HPE Zerto Software vs Veritas NetBackup comparison

Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Veritas are both solutions in the Backup and Recovery category. Hewlett Packard Enterprise is ranked #2 with an average rating of 9.0, while Veritas is ranked #7 with an average rating of 8.5. Hewlett Packard Enterprise holds a 1.9% mindshare in BRS, compared to Veritas’s 1.6% mindshare. Additionally, 98% of Hewlett Packard Enterprise users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 90% of Veritas users who would recommend it.

HPE Zerto Software

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98% willing to recommend

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90% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 22, 2026

Veritas NetBackup and HPE Zerto Software are competitive solutions in the data protection and disaster recovery market. HPE Zerto Software seems to have the upper hand with its advanced orchestration, security features, and near-zero RPO.

Features: Veritas NetBackup is known for its flexibility and extensive compatibility with various operating systems and applications. Its deduplication reduces backup times, and snapshot and cloud integrations enhance data recovery. HPE Zerto Software offers sophisticated real-time replication, efficient disaster recovery with automatic failover, and supports multi-cloud environments.

Room for Improvement: Veritas NetBackup needs a more user-friendly interface, affordable pricing, and simplified licensing models. Users also desire better cloud integration and support responsiveness. For HPE Zerto, improvements in licensing flexibility, documentation, and enhanced reporting are necessary. HPE Zerto should also focus on user experience improvements.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Veritas NetBackup performs well in on-premises environments but can be expensive and time-consuming in complex networks, with mixed feedback on customer support. HPE Zerto excels in hybrid cloud deployments with its user-friendly interface, but users suggest simplifying configuration and improving customer service.

Pricing and ROI: Veritas NetBackup is commonly viewed as costly due to complex licensing and additional expenses, but it offers significant ROI with reliable data backup and recovery solutions. HPE Zerto, though also premium-priced, justifies its cost with robust disaster recovery features and high performance, recognized for providing substantial ROI, particularly in large enterprises.

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HPE Zerto Software vs. Veritas NetBackup

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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

HPE Zerto Software offers cost-efficient data protection, reducing downtime and labor, enhancing cloud disaster recovery and operational continuity.

Sentiment score

1.0

Veritas NetBackup offers a consistent ROI by ensuring data protection, efficient restoration, and reduced backup windows despite its cost.

Before, it was a huge cost. It was several thousand dollars to do a DR test, whereas now, I click a button.

Thomas Sipf

CTO at Erisa Administrative Services, Inc.

It saves us a lot of time and gives us the ability to perform other DR plans for other systems.

reviewer2728620

System Engineer at a wholesaler/distributor with 1,001-5,000 employees

It's not only in the cloud; it's DR as a service, which means that the recovery operations are performed by a dedicated team specializing in this area.

Itsik Ohana

Founder & CEO at Itix Cyber Ltd

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It is suitable for our nature of business because data is very critical, and we cannot compromise on backup.

Rizwan Islam

Deputy Director IT at DHA Lahore

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Customer Service

Sentiment score

7.5

HPE Zerto Software's support is praised for quick, knowledgeable service, though some note responsiveness concerns since HP's acquisition.

Sentiment score

6.3

Veritas NetBackup support receives mixed reviews, praised for expertise but criticized for inconsistencies and slow response times.

I have never had an issue that was not resolved, and I have never been in a situation where they did not respond.

reviewer762012

Sr. Systems Engineer at a legal firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

I would give them a rating of ten because it represents the highest level of support based on the technical knowledge of the support team, response time, and effectiveness of the provided resolutions.

reviewer1599558

Disaster Recovery Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

When I open a ticket, I usually get a call within an hour or two.

David Comer

Systems Engineering Manager at a legal firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

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The support from Veritas NetBackup is very good.

Ibrahim Jekhine

Consultant at MTN

The customer support is very poor.

John Chege

Solutions Architect at Rigor Systems Limited

The technical support from Veritas is rated an eight, as the local partners are good and support us.

SunilPanigrahi

Senior Manager at a logistics company with 10,001+ employees

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Scalability Issues

Sentiment score

7.4

HPE Zerto Software offers scalable disaster recovery, integrating seamlessly into infrastructures, supporting flexible licensing and cloud expansion.

Sentiment score

6.0

Veritas NetBackup offers scalability and flexibility but faces cost concerns and challenges with new versions and integrations.

I would rate it a ten out of ten for scalability.

Alan Barrett

Head of IT at TWM SOLICITORS LLP

Customers need to follow good engineering practices for optimal product use.

Proby Patel

Tech Lead, Storage and Data Protection at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

By adding more hosts and installing VRAs on each, tasks can be efficiently managed.

reviewer2641974

Senior Systems Engineer at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees

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I feel that if you can keep it at least two or three levels back or forward with backward compatibility available, it would help people use the old disk storage and get more storage space.

SunilPanigrahi

Senior Manager at a logistics company with 10,001+ employees

The size of the catalog was an issue, but it was more about outgrowing our own architecture than a problem with Veritas NetBackup itself.

