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Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup vs Zerto 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
6.7
Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup enhances ROI with time savings, quick recovery, cost efficiency, and reduced backup issues.
Sentiment score
7.3
Zerto enhances efficiency, reduces costs and downtime by automating disaster recovery and eliminating secondary hardware, providing substantial time savings.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
8.3
Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup is praised for responsive, efficient customer service and technical support, despite some users relying on forums.
Sentiment score
7.8
Zerto's customer support is praised for responsiveness and expertise, though complex issues sometimes face slower response times post-HP acquisition.
Technical support is rated an eight out of ten.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
8.3
Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup scales well for most users, with easy host integration and high scalability at a reasonable price.
Sentiment score
7.7
Zerto efficiently manages scalable growth across diverse environments, supporting increased workloads with simple license additions and minimal intervention.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.4
Users generally find Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup reliable, with excellent support and minimal performance issues, particularly on older systems.
Sentiment score
7.9
Zerto is stable and reliable, with issues usually due to user errors, receiving high ratings for dependable performance.
 

Room For Improvement

Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup needs improvements in recovery speed, Linux restoration, interface usability, scalability, and disaster recovery features.
Users desire improvements in Zerto's documentation, reporting, Hyper-V support, user interface, licensing, pricing, automation, and advanced features.
Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup could be improved in several areas, such as enhancing scalability features.
 

Setup Cost

Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup offers affordable pricing, excellent ROI, features, and unlimited VM support, with minimal operational costs.
Zerto's VM licensing offers scalable pricing, viewed as cost-efficient yet sometimes expensive, aligning with powerful disaster recovery features.
The pricing of the solution is considered affordable.
 

Valuable Features

Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup offers efficient, reliable VM backup with quick recovery, supporting multiple hypervisors for critical data protection.
Zerto provides seamless integration, rapid recovery, and real-time replication, excelling in disaster recovery and migration with near-zero RPOs.
The ability to perform data compression updates enhances overall efficiency and effectiveness.
Replicating my settings helps me recover point objectives faster and retain policies.
 

Categories and Ranking

Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Ba...
Ranking in Backup and Recovery
33rd
Ranking in Cloud Backup
26th
Ranking in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software
16th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.5
Number of Reviews
30
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Zerto
Ranking in Backup and Recovery
2nd
Ranking in Cloud Backup
3rd
Ranking in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software
2nd
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
279
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Migration (4th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of December 2024, in the Disaster Recovery (DR) Software category, the mindshare of Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup is 2.1%, down from 2.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Zerto is 15.4%, down from 19.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Disaster Recovery (DR) Software
 

Featured Reviews

HM
Offers a comprehensive feature set offered at a competitive price
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. This ensures continuity even in the event of hardware failure, with the option to restore entire machines seamlessly without disrupting connectivity or network configurations.
Derrick Brockel - PeerSpot reviewer
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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Comparison Review

it_user159711 - PeerSpot reviewer
Nov 9, 2014
VMware SRM vs. Veeam vs. Zerto
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
15%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Government
8%
Computer Software Company
22%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Healthcare Company
7%
 

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 needs improvement with Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup?
Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup could be improved in several areas, such as enhancing scalability features and possibly reducing the price. The backup locations and time to backup could also be imp...
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.
 

Also Known As

Altaro VM Backup
Zerto Virtual Replication
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Thomson Reuters, Microsoft, Amazon, Harvard University, MIT, Peugeot, Xerox
United Airlines, HCA, XPO Logistics, TaxSlayer, McKesson, Insight Global, American Airlines, Tencate, Aaron’s, Grey’s County, Kingston Technologies
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