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.

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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

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

"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 is simple to implement and use. It's very flexible."

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

"The main benefit of this solution is that it automatically scans the files for ransomware after the backup is complete."

"Druva inSync is very easy to use."

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

"The initial setup is straightforward."

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"If we had to deal with a ransomware event, Zerto would be one of the first things I would use, because it is going to be the fastest to restore data to a certain point. If there were a fire in our building, Zerto would be a big thing too, because we would shut down everything that's in our building. In most cases, Zerto is definitely one of the front lines. It's definitely going to be one of our prevalent DRBC layers of protection."

"The testing features are the most valuable features of this solution. We use the failover test feature not just for testing failovers and disaster recovery, we've also had clients use it for development purposes as well as patching purposes to test patches. We can failover the VM and then we can make any changes we want without affecting production. It's a nice sandbox for that usage."

"When we replicated our data, I turned up the machine, and it was up in seconds. It blew my mind. I could not believe it."

"A new feature is the One-To-Many VPG allowing a VM to be replicated at up to three different locations, including local."

"For us, the most valuable features are the quick upload time and how the sync works... We have VMware SRM and Veeam, and they have been pretty slow and sluggish."

"Zerto is fast to restore our mission-critical servers when needed."

"The stability is great; there's very little downtime. I don't have to worry that there will be a surprise update to one of the ZVRAs or the host that I have to contend with. We're given plenty of notice to plan ahead for an update. As far as losing service and downtime, we haven't had that happen."

"We were able to see its benefits immediately after we deployed it."

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Cons

"The speed could be better."

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

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

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

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

"I would like to see security improved in the next release."

"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."

"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."

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"I don't have any input for improvement or a critical feature request at this moment. If anything, a lower price is always better."

"Another area for improvement I'd like to see is the tuning of the VRAs built into the GUI. It's a little cryptic. You really have to be a very technical engineer to get that deep into it. I'd like to see a little better interface that allows you to do that tuning yourself, rather than trying to get their engineer and your engineer together to do it."

"Better alerting is something that I feel is critical."

"If there is a mass of changes to a server, Zerto will restart the replication. It would be nice to know why that happens."

"The biggest area for improvement is the technical support side. Although it has improved somewhat, after the HPE acquisition, it became apparent that level-one technical support was moved to groups unfamiliar with the Zerto product."

"Whenever we do a failover, there's a confirmation box that shows up later. It's a little hard to see sometimes... A popup to continue would be a little bit better because then you're not sitting and waiting for something and it's already there."

"When it comes to a solution, one of the things the management wants is to standardize platforms. That's why when Rubrik came out with their solution, they wanted to look at it. For instance, if you have multiple technologies, you're going to need admins to manage all those different ones. I would like Zerto to be something that fits all our needs, including the backup that Rubrik provides, but I understand that not all solutions can be that way."

"It is a little expensive."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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

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

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

"The pricing is good."

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

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

"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."

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

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"The licensing costs are not cheap. It is kind of an expensive product. However, I am a get-what-you-pay-for kind of person. After using this product, I can understand why the licensing costs are high."

"We subscribe to their annual license package and we have tier one support with them."

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

"I would suggest getting a dedicated, well-informed rep."

"It was a little bit expensive. It took a long time for us to get DR for our workstations. It's one thing when you have 15 servers, but when we needed to bring on almost another 200 users, and each was the same price as the servers, it was too expensive. But Zerto worked with us and gave us a solution that was pretty decent in terms of price."

"Zerto is expensive but offers many features that make it competitive."

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

"Nothing is cheap, but Zerto represents decent value."

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Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Nov 9, 2014

VMware SRM vs. Veeam vs. Zerto

Disaster recovery planning is something that seems challenging for all businesses. Virtualization in addition to its operational flexibility, and cost reduction benefits, has helped companies improve their DR posture. Virtualization has made it easier to move machines from production to…

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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

inSync

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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