Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup vs HPE Zerto Software comparison

Barracuda Networks and Zerto are both solutions in the Cloud Backup category. Barracuda Networks is ranked #25 with an average rating of 9.0, while Zerto is ranked #3 with an average rating of 8.8. Barracuda Networks holds a 0.8% mindshare in CB, compared to Zerto’s 4.1% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Barracuda Networks users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 98% of Zerto users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jun 11, 2025

Zerto and Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup compete in the cloud data protection category. Zerto seems to have the upper hand in environments needing complex disaster recovery due to its advanced features.

Features: Zerto offers disaster recovery with near-zero RPOs, easy VM replication, and continuous data protection, making it ideal for complex IT infrastructures. Key features include seamless VM replication, real-time failover capabilities, and high-level interoperability with existing VMware and Hyper-V environments. Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup provides straightforward cloud data backup, offering strong integration with Microsoft 365 for efficient file restoration and comprehensive Microsoft 365 backup and recovery, including SharePoint, Exchange Online, and OneDrive.

Room for Improvement: Zerto could enhance its documentation, reporting capabilities, and hypervisor support. It aims to automate backup processes to reduce manual intervention. Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup could integrate more platforms and address file recovery complexities, with better support for G-Suite customers and more adaptive features as market needs evolve.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Zerto is mainly deployed in on-premises and hybrid cloud settings, praised for its responsive and knowledgeable support team. Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup focuses on public and private cloud deployments, appreciated for competitive customer service. Both products are commended for their ease of deployment, varying slightly based on deployment environments and support strategies.

Pricing and ROI: Zerto offers flexible licensing by VM count, suitable for larger enterprises seeking advanced features, despite higher costs for smaller companies. Its high ROI is justified by improved recovery times and operational efficiency. Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup provides competitive pricing tailored to customer needs, considered economical for cloud-based file restoration, meeting budget-conscious requirements.

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Categories and Ranking

Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Ba...

Ranking in Cloud Backup

25th

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

SaaS Backup (10th)

HPE Zerto Software

Ranking in Cloud Backup

3rd

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

309

Ranking in other categories

Backup and Recovery (2nd), Cloud Migration (2nd), Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (2nd)

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2025, in the Cloud Backup category, the mindshare of Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup is 0.8%, up from 0.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of HPE Zerto Software is 4.1%, down from 5.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Johan Camp

ICT Manager at Jessa Ziekenhuis

Reliable, easy to set up, and offers good pricing

In the future, we are looking for solutions combining both local and cloud backup from a single management platform that was initially not yet available. There were two different platforms at Barracuda. What would be great should be either a guaranteed restore or a guaranteed restoring speed. It's difficult as they rely on Azure too. However, that would be convenient from a user perspective.

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Sachin Vinay

Assistant Manager-Networks at Amrita

Leverage disaster recovery with reliable support and cost-effective future-proof features

Zerto is straightforward to implement because it only requires the installation of an agent on the VMs designated for migration. A service, typically a VM, must also be deployed at the disaster recovery location. This entire process is simple and can be completed within three days. Zerto's near-synchronous replication occurs every minute, allowing for highly granular recovery points. This means that even if interruptions or malware disruptions occur within that minute, Zerto can restore to the last known good state, effectively recovering the entire setup to the latest backup. This capability ensures high data security and minimizes potential data loss. One of the main benefits of implementing Zerto is its data compression, which significantly reduces the load on our IPsec VPN. Zerto compresses data by 80 percent before transmitting it across the VPN, minimizing the data transferred between geographically dispersed locations. This compression and subsequent decompression at the destination alleviate the strain on the VPN, preventing overload and ensuring efficient data synchronization. Zerto simplifies malware protection by integrating it into its disaster recovery and synchronization features. This comprehensive approach eliminates the need for separate antivirus setups in virtual machines and applications. It streamlines our security measures and removes the need for additional software or solutions, resulting in an excellent return on investment. Zerto's single-click recovery solution offers exceptional recovery speed. Through the user interface, a single click allows for a complete restoration from the most recent backup within two to three minutes, enabling rapid recovery and minimal downtime. Zerto's Recovery Time Objective is excellent. In the past, if a virtual machine crashed, we would recover it from a snapshot, which could take one to two hours. With Zerto, the recovery process takes only five minutes, and users are typically unaware of any disruption. This allows us to restore everything quickly and efficiently. Zerto has significantly reduced our downtime. When malware affects our data, Zerto immediately notifies us and helps us protect other applications, even those not yet implemented with Zerto. By monitoring these applications, we can quickly identify and address any potential malware spread, minimizing downtime across our systems. Zerto significantly reduces downtime and associated costs during disruptions. Our services are unified, so in the event of a disruption without Zerto, even a half-day disruption would necessitate offline procedures. This would lead to increased manpower, service delays, and substantial financial losses due to interrupted admissions and other critical processes. By unifying service processes, Zerto minimizes the impact of outages. Zerto streamlines our disaster recovery testing across multiple locations by enabling efficient failover testing without disrupting live services. Traditionally, DR testing required downtime of critical systems, but Zerto's replication and failover capabilities allow us to test in parallel with live operations. This non-disruptive approach ensures continuous service availability while validating our DR plan, even in scenarios like malware attacks, by creating a separate testing environment that mirrors the live setup. This comprehensive testing provides confidence in our ability to handle real-world incidents effectively. This saves us over 60 percent of the time. Zerto streamlines system administration tasks by automating many processes, thereby reducing the workload for multiple administrators. This allows them to focus on other university services that require attention and effectively reallocate support resources from automated tasks to those requiring more dedicated management. Zerto is used exclusively for our critical services, providing up to a 70 percent improvement in our IT resilience.

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Pros

"The initial setup is pretty simple."

