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Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup vs Infrascale Backup & Disaster Recovery comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 11, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
6.9
Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup enhances productivity and ROI by reducing recovery failures, troubleshooting time, and overall costs.
Sentiment score
8.0
Infrascale boosts ROI through cost-effective, fast disaster recovery, enhancing client satisfaction and profitability while minimizing downtime.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
8.3
Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup's customer service is praised for prompt, effective responses, though regional sanctions may limit access.
Sentiment score
8.5
<p>Infrascale Backup &amp; Disaster Recovery is praised for its responsive, expert customer service, quick resolutions, and proactive communication.</p>
Technical support is rated an eight out of ten.
The right expertise, a timely response, and being able to get to the right person to help you resolve the problem are very important.
Their average mean time to resolve open tickets is an hour.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
8.3
Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup offers scalability, easy management, high reliability, but may struggle in high-end enterprise environments.
Sentiment score
6.8
<p>Infrascale Backup &amp; Disaster Recovery efficiently scales for diverse businesses, aiding growth with strong support despite occasional data capacity challenges.</p>
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.4
Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup is stable, highly rated for performance, with minimal issues, especially on Hyper-Visor systems.
Sentiment score
8.4
<p>Infrascale Backup &amp; Disaster Recovery is stable with high uptime, fast support, minimal maintenance, and improved cloud usability.</p>
I would rate the stability a ten out of ten.
There was a recent announcement in terms of moving Infrascale to the cloud, which makes it easier for the customer in terms of usability.
 

Room For Improvement

Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup needs enhancements in file restore, recovery speed, platform support, scalability, pricing, and user interface.
Users seek improvements in Infrascale's bandwidth options, Linux support, SSD use, pricing, data diversity, security, and multi-cloud integration.
The solution needs multi-platform support as it is currently only available for VMware and Hyper-V.
Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup could be improved in several areas, such as enhancing scalability features.
Many customers do not rely on just one cloud provider and want to work with multiple clouds.
When the product works, there is really nothing to fix, but they can allow different types of backups, such as differential or incremental backups.
 

Setup Cost

Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup is affordable, offers a free version for two VMs, and has variable regional pricing.
Infrascale Backup offers competitive, flexible pricing ideal for small enterprises, though it requires negotiation and setup costs.
The pricing of the solution is considered affordable.
The pricing and licensing cost is challenging since most competitors offer cheaper pricing, making it difficult to penetrate the market with the current pricing strategy.
To someone considering Infrascale but is concerned about the price, I would say that they should get Infrascale's service no matter what it costs because any downtime or any loss of data is substantially worse than any cost for backup.
The per-terabyte pricing is very competitive compared to the others.
 

Valuable Features

Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup offers robust VM backup features, including easy setup, strong compression, and ransomware protection.
Infrascale provides simple, rapid VM boot-up and robust backup, recovery, and protection for servers with a user-friendly interface.
The ability to perform data compression updates enhances overall efficiency and effectiveness.
It provides storage for Office 365, which is beneficial, and the deduplication technology is excellent.
Performing backup and recovery can be done very intuitively with the solution and the interface that is part of the solution.
What I like the most about it is that backups and restores are simple, straightforward, and clean.
 

Categories and Ranking

Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Ba...
Ranking in Backup and Recovery
33rd
Ranking in Cloud Backup
28th
Ranking in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software
16th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.6
Number of Reviews
31
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Infrascale Backup & Disaste...
Ranking in Backup and Recovery
64th
Ranking in Cloud Backup
48th
Ranking in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software
28th
Average Rating
9.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
13
Ranking in other categories
Disaster Recovery as a Service (9th), SaaS Backup (40th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the Cloud Backup category, the mindshare of Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup is 0.9%, down from 1.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Infrascale Backup & Disaster Recovery is 0.4%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Cloud Backup
 

Featured Reviews

Asif Usmani - PeerSpot reviewer
Lacks multi-platform support and physical infrastructure but excels in storage optimization
We use it for VM backup and Office 365 backup I find the solution to be user-friendly and easy to manage and deploy. It provides storage for Office 365, which is beneficial, and the deduplication technology is excellent, especially in optimizing storage capacity compared to others. In terms of…
Harry Vining - PeerSpot reviewer
The overall ease of use and ease of management using the dashboard is excellent
I can't really think of anything that really needs to be improved from my perspective, because I only use the backup. Maybe someone who is using something else might have a different opinion on that. But for the online backup and recovery tool, I'm not going to say there's anything that needs improvement. They can always improve stuff. But from the top of my head, I can't think of anything. It does what it needs to do. That's it. It doesn't need to do anything more than what it does and nothing less than what it's doing. The Infrascale dashboard when it comes to centralized deployment and configuration is excellent. I have no problems with the solution. They could always make it better. They can always make the GUI a little bit nicer, the interface level a bit better. There's always room for improvement, but there's nothing on the top of my head that's saying, "Hey, this is what needs to be fixed." But, the programmers are probably working on their own things. So, there's always room for improvement.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
12%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Government
10%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
20%
Computer Software Company
17%
Real Estate/Law Firm
10%
Healthcare Company
9%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

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?
The pricing and licensing cost is challenging since most competitors offer cheaper pricing, making it difficult to penetrate the market with the current pricing strategy.
What needs improvement with Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup?
The solution needs multi-platform support as it is currently only available for VMware and Hyper-V. It also lacks support for physical servers and workstations. Additionally, they should add more p...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Infrascale Platform?
They are incredibly fair and willing to work with their partners to make their pricing work for both partners and the end users. To someone considering Infrascale but is concerned about the price, ...
What needs improvement with Infrascale Platform?
When the product works, there is really nothing to fix, but they can allow different types of backups, such as differential or incremental backups.
What is your primary use case for Infrascale Platform?
We use their online backup, their cloud-based backup, and their cloud-based Office 365 backup.
 

Also Known As

Altaro VM Backup
Infrascale Platform
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Thomson Reuters, Microsoft, Amazon, Harvard University, MIT, Peugeot, Xerox
MSPs servicing small and mid-size companies VARs servicing mid-sized companies Direct SMB or mid-sized companies
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