We performed a comparison between Dell RecoverPoint and Hitachi ShadowImage based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about NetApp, Fivetran, Dell Technologies and others in Data Replication."It can replicate data from a distant location and it can scan it as well. It has continuous data replication with almost no data loss."
"It excels in duplicating data between two distinct types of storage systems."
"We use RecoverPoint for disaster recovery and asynchronous replication, and we use the application at a block level, not the software level. This has been tested, and it's very durable."
"The solution is now Flash-based, which is better. they moved away from Java."
"It is amazing because it is very easy to test with many alternative bookmarks."
"The product does block-level replication very well."
"The solution is very stable. Once it's installed, many customers forget they even have it."
"RecoverPoint's most valuable feature is the automatic failover."
"The most valuable feature of Hitachi ShadowImage is high-speed data transfer from one server to another. Other solutions would have problems with transferring 50 TB of data. I also like that Hitachi ShadowImage is easy to use."
"Considering the speed Dell RecoverPoint can recover data, it would be good if we could replicate data from on-premise to the cloud with this solution."
"The cost of the solution is pretty high. The licensing costs may affect a company's ability to scale."
"It is worth mentioning that this solution is no longer supported, primarily because it doesn't replicate between two different storage systems anymore."
"When it comes to storage and backup, that is where scalability problems have affected us."
"Other hypervisors should be integrated with this system. Other hypervisors should be able to get the benefits of this solution."
"The product should provide integration with new products."
"The support is horrible."
"RecoverPoint's WAN optimization could be improved."
"API and script configuration in Hitachi ShadowImage is sometimes complicated, so this is an area for improvement. Another area for improvement is that the Hitachi ShadowImage interface isn't as user-friendly."
Dell RecoverPoint is ranked 4th in Data Replication with 18 reviews while Hitachi ShadowImage is ranked 7th in Data Replication with 1 review. Dell RecoverPoint is rated 8.6, while Hitachi ShadowImage is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Dell RecoverPoint writes "Ensuring data resilience and business continuity in disaster recovery". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Hitachi ShadowImage writes "Easy to use and can do high-speed data transfers from one server to another". Dell RecoverPoint is most compared with Dell AppSync, whereas Hitachi ShadowImage is most compared with Hitachi TrueCopy and Hitachi Thin Image Advanced.
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