Datto Cloud Continuity vs VMware Live Recovery comparison

datto and Broadcom are both solutions in the Disaster Recovery (DR) Software category. datto is ranked #17 with an average rating of 9.0, while Broadcom is ranked #4 with an average rating of 8.2. datto holds a 1.3% mindshare in DRS, compared to Broadcom’s 7.2% mindshare. Additionally, 90% of datto users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 88% of Broadcom users who would recommend it.

Datto Cloud Continuity

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90% willing to recommend

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88% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 15, 2024

Datto Cloud Continuity and VMware Live Recovery are competing in the cloud continuity and live data recovery markets. Datto holds an edge in pricing and support, while VMware is preferred for its comprehensive features, suggesting that its higher costs are justified for some buyers.

Features: Datto Cloud Continuity offers robust data protection, automated backup capabilities, and strong scalability. VMware Live Recovery is known for real-time recovery, minimal downtime, and a user-friendly interface.

Room for Improvement: Datto could enhance data restoration speed and simplify its platform further. Opportunities exist to improve recovery time and address higher complexity during deployments. VMware might benefit from cost reductions, streamlined setup processes, and enhanced user interface customizability.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Datto Cloud Continuity is praised for its straightforward deployment and reliable customer service. VMware Live Recovery offers extensive support resources, though its deployment can be complex, requiring a detailed setup.

Pricing and ROI: Datto Cloud Continuity is notable for its competitive pricing and substantial return on investment, catering to budget-conscious buyers. VMware Live Recovery, despite its higher initial costs, promises significant ROI due to its advanced recovery capabilities.

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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)

VMware Live Recovery

Ranking in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software

4th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Disaster Recovery as a Service (1st)

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 VMware Live Recovery is 7.2%, down from 11.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Disaster Recovery (DR) Software Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
VMware Live Recovery	7.2%
Datto Cloud Continuity	1.3%
Other	91.5%

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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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SuhailAkhtar

Integration Architect at App In Snap (Pvt) Ltd

Has enabled seamless VM management and automated failover while support response needs improvement

For support issues, they help with the issue, but it takes a very long time. The reason is that they engage a very initial resource and then escalate to another level, and during these level escalations, our time is wasted. They do not understand the severity of the issue. They go through step-by-step and then go to the upper level. This may be their SOP, but we require instant support and instant resolution of the problem, so here VMware Live Recovery is lacking. They follow their SOP, but they initially engage very low-level personnel who are not able to answer or resolve the issue, so they escalate or take a very long time to resolve the issue. The main issue is to improve the approach of resolving solutions. I may not be able to suggest new features because in these recent months, I have not been very close to it as we are exploring different solutions.

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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

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

"The solution has the capability to scale well."

"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."

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

"The platform provides a faster backup process."

"We mostly prefer to recommend this to customers due to ease of use, abundant features, and support."

"The solution is strong when it comes to protection and analytics, with the latter being added later on."

"The solution runs well in the background, just in case we need it."

"The solution is very flexible."

"It has a good and effective user interface."

"In terms of recovery, if you have a test job script, you can put it on top of it. You can create custom steps so that it will be more granular. It will be an easy, one click solution when it comes to the recovery application."

"The solution is scalable."

"VMware SRM replicates the VM from one site to another, and it helps us orchestrate the powering of VMs and DR when the DC goes down."

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Cons

"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."

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

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

"There are many functionality problems with the product currently. It is also slow and unstable."

"SRM may hit some OS issues related to IP changes, but they are usually OS related, especially in the 2008 realm."

"The user experience could be more friendly."

"The initial setup of VMware SRM isn't straightforward because many customizations are required since it helps in the recovery of your IT environment."

"The technical support is not quick enough to respond when a user tries to contact them."

"The solution could improve by removing some of the limitations we have been facing. There could be better integrated."

"We have had an issue when some customers have traditional designs and sites. For example, on one another site, they are using hyper-converged, using VMware, or Nutanix. We have a problem with the synchronization between the storage for site to site. This is the main issue. We are adding some other tools to support the synchronization to allow the movement of the workload from site to site easily."

"The solution must provide better integration with third-party vendors."

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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."

"Licensing costs explode after 75 VMs."

"It is about $3,000 a year for the 25 pack. The package gives you the ability to protect up to 25 virtual machines."

"VMware SRM is expensive when compared to Veeam and makes Veeam look cheaper. For support, some additional payments need to be made over the licensing costs of the solution."

"We pay a yearly licensing fee for VMware SRM, which is not very expensive."

"I rate the tool's pricing an eight to nine out of ten."

"Compare to hardware-based replication, I think software based replication is best and cheap."

"The price could be lower, in general. My clients pay for an annual license."

"It is reasonably priced, and its cost hasn't been a significant factor in our implementation."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

15%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Comms Service Provider

Financial Services Firm

Computer Software Company

16%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Manufacturing Company

Government

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	36
Midsize Enterprise	13
Large Enterprise	39

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 VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery?

Setting up VMs can be done quickly. It is easy to use.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery?

We use a three-year license, and the cost for VMware Live Recovery can be high. Previously, when acquiring a license for Ethiopian drug supply chains, the price was significantly high, especially a...

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What needs improvement with VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery?

There is no ability to control the database itself, and it needs to be configured as active-active. Additionally, the price is not suitable for startup companies, which necessitates looking for alt...

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Also Known As

Datto Cloud Continuity for PCs

VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery, Datrium DRaaS , VMware SRM

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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VMware Live Recovery is a disaster recovery solution that protects and recovers virtual machines (VMs) across on-premise and public clouds. Key features include rapid ransomware recovery, an on-demand recovery environment for testing procedures without affecting production, live behavioral analysis to detect threats, push-button VM network isolation to contain threats, guided restore point selection, and immutable, air-gapped recovery points to prevent tampering. VMware Live Recovery provides a comprehensive solution to safeguard critical data and applications from cyberattacks and other disasters.

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Sample Customers

Information Not Available

Certainty Home Loans, VPay, ZEON

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