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

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 22, 2026

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
7.3
Organizations save 65%, reduce downtime, enhance data protection, and retain data cost-effectively with Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup.
Sentiment score
6.9
HPE Zerto Software offers cost-effective cloud-based disaster recovery, reducing downtime, hardware expenses, and manpower for efficient operations.
The solution has reduced the time required for backup administration and data recovery, saving several hours of IT effort each month.
Senior Technical Support Executive at digital track
We have reduced the time spent on backup management and incident resolution, allowing the team to focus on other strategic and operational tasks.
Technical Team Lead - Content Security at Valuepoint Systems
I have seen a return on investment as we have been able to save approximately 65% of our cost compared to the previous tool when we were using M365 for all users as our backup solution.
Full Stack Developer at BairesDev
Before, it was a huge cost. It was several thousand dollars to do a DR test, whereas now, I click a button.
CTO at Erisa Administrative Services, Inc.
It saves us a lot of time and gives us the ability to perform other DR plans for other systems.
System Engineer at a wholesaler/distributor with 1,001-5,000 employees
It's not only in the cloud; it's DR as a service, which means that the recovery operations are performed by a dedicated team specializing in this area.
Founder & CEO at Itix Cyber Ltd
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
8.7
Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup is praised for responsive support, intuitive interface, and local language availability, especially in Japan.
Sentiment score
7.5
HPE Zerto's customer service is praised for accessibility and rapid support, despite occasional delays and expertise variability.
The customer support for Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup is very proactive and easy to access, 24/7.
Senior Network Engineer at KDInfotech
The support team has been responsive, knowledgeable, and helpful whenever assistance has been required.
Senior Technical Support Executive at digital track
The technical support from Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup is excellent.
Microsoft 365 Konsult at Canmer Data AB
I have never had an issue that was not resolved, and I have never been in a situation where they did not respond.
Sr. Systems Engineer at a legal firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
I would give them a rating of ten because it represents the highest level of support based on the technical knowledge of the support team, response time, and effectiveness of the provided resolutions.
Disaster Recovery Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
When I open a ticket, I usually get a call within an hour or two.
Systems Engineering Manager at a legal firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
8.7
Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup offers scalable, user-friendly solutions for growing businesses with flexible licensing and efficient management.
Sentiment score
7.5
HPE Zerto Software offers seamless scalability for diverse environments, integrating well across platforms while considering cost at larger scales.
As the number of Office 365 users and data volume increases, the solution continues to provide consistent performance and reliable protection without adding significant administrative overhead.
Senior Technical Support Executive at digital track
Since it is a cloud-based solution, expanding protection for additional users and Microsoft 365 workloads is straightforward and does not require significant infrastructure changes.
Technical Team Lead - Content Security at Valuepoint Systems
If you are going to talk about scalability, it would really depend on the tenant size, considering we are dealing with 365, Teams, and SharePoint backup concurrency.
Storage Consultant Storage at Hewlett Packard Enterprise
I would rate it a ten out of ten for scalability.
Head of IT at TWM SOLICITORS LLP
Customers need to follow good engineering practices for optimal product use.
Tech Lead, Storage and Data Protection at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
By adding more hosts and installing VRAs on each, tasks can be efficiently managed.
Senior Systems Engineer at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
9.1
Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup is praised for its stability, reliability, ease of use, and efficient Microsoft 365 data protection.
Sentiment score
8.0
HPE Zerto Software is praised for stability, reliability, and high ratings, ensuring dependable disaster recovery and data protection.
Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup has demonstrated strong accuracy and reliability in protecting and recovering Microsoft 365 data.
Senior Technical Support Executive at digital track
Overall, the platform has performed well, and its reliability is one of the key reasons we continue to use and trust the solution for protecting critical Microsoft 365 data.
Technical Team Lead - Content Security at Valuepoint Systems
Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup is stable, helpful, quick to adopt, easy to understand, and easy to implement, which makes my life easier.
Head Advisor Infrastructure Cloud Architect at Adrienutech
I promptly delete the malfunctioning elements and set them up again to resume replication, ensuring stability.
Technical Architect at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
The ease of use was so good with Zerto that they were able to migrate things much quicker.
Inside Sales Representative at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
It is very reliable.
Systems Engineering Manager at a legal firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
 

