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Azure Site Recovery vs InfoScale comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Azure Site Recovery
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
26
Ranking in other categories
Disaster Recovery as a Service (2nd)
InfoScale
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
High Availability Clustering (1st), Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (52nd), Data Storage for Kubernetes (11th)
 

Featured Reviews

AP
IT Manager at NTT DATA
Long-term user praises cost savings and reliability of disaster recovery solutions
There is only one thing to note: the agent has to be up-to-date when SCCM or any third-party tools are doing patching activities. If their agent version is mismatched and the health status is critical, you will not be able to perform your Azure Site Recovery. Recently, I worked with a mass issue related to Recovery Services Vault, and the VM support engineers are taking a lot of time to extend support to the customer. When you raise a call, they wait too long, and even if you request an engineer to set up a call for severity B cases, they are not ready to communicate over the phone, preferring email instead.
it_user281973 - PeerSpot reviewer
Storage and VMware Expert at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
It provides a stable SAP environment, but deployment does require someone with experience.
It offers High Availability for many applications, including Oracle and SAP environment In my last job, it provided a great SAP environment that was stable and running on Veritas Cluster. I've used it for six years. It's not so easy in some cases, and you will need some experience. There were…

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

Pros

"What I love about Azure Site Recovery is its simplicity for basic configurations."
"A major benefit is that you do not want to pay any more for huge costs to build a DR site."
"What I like best about Azure Site Recovery is that it's easier to use because my organization already has Azure as an Active Directory solution."
"They're moving a lot of their workload to cloud and aiming for a seamlessly integrated product."
"It is a very stable product and very scalable."
"Provides generally good performance, from protection to production to failover to data recovery."
"The solution is secure, reliable, and scalable."
"The setup is quite easy, just requiring the creation of a vault."
"It integrates well with other solutions."
 

Cons

"I would like to see more security features."
"The product's performance is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The system did go down a couple of times, which impacted our operations. For stability, I would rate it a seven out of ten."
"The tool should improve synchronization."
"The pricing predictability and clarity around the final cost of the plan of this solution could be improved."
"we lack a straightforward method to automate the restart of services, which can be quite time-consuming."
"There is room for improvement in the release of patches, such as ensuring they are properly managed to avoid outages."
"Azure Site Recovery does not support shared disk options."
"It could be more stable and more secure."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I'm not sure about the Azure Site Recovery pricing, but my organization gets monthly bills from providers."
"Azure Site Recovery is a very reasonably priced product."
"It should have more straightforward billing. The billing was what got funky. It was really cheap. We would pay based on the usage. We paid around $225 a month for site-to-site replication."
"The tool's licensing is yearly and not expensive."
"Azure Site Recovery is affordable."
"The tool is expensive. What is expensive to me might not be expensive to you. As I mentioned, we seek ways to reduce our costs. If the price goes down, that would be great. I rate the tool's pricing a six out of ten."
"Azure Site Recovery is neither very expensive nor very cheap."
"They have a license to pay."
"Our clients pay for licensing on a yearly basis."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
13%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Insurance Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
20%
Insurance Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
9%
University
9%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
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Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business9
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise14
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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?
A major advantage is that you do not want to pay any more for huge costs to build a DR site. It is very flexible and will save your cost.
What needs improvement with Azure Site Recovery?
The flexibility of Azure Site Recovery regarding integration with different IT environments is limited; it is purely an Azure platform service for business continuity, not meant for integration wit...
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Veritas InfoScale Availability, Arctera InfoScale for Kubernetes
 

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Sample Customers

Russell Reynolds Associates, Union Insurance, Rackspace
Wayne State University, Zenith Mart
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