Druva inSync vs Zerto comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 3, 2024

Zerto and Druva inSync are competing in the data protection and disaster recovery market. Zerto appears to have an advantage due to its feature-rich offering and customer satisfaction in deployment and service.

Features: Zerto is known for its advanced features such as near-zero RPOs, integration with vCenter Server, and its hypervisor-based replication. It supports migration and disaster recovery with hardware independence and automated IP changes during failover. Druva inSync is recognized for its cloud-first backup approach, strong data loss prevention (DLP) capabilities, and robust security measures including data encryption during backups.

Room for Improvement: Zerto could benefit from improved documentation, comprehensive reporting, and enhanced compatibility with various hypervisors. Users also seek a better notification system and more flexible licensing options. Druva inSync faces challenges with pricing and could improve its restoration speeds and user interface. Options for more real-time alerts and advanced documentation are also areas where Druva can enhance its solution.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Zerto is praised for its ease of deployment across various environments, including on-premises and hybrid clouds. Its customer service and technical support are highly rated. Druva inSync is primarily strong in public cloud deployments, with limitations noted in on-premises solutions. However, its support service is also well-regarded, though users want more proactive support.

Pricing and ROI: Zerto is seen as cost-effective in the long run despite its initial premium price, with clear licensing models and savings on time and resources through its disaster recovery capabilities. In contrast, Druva inSync's higher pricing can be a barrier for small-to-medium-sized businesses, although its security features present a competitive advantage in cloud-based data protection.

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Categories and Ranking

Druva inSync

Ranking in Cloud Backup

15th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

SaaS Backup (6th)

Zerto

Ranking in Cloud Backup

2nd

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

299

Ranking in other categories

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

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the Cloud Backup category, the mindshare of Druva inSync is 2.5%, down from 2.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Zerto is 4.1%, down from 5.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Cloud Backup

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SanjayMishra

General Manager at SARJAK CONTAINER LINES PRIVATE LIMITED

Lightweight, easy to install and configure, and it does its job automatically

One functionality I would like is the ability to manage multiple Office 365 tenants from a single console. Currently, Druva can manage only one Office 365 tenant per console. As a customer, I should be able to manage all Office 365 tenants from a single console. This is one product feature I am looking for.

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Sachin Vinay

Assistant Manager-Networks at Amrita

Leverage disaster recovery with reliable support and cost-effective future-proof features

Zerto is straightforward to implement because it only requires the installation of an agent on the VMs designated for migration. A service, typically a VM, must also be deployed at the disaster recovery location. This entire process is simple and can be completed within three days. Zerto's near-synchronous replication occurs every minute, allowing for highly granular recovery points. This means that even if interruptions or malware disruptions occur within that minute, Zerto can restore to the last known good state, effectively recovering the entire setup to the latest backup. This capability ensures high data security and minimizes potential data loss. One of the main benefits of implementing Zerto is its data compression, which significantly reduces the load on our IPsec VPN. Zerto compresses data by 80 percent before transmitting it across the VPN, minimizing the data transferred between geographically dispersed locations. This compression and subsequent decompression at the destination alleviate the strain on the VPN, preventing overload and ensuring efficient data synchronization. Zerto simplifies malware protection by integrating it into its disaster recovery and synchronization features. This comprehensive approach eliminates the need for separate antivirus setups in virtual machines and applications. It streamlines our security measures and removes the need for additional software or solutions, resulting in an excellent return on investment. Zerto's single-click recovery solution offers exceptional recovery speed. Through the user interface, a single click allows for a complete restoration from the most recent backup within two to three minutes, enabling rapid recovery and minimal downtime. Zerto's Recovery Time Objective is excellent. In the past, if a virtual machine crashed, we would recover it from a snapshot, which could take one to two hours. With Zerto, the recovery process takes only five minutes, and users are typically unaware of any disruption. This allows us to restore everything quickly and efficiently. Zerto has significantly reduced our downtime. When malware affects our data, Zerto immediately notifies us and helps us protect other applications, even those not yet implemented with Zerto. By monitoring these applications, we can quickly identify and address any potential malware spread, minimizing downtime across our systems. Zerto significantly reduces downtime and associated costs during disruptions. Our services are unified, so in the event of a disruption without Zerto, even a half-day disruption would necessitate offline procedures. This would lead to increased manpower, service delays, and substantial financial losses due to interrupted admissions and other critical processes. By unifying service processes, Zerto minimizes the impact of outages. Zerto streamlines our disaster recovery testing across multiple locations by enabling efficient failover testing without disrupting live services. Traditionally, DR testing required downtime of critical systems, but Zerto's replication and failover capabilities allow us to test in parallel with live operations. This non-disruptive approach ensures continuous service availability while validating our DR plan, even in scenarios like malware attacks, by creating a separate testing environment that mirrors the live setup. This comprehensive testing provides confidence in our ability to handle real-world incidents effectively. This saves us over 60 percent of the time. Zerto streamlines system administration tasks by automating many processes, thereby reducing the workload for multiple administrators. This allows them to focus on other university services that require attention and effectively reallocate support resources from automated tasks to those requiring more dedicated management. Zerto is used exclusively for our critical services, providing up to a 70 percent improvement in our IT resilience.

