Datto Cloud Continuity vs Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup comparison

Datto Cloud Continuity vs. Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup

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Categories and Ranking

Datto Cloud Continuity

Ranking in Cloud Backup

18th

Ranking in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software

16th

Average Rating

8.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Ba...

Ranking in Cloud Backup

45th

Ranking in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software

26th

Average Rating

8.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Backup and Recovery (57th)

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2024, in the Cloud Backup category, the mindshare of Datto Cloud Continuity is 1.1%, down from 1.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup is 1.0%, down from 1.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Cloud Backup

Featured Reviews

JasonGrant

Founder at The Automated Method

Mar 13, 2023

The vendor offers a complete turnkey solution for managed service providers

Datto's only shortcoming is RMM. They have a portal-based connection service like ConnectWise, but it does backups and keeps things running. Datto purchased Backupify and Kaseya bought Datto. If they upped the ante in their RMM, I could see them dominating the MSP space. At the end of the day, MSPs are responsible for networks, software, devices, and backup. Datto covers all these functions so they could offer a turnkey MSP solution. There are so many IT companies out there because there are so many ways to become a managed service provider. Datto does it all—RMM, security, network hardware, backup—so you could white-label it, come up with some weird logo on Canva, and open a LinkedIn account, then you're a managed service provider overnight.

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Heriberto Mendez Olivo

CEO at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees

Mar 29, 2024

Offers a comprehensive feature set offered at a competitive price

Two months ago, a client had a problem with hardware failure and relied on Altaro VM Backup for backup and recovery in their hybrid VM environment. They found the solution easy to configure and manage The most valuable feature of Altaro VM Backup is its ability to backup and restore various types…

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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 recovery time objective and recovery point objective were most valuable. It was easy to use, and it was easy to recover a file. I was the head of sales and a product evaluator for an MSSP, so I never had to deal with recovery from ransomware. However, I was confident that if ransomware had occurred, I would only lose a maximum of 59 minutes of data. The files were encrypted."

"The solution's reliability is one of its most valuable features...It is a very stable solution."

"The solution has the capability to scale well."

"Datto has strong competition, but they succeeded in linking their service to the device. It's easy for managed service providers to sell and upsell products using their portal and the remote monitoring and maintenance."

"The product's initial setup phase is easy."

"The platform provides a faster backup process."

"The initial setup was simple and easy. Anyone without prior experience can install, configure, and use it."

"Valuable features for us include quick recovery, compression, and deduplication."

"This solution is stable."

"Excellent compression and deduplication with off-site WAN backup included."

"The product has many valuable features for handling backup needs, including replication, live migration, and incremental disaster recovery."

"Ability to restore to any host."

"The interface is user-friendly and even if our tech isn't onsite, we can work with the owners to confirm that the data will be restored with no issues."

"The most valuable feature of Altaro VM Backup is its ability to backup and restore various types of data, including Active Directory, application servers, and SQL Server databases."

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Cons

"I don't have any feedback to provide in terms of features that may be lacking."

"Datto's only shortcoming is RMM. They have a portal-based connection service like ConnectWise, but it does backups and keeps things running. Datto purchased Backupify and Kaseya bought Datto. If they upped the ante in their RMM, I could see them dominating the MSP space. At the end of the day, MSPs are responsible for networks, software, devices, and backup. Datto covers all these functions so they could offer a turnkey MSP solution."

"At the time I was using it, I would've focused more on signatures of malicious software in the cloud. I love Datto, and I know they're on the right path, but I probably would've focused more on the operating system update management. When you go from the desk to the cloud or from the server room to the cloud, everything changes. Everything is different. You're not in control of your servers anymore. It is from the Active Directory management perspective and not from the perspective of zero-day attacks or other similar things. At the time, more focus on zero-day attacks and business email compromise (BEC) would've been a better protection factor than just educating about how many of these attacks have occurred."

"They are now providing the device instead of selling it, while wanting their users to sign a three-year contract, and this is something which my clients don't like...I dislike the fact that signing a three-year contract is required."

"The fact that Datto Cloud Continuity is not cheap is one of the aspects that I don't like about the product, making it an area where improvements are required."

"The product's scalability features could be even better."

"It would be nice to see a feature that backs up the host so that, in case of a server failure, an entire server could be restored all at once."

"If you look into the performance of a virtual machine and you look to the performance of the physical machine, the correlation between these is totally unclear."

"The initial set up was complex, and I was not able to do the set up myself."

"Replication is not fast, the GUI could be more user-friendly, and technical support is lacking in Iran."

"Stability."

"The application could include a feature to install a set size of data, such as the ability to store a single application with all its registry information for easy transfer."

"The scalability of the solution is limited."

"Basically, how it works is that you have a single local drive, and then you have a cloud backup. It'd be nice if you could rotate the single local backup drive. As of now, you can't."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"As the company grew from business continuity—or what used to be called business BCDR—they brought on services. Certain services, such as SaaS protection, were a value-add, but you would expect to pay for them. They are not going to be free. It is just the life that you live when you're evaluating software vendors, partners, etc. There is going to be some form of a base offering, and then there are going to be different tiers that you need to get up to a better level."

"I rate the product price an eight on a scale of one to ten, where one is low price and ten is high price."

"No other product offers these features for this price. The ROI is great."

"There is a free version for Hosts with 2 VMs."

"There is a free version for two VMs. I would advise to study the deployment environment well, prior to committing to order a license per host."

"The pricing is okay,"

"VMware is a little pricey, but it is a good solution and priced similar to other products."

"By implementing the solution at multiple locations, significant cost savings were achieved."

"Altaro had the best prices and ROI in the whole bunch that we evaluated."

"Altaro VM Backup is affordably priced. It is a best value for its price and has almost every feature that an expensive, popular product offers."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

23%

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

Real Estate/Law Firm

Computer Software Company

16%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Financial Services Firm

Company Size

By reviewers

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Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Datto Cloud Continuity?

The product's initial setup phase is easy.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Datto Cloud Continuity?

I rate the product price an eight on a scale of one to ten, where one is low price and ten is high price.

What needs improvement with Datto Cloud Continuity?

The fact that Datto Cloud Continuity is not cheap is one of the aspects that I don't like about the product, making it an area where improvements are required.

What do you like most about Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup?

The most valuable feature of Altaro VM Backup is its ability to backup and restore various types of data, including Active Directory, application servers, and SQL Server databases.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup?

Altaro VM Backup is quite affordable in comparison to other products.

What needs improvement with Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup?

Improvement areas for Altaro VM Backup include enhancing backup and deduplication solutions for continuous operation and offering an all-in-one solution for hardware backup. Additionally, integrati...

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Also Known As

Datto Cloud Continuity for PCs

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Overview

Datto Cloud Continuity for PCs is much more than just cloud backup. MSPs can protect clients’ Windows-based computers from downtime and data loss and more importantly, rapidly recover data if disaster strikes.

Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup is a powerful, reliable and easy-to-use backup and replication solution for Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware virtual machines (VMs) and physical Windows servers, to protect against enterprise data loss. The award-winning solution provides robust, streamlined and enterprise-level functionality.

Reduce downtime and data loss: Thanks to Continous Data Protection (CDP) and WAN-optimized replication, your backup files are available in just minutes in the event of a data loss scenario and you can continue working as usual. The solution’s unique Augmented Inline Deduplication also gives you massive savings on your backup storage and dramatically reduces costs.

Sample Customers

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Thomson Reuters, Microsoft, Amazon, Harvard University, MIT, Peugeot, Xerox

Datto Cloud Continuity vs. Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup