Dell CloudBoost vs HPE Zerto Software comparison

Dell Technologies and Hewlett Packard Enterprise are both solutions in the Cloud Backup category. Dell Technologies is ranked #55, while Hewlett Packard Enterprise is ranked #3 with an average rating of 9.0. Dell Technologies holds a 0.6% mindshare in CB, compared to Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s 3.2% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Dell Technologies users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 98% of Hewlett Packard Enterprise users who would recommend it.

Dell CloudBoost

Read 2 Dell CloudBoost reviews

482 Views
472 Comparison Views

100% willing to recommend

HPE Zerto Software

Read 343 HPE Zerto Software reviews

14,306 Views
6,581 Comparison Views

98% willing to recommend

Dell CloudBoost

HPE Zerto Software

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Download the report

Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 21, 2025

HPE Zerto Software and Dell CloudBoost are competing solutions in the data protection and recovery category. HPE Zerto Software holds the upper hand due to its lower setup costs and strong ROI, whereas Dell CloudBoost is favored for its advanced features.

Features: HPE Zerto Software offers seamless disaster recovery, continuous data protection, and simplified data migrations. Dell CloudBoost is known for scalable cloud integration, robust data archiving, and efficient bandwidth optimization. A key difference is HPE Zerto’s near-instant failover capabilities versus Dell CloudBoost’s focus on cloud efficiency.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: HPE Zerto Software facilitates deployment with intuitive interfaces and responsive customer service. Dell CloudBoost, while more complex to deploy due to its feature-rich nature, provides comprehensive support aiding in setup.

Pricing and ROI: HPE Zerto Software provides competitive pricing focusing on maximizing ROI through cost-effective recovery and minimal downtime. Dell CloudBoost, with higher upfront costs, ensures ROI via savings in operational efficiencies and cloud storage. The contrast lies in HPE Zerto’s budget-friendly model against Dell CloudBoost’s investment in efficiency.

To learn more, read our detailed Dell CloudBoost vs. HPE Zerto Software Report (Updated: December 2025).

Buyer's Guide

Dell CloudBoost vs. HPE Zerto Software

December 2025

Download the complete report

Helped 881,114 peers since 2012

Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

Dell CloudBoost

Ranking in Cloud Backup

55th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

HPE Zerto Software

Ranking in Cloud Backup

3rd

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

343

Ranking in other categories

Backup and Recovery (2nd), Cloud Migration (1st), Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (1st)

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Cloud Backup category, the mindshare of Dell CloudBoost is 0.6%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of HPE Zerto Software is 3.2%, down from 4.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Cloud Backup Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
HPE Zerto Software	3.2%
Dell CloudBoost	0.6%
Other	96.2%

Cloud Backup

Featured Reviews

Saleh-Khakwani

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…

Read full review

David Riberdy

Enterprise data management supervisor at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

An all-in-one and cost-efficient solution that does what it promises

Zerto is very easy to use. Installation is about half an hour, and then it starts protecting the data and VMs. It is not very cumbersome. The UI is built very well. It is fairly self-explanatory. To be able to stand up a product you have never seen in half an hour and get it functioning and protecting speaks to how good the UI and workflow are. Zerto has near-synchronous replication. As a change is made on site A, it gets copied across the network to site B. We are five or six seconds behind production. If I have a heavily used system and I use traditional backups, I could be anywhere from 5 minutes to 23 hours behind. With Zerto, I am single-digit seconds behind. That works well for us. Our disaster recovery test, which used to span an entire week, now takes two days. We used to recover our servers in the first two or three days with a backup product and then test for two days before tearing it all down. Now, we spend half a day on new servers and ensuring things work with networking, etc. We test the next day, and we are done in two days. Across the entire company, we are able to save significant man-hours by shortening the test from a week to two days. We are now doing smaller tests once a month and larger tests once a year. Zerto has reduced our DR testing time by 60% to 70%. We are also able to do more disaster recovery testing. Previously, we were doing it once a year, whereas now, we are doing smaller tests once a month and our large tests once a year. In recovery point objectives, we are single-digit seconds behind. In terms of RTOs, I can recover 350 VMs in 30 minutes. It takes less than several seconds to restore a single VM. From days to 30 minutes for 350 compared to 100 VMs is an incredible time-saving in terms of RTOs and RPOs for us.