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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

"Druva is offered as a service so that we can access it from any enterprise-based browser or URL. We also have a single sign-on, which allows me to log in securely. Hence, I can easily access the system, configure it, perform day-to-day monitoring tasks, and check for any issues or configurations needed. Overall, it's a simple and easy-to-use tool with a high-speed and straightforward interface for management."

"Druva inSync is very easy to use."

"One of the most valuable features is it is available on the cloud, so I do not need to make a firewall. Second, the backup speed is outstanding. The third thing is that the section policy is very good and gives you a lot of flexibility and granularity regarding what you need to back up."

"You don't need a certified administrator to manage this product."

"Our customers do not need to purchase third party storage or a separate server for data backup."

"The tool has good features. The backup is also accurate."

"It has a straightforward installation."

"If you are looking for a backup solution, go with Druva because it's quite simple."

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"We can recover both systems on-premises and in the public cloud."

"The Move feature is the most valuable feature because it allows us to move the VM from our old environment to our new environment with minimal disruption."

"One of the valuable features is the ability to re-IP on the fly, because it makes the migration a lot smoother on the system end."

"We own another solution called VMware Site Recovery Manager, SRM. We have licenses for our entire environment and we still decided not to use it. That's how big the difference was in the experience that Zerto provides."

"In terms of continuous data protection, it's the best product that we've found that does this. It's not snapshot-based. It's continuous, so there are no specific points in time we have to worry about recovering to or from. It's pretty much any time, as long as it's within our replication window."

"I prefer Zerto because it's a little more automated. VMware has more requirements... It's a little more click-and-go versus click-and-monitor..."

"Zerto has helped us reduce overall DR testing in our company. What used to take a month I can do in less than two days."

"Zerto's user-friendliness is valuable."

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Cons

"The user quota is an area that needs to be improved."

"The product needs to improve its support."

"The support of other cloud services needs to be improved. It has very good cloud support for AWS but not with others."

"Druva inSync is very high in price. A general customer cannot afford this solution. Even if the product is good, people cannot afford such a high cost just for taking the backup. This is a recurring investment, and the customers have to pay for it every year. Druva is also yet to develop the channel and the channel or partner commitment."

"This solution would benefit from the inclusion of an on-premise backup feature, as currently, they are offering everything in the cloud."

"The solution takes a lot of time during restoration."

"The support team generally needs to be more proactive with technical and general suggestions."

"The speed could be better."

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"The new licensing model didn't work out for us because we used one-to-one replication."

"In future releases, doing backups of the environment we need to be able to do hot backups of the database."

