BDRSuite Backup &amp; Replication vs Zerto comparison

BDRSuite Backup & Replication

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 11, 2024

Zerto and BDRSuite Backup & Replication compete in the backup and disaster recovery space. Zerto appears to have the upper hand due to its superior real-time replication and versatility.

Features: Zerto offers continuous data protection, rapid recovery capabilities, and high performance and reliability. BDRSuite Backup & Replication provides comprehensive backup options, simplified management, and user-friendly implementation.

Room for Improvement: Zerto can be resource-intensive, requires better reporting and analytics, and might hinder performance in some systems. BDRSuite Backup & Replication could benefit from more advanced recovery options, enhanced integration with other systems, and expanded features for tech-savvy users.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Zerto integrates well into complex infrastructures and has responsive customer support. BDRSuite Backup & Replication offers straightforward setup, comprehensive documentation, and supportive customer service.

Pricing and ROI: Zerto pricing is higher, reflecting its extensive features and high performance, with strong ROI due to rapid recovery and protection for critical applications. BDRSuite Backup & Replication has competitive pricing suitable for smaller organizations with tight budgets, offering high ROI due to effective backup solutions and ease of use.

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BDRSuite Backup & Replication vs. Zerto

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Categories and Ranking

BDRSuite Backup & Replication

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

12th

Ranking in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software

7th

Average Rating

8.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

MSP Backup (3rd)

Zerto

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

2nd

Ranking in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software

2nd

Average Rating

9.0

Number of Reviews

281

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Migration (4th), Cloud Backup (2nd)

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2024, in the Disaster Recovery (DR) Software category, the mindshare of BDRSuite Backup & Replication is 1.2%, down from 1.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Zerto is 17.0%, down from 19.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Disaster Recovery (DR) Software

Featured Reviews

Anand Davda

Managing Director at Red Chip Solutions

Jan 24, 2024

Backups are remarkably simple, we can instantly recover data and unify all our data sources

BDRSuite helps us manage our virtual machine backups and restorations. The most beneficial features for data protection are the BDRSuite for Windows servers and the BDRSuite for MySQL. BDRSuite allows us to instantly recover data automatically by clicking on the restore button. It is useful that BDRSuite provides multiple restore options for recovering data in a granular manner because we don't always need all the data. The incremental backup processing provided by BDRSuite is important for recovering particular data points. The backup and replication scheduling options are good. Adding and removing backup jobs using BDRSuite is remarkably simple. The intuitive interface makes it a one-time setup, eliminating the need for frequent management. BDRSuite has brought significant improvements to our organization by providing invaluable peace of mind regarding our data backups. BDRSuite's comprehensiveness is helpful, especially for our Google Drive integration. BDRSuite enables us to unify all of our data sources into one solution. Eliminating multiple backup solutions has saved us a lot of time allowing us to focus on optimizing our servers. We create backup repositories in Google Cloud automatically using BDRSuite. BDRSuite has saved us 30 percent of our time.

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Amit-Gumber

Senior Consultant at HCL Technologies

Aug 9, 2024

Competitive price, user-friendly, and continuous data protection

The most valuable feature is the resiliency towards cyber threats for data protection. The main reasons for adopting Zerto are data protection and being able to do disaster recovery for site recovery. We can ensure that if the site goes down, data is available to all the users within a fraction of a second. On top of these, we have the resiliency towards malware and other security threats and attacks. Zerto has an embedded feature to protect our data from external and internal threats. Zerto is very easy to use. It is very user-friendly. It is a GUI-based platform with a centralized dashboard where we can create policies, snapshots, replication policies, and disaster recovery policies. It is very user-friendly.

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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 most valuable feature is its ability to copy quickly. We have about 12 terabytes, and trying to copy that volume size through the file structure would take a week. BDRSuite has a different approach to copying and is much faster."

"The most important features are the backup and the availability of the Universal Explorer. The in-transit compression is great."

"The main difference I see between Vembu and the other solutions we've tried is that with Vembu, you don't need anybody to tell you what to do. Once you have done the installation you just look at the user interface — it's very friendly — and you can do things yourself without resorting to help from anybody."

"The compression, encryption, and deduplication features all work fine."

"It suits our needs, is versatile, and the functionality is there."

"The initial setup is easy and very nice."

"I am very pleased with the compression, especially with some of the larger SQL databases that need backup. The amount of compression is impressive."

