NAKIVO Backup &amp; Replication vs Zerto comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 11, 2024

Zerto and NAKIVO Backup & Replication are both prominent data protection solutions. User reviews indicate more satisfaction with the pricing and customer support of Zerto, but NAKIVO Backup & Replication is preferred for its features despite the higher price.

Features: Zerto is known for its robust disaster recovery capabilities, seamless failover/failback functions, and strong replication features. NAKIVO Backup & Replication offers comprehensive backup solutions, including cloud storage support, instant recovery, and a broad feature set that provides versatility and comprehensive data protection.

Room For Improvement:Zerto users report a need for better scalability options, reduced complexity in setup, and easier management of large environments. NAKIVO Backup & Replication faces criticism for its limited integration options, occasional performance issues, and the need for more advanced reporting features.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Zerto is noted for rapid deployment but has mixed reviews on the complexity of its setup. It is backed by responsive customer service. NAKIVO Backup & Replication is praised for its straightforward setup process, user-friendly installation, and reliable customer support. NAKIVO stands out for its simpler deployment experience.

Pricing and ROI: Zerto's higher initial setup costs are balanced by a strong ROI due to its reliable disaster recovery. NAKIVO Backup & Replication offers competitive pricing with a notable ROI attributed to its effective backup and recovery operations. While Zerto is more expensive upfront, both solutions deliver substantial ROI, reflecting their efficiency.

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NAKIVO Backup & Replication vs. Zerto

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Categories and Ranking

NAKIVO Backup & Replication

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

6th

Ranking in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software

6th

Average Rating

9.4

Reviews Sentiment

8.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Zerto

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

2nd

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), Cloud Backup (3rd)

Mindshare comparison

As of December 2024, in the Disaster Recovery (DR) Software category, the mindshare of NAKIVO Backup & Replication is 3.6%, up from 3.5% 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

Mattia Sangiorgio

Sole Director at Abila S.r.l.

Enhances data protection strategies and ensures the reliability of backups with helpful support

The features we have found most valuable in NAKIVO Backup & Replication include its cost-effectiveness, seamless integrations, comprehensive functionalities, and ease of installation and management. The pricing model is very competitive, providing excellent value for the robust features offered. Its seamless integration with our VMware infrastructure ensures smooth operation without any compatibility issues. The wide range of functionalities, including incremental and full backups, storage optimization, and disaster recovery options, meets all our backup needs comprehensively. Moreover, the simplicity of installation and the intuitive user interface have made it easy for our team to quickly set up and manage the backups without requiring extensive training.

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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

"We spend less time to get data recovered."

"Nakivo has improved our organization largely due to the fact that it is an extremely robust backup system."

"NAKIVO Backup & Replication is very easy to use."

"NAKIVO gives us the security to retain valuable data backups and recover them in case of emergency."

"The price is much lower than competitors that do the same function."

"The simplicity of installation and the intuitive user interface have made it easy for our team to quickly set up and manage the backups without requiring extensive training."

"This is a user-friendly solution that has a lot of certifications and documentation for the Microsoft Hyper-V infrastructure."

"The ability to create a replica of all virtual machines is a great feature."

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"Zerto provides our customers with the ability to continue work, even if something happens to their office or data center."

"The feature I've found most valuable so far has been the ability to migrate the VMs from Hyper-V and Citrix Hypervisor. It's made our migration seamless. In the beginning, we were looking at freeware tools, and it was just a massive headache. Zerto solved a lot of the roadblocks that we'd run into in the past."

"VMware VM replication over narrow WAN bandwidth."

"The most valuable feature is how simple it is to implement and how quickly you can get up and running at the second site. The solution is also extremely easy to use, for example, You just log onto the console and you can do a test failover with a few clicks."

"Zerto stands out for its user-friendly approach to data protection and recovery, allowing for quick and efficient backups and restores."

"The recovery was pretty seamless. It took about a minute for it to kick over when we did our testing. So, it wasn't a long downtime."

"The most valuable feature is the ability to recover critical systems, such as public safety, within a few minutes. In addition, the RPO is six seconds of data loss, tops."

"This product is impressively easy to use. It's dummy-proof, once it's set up."

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Cons

"It would be good if I could have a remote upgrade of our Synology Transporters, but the manual upgrade is easy and no problem at all."

"I need no more valuable features for backs-up. I have not yet tried the latest release, however, I have all the features that I need."

"In the future, the solution should provide a more granular backup."

"I had to manually install SNMP, which wasn't hard, but a step I had to take, to plug this into the monitoring system."

"While the solution provides mostly what we need, it would be ideal if there were some additional feature capabilities for the API."

"We would like to back up File Shares to Amazon S3/Wasabi."

"When you schedule some jobs, you should be able to see a list of the jobs contained within each. You have to open up the editor to see what is inside. You must click through and edit stuff. Each time, it asks you to save or discard changes. It's very annoying. You only see the name of the scheduled job, and you need to edit it to see what's it's inside."

"The backup speed needs improvement."

