BDRShield vs Datto Cloud Continuity comparison

Vembu Technologies and datto are both solutions in the Disaster Recovery (DR) Software category. Vembu Technologies is ranked #12 with an average rating of 8.0, while datto is ranked #29. Vembu Technologies holds a 3.0% mindshare in DRS, compared to datto’s 2.1% mindshare. Additionally, 91% of Vembu Technologies users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 90% of datto users who would recommend it.

BDRShield

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90% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Feb 8, 2026

BDRShield and Datto Cloud Continuity are data protection products with Datto Cloud Continuity often regarded as superior for its robust features, offering excellent value despite a higher price point. BDRShield is preferred for its affordability and support, but Datto's capabilities render it a compelling option.

Features: BDRShield provides comprehensive backup solutions, easy management of diverse data sources, and a user-friendly interface. Datto Cloud Continuity features advanced continuity options, seamless disaster recovery, and ransomware protection, excelling in security and rapid recovery speeds, ideal for high-availability environments.

Room for Improvement: BDRShield could enhance its security features, improve recovery speed, and expand its ransomware protection capabilities. Datto Cloud Continuity might benefit from simplifying its deployment process, enhancing its restore processes, and reducing its cost to attract budget-conscious customers.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: BDRShield is noted for straightforward deployment paired with strong support services, thus ensuring easy implementation. Although Datto Cloud Continuity's deployment can be more complex, it offers comprehensive post-deployment support, taking a more guided approach to service improvement.

Pricing and ROI: BDRShield is attractive for its cost-effective pricing, offering a strong return on investment by lowering initial setup costs. Datto Cloud Continuity, while initially more expensive, provides substantial long-term ROI through its extensive feature set and reliability, justifying its premium for those prioritizing advanced functionalities.

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Categories and Ranking

BDRShield

Ranking in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software

12th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Backup and Recovery (27th), MSP Backup (4th)

Datto Cloud Continuity

Ranking in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software

29th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Backup (45th)

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the Disaster Recovery (DR) Software category, the mindshare of BDRShield is 3.0%, up from 1.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Datto Cloud Continuity is 2.1%, up from 1.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Disaster Recovery (DR) Software Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
BDRShield	3.0%
Datto Cloud Continuity	2.1%
Other	94.9%

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Thomas Roes

Director at Switact

Ease of backup and restore improves data management with reliable support

The interface of BDRSuite Backup & Replication is pretty intuitive. Regarding their marketing strategy, I'm very bad at marketing. I always get a little edgy when people try to shove their product in my face. There are two sides to the story. If you don't know something exists, you might not even start to look for it unless you really know that you need it. If you are explicitly looking for a solution, then you'll find it. People that don't know that they should do backup don't have a place in IT. I rate BDRSuite Backup & Replication 8.5 out of 10.

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TrevorSmith

Assistant Director, Network Operations at Premier Marine Insurance

Provides enterprise-level protection from ransomware attacks

Speaking about how the product is deployed in my company's business operations, I would say that it is an appliance with a critical infrastructure. In terms of data protection capabilities, the tool's ability to boot a device and have a separate network has saved the day for many of our company's clients who use the solution. If you have a collection of old servers, and if one of the old servers dies, you could be dead in the water if you cannot locally boot a server. Even the new gears in place can have an issue if people are not spending money on robust hardware tools, and replace them. It is necessary to have the local boot options if and when you have a hardware issue. The product brings the most value in the area of virtual boot when it comes to disaster recovery since it can boot up a version of the server from before an incident, which is helpful and allows your company to have a lower RPO or recovery point objective. It makes a big difference if you can have an RPO in hours rather than in days. The image-based backup functionality has revolutionized and impacted our company recovery time objectives since we deal in hours and not in days. The interface of the product is intuitive. I like the product's functionality that provides the ability to see everything at a glance, along with the alerting feature. Maintenance is required since certain drives die at times. In general, maintenance is required to deal with dead RAMs and hard drives. The former clients with small offices and the old Linux servers that used to die in production used to boot such servers with the help of Datto Cloud Continuity. The aforementioned process allows the clients to continue running their business while buying time to get replacement hardware, making a big difference that helps them reduce potential data loss or downtime. The local boot provided by the product saved the day for many of our company's clients. I recommend the product to those who plan to use it. Though the tool is not inexpensive, it provides enterprise-level protection from ransomware. I rate the overall tool a nine out of ten.

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Quotes from Members

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Pros

"The most useful feature is that you can back up the virtual machines in different ways. You can back up from a vhost, and you can also back up from a Windows server. It doesn't matter what type of infrastructure or hypervisor is there. It's very flexible, which is its most useful feature for us."

"Once it's set up and working, it's just working."

"We invest in the backup so the continuity of the data is not affected."

"Vembu helps me deliver an enterprise-level data protection solution and reduce budgets."