Read full review

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."

"The solution's support team is excellent."

"We've seen a massive benefit from using Zerto in terms of time savings and consistency. You see a consistent outcome every time you do the conversions. We're moving from one platform to another, but the payloads in what we're moving are different. We see consistent delivery."

"Zerto is 400 times better."

"It's easy to use. We don't need formal training."

"It seems to be very reliable, and it consistently keeps our data synchronized within ten seconds or so, which gives our customers confidence that the data synchronization and replication will allow for a very low recovery point objective."

"The most valuable feature of Zerto is its overall flexibility, where it can be used for standard DR or you can also use it for server migrations, data center consolidations, etc."

"Speed of recovery has been very effective in getting our information back as fast as we're able to get it. The daily backup solution that we use alternatively only allows a single backup versus having continuous backup replication with Zerto, it's a no-brainer."

"The testing features are the most valuable features of this solution. We use the failover test feature not just for testing failovers and disaster recovery, we've also had clients use it for development purposes as well as patching purposes to test patches. We can failover the VM and then we can make any changes we want without affecting production. It's a nice sandbox for that usage."

"Zerto ensures a smooth transition during a disaster when we need to automatically switch from our primary environment to our recovery one."

More HPE Zerto Software pros

Cons

"They should eliminate the tape-out function from the solution."

"If we could integrate our AIOps solutions and incident management capabilities within HPE Zerto Software, that would be beneficial."

"I would like to see them continuously improve Zerto's automated functions, such as putting hosts in maintenance mode within vSphere and not having to worry as much about how Zerto is going to react... Sometimes, Zerto almost holds the vSphere environment hostage when it comes to taking certain actions. You really need to be cognizant about what you're about to do. They should further automate that and increase Zerto's ability to handle things like that in a very slick, automated way, without intervention."

"I always get some blowback about the cost. It does not seem too bad to me. We had to upgrade to a premium subscription to get some other features. Maybe a one-size-fits-all option would be better."

"The tool must improve its long-term storage cloud strategy, making it more seamless and improving the solution's downtime features."

"My experience deploying the HPE Zerto Software involves some initial setup hurdles."

"They should not make it so expensive so that I can buy more of it."

"My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing was that it was really expensive."

"Even though Zerto is for disaster recovery, it would be nice if it can also make backups."

More HPE Zerto Software cons

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."

"In a world where others are catching up, e.g., VMware High Availability, there needs to be a less expensive option as well. When a customer has approximately 100 VMs, if you multiply by 40, we aren't charging a very high margin on it at all since the license is so expensive. We feel their pain. That is the most expensive part of it. The storage, CPU, and RAM are a lot less. It is the licensing that is really expensive. Whereas, with an option like VMware High Availability, it is a couple dollars per month. That is our spend that we are charged by VMware, then our margin is higher on those VMs. Giving us some ability to have higher margins, as an MSP, would be a good thing."

"Pricing is adequate at the standard of the product, but there could be "always" some improvement. We would like to see a consumption model that would charge in a DR scenario, where you're failing over and consuming those resources, instead of a per-protected-node model."

"It is not cheap, but it is reasonable for what it is offering. It gives me the peace of mind that my data is protected. It is worth the cost."

"Zerto's price seems fair. It's competitive."

"It's expensive, for sure, but for us, it comes down to the fact that we do not replicate our entire environment using Zerto. We replicate the mission-critical servers and services, so the yearly cost of Zerto is heavily outweighed by the potential cost of an outage."

"I think everything can be cheaper. Pricing limited our ability to use Zerto as much as we'd like, but that's not why we haven't adopted it as our primary backup solution."

"The licensing costs are not cheap. It is kind of an expensive product. However, I am a get-what-you-pay-for kind of person. After using this product, I can understand why the licensing costs are high."