"Zerto could add text alerts if there are critical problems and alerts if changes affect our replication."

"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."

"It has a file restore feature, which we have tried to use. We have had some issues with that, because the drives are compressed in our main file system. It is a Windows-based file server. So, it compresses the shares and can't restore those by default."

"It has some quirks. We have quirks with appliances. Some things don't really work as expected, but it is minor."

"The post-configuration part could be improved. For example, it would be super helpful to have the ability to modify DNS. Once the migration is done, we want to do some more modifications to the endpoint."

"Increased granularity in how long to keep the journal would be nice."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The product is fairly priced, I would rate its pricing five out of ten."

"The pricing is good."

"The pricing is thirty-five dollars per year or three dollars per month per user."

"The pricing of Druva inSync is very high as compared to other cloud backup solutions."

"It's approximately $4000.00 per user for one year."

"I would rate the pricing a seven out of ten, with one being very cheap and ten being very expensive."

"Out of all the solutions we evaluated, Druva inSync was the most affordable."

"The price is quite good, It's approximately $4000.00 per user for one year."

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"It is expensive."

"There may be less expensive solutions on the market but with Zerto, you get what you pay for."

"When they changed their licensing model, pricing might have gotten a little more expensive for some use cases, but it has been pretty straightforward."

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

"Zerto is like a Ferrari. It's very fast but not the cheapest solution. You're paying a high price for quality and the assurance that you will have the environment up and steady."

"I wouldn't say I like the licensing pricing structure. Every year, it increases exponentially, which bothers me a little. It's worth it in terms of the value, but I worry the price will increase even more often after the Zerto merger. I still think it's worth it and that the solution is cheaper than the others."

"In a world where others are catching up, e.g., VMware High Availability, there needs to be a less expensive option as well. When a customer has approximately 100 VMs, if you multiply by 40, we aren't charging a very high margin on it at all since the license is so expensive. We feel their pain. That is the most expensive part of it. The storage, CPU, and RAM are a lot less. It is the licensing that is really expensive. Whereas, with an option like VMware High Availability, it is a couple dollars per month. That is our spend that we are charged by VMware, then our margin is higher on those VMs. Giving us some ability to have higher margins, as an MSP, would be a good thing."

"Zerto is more cost-effective than Azure."

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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

Computer Software Company

16%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Financial Services Firm

Comms Service Provider

Computer Software Company

22%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Manufacturing Company

Healthcare Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Druva inSync?

Druva is offered as a service so that we can access it from any enterprise-based browser or URL. We also have a single sign-on, which allows me to log in securely. Hence, I can easily access the sy...

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Druva inSync?

Pricing is average, but compared to the other solution, they need to revise their price list.

What needs improvement with Druva inSync?

Real-time alerts are crucial for better incident management. Additionally, the support team generally needs to be more proactive with technical and general suggestions. The documentation should be ...

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?

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...

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Zerto?

Zerto is definitely more costly compared to its competitors, such as VMware Site Recovery Manager. It may not be suitable for small and medium-sized industries.

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Also Known As

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Zerto Virtual Replication

Overview

Druva inSync is a comprehensive data protection and governance platform that enables organizations to securely backup, recover, and manage their critical data.

With its cloud-native architecture, inSync offers scalable and efficient data protection across endpoints, cloud applications, and servers. It provides automated backups, ensuring that data is always protected and easily recoverable in case of any data loss or system failure.

In addition, inSync offers advanced data governance capabilities, allowing organizations to enforce data retention policies, monitor data usage, and comply with regulatory requirements.

With its intuitive user interface and robust security features, Druva inSync is the ideal solution for organizations looking to safeguard their data and ensure business continuity.

Druva

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

TRC Companies, Inc., ANDRITZ, Inc., Allergan, Plc, ServiceNow, Live Nation, Shire, DHL, Leidos, NASA, UC Berkeley, Leica, Hatco Corporation, Flex, Enphase.

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

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