HPE Zerto Software vs Rivery comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 22, 2026

HPE Zerto Software and Rivery are leading solutions in disaster recovery and data management. HPE Zerto Software is notable for its robust ransomware detection, advanced encryption, and near-real-time replication capabilities. Rivery stands out with its seamless data integration and flexible ETL processes, offering strong value for scalable data transformation tasks.

Features: HPE Zerto Software provides continuous data protection, automated failover processes, and flexible multi-cloud support. Its near-zero RPO feature ensures rapid system restoration, minimizing downtime in disasters. Rivery excels in diverse connector availability, automated data workflows, and a user-friendly platform for managing ETL tasks efficiently.

Room for Improvement: HPE Zerto Software could enhance support for newer virtualization platforms and simplify initial setup in varied environments. Some users noted the need for improved training resources and more intuitive updates. Rivery could benefit from more sophisticated monitoring tools, smoother debugging for custom scripts, and broader community support for troubleshooting.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: HPE Zerto Software offers straightforward deployment, though complex setups can be challenging, with commendable responsiveness from its support team. Rivery provides a cloud-native, user-friendly interface, enabling efficient setup of data pipelines. Its proactive support offers timely solutions to technical issues.

Pricing and ROI: HPE Zerto Software offers value through comprehensive protection with moderate costs, emphasizing long-term savings by preventing data loss. Rivery’s flexible pricing based on usage fosters cost-effectiveness, making it attractive for tasks demanding scalable data integration and transformation.

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HPE Zerto Software vs. Rivery

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Review summaries and opinions

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

ROI

Sentiment score

7.0

HPE Zerto enhances efficiency through automated disaster recovery, reducing downtime, saving costs, and providing significant ROI and resilience.

Sentiment score

5.1

Rivery improves productivity and efficiency, reducing manual work and cutting costs by enabling independent project management with fewer employees.

Before, it was a huge cost. It was several thousand dollars to do a DR test, whereas now, I click a button.

Thomas Sipf

CTO at Erisa Administrative Services, Inc.

It saves us a lot of time and gives us the ability to perform other DR plans for other systems.

reviewer2728620

System Engineer at a wholesaler/distributor with 1,001-5,000 employees

It's not only in the cloud; it's DR as a service, which means that the recovery operations are performed by a dedicated team specializing in this area.

Itsik Ohana

Founder & CEO at Itix Cyber Ltd

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It saved my team time and really reduced manual work, so overall, it improved efficiency.

reviewer2799567

software tester at a consultancy with 11-50 employees

By using Snowflake and Rivery, I was able to set up and complete project goals myself without the necessity to employ additional data engineers or DevOps.

reviewer2799906

Researcher at a educational organization with 11-50 employees

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Customer Service

Sentiment score

7.5

HPE Zerto Software's customer service is praised for responsiveness and professionalism, though some desire quicker responses and improved documentation.

Sentiment score

6.8

Rivery's support is highly rated for personalized assistance, quick feedback, and encouraging user learning despite occasional technical challenges.

I have never had an issue that was not resolved, and I have never been in a situation where they did not respond.

reviewer762012

Sr. Systems Engineer at a legal firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

I would give them a rating of ten because it represents the highest level of support based on the technical knowledge of the support team, response time, and effectiveness of the provided resolutions.

reviewer1599558

Disaster Recovery Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

When I open a ticket, I usually get a call within an hour or two.

David Comer

Systems Engineering Manager at a legal firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

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One significant challenge was implementing custom-built Python scripts using Rivery for transformations.

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CDL at Ycotek

Customer support is great; they are answering really fast.

Shmuel Milavski

Manager, Business Intelligence at WalkMe - the Enterprise-Class Online Guidance and Engagement platform.

The customer support for Rivery is excellent.

Doron Matmoni

Manager, Application at a non-profit with 1,001-5,000 employees

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score

7.4

HPE Zerto Software is praised for its scalability, efficient licensing, and adaptability across various infrastructure sizes with minimal issues.

Sentiment score

7.0

Rivery scales effectively, integrating diverse data sources, supporting increased use, and connecting to databases and tools like Snowflake and Tableau.

I would rate it a ten out of ten for scalability.

Alan Barrett

Head of IT at TWM SOLICITORS LLP

Customers need to follow good engineering practices for optimal product use.