Room For Improvement

Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup requires better integration, user-friendliness, multi-platform support, and affordability for improved restoration and accessibility.
HPE Zerto Software needs improvements in hypervisor support, cloud integration, automation, pricing, documentation, and overall usability and scalability.
Feels slow compared to the speed in SharePoint or a browser.
Microsoft 365 Konsult at Canmer Data AB
Restores are search-based, and sometimes this is challenging as users, for example, do not remember what a file name or lost file is or when it was lost.
Full Stack Developer at BairesDev
Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup gives totally unlimited all parameters for OneDrive, SharePoint, email, and Teams.
Regional Pre Sales Engineer at Roundrobin Tech
If I have 350 objects that I am protecting, I would like Zerto to be able to fire them up in one order, rather than having to manually bring them up in a sequence.
Enterprise data management supervisor at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees
If the host has a lot of VMs on it, there may not always be enough time to relocate all of the VMs from a protection group standpoint to other hosts before the replication appliance that Zerto uses to manage that powers itself down.
Systems Engineering Manager at a legal firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
If HPE Zerto Software has it built-in where we're going to vCenter and you click on it, it will build the VPG and indicate configuration requirements, that would be amazing.
Senior Converged Infrastructure Engineer at a educational organization with 1,001-5,000 employees
 

Setup Cost

Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup offers cost-effective, scalable licensing for comprehensive Microsoft 365 data security at £5 per user.
HPE Zerto Software is cost-effective with scalable licensing, but can be pricier than alternatives like SRM or Veeam.
Barracuda stood out because its straightforward administration, strong Microsoft 365 coverage, and granular recovery features aligned well with our requirements.
Technical Team Lead - Content Security at Valuepoint Systems
It is around £5 per user, which could be pricey for big companies.
Microsoft 365 Konsult at Canmer Data AB
I chose 8 out of 10 because it cost-effectively backs up the entire M365 environment and retains backups indefinitely.
Full Stack Developer at BairesDev
If you want a good-quality tool that is robust and does a good job for you, you have to pay a higher price to get that, and Zerto is no different.
IT Manager at American Pioneer Federal Credit Union
However, it can become quite expensive when you start looking at the number of workloads you have in the environment and what you would like to do.
Cloud and Infrastructure Services Manager at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Zerto is easier to set up and use, and it's less expensive.
Professional Services Engineer at US Signal
 

Valuable Features

Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup integrates with Microsoft 365, providing secure, efficient backup and recovery with AI-driven threat detection.
HPE Zerto Software excels in disaster recovery with real-time replication, ease of use, integration, and robust ransomware protection.
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.
Microsoft 365 Konsult at Canmer Data AB
It's now safer to move data to Microsoft 365 as we are now sure that the data is backed up, which frees up resources needed for an on-premises data center.
Senior Network Engineer at KDInfotech
It helps me worry less that in the worst-case scenario, mailboxes and Teams are easily restorable to continue with online learning at a very low risk.
Full Stack Developer at BairesDev
Zerto offers excellent technical support with responsive and helpful experts.
Assistant Manager-Networks at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees
If we were attacked, I could revert to a backup from five seconds before the attack, and no one would know we were attacked.
Senior Systems Engineer at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
The replication time and the minor amount of time it takes to sync a new server outside of any of my huge 40-terabyte boxes is ridiculously quick.
Sr. Systems Engineer at a legal firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
 

Categories and Ranking

Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Ba...
Ranking in Cloud Backup
12th
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.5
Number of Reviews
16
Ranking in other categories
SaaS Backup (4th)
HPE Zerto Software
Ranking in Cloud Backup
2nd
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
359
Ranking in other categories
Backup and Recovery (2nd), Cloud Migration (1st), Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (1st), Autonomous Operational Resilience (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the Cloud Backup category, the mindshare of Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup is 0.8%, up from 0.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of HPE Zerto Software is 2.5%, down from 4.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Cloud Backup Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
HPE Zerto Software2.5%
Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup0.8%
Other96.7%
Cloud Backup
 