"It helps me with restores. I can repeat a test multiple times: Do the test, the restore, and then test again. It saves me time because I don't have to rebuild the VMs every time."

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"The most valuable feature of Zerto is its overall flexibility, where it can be used for standard DR or you can also use it for server migrations, data center consolidations, etc."

"The live test failover is the most valuable feature because it allows me to validate that my data is protected in the event of a failure."

"It protect and provide DR."

"Zerto is very good at providing continuous data protection. For replication purposes, it's definitely better than Veeam. Veeam doesn't do as good a job as Zerto does when it comes to replication. The other alternative would be to just have backups somewhere. But even with backups, you lose a lot of time because you have to set it all up. With Zerto, you failover, you just click a couple of buttons and you run from the other location."

"We can spin up our environment in DR without affecting production, which is probably the biggest feature for us. We have the ability to do passive testing. We can even test scenarios, such as installing software or changing software. We can make modifications without affecting our production environment. So, the test functionality of being able to test the failover solution and being able to bring up our virtual machines in a test mode is the biggest benefit."

"I like the ease of recovery and backup the most."

"Its ability to roll back if the VM or the server that you are recovering does not come up right is also valuable. You have the ability to roll back a few seconds or a few minutes. The rollback feature is great."

"The ability to have a RPO of seconds has enabled us to restore data to just before an incident has occurred, which certainly saves a lot of time and money."

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Cons

"I don't know if it exists, but it would be helpful to get email notifications when there are issues with the backup. I'm sure it probably exists, but I just don't know how to do it. They also have an Azure proxy feature where you can restore to Azure. It's not really well documented. I think they should document how to do that a little better."

"I saw that it's not possible to have the last full backup duplicated on our site. Therefore, if I have a lot of information on the main site, I would not want to copy any information to those site servers. It would be nice to be able to make a copy of the last full backup."

"There were issues with the implementation because of incompatibilities between the tool implementation and our current VMware installation. So, it was an implementation issue that doesn't allow me to use it for VMware backup in the manner in which we would want to use it. That wasn't clear from the evaluation stage nor was it clear from the first utilization of it because it worked in the environment that it was being evaluated in. Based on that, we went ahead and made the purchase of the full implementation. At that point, it became clear that there would be limitations in that implementation that could not be overcome without doing upgrades to the production environment."

"The response time of the support could be improved a little bit. Sometimes, I need to wait for two or three hours to get support. With VMware, we can get urgent support in an hour. Other than that, I'm pretty good with BDRSuite."

"We are still exploring its features, but we want to see more features that we desire over time."

"I have seen that the BDRSuite user interface can be less intuitive and more challenging to navigate compared to other similar products."

"Vembu BDR currently supports backups of O365, although it does not currently have an email archiving function to the O365 backups."

"The reports are at a basic level and there is room for improvement there. It only has historical reports and VM backup job-level reports."

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"There needs to be more flexibility in the licensing."

"I would like to have more granular notifications for jobs and workloads within the applying case application."

"The setup process is time-consuming."

"We encountered some issues during Active Directory recovery."

"Zerto's documentation is outdated. I'm finding it hard to find documents related to my questions. Their documentation is bad."

"Zerto's analytics could be more detailed. The analytics report seems to be more difficult to read."

"The product could benefit from improvements in automation, specifically in the area of failovers."

"Zerto is too reliant on VMware's vCenter. It's tough to upgrade, move, or do anything related to virtual servers with vCenter."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The pricing could have been cheaper."

"Its price is fair, and they still allow perpetual licensing, which is extremely important for us. They also have offline licensing. I am not aware of any costs in addition to the standard licensing fees. In terms of the affordability of the solution for businesses with a tight budget, you aren't going to beat it."

"The pricing is fair."

"I think it is a good value for the price."

"I deployed Veeam and it worked very well, but the problem was that its price was very high. As a result, I searched for another solution and found Vembu. I deployed it and we have been happy with it. For us, the major difference was the pricing."

"It has actually benefited my operation a fair bit. VMware requires a special hardware while Hyper-V runs on pretty much anything. It doesn't require any special hardware, so it saves a bit of money. Because Vembu does Hyper-V backup, there is no limit on how many VMs you can have. The newer version has a 100 VM limit on the single license, which has been greatly beneficial, because on one host a 100 VMs is a fair bit."

