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Dell CloudBoost vs Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 3, 2024

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Categories and Ranking

Dell CloudBoost
Ranking in Cloud Backup
52nd
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Ba...
Ranking in Cloud Backup
30th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.6
Number of Reviews
31
Ranking in other categories
Backup and Recovery (32nd), Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (21st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2026, in the Cloud Backup category, the mindshare of Dell CloudBoost is 0.7%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup is 1.2%, up from 0.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Cloud Backup Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup1.2%
Dell CloudBoost0.7%
Other98.1%
Cloud Backup
 

Featured Reviews

SK
Senior Technical Consultant at DWP Technologies
Stable solution with a wider boost functionality, helping us eliminate the tape backup requirements
We use the solution to protect the applications running in the cloud or on-premises. Its wider boost functionality helps us eliminate the tape backup requirements The solution's most valuable feature is throttling the applications as per the bandwidth. Using it, we can adapt a method to work on…
Asif Usmani - PeerSpot reviewer
Regional Sales Manager at S2
Lacks multi-platform support and physical infrastructure but excels in storage optimization
We use it for VM backup and Office 365 backup I find the solution to be user-friendly and easy to manage and deploy. It provides storage for Office 365, which is beneficial, and the deduplication technology is excellent, especially in optimizing storage capacity compared to others. In terms of…

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"My customer has Dell EMC CloudBoost integrated with all of their other Dell products; it integrates well and is very simple to use, making it easy for him to make copies of very important files to the public cloud because it is fully integrated with his Networker and Avamar's tools."
"My customer has Dell EMC CloudBoost integrated with all of their other Dell products. It integrates well."
"The solution's support team is excellent."
"Altaro Hyper-v backup is not pricey and provides great features to secure your production data on Microsoft Hyper-V clusters."
"The initial setup was very straightforward, as the software installs easily, is very easy to configure and has a nice GUI."
"Reverse Delta is Altaro proprietary backup deduplication technology. With Reverse Delta, the latest version of a file is always made available in its entirety, not as a delta file."
"I could create VM backups from live machines without any issues."
"The ease of use of the solution is its most valuable feature."
"There is a free version for Hosts with 2 VMs."
"In Hyper-V, I think there are many valuable features, including replication between different hosts, high availability, live migration where I can migrate between one host to another, as well as incremental disaster recovery, which are very good."
"Excellent compression and deduplication with off-site WAN backup included."
 

Cons

"They should eliminate the tape-out function from the solution."
"The price of Dell EMC CloudBoost could be reduced, it is expensive."
"Storage usage: you have often to manually free disk spaces."
"However it has No support for Tape Drive backup – So no Disk-to-tape backup is possible."
"Availability of physical server backup would be an added advantage."
"Replication is not fast, the GUI could be more user-friendly, and technical support is lacking in Iran."
"Improvement areas for Altaro VM Backup include enhancing backup and deduplication solutions for continuous operation and offering an all-in-one solution for hardware backup."
"It would be good to if they would expand the functionality to be able to backup normal servers without Hyper-V."
"Sometime there are stability issues with older kit, for example, it can take a long time to compress the primary backup."
"The cloud backup and VMware support (now available in the latest releases), could do with some improvement."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price of Dell EMC CloudBoost could be reduced, it is expensive."
"Its cost depends upon the amount of data that needs to be protected."
"There is a free version for Hosts with 2 VMs."
"VMware is a little pricey, but it is a good solution and priced similar to other products."
"Its yearly maintenance fee is fairly high for me to renew for upgrades and support."
"Altaro had the best prices and ROI in the whole bunch that we evaluated."
"Altaro VM Backup is affordably priced. It is a best value for its price and has almost every feature that an expensive, popular product offers."
"There is a free version for two VMs. I would advise to study the deployment environment well, prior to committing to order a license per host."
"The pricing is okay,"
"The price is great for the utility you get and the licensing has never caused any issues with my company."
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Top Industries

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Comms Service Provider
13%
Construction Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
6%
Government
6%
 

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Company SizeCount
Small Business22
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise4
 

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup?
The pricing and licensing cost is challenging since most competitors offer cheaper pricing, making it difficult to penetrate the market with the current pricing strategy.
What needs improvement with Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup?
The solution needs multi-platform support as it is currently only available for VMware and Hyper-V. It also lacks support for physical servers and workstations. Additionally, they should add more p...
 

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Thomson Reuters, Microsoft, Amazon, Harvard University, MIT, Peugeot, Xerox
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