Featured Reviews

Esther Sultaana - PeerSpot reviewer
Storage Consultant Storage at Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Ransomware attacks have been contained and healthcare data remains accessible 24x7
When I used Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup, I liked it. I really did. I cannot think of anything off the top of my head that says this needs to be improved. If we are going to compete with Commvault or Cohesity, some improvements could be made. However, overall, for what we used it for within the healthcare industry, I think it is fine, especially with the ransomware resilience. You have the isolated recovery environment and zero trust backup architecture. These things really are critical for industries in healthcare. Everything that I mentioned, Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup is for SaaS, so it covers all the bases. It is easily installed within five minutes or so. The cost is simple—you do not have any servers, storage, infrastructure, or maintenance, and it is strictly being used for what it is. Its compliance is competitive. Overall, I would say the cost is simple, you have Entra ID backups, deployment is quick, there is no infrastructure, ransomware protection is there, granular restore, and you have Azure region storage control. Where there is a problem is it does not have enterprise-level backup or multi-cloud workloads. It is best used for small and maybe mid-sized businesses, and I would say within healthcare in particular. It is for cloud-first companies, and only if you have M365 protection for MSPs, which is what NTT Data was. It works within that framework. However, for large enterprises, you do not want to look at it. I would recommend Rubrik or Commvault instead.
reviewer2802231 - PeerSpot reviewer
Dev Ops Engineer at a media company with 201-500 employees
Near-zero downtime has protected critical workloads and now simplifies hybrid cloud recovery
The best features of HPE Zerto Software are mainly very sophisticated and relevant to the current market. The data protection CDP part has real-time replication, unlike other solutions that have snapshot backups. We can set it up hourly, making it ideal for use with workloads. Another attraction is the near-zero RTO, with automated failover within minutes and one-click failover and failback. Currently, we are using a hybrid cloud solution, and HPE Zerto Software supports multi-cloud environments, making it easy to migrate between on-premises and cloud. Regarding the impact of HPE Zerto Software on our RTOs, we have near-zero RTO, meaning the system must be back online within thirty minutes if we measure the time. It is very quick to recover services. With HPE Zerto Software's near-synchronous replication, we have some CDP protection, so we typically write interceptions along with some asynchronous replication. There is almost real-time replication available.
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Comparison Review

it_user159711 - PeerSpot reviewer
Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Nov 9, 2014
VMware SRM vs. Veeam vs. Zerto
Disaster recovery planning is something that seems challenging for all businesses. Virtualization in addition to its operational flexibility, and cost reduction benefits, has helped companies improve their DR posture. Virtualization has made it easier to move machines from production to…
 

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Comms Service Provider
13%
Outsourcing Company
12%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Computer Software Company
7%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Construction Company
9%
Healthcare Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business14
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise12
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business94
Midsize Enterprise93
Large Enterprise206
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup?
We evaluated a few other options before choosing Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup, including Microsoft's native retention capabilities and some third-party cloud backup solutions such as Veeam and A...
What needs improvement with Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup?
Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup continues to meet our requirements effectively and provides a strong overall experience. The platform is regularly enhanced with useful capabilities, and we look for...
What is your primary use case for Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup?
My main use case for Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup is protecting Microsoft Office 365 data, including Exchange Online, OneDrive, SharePoint, and Teams. On a day-to-day basis, we use it to ensure ...
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...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Zerto?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is good.
What needs improvement with Zerto?
I believe HPE Zerto Software can be improved by providing more clarity on roadmap features coming.
 

Also Known As

Barracuda Cloud to Cloud Backup
Zerto Virtual Replication
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Delta Dental Plans Association
United Airlines, HCA, XPO Logistics, TaxSlayer, McKesson, Insight Global, American Airlines, Tencate, Aaron’s, Grey’s County, Kingston Technologies
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