BDRShield vs Veeam Cloud Connect [EOL] comparison

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Vembu Technologies and Veeam Software are both solutions in the Disaster Recovery (DR) Software category. Additionally, 91% of Vembu Technologies users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Veeam Software users who would recommend it.

BDRShield

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91% willing to recommend

Veeam Cloud Connect [EOL]

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100% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 3, 2025

BDRShield and Veeam Cloud Connect are competitive in the cloud backup solutions category. Veeam Cloud Connect appears to have the upper hand due to its comprehensive suite and integration with cloud services.

Features: BDRShield offers automatic backup replication, user-friendly features, and MSP rebranding capabilities. It effectively handles multiple virtual machines and hypervisors with compression efficiency. Veeam Cloud Connect is known for its reliability and flexibility, providing robust support for email backup, hybrid setups, and seamless cloud integration.

Room for Improvement: BDRShield struggles with customer service, technical support delays, and occasional bugs. Veeam Cloud Connect could improve through enhanced deduplication, better scalability, and integration with more cloud providers. Its high costs might exclude budget-limited organizations.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: BDRShield excels in on-premises and hybrid deployments but requires improvement in support quality. Veeam Cloud Connect is favored for its smooth deployment across various cloud setups, and while technical support is knowledgeable, delays may occur during emergencies.

Pricing and ROI: BDRShield is cost-effective with a flexible licensing model suited for small to medium businesses. In contrast, Veeam's premium pricing reflects its extensive features and robust capabilities, though its ROI depends on businesses' needs for its advanced tools.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

BDRShield

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Backup and Recovery (31st), Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (14th), MSP Backup (4th)

Veeam Cloud Connect [EOL]

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Featured Reviews

Tony Ashvanian

IT Director at Boom Logic

Can automatically pull the virtual machines that we have in an environment

I like the fact that BDRSuite can connect to VMware ESXi and automatically pull the virtual machines that I have in that environment. I also like that you can choose to back up the compute to the backup server or go straight to the cloud. BDRSuite enables you to recover data instantly. When we need to recover data, I only need to start a backup job or a restore job. Depending on the speed of the server and the Internet, it should be able to download the files from the cloud and split them back up the way they were like nothing ever happened. The restore options BDRSuite provides are crucial because we use it for a lot of healthcare companies that have HIPAA requirements. BDRSuite is HIPAA compliant. We need it to be readily available and accessible in case something goes wrong. It lets you schedule backups to run every 15 minutes. I don't believe you can do it at shorter intervals because there's no way the original backups will finish in 15 minutes. It allows you to adjust the schedules. For example, if you don't want it to go during certain times, you can set that up. You can also choose between a full or incremental backup. There are settings you can adjust to make it work how you want it. Incremental backup is crucial because a full backup would increase fees or affect the local server because it would back up the entire volume every time. Instead, it does one full backup—say 12 terabytes— and adds to it in increments of 100 gigabytes, 200 gigabytes, etc. Whenever you want to add a backup job, there's a wizard that pops up telling you how to make a new backup job. It asks you what you want to name it and what you want to back up. Then, it asks you if you want to schedule it. There's an interactive display on how to do that.

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Denis Beaumont

General Manager at a computer retailer with 1-10 employees

User-friendly interface, and reasonably priced but the support needs improvement

While the solution is generally satisfactory, we encountered difficulties when attempting to seek assistance for issues we faced. Getting the necessary help proved to be quite challenging. The after-sales service is not ideal for French-speaking customers like us in Quebec. Unfortunately, there is no local support available for us. We are now able to work on more security-related tasks with Acronis, as they offer features such as antivirus, DLP, and various cybersecurity options. This is a significant improvement compared to our previous solution with Veeam Cloud Connect, where we were lacking such features. It also allows us to offer a wider range of security options to our customers.

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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

"While BDRSuite offers a variety of functionalities, our primary focus is its disaster recovery capabilities, which we find to be the most valuable aspect of the software."

"The most important features are the backup and the availability of the Universal Explorer. The in-transit compression is great."

"I back up one particular server with close to 1.2 TB, and the way the software compresses it is close to 600 or 700 TB. Vembu compresses it to close to 450 gigabytes, that's gigabytes. So that’s really amazing, the way in which the backup compression happens."

"There is an option to back up a specific folder from a specific source, not the whole virtual machine."

"Short spoken: The end user experience is great and easy to use!"

"We replaced it with Vembu and we're quite happy."

"You can restore all your data or partial parts of it. You can restore a specific version of the data. It has a lot of options for restore, so you can have the correct data that you want to restore. This is very important. You must know what you are going to restore. Otherwise, you may be overwriting correct data with other data. You must know what specific files you are restoring as well as which version. Partial restore is very important because there might be some files which are newer than the backup and some files that are corrupted. You need to restore some files from the backup, but not all the files."

