Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup vs IBM Disaster Recovery Services comparison

Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup vs. IBM Disaster Recovery Services

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Categories and Ranking

Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Ba...

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Backup and Recovery (33rd), Cloud Backup (28th), Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (16th)

IBM Disaster Recovery Services

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

8.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Disaster Recovery as a Service (6th)

Featured Reviews

Asif Usmani

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…

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Şefik Mert Polatay

General manager at Atlas Consulting Bilisim Hizmetleri Ltd.

Ease of use, performance, availability, and scalability

The initial setup is very easy, user-friendly, and not complex. It mostly comes with all installed, an operating system, database, and security, all included in Power Systems. So users can easily install, configure, and use it. It's integrated with other systems. You can run different systems from IBM Power Systems, AIX Linux, or IBM I operating system. It's also integrated into Windows systems and other databases and servers.

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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

"The most valuable feature of Altaro VM Backup is its ability to backup and restore various types of data, including Active Directory, application servers, and SQL Server databases."

"The product has many valuable features for handling backup needs, including replication, live migration, and incremental disaster recovery."

"Ability to restore to any host."

"The interface is user-friendly and even if our tech isn't onsite, we can work with the owners to confirm that the data will be restored with no issues."

"Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup's most valuable features include its user-friendly interface and the ability to perform data compression updates, which enhance overall efficiency and effectiveness."

"We use the latest feature in Altaro called CDP (Continuous Data Protection) to back up our VMs as often as every five minutes. It allows us to make sure no data is accidentally deleted or overwritten."

"The ability to test the backups without having to manually mount the VHDs after restore allows us to check the integrity of the backups."

"I find the solution to be user-friendly and easy to manage and deploy."

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"The solution works well for very large organizations. It can scale quite well."

"Disaster Recovery Services is stable."

"The initial setup is very easy and user-friendly."

Cons

"The cloud backup and VMware support (now available in the latest releases), could do with some improvement."

"Basically, how it works is that you have a single local drive, and then you have a cloud backup. It'd be nice if you could rotate the single local backup drive. As of now, you can't."

"The scalability of the solution is limited."

"Stability."

"Backup speed and comparisons between versions used to be slow on big VMs but that was improved greatly later on."

"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."

"To improve Altaro, I would like to see the ability to choose more than one backup location at a time."

"Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup could be improved in several areas, such as enhancing scalability features and possibly reducing the price."

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"The infrastructure level of IBM's recovery systems could be improved."

"Disaster Recovery Services could provide better value for money."

"Stability could always be better."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."

"Its yearly maintenance fee is fairly high for me to renew for upgrades and support."

"VMware is a little pricey, but it is a good solution and priced similar to other products."

"No other product offers these features for this price. The ROI is great."

"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 Hosts with 2 VMs."

"By implementing the solution at multiple locations, significant cost savings were achieved."

"The price is great for the utility you get and the licensing has never caused any issues with my company."

More Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup pricing and cost advice

"The pricing of the solution is based on the scale of the project or business. It's based on the server amount and the amount of data being stored. For our client, based on the amount of data they have, it may be around $20,000 USD. It could get much more expensive on the customer side."

"Disaster Recovery Services is expensive."

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup?

The most valuable feature of Altaro VM Backup is its ability to backup and restore various types of data, including Active Directory, application servers, and SQL Server databases.

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...

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for IBM Disaster Recovery Services?

The pricing is perfect. It's not expensive because it's all-inclusive. The operating system, database, security, different file systems. So, overall, it's cheaper than Oracle or UNIX systems with O...

What needs improvement with IBM Disaster Recovery Services?

Nothing, it’s almost perfect.

What is your primary use case for IBM Disaster Recovery Services?

The use case is for high availability and disaster recovery.

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Overview

Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup is a powerful, reliable and easy-to-use backup and replication solution for Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware virtual machines (VMs) and physical Windows servers, to protect against enterprise data loss. The award-winning solution provides robust, streamlined and enterprise-level functionality.

Reduce downtime and data loss: Thanks to Continous Data Protection (CDP) and WAN-optimized replication, your backup files are available in just minutes in the event of a data loss scenario and you can continue working as usual. The solution’s unique Augmented Inline Deduplication also gives you massive savings on your backup storage and dramatically reduces costs.

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IBM Resiliency Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) can provide end-to-end integrated services using private, public and/or hybrid cloud. IBM Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) provides continuous replication of critical applications, infrastructure, data and systems to the cloud so users can recover within minutes of an IT outage. Intelligent Orchestration offers a unified DR management approach that delivers real-time readiness validation.

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Sample Customers

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

i-Virtualize, QD, Continuum Managed Services LLC, Royal Arctic Line, Department of Science and Technology of the Republic of the Philippines, Idwala Industrial Holdings Limited, A-Plant c.a.r.u.s. Information Technology GmbH Hannover, eASPNet Taiwan Inc., Mobile Mini Inc., TriDatum Solutions Inc., M7 Managed Services Ltd., Hospital de la Concepci‹n

Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup vs. IBM Disaster Recovery Services