"We only use BDRSuite to back up two VMs in our current environment. It helps us with maintenance, monitoring, etc. We are satisfied with BDRSuite so far and plan to add a few more VMs in the future, including Citrix VMs and XenServer."

"It makes it possible for us to back up our Unix machines without installing a host, client, or any client software. It gives us some peace of mind in regards to those servers getting backed up."

"I like Vembu because of the price point, the ease of use, the support, and it being full-featured backup software for the needs that I have."

"It's something that sits there and does its job, and does it well."

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"For local backup, it works well."

"The product's initial setup phase is easy."

"The data recovery of the solution is very good."

"Datto has strong competition, but they succeeded in linking their service to the device. It's easy for managed service providers to sell and upsell products using their portal and the remote monitoring and maintenance."

"The recovery time objective and recovery point objective were most valuable. It was easy to use, and it was easy to recover a file. I was the head of sales and a product evaluator for an MSSP, so I never had to deal with recovery from ransomware. However, I was confident that if ransomware had occurred, I would only lose a maximum of 59 minutes of data. The files were encrypted."

"When you compare it to other systems that require a fat client to be installed or to have several VMs setup just to configure the system, Datto stands head and shoulders above."

"The platform provides a faster backup process."

"They are laser-focused on bringing forth proven protection technologies and stopping cybercriminals from being able to breach, break, steal, or compromise your data."

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Cons

"The reporting can use some improvement. I still use the old StoreGrid Cloud while I'm migrating the rest of my clients over. I am able to export all of my clients' usage for the month, which I then import into my billing program. It helps me speed up the billing process. Also, I can generate a report that gives me statuses of everyone's backup, which I don't get from Vembu Backup Online either. I would like to have something similar where I can export everyone's usage at any time for all their backups, so I can use that to import them to my billing program."

"There were issues with the implementation because of incompatibilities between the tool implementation and our current VMware installation. So, it was an implementation issue that doesn't allow me to use it for VMware backup in the manner in which we would want to use it. That wasn't clear from the evaluation stage nor was it clear from the first utilization of it because it worked in the environment that it was being evaluated in. Based on that, we went ahead and made the purchase of the full implementation. At that point, it became clear that there would be limitations in that implementation that could not be overcome without doing upgrades to the production environment."

"We did have a previous solution, but it was almost 10 years ago. We were not happy."

"Even though I've paid, I'm still only able to operate in a trial mode, so it's been difficult for us."

"I would like to have a different set of products instead of having a single software which does everything."

"There have been times when the backup hangs and does not complete possibly due to a connection issue."

"We sent a letter complaining about how the lack of customer service has caused us problems. We're actually dumping Vembu and we're going with Veeam, and we're asking for our money back."

"What I would love to see on the dashboard are graphs, per backup job."

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"Datto's only shortcoming is RMM. They have a portal-based connection service like ConnectWise, but it does backups and keeps things running. Datto purchased Backupify and Kaseya bought Datto. If they upped the ante in their RMM, I could see them dominating the MSP space. At the end of the day, MSPs are responsible for networks, software, devices, and backup. Datto covers all these functions so they could offer a turnkey MSP solution."

"The fact that Datto Cloud Continuity is not cheap is one of the aspects that I don't like about the product, making it an area where improvements are required."

"To better integrate compatibility with other operating systems, in addition to Windows Server."

"At the time I was using it, I would've focused more on signatures of malicious software in the cloud. I love Datto, and I know they're on the right path, but I probably would've focused more on the operating system update management. When you go from the desk to the cloud or from the server room to the cloud, everything changes. Everything is different. You're not in control of your servers anymore. It is from the Active Directory management perspective and not from the perspective of zero-day attacks or other similar things. At the time, more focus on zero-day attacks and business email compromise (BEC) would've been a better protection factor than just educating about how many of these attacks have occurred."

"At the time I was using it, I would've focused more on signatures of malicious software in the cloud."

"Datto chose to build their own cloud, instead of leveraging AWS, Azure or GCP. It looks, feels and behaves like a beta product (lacks maturity)."

"The product's scalability features could be even better."

"Right now the appliances have a functional limit of 50 protected servers each."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"We are saving $6,000 every three years versus having another product."

"I've purchased and been licensed for one aspect of it, which is my preferred method, but the pricing and licensing will not work for the short-term and I can't draw back."

"This solution provides much more value than other products that provide similar functionality. If price is a consideration for anyone who is looking to improve their backup processes, they owe it to themselves to look at the Vembu BDRSuite."

"The only thing with room for improvement, as everybody says, since I'm in a home lab, would be the price for the CPU; the cost... As far as competitors' prices go, Vembu was definitely better than all the competitors I found."

"The subscription model that we're signed up for is very good. The only thing that is something of a sticking point is the fact that you can't do PO-based licensing. It's all just credit card."

"The return of investment was very fast, within half a year."