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"The documentation needs improvement in terms of the setup, getting enough detail, and getting that up to speed."

"When we do failover and failback, it doesn't maintain some of the settings that it should and I don't really understand why that happens."

"Not all of the knowledge required for implementing Zerto is available in their online documentation for non-partners."

"The backup end of this solution could be improved. We tried using it as a full backup solution and it took way too long to complete at least one backup."

"We did look at the long-term retention backup feature of Zerto a few years ago, and at that time, it was limited. I can't say what it is right now, but at the time, its functionality was limited in terms of basically where we could save it and how we could save it. Offsite air gapping our backups is important to us to help protect against ransomware, and at the time, it couldn't do that. That would be one area that would be important before we consider using the long-term retention again. I haven't looked at it recently, and they may have addressed this in the meantime, but if not, this would be an area of improvement."

"The tool must improve its long-term storage cloud strategy, making it more seamless and improving the solution's downtime features."

"Zerto should add the capability to replicate the same VM to multiple sites."

"While going in, we were looking at the backup tool so that we had a DR tool and a backup tool, but they stopped developing their backup solution built into it. That was a bummer for us, so now, we have a DR solution, and we have a backup solution."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"This product provides good value for the price."

"The licensing currently allows for host-based licensing, which is advantageous if you have a lot of data on a few hosts."

"It's really cheap, and our company saves a significant amount of money on IT backup solutions per year."

"Nakivo Backup & Replication also have another great value, which is that it is one of the lowest prices on the market."

"The solution's pricing is adequate for its features and quality."

"Talk to the sales department about all of the possibilities, as they will help you to find the best solution for your setup."

"This product is cheaper than other big rivals."

"Regarding the licensing, I would advise speaking to the Nakivo representatives and you can get the best option for your environment."

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"Zerto’s licensing model has changed a bit over the last year and they are in alignment with others. It is pretty simple and more economical."

"License-wise, we budgeted $1,000 per VM. The minimum spend on it, in the beginning, can sometimes be a little bit of a headache for people, and they might have to budget creatively to get there, but once you're there, the renewals are worth it."

"We found that in an event that was massive enough to cause an entire cluster to go offline we would be happy with our core services up and running."

"The licensing model is good. The price is a little bit expensive, but for what customers get on it, it tends to pay for itself. However, if more and more companies start to improve, then Zerto may need to look at their pricing and make it a little better."

"When we purchased Zerto, we felt it was worth the cost as it would protect us from any potential problems and give us peace of mind knowing that any critical items could be recovered quickly."

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

"The cost per VM is a bit high."

"Zerto is very cost-effective. We get really great value for the cost of the service."

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Computer Software Company

17%

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Computer Software Company

22%

Financial Services Firm

10%

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Questions from the Community

How does Nakivo compare with Veeam Backup & Replication?

Nakivo is my favorite backup software. Below are the main benefits of Nakivo compared to Veeam 1. Low cost. 2. Backup storage with global deduplication (this is the main requirement of a backup sol...

What do you like most about Nakivo?

NAKIVO Backup & Replication is very easy to use.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Nakivo?

Thoroughly assess your needs before purchasing the solution. Depending on how your data center operates, you will need to determine whether the licensing should be based on workload or socket. It’s...

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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Overview

NAKIVO Backup & Replication is an all-inclusive data protection solution designed to ensure the availability, safety, and integrity of critical data across various environments, including VMware, Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV, AWS EC2, physical servers, and workstations. The platform offers a comprehensive suite of features tailored to meet the needs of IT professionals and business executives alike, ensuring robust data protection strategies that are both efficient and cost-effective.

Comprehensive Data Protection

NAKIVO Backup & Replication provides a wide array of features, including backup, replication, recovery, and failover for virtual, physical, and cloud environments. This ensures that businesses can protect their data across multiple platforms, reducing the risk of data loss and ensuring continuity in the face of various threats.

Enhanced Efficiency with Deduplication and Compression

The solution employs advanced deduplication and compression technologies to minimize storage requirements and optimize backup speeds. This not only reduces the storage footprint and costs but also accelerates backup and recovery processes, ensuring that businesses can quickly bounce back from data loss incidents.

Flexible Deployment Options

NAKIVO Backup & Replication offers a variety of deployment options, including installation on Windows or Linux servers, deployment as a pre-configured virtual appliance, or running directly on NAS devices. This flexibility ensures that organizations can choose the deployment method that best suits their infrastructure and operational preferences.

NAKIVO Backup & Replication stands out as a versatile and reliable data protection solution, offering a comprehensive set of features designed to meet the complex demands of modern IT environments. By combining robust performance, ease of use, and cost-efficiency, it provides businesses of all sizes with the tools they need to protect their critical data assets, ensuring business continuity and compliance with data protection regulations.

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

Coca Cola, Honda, 3M, University of Arizona, University of Maryland, University of Arkansas, Johns Hopkins University, Marriott, Radisson Hotels and Resorts, Fujifilm, Eiffage

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