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

Barracuda Networks and Hewlett Packard Enterprise are both solutions in the Cloud Backup category. Barracuda Networks is ranked #29 with an average rating of 9.0, while Hewlett Packard Enterprise is ranked #3 with an average rating of 9.0. Barracuda Networks holds a 0.7% mindshare in CB, compared to Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s 3.2% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Barracuda Networks users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 98% of Hewlett Packard Enterprise users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 21, 2025

HPE Zerto Software and Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup are competing products in the data protection and recovery solutions category. Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup seems to have the upper hand due to its feature-rich platform, though HPE Zerto has advantages in support and pricing, making it viable for many.

Features: HPE Zerto Software offers continuous data protection and disaster recovery capabilities with rapid recovery and minimal data loss, supporting VMware and Hyper-V environments. Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup provides comprehensive backup solutions for SaaS services, emphasizing ease of management and sophisticated reporting.

Room for Improvement: HPE Zerto could enhance its cloud-centric deployment features and simplify its initial setup. Barracuda could lower its pricing and improve its integration with certain SaaS platforms, also boosting support for more comprehensive data environments.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup offers straightforward deployment with seamless integration into cloud environments and robust customer service. HPE Zerto Software also provides a relatively simple deployment, though it requires more setup compared to Barracuda.

Pricing and ROI: HPE Zerto Software is noted for its competitive pricing, offering high ROI due to quick recovery times and robust protection. Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup, while slightly higher in cost, justifies its price with extensive features and cloud integration, providing substantial ROI for SaaS-reliant organizations.

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Categories and Ranking

Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Ba...

Ranking in Cloud Backup

29th

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

SaaS Backup (14th)

HPE Zerto Software

Ranking in Cloud Backup

3rd

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

343

Ranking in other categories

Backup and Recovery (2nd), Cloud Migration (1st), Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (1st)

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Cloud Backup category, the mindshare of Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup is 0.7%, up from 0.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of HPE Zerto Software is 3.2%, down from 4.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Cloud Backup Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
HPE Zerto Software	3.2%
Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup	0.7%
Other	96.1%

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Featured Reviews

Jason Kirk

Microsoft 365 Konsult at Canmer Data AB

Restoration setup streamlines backup management and user-friendliness improves interactions

I find restoration and setup to be the most valuable features because they are easy to use, easy to find, and easy to set up for the first time. Restoration allows me to recover a single file or a whole library or folder quickly, with the option to restore to either the original location or a new location. The latest updates have improved user-friendliness, especially for business-to-business interactions, enabling me to handle backup restorations and setups efficiently for my customers.

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David Riberdy

Enterprise data management supervisor at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

An all-in-one and cost-efficient solution that does what it promises

Zerto is very easy to use. Installation is about half an hour, and then it starts protecting the data and VMs. It is not very cumbersome. The UI is built very well. It is fairly self-explanatory. To be able to stand up a product you have never seen in half an hour and get it functioning and protecting speaks to how good the UI and workflow are. Zerto has near-synchronous replication. As a change is made on site A, it gets copied across the network to site B. We are five or six seconds behind production. If I have a heavily used system and I use traditional backups, I could be anywhere from 5 minutes to 23 hours behind. With Zerto, I am single-digit seconds behind. That works well for us. Our disaster recovery test, which used to span an entire week, now takes two days. We used to recover our servers in the first two or three days with a backup product and then test for two days before tearing it all down. Now, we spend half a day on new servers and ensuring things work with networking, etc. We test the next day, and we are done in two days. Across the entire company, we are able to save significant man-hours by shortening the test from a week to two days. We are now doing smaller tests once a month and larger tests once a year. Zerto has reduced our DR testing time by 60% to 70%. We are also able to do more disaster recovery testing. Previously, we were doing it once a year, whereas now, we are doing smaller tests once a month and our large tests once a year. In recovery point objectives, we are single-digit seconds behind. In terms of RTOs, I can recover 350 VMs in 30 minutes. It takes less than several seconds to restore a single VM. From days to 30 minutes for 350 compared to 100 VMs is an incredible time-saving in terms of RTOs and RPOs for us.

