Datto Cloud Continuity vs Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines comparison

datto and Dell Technologies are both solutions in the Disaster Recovery (DR) Software category. datto is ranked #17 with an average rating of 9.0, while Dell Technologies is ranked #9 with an average rating of 8.3. datto holds a 1.3% mindshare in DRS, compared to Dell Technologies’s 3.9% mindshare. Additionally, 90% of datto users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Dell Technologies users who would recommend it.

Datto Cloud Continuity

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 15, 2024

Datto Cloud Continuity and Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines compete in the data protection and disaster recovery market. Dell seems to have the upper hand due to its advanced replication and recovery features, though Datto is competitive in pricing and support.

Features: Datto Cloud Continuity offers seamless cloud integration, ransomware protection, and continuous data backup. Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines provides comprehensive virtual machine replication, point-in-time recovery options, and high flexibility across IT environments, emphasizing its advanced replication capabilities.

Room for Improvement: Datto Cloud Continuity could enhance its data restoration process and scalability for larger environments. Its integration options might require more development, and some users might experience performance issues under heavy loads. Dell RecoverPoint could simplify its complex setup process, offer more extensive user guides, and improve the intuitiveness of its user interface to reduce the learning curve for new users.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Datto Cloud Continuity enjoys a straightforward deployment process and provides robust customer support with intuitive management tools. Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines has a more complex setup but offers extensive configuration suitable for diverse enterprise IT infrastructures, allowing greater customization and scalability.

Pricing and ROI: Datto Cloud Continuity is known for competitive pricing and quick ROI, appealing to small to midsize businesses. Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines has a higher setup cost but delivers substantial long-term ROI due to its functionality and scalability, making it more suited for larger organizations.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Datto Cloud Continuity

Ranking in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software

17th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Backup (21st)

Dell RecoverPoint for Virtu...

Ranking in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software

9th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the Disaster Recovery (DR) Software category, the mindshare of Datto Cloud Continuity is 1.3%, up from 0.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines is 3.9%, down from 4.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Disaster Recovery (DR) Software Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines	3.9%
Datto Cloud Continuity	1.3%
Other	94.8%

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JasonGrant

Founder at The Automated Method

The vendor offers a complete turnkey solution for managed service providers

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. There are so many IT companies out there because there are so many ways to become a managed service provider. Datto does it all—RMM, security, network hardware, backup—so you could white-label it, come up with some weird logo on Canva, and open a LinkedIn account, then you're a managed service provider overnight.

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ClaudioSalgado

IT Architect Consultant at RTFM

Offers replication flexibility across multiple environments, including local centers and secondary sites

It offers key features like any point-in-time recovery without needing scheduled snapshots. It allows for automated VM protection during processes like failover and testing, and it offers replication flexibility across multiple environments, including local centers and secondary sites. It also provides IP address management when network configurations differ across sites.

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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 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."

"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 platform provides a faster backup process."

"The solution has the capability to scale well."

"The solution's reliability is one of its most valuable features...It is a very stable solution."

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

"It is a point-in-time restore, which is quite handy."

"The most valuable features are the data center recovery administration and the time of recovery."

"The most valuable feature is the ability to change IP addresses when failing a server over."

"The workload can be moved directly if the disaster site is the main site."

"The generalization of the journals allows us to go back in time and choose the snapshot suitable for us. We can grab it as needed."

"The product's initial setup phase was quite easy to install."

"It is a very simple tool to use and offers flexibility in using the tool for recovery and transitioning from one state to another."

"Point-in-time recovery and ease of deployment are valuable."

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Cons

"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."

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

"I don't have any feedback to provide in terms of features that may be lacking."

"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."

"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."

"They are now providing the device instead of selling it, while wanting their users to sign a three-year contract, and this is something which my clients don't like...I dislike the fact that signing a three-year contract is required."

"The biggest challenge we faced was attempting replication between two different kinds of storage systems, like IBM on one side and Dell EMC storage systems on the other, before opting for VPLEX."

"The solution currently supports only VMware."

"Maybe integration with Kubernetes for OpenShift would be helpful."

"Although we can change the IP address, it would be good to have some other sort of orchestration to make life easier to manage when we failover."

"The solution is not easy to use. It's actually quite hard. If it could be simplified it might be better for the end user."

"The configuration process seems a bit challenging, and the installation takes a bit longer than expected."

"I would like to have the HTML 5 interface working because it is currently not functioning with the VMware environment."

"In the next release of this software, I would like to see options that help to decrease the bandwidth required, such as compressing the data."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."

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

"It was a part of a backup solution. So, it was free for us."

"There is a license required for this solution and the pricing depends on how many virtual machines you have."

"Pricing-wise, it is pretty much fair for any customer who only has a VMware environment. Licensing is based on the number of VMs that you want to protect at any given point in time. Licensing is not based on size."

"This is not a very cheap solution and compared to others, it is expensive."

"This is an expensive product."

"The tool is expensive. If one means cheaply priced and ten means expensive, I rate the tool's price as a seven."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

15%

Manufacturing Company

Comms Service Provider

Real Estate/Law Firm

Financial Services Firm

13%

Computer Software Company

12%

Manufacturing Company

Educational Organization

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	5
Midsize Enterprise	4
Large Enterprise	6

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Datto Cloud Continuity?

The product's initial setup phase is easy.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Datto Cloud Continuity?

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

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What needs improvement with Datto Cloud Continuity?

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.

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What do you like most about Dell EMC RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines?

One of the standout features of Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines is its real-time data protection capability.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Dell EMC RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines?

Most of the time, we buy perpetual license solutions.

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What needs improvement with Dell EMC RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines?

Although we can change the IP address, it would be good to have some other sort of orchestration to make life easier to manage when we failover.

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Also Known As

Datto Cloud Continuity for PCs

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Overview

Datto Cloud Continuity for PCs is much more than just cloud backup. MSPs can protect clients’ Windows-based computers from downtime and data loss and more importantly, rapidly recover data if disaster strikes.

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Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines enables quick recovery of VMware virtual machines and allows you to efficiently test, manage and orchestrate operational backup and disaster recovery operations.

With tight integration with VMware, RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines is storage and application agnostic, with built-in automation accessible via VMware vSphere web client plug-in.

When cloud becomes a vital part of your disaster recovery strategy, RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines is also web-enabled, providing efficient replication to AWS and VMware Cloud on AWS.

RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines is available as part of Dell Data Protection Suite.

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Sample Customers

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Rushmore Electric Power Cooperative, PCS Publishing, Noble Foods

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