying, "Hey, this is what needs to be fixed." But, the programmers are probably working on their own things. So, there's always room for improvement.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
17%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Insurance Company
6%
Computer Software Company
19%
Financial Services Firm
17%
Real Estate/Law Firm
10%
Healthcare Company
9%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

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?
The pricing of Azure Site Recovery is around a four out of ten, being somewhat cost-effective. Microsoft frequently restructures their pricing, causing us to adjust packages and subscriptions, whic...
What needs improvement with Azure Site Recovery?
There is room for improvement in the release of patches, such as ensuring they are properly managed to avoid outages. The support help desk needs to improve escalation procedures. Azure ( /products...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Infrascale Platform?
They are incredibly fair and willing to work with their partners to make their pricing work for both partners and the end users. To someone considering Infrascale but is concerned about the price, ...
What needs improvement with Infrascale Platform?
When the product works, there is really nothing to fix, but they can allow different types of backups, such as differential or incremental backups.
What is your primary use case for Infrascale Platform?
We use their online backup, their cloud-based backup, and their cloud-based Office 365 backup.
 

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Sample Customers

Russell Reynolds Associates, Union Insurance, Rackspace
MSPs servicing small and mid-size companies VARs servicing mid-sized companies Direct SMB or mid-sized companies
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