Proby Patel

Tech Lead, Storage and Data Protection at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

By adding more hosts and installing VRAs on each, tasks can be efficiently managed.

reviewer2641974

Senior Systems Engineer at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees

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It has handled growing data volumes and additional pipelines without major issues.

reviewer2799567

software tester at a consultancy with 11-50 employees

The focus is on the ability to connect to different sources and to put all the data together.

reviewer2799618

Data Analyst at a computer software company with 11-50 employees

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Stability Issues

Sentiment score

8.0

HPE Zerto Software is highly stable and reliable, with minimal issues and responsive support resolving minor concerns.

Sentiment score

8.4

Rivery is stable and user-friendly, offering reliable performance with excellent support, despite occasional glitches and past slowdowns with large datasets.

I promptly delete the malfunctioning elements and set them up again to resume replication, ensuring stability.

Jagadeesh Ethiraj

Technical Architect at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

The ease of use was so good with Zerto that they were able to migrate things much quicker.

reviewer2691450

Inside Sales Representative at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

It is very reliable.

David Comer

Systems Engineering Manager at a legal firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

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I found the tool very easy to use, allowing me to gain a lot of insights.

reviewer2799618

Data Analyst at a computer software company with 11-50 employees

The excellent support we received from Rivery team contributes to this perception.

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CDL at Ycotek

Room For Improvement

HPE Zerto Software struggles with limited support, high costs, integration issues, and demands improvements in usability and flexibility.

Rivery needs better dependency analysis, user-friendly interface, AI integration, and competitive pricing with improved analytics and visualization.

If I have 350 objects that I am protecting, I would like Zerto to be able to fire them up in one order, rather than having to manually bring them up in a sequence.

David Riberdy

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

If the host has a lot of VMs on it, there may not always be enough time to relocate all of the VMs from a protection group standpoint to other hosts before the replication appliance that Zerto uses to manage that powers itself down.

David Comer

Systems Engineering Manager at a legal firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

If HPE Zerto Software has it built-in where we're going to vCenter and you click on it, it will build the VPG and indicate configuration requirements, that would be amazing.

reviewer2729427

Senior Converged Infrastructure Engineer at a educational organization with 1,001-5,000 employees

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As an end-to-end solution for ETL with Snowflake, Rivery has proven to be reliable and efficient in my day-to-day work.

reviewer2799567

software tester at a consultancy with 11-50 employees

Agentic AI with open source tools can be used to build all configurations automatically for pipelines.

reviewer2799906

Researcher at a educational organization with 11-50 employees

One feature that stood out in Informatica was the ability to see data flowing through each transformation step while debugging, which I felt was missing in Rivery.

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CDL at Ycotek

Setup Cost

HPE Zerto is valued for its disaster recovery features, flexible licensing, and justifiable investment despite higher costs.

Rivery's pricing is competitive but can be steep for small businesses, with complex integrations increasing costs significantly.

If you want a good-quality tool that is robust and does a good job for you, you have to pay a higher price to get that, and Zerto is no different.

JeffSmith12

IT Manager at American Pioneer Federal Credit Union

However, it can become quite expensive when you start looking at the number of workloads you have in the environment and what you would like to do.

reviewer2645856

Cloud and Infrastructure Services Manager at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Zerto is easier to set up and use, and it's less expensive.

Bill Dudgeon

Professional Services Engineer at US Signal

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I found myself asking my stakeholder to make it only five times a day because it was really expensive.

Doron Matmoni

Manager, Application at a non-profit with 1,001-5,000 employees

I found the pricing and licensing to be fair and competitive compared to other solutions I have seen.

Shmuel Milavski

Manager, Business Intelligence at WalkMe - the Enterprise-Class Online Guidance and Engagement platform.

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Valuable Features

HPE Zerto Software offers efficient disaster recovery with near-synchronous replication, user-friendly management, and enhanced cloud integration features.

Rivery excels in seamless integration, user-friendly design, and efficient data processing, appealing to various technical skill levels.

Zerto offers excellent technical support with responsive and helpful experts.

Sachin Vinay

Assistant Manager-Networks at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees

If we were attacked, I could revert to a backup from five seconds before the attack, and no one would know we were attacked.

reviewer2641974

Senior Systems Engineer at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees

The replication time and the minor amount of time it takes to sync a new server outside of any of my huge 40-terabyte boxes is ridiculously quick.

reviewer762012

Sr. Systems Engineer at a legal firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

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Rivery saved time and money because everything was handled in one place by only one or two data people instead of using the resources of a development team, which is great, and all the knowledge is handled in one team.

