We performed a comparison between Azure Site Recovery and NAKIVO Backup & Replication based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Disaster Recovery (DR) Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Our primary use case is for disaster recovery and business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR)."
"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."
"What I love about Azure Site Recovery is its simplicity for basic configurations."
"Azure Site Recovery helps to save costs."
"It is a very stable product and very scalable."
"Azure Site Recovery is an easy-to-use and fairly stable solution for disaster recovery."
"We use the tool for business continuity purposes."
"Site Recovery's most valuable features include its user-friendly console and the ease of migration."
"The most valuable feature is the support, as it is directly from Nakivo and it is possible to send a support request that contains all of the technical data on the environment, as well as the software, required for the answer."
"The solution is stable; there is no need to retry any sort of jobs in daily operations."
"The chat functionality with Nakivo Support in the web interface is very unique and we love it."
"The ability to restore in a catastrophic event is priceless, since every company must use a backup solution of some sort."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of creating a backup copy job to get the backups to a second device."
"You can have it setup and running within a few minutes."
"It has saved us numerous times from power outages and server failure."
"The upgrade process is manual but very simple to do."
"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."
"In the newest version of Azure Site Recovery, the configuration was a little more complex, so this is an area for improvement."
"Could have more integration with other platforms."
"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."
"Azure Site Recovery's deployment is complex. There are a lot of bugs, and it needs to improve stability."
"The product's performance is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The primary area for improvement in Azure Site Recovery is its pricing."
"Their product is good and it meets our requirements, however, new features are also most welcome and we never hesitated to try new features."
"The first implementation is a bit difficult but once is up and running is rock solid and extremely easy to manage."
"It would be great if the product could be expanded to support other virtual technologies."
"Updating VM Tools on a replicated VM could be better."
"I need no more valuable features for backs-up. I have not yet tried the latest release, however, I have all the features that I need."
"One of the things I liked least about this software is when an update was pushed to one of the servers we had, somehow we didn't receive the update and needed some quick troubleshooting."
"It could be a little bit faster in terms of backup and offer more reliable SQL server backups."
"Log and report creation can be improved."
Azure Site Recovery is ranked 1st in Disaster Recovery as a Service with 19 reviews while NAKIVO Backup & Replication is ranked 5th in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software with 85 reviews. Azure Site Recovery is rated 8.2, while NAKIVO Backup & Replication is rated 9.4. The top reviewer of Azure Site Recovery writes "Useful for restoration purposes that ensures that the users get to save a lot of time". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NAKIVO Backup & Replication writes "Good deduplication, easy to configure, and offers a free version". Azure Site Recovery is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Zerto, VMware SRM, AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery and Commvault Cloud, whereas NAKIVO Backup & Replication is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup, Acronis Cyber Protect, Rubrik and Zerto. See our Azure Site Recovery vs. NAKIVO Backup & Replication report.
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