"The most valuable feature of Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup is it's synchronized well with Microsoft 365. Additionally, the solution is able to identify through Microsoft Defender if there are viruses and will provide a notification."

"The product is deployable anywhere. It is also scalable and reliable."

"Overall, I would rate Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup a nine out of ten."

"The product's most valuable feature is the backup retention policy."

"The most valuable feature is the AI with threat detection that can detect ransomware and restore it."

"The product enables us to restore lost files."

"I like the fact that Zerto is target agnostic. It doesn't care what type of storage it writes to. The journaling is also excellent. You can easily and quickly restore to seconds before an event. The immutable data copies feature is one reason we adopted Zerto. That's one of its selling points."

"Files can also be extracted from the VMDK at the remote site even when the VM is off."

"When we need to failover or move workloads, Zerto significantly decreases both the time it takes and the number of people involved. It only takes a single person to activate a failover and we can pretty much automate everything else."

"Their support is very good."

"We use to use VMware replication appliances to attempt to replicate our VMs to remote locations and servers, but Zerto's one-to-many replication options with deduplication have made the process much simpler without having to constantly worry about the versions of each driver."

"What I appreciate the most about Zerto is the simplicity of it all."

"We work a lot with customers that need disaster recovery and the best possible migration approaches, and Zerto helps them minimize the amount of effort it takes to finish their upgrades or migrations."

"Zerto is low maintenance, so I can set it and forget it. It has a great process and an excellent solution."

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Cons

"The tool does not support Google Support. I have only Microsoft 365 customers. I don't have a good solution for my G-suite customers."

"We needed assistance with the implementation of the solution from the vendor. The process could be easier."

"Locating and recovering files can be confusing."

"The solution may be improved by allowing integration with other platforms."

"What would be great should be either a guaranteed restore or a guaranteed restoring speed."

"They should adapt to new parameters as the market grows."

"Navigating through folders and finding files can be a bit slow, taking up to three to five seconds between clicks, which feels slow compared to the speed in SharePoint or a browser."

"The only issue that I observed was that depending on the number of virtual machines that are being replicated, you will have to provision the appropriate bandwidth for the link that the replicated systems will traverse."

"When it comes to a solution, one of the things the management wants is to standardize platforms. That's why when Rubrik came out with their solution, they wanted to look at it. For instance, if you have multiple technologies, you're going to need admins to manage all those different ones. I would like Zerto to be something that fits all our needs, including the backup that Rubrik provides, but I understand that not all solutions can be that way."

"Whenever we do a failover, there's a confirmation box that shows up later. It's a little hard to see sometimes... A popup to continue would be a little bit better because then you're not sitting and waiting for something and it's already there."

"I don't feel like we're a big enough customer to warrant being called every week or every month but it would be good to get a little bit more contact with a salesperson or engineer group."

"Expanding the product to compete more fully with products such as Veeam would be a big benefit in the market."

"I would like to see some graphical improvements in Zerto's interface. There's an option to export a list of all of our servers, but the information isn't presented the way we want. We want it in a specified sequence broken down by region, etc. We can't manipulate the data when we export it. Maybe they could change it to look more like an Excel sheet, and we can customize the graphics and data. We suggested these improvements to Zerto through their portal."

"Another thing that would help would be a recommender, or some type of tool that says, 'Hey, you're not conforming to best practices.' It would do a conformance or compliance check to tell you if your VPGs are set up according to best practices and whether your Zerto clusters are set up optimally. It would see if you have HA enabled and whether your alerting is turned on."

"If the log was more detailed and more user-friendly, we wouldn't have to make the calls to the support to try and figure out where the problem lies."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price of the solution is reasonable."

"The product's pricing is based on the customer's needs because every customer is different."

"The price is reasonable compared to other products."

"This is a cost-effective solution."

"The product's pricing is fair and competitive."

"Zerto is a little expensive."

"At the time I had purchased the product, the pricing was fair and reasonable. Over the years, costs have certainly gone up, which makes it hard for healthcare companies to use the solution."

"It is not the cheapest option on the market, but it offers a number of features that make it a good value for businesses that need a comprehensive disaster recovery plan."

"There is a one-time cost for maintenance and support. We have a three-year contract that we will have to renew when those three years come up. There is also licensing on top of that for whatever product you are using it for."

"It's fair. My biggest gripe with Zerto is the initial scoping. What we were promised didn't work with what we ended up with."

"Zerto's price seems fair. It's competitive."

"While we find the twenty-five VM license somewhat inflexible, the actual setup costs are minimal as the product is so easy to install."

"We're getting our money's worth with Zerto."

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup?

The product enables us to restore lost files.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup?

The pricing for Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup can be considered moderate. It is around £5 per user, which could be pricey for big companies, but backing up is essential when using Microsoft 365.

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What needs improvement with Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup?

Navigating through folders and finding files can be a bit slow, taking up to three to five seconds between clicks, which feels slow compared to the speed in SharePoint ( /products/sharepoint-review...

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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 do you like most about Zerto?

Its ability to roll back if the VM or the server that you are recovering does not come up right is also valuable. You have the ability to roll back a few seconds or a few minutes. The rollback feat...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Zerto?

I ballpark Zerto's pricing at about $1,000 per VM, which I find fair for what it does, but the cost of entry was tough initially due to the minimum number needed to start. I really needed to prove ...

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Barracuda Cloud to Cloud Backup

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Overview

Cloud-to-Cloud Backup provides comprehensive, cost-effective, scalable protection for your Office 365 data. It automatically backs up all your email ,OneDrive for Business, SharePoint, Groups, and Teams data to Barracuda Cloud Storage. And when time is of the essence, restoring what you need takes just a few clicks.

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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.

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