Delphix vs Zerto comparison

The compared Delphix and Zerto solutions aren't in the same category. Delphix is ranked #1 in TDM , with an average rating of 8.3, and holds a 29.8% mindshare in the category. Zerto is ranked #2 in DRS , with an average rating of 8.8, and holds a 15.4% mindshare. Additionally, 81% of Delphix users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 98% of Zerto users who would recommend it.

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81% willing to recommend

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98% willing to recommend

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Delphix and Zerto based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Test Data Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

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Categories and Ranking

Delphix

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Test Data Management (1st), Copy Data Management (1st), Data Masking (1st)

Zerto

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

279

Ranking in other categories

Backup and Recovery (2nd), Cloud Migration (4th), Cloud Backup (3rd), Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (2nd)

Mindshare comparison

Delphix and Zerto aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Delphix is designed for Test Data Management and holds a mindshare of 29.8%, up 28.9% compared to last year.
Zerto, on the other hand, focuses on Disaster Recovery (DR) Software, holds 15.4% mindshare, down 19.9% since last year.

Test Data Management

Disaster Recovery (DR) Software

Featured Reviews

Amit-Rastogi

TDM Architect at T-Mobile

Handles large volumes of data with ease, but the self-service portal must be more user-friendly

My advice depends on an organization’s needs. If an organization has a large volume of data, Delphix is a good choice. It is robust and very efficient with large volumes of data and different kinds of databases. If someone is looking for a one-stop solution with all features and capabilities, they must consider a different tool. Overall, I rate the product a six or seven out of ten.

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Derrick Brockel

Senior Manager of Operations at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

Good GUI, easy setup, and fast recovery

When we tested it, it had more functions than what we used it for, but it was a very good BCDR product. We liked the reliability and availability. Zerto enables you to do disaster recovery (DR) in the cloud, but we did not use that feature. We used Zerto to help protect VMs in our environment. It was strong in that aspect. I would rate it an eight out of ten there. Zerto's speed of recovery was comparable. There was no synchronous and asynchronous replication. If I had to give it a number, it would be a seven out of ten. It was the same as others. There was not much difference. It was easy to migrate data. There was some initial configuration in syncing, but it was easy. I would rate it an eight out of ten in terms of the ease of migration. Zerto’s ability to keep our users collaborating with one another during a data migration was good. I would rate it a seven out of ten in this aspect as well as in terms of its impact on RTOs. Zerto helps reduce downtime in any situation. We can bring up a database in minutes. It probably takes five minutes for the final sync. The cost of downtime depends on the database. It may be 50,000 if you have call center people sitting around. Normally, most of our small outages like that ranged in the tens of thousands. Zerto did save time in a data recovery situation. We did not have ransomware, but there were times we had database corruption where the users would corrupt the database, and the database would not start. It would do snapshotting. It was not necessarily ransomware, but it was testing upgrades or Oracle upgrades. The data recovery happened within five minutes, if not sooner. A normal restore would probably be four to eight hours if we had to restore from a tape and apply logs. Zerto helps to reduce an organization's DR testing. You can spin off an extra database pretty quickly and have users test against the third or fourth copy. It saves one to three days of testing depending on test cycles. You could do sequential testing. I would probably measure it more in days than hours. All of that time can be used by a DBA to do something else. Zerto reduces the number of staff involved in a data recovery situation. One person could probably orchestrate it now versus one to three people. It did not reduce the number of staff involved in overall backup and DR management because we are pretty thin. We would not have gotten rid of anybody.

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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

"Delphix's data distribution is powerful. It's easy to distribute data with this solution. The main advantage of Delphix is that it generates copies of data."

"The performance offered by the product, its price, and its ability to handle structured and unstructured data were good when compared to the other products in the market."

"It's really easy to install."

"The most valuable aspect is the product is easy to manage, with a good dashboard. We can easily configure it on the front end and back end."

"The product is efficient in handling large volumes of data."

"It provides the ability to roll back to a point in time or roll forward without the assistance of a DBA."

"The most valuable feature is VDB provisioning."

"Delphix can do data masking in any format. Not many solutions can do that."

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"The initial setup was very straightforward and easy. We were able to start replication within minutes of the initial setup."

"The second feature that sold us was the sub-second RPO. One of the things that made Zerto's product stand out from some of the more traditional solutions four years ago was its ability to maintain sub-second RPO over a group of machines, and that group of machines could be spread over multiple storage hardware."

"The recovery speed is much faster and less complicated."

"The ability to quickly bring up VMs within a test environment allows us to test our disaster recovery functions and ensures that they would function just as well in an actual disaster scenario."

"It reduced the time for DR tests from the infrastructure side. Being able to get our work done in a matter of a couple of minutes so the app teams can get to work and can do their testing has been significant."

"The most valuable feature is the customization that allows me to set my protection group myself."

"The near-synchronous replication is one of the primary reasons we're using Zerto because we have recovery intervals of sub-five seconds. On a scale of 10, where 10 is "very important", this feature is a 10."

"The disaster recovery features are the best I've found."

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Cons

"My only complaint about this solution is the price."

"Delphix could be improved with better usability and an agentless option."

"As a commercial model, it's very good. However, maybe it would be nice for Delphix to integrate with some other platforms."

"GUI could be improved."

"The solution’s self-service portal must be more interactive and user-friendly."

"The solution's price needs improvement."

"Delphix needs better partnerships from a customer perspective. It's how they sell it, not what they're selling."

"Could be improved with richer reporting capabilities."

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"The technical support has room for improvement."