"The tech support is phenomenal."

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"For my needs, the solution offers everything I want."

"It hasn't given us any issues so far."

"One of the most valuable features of Veeam Cloud Connect is it does not require the use of an extremely fast internet connection for it to work. The backup process is automated which is great."

"I am happy with their support, they are fast, and their response is very good."

"The solution is extremely stable; we haven't come across any bugs, crashes, or glitches."

"I like the fact that it gives you the possibility to set the data out of the customer on-premises site and to have an off-site copy in your Cloud Data Center."

"The best part about this solution is that it just works."

"This solution works really well and it is simple to deploy."

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Cons

"There are bugs. For one month, I encountered a big issue where my storage pool could not be identified. My backups were stopped because they were not able to locate the storage pool. So, I removed the settings and started the backups again. The application is not stable. It needs some debugging and testing on the build side of production."

"The tech support is the one thing - that is not a system issue - but which is a little bit difficult to work with."

"We had problems, initially in setting it up. There was a major bug and the backup process corrupted one of our virtual machines which was a live customer system."

"Whenever I've tried to contact the tech support, they say upgrade to the latest version. The problem with that is the old backups need to be all done again because it appears that on each version upgrade the old backups no longer continue."

"With the free version of Vembu, you receive three virtual machine backups. However, if you buy the NetworkBackup Enterprise version, you don't have access to the features seen in the free version."

"There was one issue though with the hardware IDs. When I went to a different version of Hyper-V, the hardware IDs weren't restored and the machine got two new IDs. The preliminary unique IDs weren't restored, so I had to reactivate programs."

"I had a small problem integrating VMware and Hyper-V when customers used a free VMware license to create VMs. This is a problem because many customers use the free version of VMware. There are also some issues backing up old systems. They have a little difficulty but can always get strong support from customer service."

"The reporting can use some improvement."

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"I think Veeam Cloud Connect could be more stable, scalable, and secure. I think better pricing is needed."

"I would like to see more advanced training courses made available to cover complicated use cases."

"We need the solution to offer IT storage."

"The pricing is much higher than what our clients expect it to be."

"It would be helpful if the enterprise edition was more complete. It's not as complete as the enterprise plus edition is."

"I also think the cost factor is a major issue for Veeam because it's a very expensive soluton especially when the client wants support for VMware."

"The biggest thing that Cloud Connect needs is native deduplication."

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

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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

"BDRSuite is competitively priced."

"There is a drawback in the whole approach about how the licenses are managed. There are two consoles: cloud and on-premise. It seems that on a daily basis we have to manage both consoles, which isn't user-friendly. Ideally, it should be either a single on-premise console or only a cloud console. A single platform approach is the better solution. For now, with full licensing, you have to manage your instances on the Vembu Portal, then reassign licenses, and go back to your on-premise management console to do the real management. It is a bit awkward."

"One thing to note is that when you configure which virtual machine you're going to back up, if it's on one physical machine, they license it there. If it automatically fails over to a second machine, the license doesn't automatically move over with it. If they could make that a little more streamlined, that would be an improvement."

"It's very affordable. We are very satisfied with the cost. It's very affordable for us."

"The product's pricing is a good value. Vembu is cost-effective versus using VMware Essentials. Regarding licensing, make sure you find the right workstation or server that you're going to install it on, and know the number of sockets it has, since the price depends on that."

"Price-wise, it is much cheaper than its counterparts. I like its pricing, and its price is okay. The lesser they take, the more profit we can make, but we are happy with its price. It is very affordable. We were working with a client, and they were looking for backup software and had a very tight budget. When I told them that Vembu is only going to cost around $400 to $500, they were shocked. They didn't believe me, so I showed them the website so that they can check the price themselves. Of course, if they agree to that price, we get a 15% rebate as a managed service provider."

"It is affordable. It has value with respect to the features included in the software."

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

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

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

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

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

"The pricing of Veeam Cloud Connect is good."

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

"The licensing fee is on a monthly basis."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Construction Company

13%

Educational Organization

12%

Manufacturing Company

Comms Service Provider

Construction Company

16%

Manufacturing Company

13%

Outsourcing Company

12%

Comms Service Provider

10%

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	15
Midsize Enterprise	6
Large Enterprise	3

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with BDRSuite?

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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What is your primary use case for BDRSuite?

BDRSuite Backup & Replication is used in my company and I recommend it to my customers.

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What advice do you have for others considering BDRSuite?

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 prod...

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Also Known As

Vembu BDRSuite, BDRSuite Backup & Replication

Veeam Cloud Connect for the Enterprise

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.

Vembu Technologies

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

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

Worldwide Holdings, ContinuitySA, MPY, Linxdatacenter

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