HPE Zerto Software vs Mozy Pro [EOL] comparison

"VMware VM replication over narrow WAN bandwidth."

"It's good for reliability, timing, and simplification. For reliability, it's a logical construction that behaves productively. It's a critical system where timing and coordination are necessary. It also offers simplicity to design and analyze the system by clearly defining the relationship between events and conditions."

"Zerto's two main features are ease of management and that the product just works. It does what they say it'll do."

"Continuous replication is the primary feature we use now because we originally purchased Zerto. I'm starting to utilize the long-term retention and instantaneous file restoration features, which have been introduced since the original purchase in 2015. Initially, we deployed Zerto as a second data storage point, but ultimately it will probably facilitate some of the migration of my workloads up to the cloud. It's evolving with the network and how we deliver computation."

"Zerto allows for a more granular replication ability and therefore a more flexible model than the per-socket licensed alternatives."

"Zerto is very good at providing continuous data protection. For replication purposes, it's definitely better than Veeam. Veeam doesn't do as good a job as Zerto does when it comes to replication. The other alternative would be to just have backups somewhere. But even with backups, you lose a lot of time because you have to set it all up. With Zerto, you failover, you just click a couple of buttons and you run from the other location."

"In situations of failback or moving workloads, it saves us hours. If I were to have to move a four or five terabyte machine using something like VMware's virtual copy it has to install on the machine and copy the data over. Then it has to shut the machine down and do a final copy, which means there's a lot of downtime while it's doing the final copy."

"The software has been awesome."

"I've had good experience with the Mac backup client running silently and keeping files backed up."

"The ability to kick start the service live on the users machine; I also like the graphical representations of data space."

"I was using Symantec Backup Exec, and we switched because Mozy is easier to use, and the cost is less."

"The data restoration feature is the most valuable because the end user requires minimum support to recover lost data."

"I would like to have an overall orchestration capability that would enable you to do multiple VPGs in some sort of order, with delays in between."

"In terms of improvement, it would be helpful if the implementation team had a better best practices guide and made sure things like the journaling are very clearly understood."

"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 demo to show someone how well it works."

"It would also be nice if they could find a way to make it where one VM does not impact the entire journal history of the VPG."

"I would like to request better reporting in Zerto. I can see the data that I need in the console, but if I need to put the data or the history into a report, it is difficult. It is something that auditors might require, so reporting is something that needs to be improved."

"One aspect I don't appreciate about Zerto is the plug-in, especially when it migrated from appliance from Windows server to the appliance, and you have to configure Active Directory authentication. I think it's unnecessarily complicated."

"One improvement that could make it easier would be to have an easier way to track journal usage and a little bit more training around journal sizing. I've done all the training and the journal is still a gray area. There is confusion surrounding how it's billed and how we should bill clients. It would be easier if it had billing suggestions or billing best practices for our clients to make sure that we're not leaving money on the table."

"We encountered some issues during Active Directory recovery."

"The selection of directories and files to back up can't be managed centrally, it has to be set on each user's computer."

"Automated client deployment was not straightforward and never worked for me."

"The support staff were directed to give support on specifics and to stick to the support plan; anything out of the ordinary would be a challenge."

"The sales support is too poor and there is no point of contact, local representatives are not in positions to assist or even provide a proposal."

"Compared to other options like SRM, Zerto is a more expensive solution, making it primarily suitable for larger organizations."

"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."

"We have always been able to get the pricing worked out. At this new company I am right now, we are doing well. We sometimes go through a third party to help us with pricing, but Zerto is fairly decently priced, especially when you consider some of the other solutions that are out there which could be very expensive."

"Zerto previously had a perplexing licensing structure, but they have since resolved it by implementing a unified license."

"It is not the cheapest product; it is not the most expensive product, but it works. It is a mid-range product, and it is justified in terms of being pretty quick and easy."

"There is a one-time cost for maintenance and support. We have a three-year contract that we will have to renew when those three years come up. There is also licensing on top of that for whatever product you are using it for."

"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."

"Its price can be better, but it is not bad. Most small-scale organizations can afford it, but they can come up with more customer-friendly packages."