"The licensing model is quite complicated; it's not simple. An example: If you have a physical server, you have to pay more for that license than you do for a host. It could be running several VMs and that could be a server VM as well. Then, for web station machines, there is no license for those machines and they have no desktop OS - the free version has all this functionality. Their license model needs to be looked at and simplified."

"Previously, we used Veeam Backup, but we replaced it with Vembu. We switched because Vembu is more cost-effective. So, price was a factor."

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"I rate the product price an eight on a scale of one to ten, where one is low price and ten is high price."

"As the company grew from business continuity—or what used to be called business BCDR—they brought on services. Certain services, such as SaaS protection, were a value-add, but you would expect to pay for them. They are not going to be free. It is just the life that you live when you're evaluating software vendors, partners, etc. There is going to be some form of a base offering, and then there are going to be different tiers that you need to get up to a better level."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Construction Company

15%

Educational Organization

13%

Comms Service Provider

Outsourcing Company

Manufacturing Company

12%

Construction Company

11%

Outsourcing Company

Computer Software Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	44
Midsize Enterprise	15
Large Enterprise	10

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	8
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	1

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I really don't know what could be improved about BDRSuite Backup & Replication. I've never had anything that I thought would be nice if that was possible. Every time I thought that, it was alre...

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Also Known As

Vembu BDRSuite, BDRSuite Backup & Replication

Datto Cloud Continuity for PCs

Overview

BDRShield offers seamless backup and recovery, catering to VMware and Hyper-V environments. It's designed for ease-of-use with high efficiency in data management and storage.

BDRShield offers a suite of capabilities designed for effective data protection and recovery. It is known for its user-friendly approach, allowing Java-free agentless backups, and high compression rates that optimize storage resources. central management provides straightforward setup and maintenance, reducing complications. Tailored to suit multi-tenant needs, it seeks to provide comprehensive backup solutions for managed service providers. Incremental backups and quick virtual machine recovery are standout features, alongside a focus on cost efficiency. While users find value in its core functionality, enhancements in customer support responsiveness and an intuitive dashboard are desired. Compatibility with technologies such as Red Hat Virtualization and improvements in data deduplication and cloud storage are areas of growth.

What are BDRShield’s main features?

User-friendly UI: Simplifies navigation for a better experience.
Efficient Backup & Restore: Ensures data security and swift recovery.
VMware & Hyper-V Compatibility: Supports leading virtualization platforms.
High Compression Rates: Saves storage space without sacrificing quality.
Centralized Management: Streamlines configuration processes.
Agentless Backup & Replication: Reduces overhead and simplifies deployment.
Encryption & Deduplication: Enhances security and storage efficiency.
Multi-tenant Support: Benefits managed service providers extensively.
Incremental Backups: Conserves storage and reduces bandwidth usage.

What benefits does BDRShield offer?

Cost Efficiency: Balances performance and value.
Quick VM Restoration: Minimizes downtime and accelerates recovery.
Disaster Recovery Options: Provides robust solutions for data protection offsite.

BDRShield is leveraged widely across industries to protect virtual and physical server environments. Its ability to back up crucial applications, databases, and files both on-premises and in the cloud makes it a versatile choice for various businesses. Small to medium-sized businesses benefit from file-level and image-level backups, ensuring data integrity across platforms like VMware, Hyper-V, and ESXi.

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Datto Cloud Continuity offers a reliable, user-friendly platform for data protection and disaster recovery, focusing on quick backup processes and scalable solutions, ensuring managed service providers are well-equipped against ransomware threats.

Datto Cloud Continuity is designed for backup, disaster recovery, and ransomware prevention. It efficiently manages backups and VM operations through an intuitive web interface. Its compelling data recovery capabilities and competitive pricing make it a valuable choice for MSPs. While the platform exhibits scalability and resilience, improvements are needed in Hyper-V integration, agent reliability, and cloud recovery options. Its pricing model and recovery duration could be optimized. Further enhancements in integration with operating systems and cybersecurity practices are suggested for broader appeal, along with stronger RMM features.

What are the key features of Datto Cloud Continuity?

Web Interface: Simplifies management of backups and VM operations.
Data Recovery: Efficient data recovery processes bolster confidence.
Scalability: Designed to handle growing data needs.
Ransomware Protection: Limits maximum data loss to 59 minutes.

What benefits should users expect in Datto Cloud Continuity reviews?

User Confidence: Built from quick backup and efficient recovery.
Competitive Pricing: Offers cost savings against potential threats.
Device Integration: Links services with ease for MSPs.
Support Attention: Ensures reliable customer support and assistance.

In industry environments managed by ConnectWise, Datto Cloud Continuity acts as a critical part of network operations, ensuring consistent backups of end-user devices and leveraging cloud synchronization for secure storage. Evaluated by companies for cost-effectiveness based on asset value and risks, it functions as a security hub, offering protection against vulnerabilities, including hardware failures.

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Sample Customers

NASA, Intel, CISCO, PHILIPS, Atos, HEXAWARE, Motorola

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