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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Druva inSync vs. Zerto

December 2024

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Categories and Ranking

Druva inSync

Ranking in Cloud Backup

17th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

SaaS Backup (6th)

Zerto

Ranking in Cloud Backup

3rd

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

279

Ranking in other categories

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

Mindshare comparison

As of December 2024, in the Cloud Backup category, the mindshare of Druva inSync is 2.8%, down from 2.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Zerto is 4.2%, down from 5.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Ahmad Mohammed EL-DADA

Manager, Information Technology at KUN Sports

Provides server-side and backend application support but needs better interface

The last update made the interface look somewhat unfamiliar to users. Data recovery was technically flawless at some point. However, an update after a merger changed things. The current procedure for data encryption is not as straightforward as before, and we're facing some challenges. Specifically, one user encrypted their data, and since they have left the company, we cannot decrypt it. This has resulted in a loss of access to that data.

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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

"The initial setup is straightforward."

"It has a straightforward installation."

"The recovery aspect of the solution is its most valuable feature."

"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."

"It's incredibly fast."

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

"The way they handle the backups is pretty good."

"Users do not need to contact IT administrators to recover lost or deleted files. They can do it on their own, eliminating waiting time."

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"Continuous protection is Zerto's most valuable aspect."

"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 is a flexible and resilient business continuity and disaster recovery solution."

"Four years ago when we did a PoC between two other vendors and Zerto, there were two features of Zerto that sold it, hands-down. One was the ease of creating protection groups, the ease with which our engineers could create protection, add virtual machines into the Zerto product, and get them under DR protection."

"The communication between the VM and the secondary data center is the most valuable feature."

"The quickness and efficiency of creating snapshots, on a real-time basis, is one of the most valuable features. Whenever changes are made on a server, Zerto starts taking snapshots right away and replicating them to the DR site. It's very effective and very quick."

"There are two things that are keeping us with the solution: 1. It does a very good job of keeping the data in sync at all times. 2. In the event of a failover or in the event of a contingency, we are able to retrieve the data very quickly without any issues."

"We relocated all our virtual machines from Belgium to Budapest, Hungary. I am not sure how we would have done it without Zerto, because we were able to keep the data in sync. We would have needed to have a lot more expensive storage products online at the time that could have kept that replication. From what I have seen from other methods, that would have required a much higher amount of bandwidth as well, then the cost would have been extreme. The mechanisms available to us with a storage space replication would have been more labor-intensive and prone to error. It was much easier and more successful with Zerto than other ways at our disposal."

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Cons

"If I could have an accelerator or something to back up the solution on the cloud, that would be helpful. Also, it would be helpful if the accelerator could give me a buffer of a couple of days for any kind of immediate recovery on an offsite."

"The backup time is very poor. The backup runs continuously. It goes on from morning till night. The system performance also becomes very poor when Druva inSync is running."

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

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

"It would be good if bare metal backups were possible."

"One functionality I would like is the ability to manage multiple Office 365 tenants from a single console."

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

"The one area that needs to improve is the pricing."

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"Overall, Zerto is doing a very good job. We have experienced a few downtimes on networking. Most of the time, they come up with a solution immediately to sort out any challenge that may affect data flow or data migration. It does not happen frequently. We might experience it once in two months, but when we face any downtime, it does not impact the data."

"It is difficult to manage failing over between sites if you are at the site that was impacted."

"Some of the integrations with our internal tools, in particular, company-specific ones, do not work. In cases like this, we have to ask for additional support."

"It would be great if Zerto could automate replication more."

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

"Zerto's connectivity with automation platforms could be improved. For example, vCenter can use a VMware-developed tool called Site Recovery Manager. That can be integrated with automation platforms such as Terraform, Ansible, Chef, or Puppet, to perform automated, self-sufficient recoveries to essentially avoid any downtime. To my knowledge, Zerto does not have integration with those platforms."

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

"The replication layer can probably be improved."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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

"The pricing is good."

"Once you decide to go with this product the cost can be worked out with the vendor."

"It is an expensive product for the middle class or SMB customers in India. A lot of top-level big companies also cannot afford this solution. During the license period, one can download the entire data from the cloud without paying any additional cost. This way the data can be easily recreated from the stored data when a machine is lost or the data is compromised."

"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."

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

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"Everyone knows Zerto is a little on the expensive side, but what else is there on the market that does the same thing?"

"They should adjust the pricing because I feel its price is too much. If they reduce the price, there will be more users and customers."

"The pricing is good. It's affordable."

"The cost is one of the only drawbacks of Zerto because it's very high, and the overall impact of the solution on our organization is relatively low. This is why we are trying to figure out if another product could fulfill the same role for cheaper."

"Zerto is pretty reasonable. I haven't checked to see how much Rubrik is going to quote us for their solution. At least for us, the price doesn't play a big factor in the decision-making because it is a pretty small deployment for our use case."

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

"From a customer perspective, the price is okay. From an investor's perspective, however, it is a little bit high."

"All of my customers are happy with how this product works and they like it, but unfortunately, in the market that I represent, Zerto is expensive when compared with the competition."

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Nov 9, 2014

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

16%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Financial Services Firm

Retailer

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 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?

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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Druva

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.

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