"It helps us deliver an enterprise-level data protection solution and reduce budgets at a price that - and we don't want to encourage them to change their pricing - is a great value."

"It is very cost efficient, effective. I’d say it's one-third the cost of Veritas when compared to the server backups. I even tried image backups on Acronis, but Acronis is very expensive. So these are some of the key reasons why I opted for it."

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"Obviously, it would be nice to have it for free. Nevertheless, a lot of effort has gone into making it a top-notch product. An excellent product with expert support is never going to be cheap. I think it's fairly priced for what it does and the benefit it brings to our business."

"I think the cost is reasonable for VM licensing. It's not outside the scope of an enterprise product."

"Zerto is more cost-effective than Azure."

"The pricing doesn't seem too bad for what it does."

"Zerto's price is reasonable enough."

"If it were easier to license, and to scale it out a little bit more economically, that'd be a godsend. At the end of the day, my druthers would be to have all 200 of our servers protected by this platform. But for a company our size, that stretches our IT budget and it just doesn't make economic sense."

"At the time I had purchased the product, the pricing was fair and reasonable. Over the years, costs have certainly gone up, which makes it hard for healthcare companies to use the solution."

"Pricing is adequate at the standard of the product, but there could be "always" some improvement. We would like to see a consumption model that would charge in a DR scenario, where you're failing over and consuming those resources, instead of a per-protected-node model."

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Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Nov 9, 2014

VMware SRM vs. Veeam vs. Zerto

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Retailer

22%

Computer Software Company

16%

Financial Services Firm

Comms Service Provider

Computer Software Company

21%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Manufacturing Company

Healthcare Company

Company Size

By reviewers

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Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about BDRSuite?

The best part of BDRSuite is how user-friendly it is and how it does not require any maintenance after the initial setup.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for BDRSuite?

The price for BDRSuite is justified. BDRSuite is affordable and a good fit for small businesses.

What needs improvement with BDRSuite?

Our initial experience with BDRSuite highlighted the need for improved user onboarding materials. Technicians encountered difficulties learning the software, extending the initial setup time. Addit...

What advice do you have for others considering Oracle Data Guard?

Ik fluister:VM Host Oracle en DataGuard hebben we per toeval vervangen door Zerto :-) tijdens de Zerto implementatie en VPG werden de Host Data in write-ack Block-Level gerepliceerd. Qua licentie 1...

What do you like most about Zerto?

The most valuable feature of Zerto for us is its DR capability.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Zerto?

Compared to other options like SRM, Zerto is a more expensive solution, making it primarily suitable for larger organizations. Smaller and medium-sized businesses might find Zerto's cost expensive....

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Also Known As

Vembu BDRSuite

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Vembu Technologies

Overview

BDRSuite by Vembu offers comprehensive and cost-effective Backup and Disaster Recovery software tailored to meet the diverse data protection requirements of Businesses and Service Providers. BDRSuite provides robust backup solutions for a wide range of IT workloads, including virtual machines, servers, endpoints, SaaS applications, cloud VMs, NAS/File Shares, and databases & applications. It offers the flexibility to store backups anywhere and centrally manage the entire backup infrastructure.

BDRSuite is designed to help businesses keep their data secure and ensure it is easily recoverable in the event of data loss or ransomware attacks. With BDRSuite, businesses can achieve reliable data protection and ensure business continuity – all at an affordable price.

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PRICING DETAILS

VMs, Servers & Cloud Backup at $48 per workload/year (VMware, Hyper-V, KVM, oVirt, Proxmox, Windows, Linux, AWS, Azure, File Share-500 GB)

Endpoint/Workstation Backup at $12 per endpoint/year (Windows, Linux, Mac)

SaaS Backup at $12 per user/year (Microsoft 365, Google Workspace)

DBs & Applications Backup at $72 per application/year (SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Microsoft Exchange Server, SharePoint Server)

Zerto is used for disaster recovery, business continuity, data migration, and ransomware recovery, providing continuous data protection and near real-time replication. Valued for ease of use, efficient failover processes, and versatile integration, it enhances organizational efficiency, reduces errors, and boosts productivity.

Sample Customers

NASA, Intel, CISCO, PHILIPS, Atos, HEXAWARE, Motorola

United Airlines, HCA, XPO Logistics, TaxSlayer, McKesson, Insight Global, American Airlines, Tencate, Aaron’s, Grey’s County, Kingston Technologies