"Its initial setup can be better. It looks easy, but if you do not have things in the right place, it is not as easy as it looks. Some of the instructions were not clear. They were a little bit confusing. For example, while setting up SSH initially, it was a little bit unclear if I needed to use a regular credential or some other credential. This was one of the things that was a little fuzzy, and we had to get somebody else involved to help us out."

"Zerto could improve its pricing and customer care. I've never used customer care, but I talked to someone who had, and they weren't given the information they needed."

"I think Zerto could do better with size planning because it would be nice to analyze a server for a week and give an estimate on sizing the Journal."

"This solution could be improved if it met all the requirements that we look for including supporting multiple operating systems. We would prefer to use one solution for DR and backup."

"It would be difficult to do, but I would love it if Zerto handled some of the scripting and things necessary to do a recovery. For example, it would be helpful if the solution could update the DNS to point to a new location. It would be nice to automate some of those tasks that you have to do to recover a VM and they were kinda out-of-the-box point-and-click things rather than things that required you to write a script."

"A slight disadvantage of Zerto is that it requires the Windows Server operating system as the base OS. Over time, I would like to see more offerings in that regard. There should be more deployment options other than just the Windows operating system."

"When we do failover and failback, it doesn't maintain some of the settings that it should and I don't really understand why that happens."

More Zerto cons

Pricing and Cost Advice

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

"It is an expensive solution."

"The solution's pricing was reasonable and lower than one million."

"The product is a little bit expensive."

"The cost is $370K annually for the Delphix Masking Engine and Delphix Virtualization Engine."

"I would say the price is a little high but affordable for our needs."

"Delphix's pricing is affordable."

"Zerto's price seems fair. It's competitive."

"Zerto is reasonably price for the product that you're getting. We keep on buying more licenses, so it's a good price."

"It works very well as a backup and recovery solution, with frequent recovery points. It's very good. But it's too pricey for us to use it as a backup solution for all of our clients. Not every customer needs recovery points every five seconds."

"The licensing is a little bit steep, but there is some value that you do get for it as well."

"The pricing is a little more expensive in comparison to other tools."

"The only negative part that I have seen so far has been the cost. It is kind of pricey, but you get what you pay for. Zerto is a lot faster than other solutions and you get enhanced performance."

"The solution is expensive, but it's worth the price."

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

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

27%

Computer Software Company

12%

Insurance Company

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

22%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Manufacturing Company

Healthcare Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Delphix?

The performance offered by the product, its price, and its ability to handle structured and unstructured data were good when compared to the other products in the market.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Delphix?

The solution's pricing was reasonable and lower than one million.

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What needs improvement with Delphix?

It would be good if any CI/CD and DevOps-aligned feature could be triggered through the DevOps pipeline. Right now, we have to trigger the jobs and then integrate them with DevOps, which requires s...

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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...

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What do you like most about Zerto?

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 feat...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Zerto?

I would rate the pricing, setup cost, and licensing around a seven on a scale of one to ten. The pricing model could be more flexible to accommodate startup companies with lower budgets.

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Compared 18% of the time

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Compared 17% of the time

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Compared 8% of the time

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Compared 8% of the time

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Compared 7% of the time

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Overview

Delphix is a software company that specializes in data virtualization and data management solutions. The company's primary product is the Delphix Dynamic Data Platform, which enables organizations to streamline data operations and accelerate application development.

Delphix focuses on solving data challenges faced by enterprises, such as data provisioning, data masking, data integration, and data versioning. The platform works by creating virtual copies of data, known as "data pods," which are lightweight and can be easily accessed and shared across various environments, such as development, testing, and analytics.

Delphix Features:

Data Virtualization: Create virtual data copies without physical copies, reducing storage needs.
Data Masking: Secure sensitive data with realistic yet fictional information for privacy and compliance.
Data Integration: Streamline data integration and provisioning across various sources and platforms.
Data Versioning: Manage multiple data versions for rollbacks, comparisons, and compliance.
Self-Service Data Management: Empower users to access and refresh data copies independently, boosting productivity.
DataOps Automation: Automate data operations for faster application development and streamlined workflows.

Delphix is used by organizations across various industries, including financial services, healthcare, retail, and technology, to accelerate software development, improve data security, and enhance data management practices.

Delphix Benefits:

Data agility: Rapid provisioning of virtual data copies speeds up application development.
Storage efficiency: Lightweight virtual copies reduce storage needs and infrastructure costs.
Data security and compliance: Robust data masking ensures privacy and regulatory compliance.
Enhanced collaboration: Simultaneous access to data promotes teamwork and knowledge sharing.
Faster data integration: Seamless integration with various sources improves accessibility and insights.
Improved data governance: Centralized control enforces consistency and supports compliance.
Reduced risk and resilience: Data versioning allows easy rollbacks and recovery.
Operational efficiency: Automation streamlines processes and improves resource allocation.
Cost savings: Optimized storage and streamlined workflows lead to reduced expenses.

Reviews from Real Users

PeerSpot user, Product Owner & Scrum master at a financial services firm, says that "Delphix's data distribution is powerful. It's easy to distribute data with this solution. The main advantage of Delphix is that it generates copies of data."

Niaz Aziz, Projects Team Lead at Azeemi Technologies, states that Delphix “Has good scalability and works efficiently for data visualization”

Another PeerSpot user, DevOps ERP Engineer at a tech services company, writes that Delphix has “Excellent working environment, with continuous updates and affordable pricing”

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

Alberta Blue Cross, Fastweb, SABMiller, California Insurance Guarantee Association (CIGA), Molina Healthcare, AT&T, Nike, Facebook, eBay, Comcast, IBM, HP, Intel, Avaya, BNP Paribas, P&B, Toyota, Walmart, Best Western, Directv, JPMorganChase, Verizon, Bank of the West, Fannie Mae

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

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