Azure Site Recovery vs Veeam Cloud Connect [EOL] comparison

Microsoft and Veeam Software are both solutions in the Disaster Recovery (DR) Software category. Additionally, 92% of Microsoft users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Veeam Software users who would recommend it.

Azure Site Recovery

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92% willing to recommend

Veeam Cloud Connect [EOL]

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100% willing to recommend

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Categories and Ranking

Azure Site Recovery

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

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Disaster Recovery as a Service (2nd)

Veeam Cloud Connect [EOL]

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

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Featured Reviews

reviewer2142519

IT Manager at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

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.

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Nicusor Munteanu

Senior IT System Engineer at Orange

Simple and flexible backup solution

I mainly use Cloud Connect as a cloud backup repository Cloud Connect's best features are its simplicity, flexibility, and constantly-expanding options. I've been using Cloud Connect for about four years. We encountered some issues with stability at the beginning, but these were fixed after…

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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

"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."

"It is a very stable product and very scalable."

"You can create automation to move workloads and redirect traffic to another region."

"The most useful thing is that it provides a snapshot of your environment in about 15 minutes, it is stable, and it always works, and it is also scalable and easy to set up."

"Our primary use case is for disaster recovery and business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR)."

"The solution is very easy to use."

"A major benefit is that you do not want to pay any more for huge costs to build a DR site."

"We use the tool for business continuity purposes."

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"Veeam Cloud Connect is used extensively, and there's a plan to increase its usage in the future."

"It's a great product because it's great scalability and it scales out from small to big companies perfectly."

"In my opinion, the console or dashboard is the most valuable feature of this solution."

"The most valuable feature is that it is very elastic. It's adaptable because it's very flexible and modular."

"Cloud Connect's best features are its simplicity, flexibility, and constantly-expanding options."

"The most valuable feature is the snapshot capability."

"The deployment is quite simple. Users are generally happy because of the familiarity they have with the features. The solution offers good transparency for the end-user."

"While there are some complexities, Veeam tries to keep the product simple and offers a good knowledge base. It's quite structured, so you can easily take one subject and learn about it simply by reading through the documentation."

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Cons

"The primary area for improvement in Azure Site Recovery is its pricing."

"It is for site-to-site replication. When something goes wrong on your site, you only get 15 minutes before it also goes wrong on your replicated site."

"There is room for improvement in the release of patches, such as ensuring they are properly managed to avoid outages."

"The solution needs to improve replication and failover processes. We are still looking for improvements in the cost baseline."

"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 with other services."

"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."

"In the newest version of Azure Site Recovery, the configuration was a little more complex, so this is an area for improvement."

"The pricing predictability and clarity around the final cost of the plan of this solution could be improved."

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"Basically, a huge amount of storage capacity can be required in certain cases."

"If a customer has a low budget, Veeam may be too expensive."

"We need the solution to offer IT storage."

"The bandwidth optimization needs to be improved and have better efficiency so that you send fewer amounts of data from one site to the other."

"The solution needs to be more scalable. There should be no reason to set up Veeam Cloud Connect and have 10 servers in order to have a cloud backup. The initial setup could be easier."

"We were interested in investing hundreds of thousands of dollars in VMware. VMware right now is one of the biggest solutions in the world, in terms of the IT environment. But for Cloud Connect it's not. I think they need the cloud version to reach more customers, to enable the cloud version to be used by more people."

"Doesn't back-up from KVM."

"There are some issues with the cloud providers for Veeam Cloud Connect that do not support all the features."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Azure Site Recovery is neither very expensive nor very cheap."

"Azure Site Recovery is affordable."

"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."

"They have a license to pay."

"The tool's licensing is yearly and not expensive."

"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."

"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's not the cheapest solution on the market but it's reliable, so we find it cost-effective."

"The licensing is MSP-based. It is connected to the portal, and you can deploy it to your end users as well."

"The licensing fee is on a monthly basis."

"The price of the solution could be cheaper. There are monthly or yearly subscription options available. The annual subscription tends to be cheaper."

"We are looking into how we can extend the license of this product."

"The pricing of Veeam Cloud Connect is good."

"The price of the solution is reasonable because of our good standing with the vendor."

"I think that this is one of the most cost-effective solutions."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

10%

Construction Company

Comms Service Provider

Manufacturing Company

Construction Company

18%

Manufacturing Company

13%

Performing Arts

10%

Comms Service Provider

10%

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	9
Midsize Enterprise	4
Large Enterprise	14

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	15
Midsize Enterprise	6
Large Enterprise	3

Questions from the Community

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.

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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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What is your primary use case for Azure Site Recovery?

My main use case for Azure Site Recovery is that we are doing cross-region disaster recovery and processing.

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Overview

Azure Site Recovery ensures seamless disaster recovery with features like scalability, automated file synchronization, real-time dashboards, and secure processes. It achieves a 99.99% uptime SLA and is recognized for its cost-effectiveness and user-friendly interface.

Azure Site Recovery is a comprehensive disaster recovery service featuring load-balancing, fast snapshots, and native Azure integration for reliable performance. It manages virtual machine synchronization with seamless failover and data consistency, aiding in reducing secondary site expenses. With its robust architecture, the service supports organizations in maintaining business continuity, meeting regulatory compliance, and minimizing downtime through regular failover drills. Its implementation often capitalizes on Azure's reliability, ensuring infrastructure uptime and reduced hardware requirements.

What are the essential features of Azure Site Recovery?

Scalability: Adjusts to varying data loads for optimized performance.
User-Friendly Console: Simplifies configuration and management processes.
Automated File Synchronization: Ensures data consistency across locations.
Real-Time Dashboards: Offers immediate insights into system health and recovery status.
Secure Processes: Protects data with advanced security protocols.

What benefits and ROI should users consider when evaluating Azure Site Recovery?

Cost-Effectiveness: Reduces need for extensive hardware investments.
Reduced Downtime: Ensures quick recovery, maintaining business operations.
High SLA Guarantees: Provides reliability with 99.99% uptime.
Resource Efficiency: Saves time and effort in disaster recovery management.

Organizations in industries such as finance, healthcare, and retail implement Azure Site Recovery for its robust disaster recovery capabilities. The service navigates regulatory challenges with ease, aiding businesses in data duplication, VMware replication, and infrastructure backup. Its efficiency is leveraged to maintain critical systems during outages, facilitating business continuity and operational stability.

Microsoft

Veeam Cloud Connect for the Enterprise enables businesses to act as a disaster recover (DR) service provider to deliver off-site backup and replication services to internal customers. This eliminates complexity by removing the need to maintain a VPN connection and it improves security by encapsulating all backup and management traffic into a single port.

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Sample Customers

Russell Reynolds Associates, Union Insurance, Rackspace

Worldwide Holdings, ContinuitySA, MPY, Linxdatacenter

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