Doron Matmoni

Manager, Application at a non-profit with 1,001-5,000 employees

The main benefit Rivery brought to my organization was the time we were able to save on development.

reviewer2799906

Researcher at a educational organization with 11-50 employees

Rivery has positively impacted my organization by reducing the need for a big team of data engineers and speeding up the work when we need to connect to a new data source; this can happen really fast.

Shmuel Milavski

Manager, Business Intelligence at WalkMe - the Enterprise-Class Online Guidance and Engagement platform.

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Categories and Ranking

HPE Zerto Software

Ranking in Cloud Migration

1st

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

346

Ranking in other categories

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

Rivery

Ranking in Cloud Migration

11th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Data Integration (26th), Migration Tools (3rd), Cloud Data Integration (15th)

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Cloud Migration category, the mindshare of HPE Zerto Software is 5.4%, up from 5.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Rivery is 1.1%, up from 0.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Cloud Migration Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
HPE Zerto Software	5.4%
Rivery	1.1%
Other	93.5%

Cloud Migration

Featured Reviews

reviewer2802231

Dev Ops Engineer at a media company with 201-500 employees

Near-zero downtime has protected critical workloads and now simplifies hybrid cloud recovery

The best features of HPE Zerto Software are mainly very sophisticated and relevant to the current market. The data protection CDP part has real-time replication, unlike other solutions that have snapshot backups. We can set it up hourly, making it ideal for use with workloads. Another attraction is the near-zero RTO, with automated failover within minutes and one-click failover and failback. Currently, we are using a hybrid cloud solution, and HPE Zerto Software supports multi-cloud environments, making it easy to migrate between on-premises and cloud. Regarding the impact of HPE Zerto Software on our RTOs, we have near-zero RTO, meaning the system must be back online within thirty minutes if we measure the time. It is very quick to recover services. With HPE Zerto Software's near-synchronous replication, we have some CDP protection, so we typically write interceptions along with some asynchronous replication. There is almost real-time replication available.

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Training has boosted custom ETL scripting and now debugging complex incremental loads needs work

CDL at Ycotek

The best feature Rivery offers is the ability to build custom or user-defined functions. You can even develop Python scripts to perform transformations on your data frames. This flexibility allows you to implement custom requirements, making Rivery more versatile than relying solely on in-built functions. Regarding features such as the interface, scheduling, or connectors, I found that as of 2022 when I last used it, the monitoring was good, although the debugging process for custom scripts was somewhat challenging. If we encountered issues with custom-built scripts, debugging was difficult since it used to send standard errors rather than specific ones. From what I recall, monitoring worked well, and we could connect to multiple relational and other sources, which was advantageous. A few of my colleagues and I were able to earn certifications on Rivery, which motivated us, even though we could not pursue or implement Rivery project for clients. The learning experience was very valuable as we had around seven or eight resources participating in those trainings, and they were all excited to learn about this new tool for us at the time.

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Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Nov 9, 2014

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

Healthcare Company

Construction Company

14%

Manufacturing Company

13%

Comms Service Provider

10%

Real Estate/Law Firm

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	90
Midsize Enterprise	92
Large Enterprise	195

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	4
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	3

Questions from the Community

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...

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...

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Zerto?

From a pricing standpoint, HPE Zerto Software was reasonably priced initially compared to SRM, but now it is almost on par, if not better.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Rivery?

I do not know about the experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing as it was not part of my job.

What needs improvement with Rivery?

I think Rivery could be improved by having more analytical features inside. I do not know if in the latest updates there are some AI tools to use or something related to that. Sometimes I wish for ...

What is your primary use case for Rivery?

My main use case for Rivery involves collecting data from different sources, and with Rivery, I am able to put them together and load the data directly in Snowflake.

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Also Known As

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Overview

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

Rivery is a serverless, SaaS DataOps platform that empowers companies of all sizes around the world to consolidate, orchestrate, and manage internal and external data sources with ease and efficiency.

By offering comprehensive data solutions and partnering with complementary technology providers, including Google, Snowflake, Tableau, and Looker, Rivery enables data-driven companies to build the perfect ecosystems for all their data processes.

Sample Customers

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

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HPE Zerto Software vs. Rivery