Ibrahim Jekhine

Consultant at MTN

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Stability Issues

Sentiment score

8.0

HPE Zerto Software is praised for its stability, reliability, minimal issues, and effective recovery management, ensuring high user satisfaction.

Sentiment score

8.5

Veritas NetBackup is praised for its exceptional stability, remaining reliable and error-free with high performance in demanding environments.

I promptly delete the malfunctioning elements and set them up again to resume replication, ensuring stability.

Jagadeesh Ethiraj

Technical Architect at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

The ease of use was so good with Zerto that they were able to migrate things much quicker.

reviewer2691450

Inside Sales Representative at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

It is very reliable.

David Comer

Systems Engineering Manager at a legal firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

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Veritas NetBackup performs well in terms of stability.

Ibrahim Jekhine

Consultant at MTN

In the last 10 years, I have never faced a single incident regarding stability with Veritas NetBackup.

Rizwan Islam

Deputy Director IT at DHA Lahore

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Room For Improvement

HPE Zerto Software needs better Hyper-V support, enhanced features, improved documentation, UI, pricing, licensing, and technical support.

Veritas NetBackup requires UI improvements, better integration, enhanced support response, cost-effectiveness, and usability enhancements, including pricing and speed.

If I have 350 objects that I am protecting, I would like Zerto to be able to fire them up in one order, rather than having to manually bring them up in a sequence.

David Riberdy

Enterprise data management supervisor at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

If the host has a lot of VMs on it, there may not always be enough time to relocate all of the VMs from a protection group standpoint to other hosts before the replication appliance that Zerto uses to manage that powers itself down.

David Comer

Systems Engineering Manager at a legal firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

If HPE Zerto Software has it built-in where we're going to vCenter and you click on it, it will build the VPG and indicate configuration requirements, that would be amazing.

reviewer2729427

Senior Converged Infrastructure Engineer at a educational organization with 1,001-5,000 employees

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Veritas NetBackup needs improvement in terms of integration with the cloud.

Ibrahim Jekhine

Consultant at MTN

We would really appreciate if Veritas offers products by which we can secure our backups against these ransomware attacks.

Rizwan Islam

Deputy Director IT at DHA Lahore

Support tickets take too long to be solved and the quality of engineers they have for support has lately become lacking.

John Chege

Solutions Architect at Rigor Systems Limited

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Setup Cost

HPE Zerto Software offers competitive pricing with scalable licensing, though initial costs are high but justified by performance.

Veritas NetBackup is costly but valued for features and scalability in large enterprises; less competitive for smaller setups.

If you want a good-quality tool that is robust and does a good job for you, you have to pay a higher price to get that, and Zerto is no different.

JeffSmith12

IT Manager at American Pioneer Federal Credit Union

However, it can become quite expensive when you start looking at the number of workloads you have in the environment and what you would like to do.

reviewer2645856

Cloud and Infrastructure Services Manager at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Zerto is easier to set up and use, and it's less expensive.

Bill Dudgeon

Professional Services Engineer at US Signal

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My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that the appliance licensing is a bit tricky and a bit expensive, especially when I have to license the hardware and the software;

John Chege

Solutions Architect at Rigor Systems Limited

I would rate pricing for Veritas NetBackup around six, as it is neither high nor low.

SunilPanigrahi

Senior Manager at a logistics company with 10,001+ employees

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Valuable Features

HPE Zerto Software offers rapid data recovery, seamless migration, and multi-cloud support, ensuring IT resilience and minimal downtime.

Veritas NetBackup offers scalability, compatibility, security, and efficient storage, making it a preferred choice for enterprise data protection.

Zerto offers excellent technical support with responsive and helpful experts.

Sachin Vinay

Assistant Manager-Networks at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees

If we were attacked, I could revert to a backup from five seconds before the attack, and no one would know we were attacked.

reviewer2641974

Senior Systems Engineer at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees

The replication time and the minor amount of time it takes to sync a new server outside of any of my huge 40-terabyte boxes is ridiculously quick.

reviewer762012

Sr. Systems Engineer at a legal firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

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In my opinion, the main benefits Veritas NetBackup provides are that it is a unified platform where we can integrate all the requirements such as online backup, offline backup, and virtualization backup in one single platform, although my only concern is the licensing structure.

SunilPanigrahi

Senior Manager at a logistics company with 10,001+ employees

I have found Veritas NetBackup to be the most reliable backup solution I have worked with so far.

John Chege

Solutions Architect at Rigor Systems Limited

Although we do not utilize its deduplication technology or cloud integration, we can trigger storage actions with NetBackup.

