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Azure Site Recovery vs N2W comparison

 

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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
7.2
Azure Site Recovery is cost-effective, time-saving, and reliable, optimizing virtual machine processes and offering an alternative to secondary data centers.
Sentiment score
2.8
<p>N2WS Backup &amp; Recovery users saved time and money, improved efficiency, reduced downtime, and achieved better data protection and ROI.</p>
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
Microsoft's Azure Site Recovery support is knowledgeable but inconsistent, with mixed reviews on response times and communication efficiency.
Sentiment score
3.9
N2W's technical support is praised for its promptness, efficiency, proactive follow-ups, and positive sales support experience.
Microsoft support could be improved as it rates only a five out of ten, with slow response times and a preference for email over phone communication even in severity B cases.
During a global outage that affected our operations, there was no apology or in-depth follow-up from Microsoft.
Issues frequently require escalation.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.7
Azure Site Recovery is scalable, excelling in cloud migration and disaster recovery for businesses, despite regional scalability variations.
Sentiment score
5.2
N2W effectively scales for diverse infrastructures, ensuring efficient backup and recovery across numerous AWS accounts and virtual machines.
I would rate the scalability of Azure Site Recovery as a nine out of ten.
Scalability is provided because they are offering 99.95% availability.
For scalability, it is fine and easy to set up.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.7
Azure Site Recovery is highly rated for stability and scalability, frequently scoring between seven and ten by users.
Sentiment score
5.8
N2W is highly stable and reliable, efficiently handling over 600 daily backups in production environments without interruption.
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 better integration, deployment, stability, security, and support, with improved logging, pricing, and platform compatibility.
N2W should improve the interface, integrate third-party solutions, enhance features, and ensure stability for a better user experience.
If their agent version is mismatched and the health status is critical, you will not be able to perform your Azure Site Recovery.
There is room for improvement in the release of patches, such as ensuring they are properly managed to avoid outages.
Currently, Azure Site Recovery does not support shared disk options.
Improved disaster recovery options and expanded multicloud support are two areas where N2WS has already made significant advancements in the latest version.
I would like to see native support for more AWS services beyond EC2 and EBS, such as full coverage of RDS, DynamoDB, and Redshift.
The reporting engine could be easier to use.
 

Setup Cost

Azure Site Recovery offers cost-effective DR solutions despite complex billing, with average monthly site-to-site replication costs at $225.
N2W provides competitive and flexible pricing options via AWS Marketplace, benefiting enterprises with cost-optimization strategies for scalable solutions.
A major advantage is that you do not want to pay any more for huge costs to build a DR site.
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.
Pricing can increase as backup volumes grow, so it is important to balance the level of protection with cost-optimization strategies such as tiering snapshots to S3 or Glacier.
I believe N2WS offers a highly competitive pricing model, delivering excellent value.
The pricing is very reasonable for what the product can do.
 

Valuable Features

Azure Site Recovery is praised for seamless failover, ease of use, compatibility, but may be costly for smaller clients.
N2W Backup and Recovery offers fast, cost-efficient AWS management with an intuitive interface, automated scheduling, and secure, immutable backups.
Its time-saving aspects allow us to write PowerShell scripts to automate failover processes.
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.
The most valuable features of Azure Site Recovery are its ease of use and speed of recovery.
The ability to create immutable backups further strengthens our business continuity strategy by ensuring an additional layer of protection against accidental or malicious data loss.
We had a ransomware event in 2023, and we were able to recover every machine with minimal effort.
 

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 (3rd)
N2W
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
5.9
Number of Reviews
11
Ranking in other categories
Backup and Recovery (37th), Cloud Backup (27th), Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (20th)
 

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.
George Philippakos - PeerSpot reviewer
Backup process and monitoring become simple and effective while seamless instance recovery and cost optimization ensure business continuity
Policy creation is straightforward, with automatic backups of new resources enabled through tagging. Instance recovery is seamless, whether within the same VPC or across different VPCs. File-level restores are intuitive and easy to manage, while full VPC backups provide critical protection and peace of mind in the event of a disaster. In addition, lifecycle management and automated transitions to lower-cost storage tiers have been instrumental in optimizing costs while meeting compliance and retention requirements. The ability to create immutable backups further strengthens our business continuity strategy by ensuring an additional layer of protection against accidental or malicious data loss.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
16%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Insurance Company
8%
Computer Software Company
16%
Healthcare Company
11%
Government
10%
Manufacturing Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business8
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise14
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business5
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise7
 

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...
What do you like most about N2WS Backup & Recovery?
N2WS Backup &amp; Recovery is very easy to use and configure backup for AWS instances.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for N2WS Backup & Recovery?
I believe N2WS offers a highly competitive pricing model, delivering excellent value. It is certainly a worthwhile investment, providing a strong return on investment (ROI).
What needs improvement with N2WS Backup & Recovery?
Improved disaster recovery options and expanded multicloud support are two areas where N2WS has already made significant advancements in the latest version. I am eager to upgrade and take full adva...
 

Comparisons

 

Also Known As

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N2WS Backup & Recovery, N2WS Cloud Protection Manager, N2W Backup & Recovery for AWS Free Trial/BYOL
 

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Sample Customers

Russell Reynolds Associates, Union Insurance, Rackspace
Deloitte, NASA, Johnson & Johnson, Dyson, Deuthsche Bahn, Skechers, Allan Gray, Hewlett Packard, St. John's University, City of Oakland
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