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 #62, while Hewlett Packard Enterprise is ranked #3 with an average rating of 9.0. Dell Technologies holds a 0.2% mindshare in CB, compared to Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s 3.7% 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.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jun 11, 2025

HPE Zerto Software and Dell CloudBoost compete as business continuity solutions focusing on data protection and disaster recovery. HPE Zerto Software has an edge in pricing and support, while Dell CloudBoost's robust features justify its premium cost.

Features: HPE Zerto Software provides continuous data protection, automated workflows, and advanced recovery options. Dell CloudBoost offers strong integration with multiple cloud services, supporting a wide range of backup scenarios and diversified cloud reach.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: HPE Zerto Software features straightforward deployment with comprehensive documentation and accessible customer service. Dell CloudBoost offers streamlined deployment integrated within Dell ecosystems, paired with extensive support packages.

Pricing and ROI: HPE Zerto Software offers competitive pricing, promoting sustainable ROI through efficient data recovery processes. Dell CloudBoost incurs a higher setup cost justified by its comprehensive cloud features, promising longer-term ROI benefits for complex environments.

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Categories and Ranking

Dell CloudBoost

Ranking in Cloud Backup

62nd

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

341

Ranking in other categories

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

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the Cloud Backup category, the mindshare of Dell CloudBoost is 0.2%, down from 0.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of HPE Zerto Software is 3.7%, down from 4.0% 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	3.7%
Dell CloudBoost	0.2%
Other	96.1%

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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…

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Sachin Vinay

Assistant Manager-Networks at Amrita

Leverage disaster recovery with reliable support and cost-effective future-proof features

Zerto is straightforward to implement because it only requires the installation of an agent on the VMs designated for migration. A service, typically a VM, must also be deployed at the disaster recovery location. This entire process is simple and can be completed within three days. Zerto's near-synchronous replication occurs every minute, allowing for highly granular recovery points. This means that even if interruptions or malware disruptions occur within that minute, Zerto can restore to the last known good state, effectively recovering the entire setup to the latest backup. This capability ensures high data security and minimizes potential data loss. One of the main benefits of implementing Zerto is its data compression, which significantly reduces the load on our IPsec VPN. Zerto compresses data by 80 percent before transmitting it across the VPN, minimizing the data transferred between geographically dispersed locations. This compression and subsequent decompression at the destination alleviate the strain on the VPN, preventing overload and ensuring efficient data synchronization. Zerto simplifies malware protection by integrating it into its disaster recovery and synchronization features. This comprehensive approach eliminates the need for separate antivirus setups in virtual machines and applications. It streamlines our security measures and removes the need for additional software or solutions, resulting in an excellent return on investment. Zerto's single-click recovery solution offers exceptional recovery speed. Through the user interface, a single click allows for a complete restoration from the most recent backup within two to three minutes, enabling rapid recovery and minimal downtime. Zerto's Recovery Time Objective is excellent. In the past, if a virtual machine crashed, we would recover it from a snapshot, which could take one to two hours. With Zerto, the recovery process takes only five minutes, and users are typically unaware of any disruption. This allows us to restore everything quickly and efficiently. Zerto has significantly reduced our downtime. When malware affects our data, Zerto immediately notifies us and helps us protect other applications, even those not yet implemented with Zerto. By monitoring these applications, we can quickly identify and address any potential malware spread, minimizing downtime across our systems. Zerto significantly reduces downtime and associated costs during disruptions. Our services are unified, so in the event of a disruption without Zerto, even a half-day disruption would necessitate offline procedures. This would lead to increased manpower, service delays, and substantial financial losses due to interrupted admissions and other critical processes. By unifying service processes, Zerto minimizes the impact of outages. Zerto streamlines our disaster recovery testing across multiple locations by enabling efficient failover testing without disrupting live services. Traditionally, DR testing required downtime of critical systems, but Zerto's replication and failover capabilities allow us to test in parallel with live operations. This non-disruptive approach ensures continuous service availability while validating our DR plan, even in scenarios like malware attacks, by creating a separate testing environment that mirrors the live setup. This comprehensive testing provides confidence in our ability to handle real-world incidents effectively. This saves us over 60 percent of the time. Zerto streamlines system administration tasks by automating many processes, thereby reducing the workload for multiple administrators. This allows them to focus on other university services that require attention and effectively reallocate support resources from automated tasks to those requiring more dedicated management. Zerto is used exclusively for our critical services, providing up to a 70 percent improvement in our IT resilience.

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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

"My customer has Dell EMC CloudBoost integrated with all of their other Dell products. It integrates well."

"The solution's support team is excellent."

"Moving the VPGs from one location to another is a valuable feature. You just click on it and move it and it's done."

"The solution has saved me time in data recovery situations due to a corrupt server, as I used HPE Zerto Software to do the restoration."

"Consistency Groups: If you replicate groups of VMs, then during failover, all of the VMs in groups are failed over to the exact same point in time."

"Zerto is essential for protecting critical workloads. We don't protect all of our VMs, but some need to be recovered in a timely manner. The recovery time is almost immediate."

"It enables protection of a virtual workload to be done by the app, whether single or multi-tiered, with a boot time scheduler. It is pretty awesome."

"It's way better than anything else on the market."

"HPE Zerto Software has helped tremendously with my organization's RTO and RPO, bringing it down to an hour rather than taking 12 hours to restore data the traditional way."

"Its automation and the ability to replicate and keep an RTO of just seconds is valuable. It is all automatic. Everything is pretty transparent on the backend. It is just point-and-go."

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Cons

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

"We would like the LTR function to be able to retain the past 12 months."

"If something happens, and we are out and about, I would like to be able to interface with it on our mobile phones. That would be great."

"Zerto needs to improve its documentation."

"Pricing is kind of expensive, but for what we get, it is probably worth it. I know they just had a huge price increase due to the VMware stuff getting expensive, which added about a thousand dollars a month to our bill."

"Better communication around pricing would be useful - particularly in light of the economic and tariff situation we have going on."

"With the VPG (virtual protected group) it would be nice if you could pick individuals in the grouping instead of having to failover the whole group."

"Some of the features need improvement. One would be, as you're creating a Move group or a VPG, as they call it, it should either autosave or have the ability so that you can save it for coming back to later because if the setup times out, you lose all your work. That would be a nice improvement to have."

"The RPO for our SQL server has room for improvement."

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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."

"We subscribe to their annual license package and we have tier one support with them."

"Zerto is not overly expensive. It's worth what we're getting for it, but with tough times, a discount would be beneficial."

"We have seen ROI. Several times, we needed to recover, and we were able to go to Zerto."

"Zerto’s licensing model has changed a bit over the last year and they are in alignment with others. It is pretty simple and more economical."

"The solution is very cost-effective and very easy to set-up but does not compromise on features."

"We feel it is pretty cost-efficient. For the amount of protection that we get for Zerto, we feel that it is at an excellent price point, especially compared to some of the other vendors that were just backup solutions. For all that it does, we feel that the price is good."

"They should adjust the pricing because I feel its price is too much. If they reduce the price, there will be more users and customers."

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Nov 9, 2014

VMware SRM vs. Veeam vs. Zerto

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Computer Software Company

23%

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10%

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Small Business	91
Midsize Enterprise	85
Large Enterprise	193

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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...

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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...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Zerto?

Regarding my experience with pricing, setup costs, and licensing, I think on the pricing side, I don't generally deal with it, but from what I hear from my finance team, it's somewhat on the higher...

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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

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

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