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Azure Site Recovery vs Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup comparison

 

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Executive Summary

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
7.2
Azure Site Recovery simplifies processes, enhances reliability, saves time and cost, and justifies expenses with automation and efficiency.
Sentiment score
6.9
Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup enhances productivity and ROI by reducing recovery failures, troubleshooting time, and overall costs.
Azure Site Recovery, while being pricier than some providers, has a sufficient service level to justify costs.
Azure Site Recovery is time-saving, and its features allow us to automate processes and save resources.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
6.4
Azure Site Recovery support receives mixed reviews, citing effective partner collaboration but slow resolutions and communication challenges from Microsoft.
Sentiment score
8.3
Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup's customer service is praised for prompt, effective responses, though regional sanctions may limit access.
During a global outage that affected our operations, there was no apology or in-depth follow-up from Microsoft.
Issues frequently require escalation.
We primarily rely on our Cloud Support Partner for support.
Technical support is rated an eight out of ten.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.6
Azure Site Recovery is highly regarded for its scalability and flexibility in handling diverse workloads across varying locations.
Sentiment score
8.3
Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup offers scalability, easy management, high reliability, but may struggle in high-end enterprise environments.
I would rate the scalability of Azure Site Recovery as a nine out of ten.
For scalability, it is fine and easy to set up.
Azure Site Recovery is a very scalable product and service mechanism.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.7
Azure Site Recovery is highly rated for its stability, consistently performing well despite rare disruptions and transition challenges.
Sentiment score
7.4
Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup is stable, highly rated for performance, with minimal issues, especially on Hyper-Visor systems.
The system did go down a couple of times, which impacted our operations.
I would rate the stability of Azure Site Recovery at eight to nine out of ten.
 

Room For Improvement

Azure Site Recovery needs improvements in deployment, costs, integration, security, scalability, automation, and broader OS compatibility.
Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup needs enhancements in file restore, recovery speed, platform support, scalability, pricing, and user interface.
There is room for improvement in the release of patches, such as ensuring they are properly managed to avoid outages.
Azure can improve Azure Site Recovery potentially because the internals are not clearly available; we take Azure support for some of these things, which is not adequately provided.
there weren't any significant problems with Azure Site Recovery.
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.
 

Setup Cost

Azure Site Recovery pricing varies widely, with fluctuating costs influenced by storage, network traffic, and enterprise complexities.
Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup is affordable, offers a free version for two VMs, and has variable regional pricing.
It was not the expensive part of our costs.
The pricing of Azure Site Recovery is around a four out of ten, being somewhat cost-effective.
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.
 

Valuable Features

Azure Site Recovery offers reliable, cost-effective disaster recovery with seamless failover, excellent integration, and scalability for enterprises.
Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup offers robust VM backup features, including easy setup, strong compression, and ransomware protection.
The most valuable features of Azure Site Recovery are its ease of use and speed of recovery.
The features I find most valuable in Azure Site Recovery include the test failover, which allows us to test our site recovery without bringing down the primary; disaster recovery provides that feature.
Azure provides a 99.99% SLA for their uptime, ensuring that even during outages due to patch releases, there is no data loss, merely hindered accessibility.
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.
 

Categories and Ranking

Azure Site Recovery
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
25
Ranking in other categories
Disaster Recovery as a Service (3rd)
Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Ba...
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.6
Number of Reviews
31
Ranking in other categories
Backup and Recovery (32nd), Cloud Backup (28th), Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (18th)
 

Featured Reviews

RituparnaBhattacharya - PeerSpot reviewer
The time-saving aspects allow us to write PowerShell scripts to automate failover processes
First of all, we initially faced a challenge as Azure Site Recovery was not supporting shared disk options on SQL clusters with VMs, which are important for a Windows cluster mode. Additionally, the setup is quite easy, only requiring the creation of a vault. Its time-saving aspects allow us to write PowerShell scripts to automate failover processes.
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…
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
17%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Insurance Company
7%
Computer Software Company
13%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Government
10%
Comms Service Provider
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Azure Site Recovery?
Azure Site Recovery allows my company to save around 30 percent of the time on every VM that we need to back up and restore.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Azure Site Recovery?
The price of Azure Site Recovery was reasonable compared to other data costs. It was not the expensive part of our costs, but, as always, there is room to make it cheaper.
What needs improvement with Azure Site Recovery?
To be honest, I didn't use it directly. As far as I know, there weren't any significant problems with Azure Site Recovery. Although pricing for data solutions can always be cheaper, site recovery w...
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...
 

Also Known As

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Sample Customers

Russell Reynolds Associates, Union Insurance, Rackspace
Thomson Reuters, Microsoft, Amazon, Harvard University, MIT, Peugeot, Xerox
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