Ibrahim Jekhine

Consultant at MTN

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Categories and Ranking

HPE Zerto Software

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

2nd

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

352

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Migration (1st), Cloud Backup (2nd), Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (1st), Autonomous Operational Resilience (2nd)

Veritas NetBackup

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

7th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.4

Number of Reviews

119

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2026, in the Backup and Recovery category, the mindshare of HPE Zerto Software is 1.9%, down from 3.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Veritas NetBackup is 1.6%, down from 3.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Backup and Recovery Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
HPE Zerto Software	1.9%
Veritas NetBackup	1.6%
Other	96.5%

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reviewer2802231

Dev Ops Engineer at a media company with 201-500 employees

Near-zero downtime has protected critical workloads and now simplifies hybrid cloud recovery

The best features of HPE Zerto Software are mainly very sophisticated and relevant to the current market. The data protection CDP part has real-time replication, unlike other solutions that have snapshot backups. We can set it up hourly, making it ideal for use with workloads. Another attraction is the near-zero RTO, with automated failover within minutes and one-click failover and failback. Currently, we are using a hybrid cloud solution, and HPE Zerto Software supports multi-cloud environments, making it easy to migrate between on-premises and cloud. Regarding the impact of HPE Zerto Software on our RTOs, we have near-zero RTO, meaning the system must be back online within thirty minutes if we measure the time. It is very quick to recover services. With HPE Zerto Software's near-synchronous replication, we have some CDP protection, so we typically write interceptions along with some asynchronous replication. There is almost real-time replication available.

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SunilPanigrahi

Senior Manager at a logistics company with 10,001+ employees

Unified backups have protected virtual machines and applications and optimize storage efficiency

Regarding automated disaster recovery, we have not used Veritas NetBackup automated disaster recovery because according to the RFP terms and conditions, we are not supposed to have automated failover or failback, as we are a government entity and cannot violate the rules of the RFP. My feedback about granular recovery in Veritas NetBackup is that we have been doing verifications of the backed-up data to restore from point to point and time to time, focusing on file level or database level. When it comes to integration with cloud services, we have not started because we are a government entity and are not allowed to store any data in the cloud at this time. From security concerns regarding what I would improve about Veritas NetBackup, I think you need to look into this because we found only one encryption option available, which is not that very strong. When I initiate a backup from my laptop or server to the appliance or the tape media using Veritas NetBackup, the encryption channels are not strong, and there are not many options available. Whatever is there is by default and not changeable. We cannot modify any encryption facilities, and security is a big concern nowadays, so you need to look into that. Regarding the functionality part of Veritas NetBackup, I think this encryption feature should be stronger and integrated from point to point, not just at specific levels. When I initiate a backup, all the communication channels involved should be encrypted until it reaches the endpoint, meaning from client to server, server to client, and client device.

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

10%

Manufacturing Company

Healthcare Company

Computer Software Company

Financial Services Firm

14%

Manufacturing Company

Comms Service Provider

Computer Software Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	92
Midsize Enterprise	94
Large Enterprise	201

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	33
Midsize Enterprise	21
Large Enterprise	66

Questions from the Community

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...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Zerto?

In terms of pricing, I'll not say HPE Zerto Software is very cheap, and I'll not say that whatever features it provides, it's very highly priced. However, there could be room for negotiation on the...

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What needs improvement with Zerto?

The documentation is very good. The GUI is kind of an old one. More development on the GUI can be useful for the users.The areas that have room for improvement include the GUI. The other thing is t...

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What is the best next generation backup tool?

Assuming you have an onprem ecosystem which runs the VMware, physical systems on Win, Linux and Unix and run both traditional DB's and nosql DB's like mongo, then Netbackup (NBU) will be the right ...

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What do you like most about Veritas NetBackup?

The most valuable feature of cloud integration is the ability to send data outside of your location. This can be achieved by integrating cloud tier options or other object storage solutions.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Veritas NetBackup?

I would rate pricing for Veritas NetBackup around six, as it is neither high nor low.

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Also Known As

Zerto Virtual Replication

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Overview

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.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Veritas NetBackup provides comprehensive data protection with features like deduplication and replication, supporting multiple platforms. It's valued for its stability and ease of use, offering reliable integration with cloud and virtual environments.

With a strong focus on ensuring data integrity and protection, Veritas NetBackup is often chosen for its ability to handle complex architectures and wide-ranging system compatibility. Known for its efficient recovery capabilities and security features, the platform seamlessly integrates with several databases and operating systems. While the interface and technical support may require updates, its robust functionality makes it a preferred choice for critical data operations. Users often seek improvements like better cloud integration and enhanced reporting tools to streamline experience.

What are the key features of Veritas NetBackup?

Deduplication: Reduces storage needs and boosts efficiency by eliminating duplicate data.
Replication: Ensures data availability across different environments by replicating data.
Platform Compatibility: Operates smoothly across numerous operating systems and databases.
Cloud Support: Integrates with cloud services, enhancing flexibility in hybrid environments.
Security Features: Offers robust data protection and encryption mechanisms.

What benefits should users review?

Data Reliability: Consistently maintains data integrity and reliability.
Ease of Use: Simplifies complex data management tasks with a user-friendly approach.
Scalability: Adapts to growing data needs without sacrificing performance.
Operational Efficiency: Streamlines backup and recovery processes, saving time and resources.

Veritas NetBackup is widely implemented across sectors where data protection is crucial, such as finance, healthcare, and technology. Organizations utilize it for backing up servers and virtual machines and ensuring disaster recovery, both on-premise and in cloud settings. It supports archiving and replication processes, efficiently managing full and incremental backups to meet compliance directives and maintain robust operations globally.

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

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