"It is cost-efficient because we have perpetual licenses. We are a small to medium-sized business, so cost is a pretty big important factor."

More HPE Zerto Software pricing and cost advice

See which vendors are best for you

Use our free recommendation engine to learn which Cloud Backup solutions are best for your needs.

See recommendations

881,114 professionals have used our research since 2012.

Comparison Review

it_user159711

Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Nov 9, 2014

VMware SRM vs. Veeam vs. Zerto

Disaster recovery planning is something that seems challenging for all businesses. Virtualization in addition to its operational flexibility, and cost reduction benefits, has helped companies improve their DR posture. Virtualization has made it easier to move machines from production to…

Read full review

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

No data available

Computer Software Company

11%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Healthcare Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

No data available

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	90
Midsize Enterprise	86
Large Enterprise	196

Questions from the Community

Ask a question

Earn 20 points

What advice do you have for others considering Oracle Data Guard?

Ik fluister:VM Host Oracle en DataGuard hebben we per toeval vervangen door Zerto :-) tijdens de Zerto implementatie en VPG werden de Host Data in write-ack Block-Level gerepliceerd. Qua licentie 1...

See all answers

What do you like most about Zerto?

Its ability to roll back if the VM or the server that you are recovering does not come up right is also valuable. You have the ability to roll back a few seconds or a few minutes. The rollback feat...

See all answers

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Zerto?

From a pricing perspective, HPE Zerto Software is expensive in comparison to other products on the market, but I think it is an easier sell because it works so well and it is so easy to set up a de...

See all answers

Comparisons

Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365 vs Dell CloudBoost

Compared 40% of the time

AT&T Synaptic Storage as a Service vs Dell CloudBoost

Compared 33% of the time

Veritas CloudPoint vs Dell CloudBoost

Compared 26% of the time

More Dell CloudBoost Competitors

Veeam Data Platform vs HPE Zerto Software

Compared 14% of the time

VMware Live Recovery vs HPE Zerto Software

Compared 6% of the time

Commvault Cloud vs HPE Zerto Software

Compared 5% of the time

Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines vs HPE Zerto Software

Compared 5% of the time

Rubrik vs HPE Zerto Software

Compared 5% of the time

More HPE Zerto Software Competitors

Product Reports

Buyer's Guide

Cloud Backup

January 2026

Download Dell CloudBoost product report

Buyer's Guide

HPE Zerto Software

January 2026

Download HPE Zerto Software product report

Also Known As

No data available

Zerto Virtual Replication

Overview

With Dell CloudBoost, products of Dell Data Protection Suite, Including Dell NetWorker, Dell Avamar and Dell PowerProtect Data Manager, are optimized for enterprise applications running in public cloud environments. CloudBoost is available with Data Protection Suite.

Dell Technologies

Zerto is used for disaster recovery, business continuity, data migration, and ransomware recovery, providing continuous data protection and near real-time replication. Valued for ease of use, efficient failover processes, and versatile integration, it enhances organizational efficiency, reduces errors, and boosts productivity.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Sample Customers

Information Not Available

United Airlines, HCA, XPO Logistics, TaxSlayer, McKesson, Insight Global, American Airlines, Tencate, Aaron’s, Grey’s County, Kingston Technologies

Buyer's Guide

Dell CloudBoost vs. HPE Zerto Software

December 2025

Free Report: Dell CloudBoost vs. HPE Zerto Software

Find out what your peers are saying about Dell CloudBoost vs. HPE Zerto Software and other solutions. Updated: December 2025.

DOWNLOAD NOW

881,114 professionals have used our research since 2012.

See our Dell CloudBoost vs. HPE Zerto Software report.

See our list of best Cloud Backup vendors.

We monitor all Cloud Backup reviews to prevent fraudulent reviews and keep review quality high. We do not post reviews by company employees or direct competitors. We validate each review for authenticity via cross-reference with LinkedIn, and personal follow-up with the reviewer when necessary.