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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

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

"The product enables us to restore lost files."

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

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

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

"The initial setup is pretty simple."

"It helps with business continuity."

"Having Zerto in place takes a headache off my plate."

"The communication between the VM and the secondary data center is the most valuable feature."

"The instant recovery at DR locations is the most valuable feature. We're required to do periodic DR tests of critical databases, including Oracle and Microsoft SQL. We have recovery point objectives set for specific databases and we need to be able to achieve them. Zerto helps solve that business problem."

"We can recover both systems on-premises and in the public cloud."

"The most valuable feature is Zerto's ability to precopy data to a remote destination prior to the actual live migration period. That saves us a lot of time and has been very helpful. For example, if we had migrations occurring in waves over a period of several weeks with a VPG or VPG setup of approximately 50 VMs, that is multiple gigabytes of data, even terabytes in many cases. Having that data already copied on the evening of the migration saves considerable hours of time. It easily saves us four to six hours a night."

"The fact that we are able to test the failover of live systems during regular hours is invaluable to our organization."

"It's the easiest to use."

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Cons

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

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

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

"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 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 would like more mobile options. If we are at a restaurant or out and about in our normal daily lives, we would like to be able to interface via our mobiles."

"HPE Zerto Software can be improved by allowing a system inside my makeshift vault to reach out to the other system and pull backups inside, which would let me punch fewer holes."

"One improvement could be addressing the market segment related to physical servers. I understand this is a limitation of Zerto's technology. Still, from a customer's perspective, I would ask the vendor to find a solution to use Zerto for virtualized physical systems, such as physical servers."

"Now, everything is moving to the cloud and many modern app solutions are based on virtualization and cloud, however, for situations where Unix platforms are used, we'd like them to be able to support that."

"The main issue with Zerto is its user interface, which lacks flexibility and presents a steep learning curve."

"HPE Zerto Software could evolve to where, instead of me having to push a button, it can detect disasters on the fly and automate disaster detection."

"From a pricing perspective, HPE Zerto Software is expensive in comparison to other products on the market, but I think it is an easier sell because it works so well and it is so easy to set up a demo to show someone how well it works."

"The problem with the backup product is that it's not very mature and you really need a specific use case to be able to use it effectively. It's hard to explain to our customers, especially our large customers, that the use case is so limited."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"This is a cost-effective solution."

"The price of the solution is reasonable."

"The price is reasonable compared to other products."

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

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

"One of Zerto's main disadvantages is its pricing structure, which involves significant upfront costs and limited options for startups with minimal initial funding."

"It's very reasonably priced. It's a little more than $3,000 annually. That works out to about $20 per server per month."

"I would like to see different service levels. They're good, but it still takes a lot of our budget in ops."

"The pricing doesn't seem too bad for what it does."

"You are getting what you pay for, as this is a solution that requires minimal management after it is configured."

"The cost is not dirt cheap but also is not terrible."

"It is cost-effective."

"Its price can be better, but it is not bad. Most small-scale organizations can afford it, but they can come up with more customer-friendly packages."

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Nov 9, 2014

VMware SRM vs. Veeam vs. Zerto

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Comms Service Provider

12%

Computer Software Company

12%

Financial Services Firm

Government

Computer Software Company

11%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Healthcare Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	5
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	3

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	90
Midsize Enterprise	86
Large Enterprise	196

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?

From a pricing perspective, HPE Zerto Software is expensive in comparison to other products on the market, but I think it is an easier sell because it works so well and it is so easy to set up a de...

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Also Known As

Barracuda Cloud to Cloud Backup

Zerto Virtual Replication

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.

Barracuda Networks

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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