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IBM Disaster Recovery Services vs Infrascale Backup & Disaster Recovery comparison

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Categories and Ranking

IBM Disaster Recovery Services
Ranking in Disaster Recovery as a Service
11th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
8.4
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Infrascale Backup & Disaste...
Ranking in Disaster Recovery as a Service
5th
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.5
Number of Reviews
23
Ranking in other categories
Backup and Recovery (16th), Cloud Backup (14th), Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (12th), SaaS Backup (9th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the Disaster Recovery as a Service category, the mindshare of IBM Disaster Recovery Services is 4.0%, up from 3.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Infrascale Backup & Disaster Recovery is 6.5%, up from 4.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Disaster Recovery as a Service Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Infrascale Backup & Disaster Recovery6.5%
IBM Disaster Recovery Services4.0%
Other89.5%
Disaster Recovery as a Service
 

Featured Reviews

Şefik Mert Polatay - PeerSpot reviewer
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.
Vivek_Jaiswal - PeerSpot reviewer
Security Engineer at LTI Mindtree
Cloud backups have strengthened ransomware recovery and now protect critical business data
I see several areas where Infrascale Backup & Disaster Recovery could be improved. First is the architectural design and configuration, along with operational maturity, as well as security integration. The performance of support can definitely be improved with easier on-call support features for P1 and P2 incidents. Getting quick support from the vendor during major recoveries or disasters would be greatly appreciated. Additionally, improving the strength of ransomware protections, addressing critical gaps in deployments, enforcing backup immutability policies, and making disaster recovery testing routine instead of an ad hoc process are important. Validating that I can quickly recover data should be a priority, and improved runbooks or operational maturity platforms would be beneficial for data recovery from critical incidents.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The latest IBM environments are very powerful for our clients."
"The solution works well for very large organizations. It can scale quite well."
"The initial setup is very easy and user-friendly."
"Disaster Recovery Services is stable."
"It works a treat and does the job perfectly."
"The Infrascale Dashboard is very easy to understand, has a good overview, and gives me access to all my appliances without having to have a local VPN connection to the individual clients. It makes it very easy to find my way around."
"The overall ease of use and ease of management of the solution using the Infrascale dashboard is excellent. I'd rate it 10 out of 10 because the dashboard is very simple to use. For someone with a technical background, it's a wonderful piece of software to be using in a cloud environment. But if you're not technical, then it might be a problem. It could be confusing for non-technical people. If you don't know what you're doing, you could kind of screw it up. Any human with two brain cells can do it. It's like anything else. So, once you train a human, they're good. Anybody can do it. Anybody with a competent brain can use it and go with a little bit of technical skill. It might be confusing in the beginning, but once you're trained up and you've used it a little bit, like anything else in your life, it'll be easy. They'll come as normal."
"If you want something that works and is reliable, here it is."
"The interface of Infrascale Backup & Disaster Recovery is very easy to use, and there are no problems. It's set it and forget it. You can make adjustments very easily as well."
"The best part is the possibility to spill over the lock-ups to the cloud and the spin-up part."
"Get Infrascale and talk to their team. They will support you, and they will make you the happiest customer out there."
"The biggest lesson that I have learned from using this product is that we should have switched years before we did."
 

Cons

"Stability could always be better."
"The infrastructure level of IBM's recovery systems could be improved."
"Disaster Recovery Services could provide better value for money."
"They set me up as a vendor, not as a client. So sometimes I end up in the wrong portal and I'm doing vendor things instead of client things, and I didn't realize that right away. Once I figured it out I just changed my favorites on my desktop to go to the client-side."
"I'm a little bit disappointed that over the last year and a half, there hasn't been too much contact from them regarding what's going to be new or coming out."
"The only point of improvement I can think of for Infrascale Backup & Disaster Recovery is that the restore process could sometimes be easier to do and faster. A file-only restore or directory-only restore can sometimes take quite some time; however, a server restore goes fast."
"The performance of support can definitely be improved with easier on-call support features for P1 and P2 incidents."
"Their margin from what they're wholesale and their MSRP is kind of tight for people who have to manage it."
"Having options to replicate between their data centers, once the data is offsite, would be an improvement that they could make."
"In terms of overage, or outgrowing capacity with backups, I have an issue."
"The pricing model that they recently changed to is a little bit complicated, and the biggest area for improvement is a better way of figuring out how to price it."
 

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."
"Our licensing fees are billed every four months."
"The appliances have different prices because of storage, size, and memory. For example, the older machines support more virtual machines, whereas the new one only supports one virtual machine. As we have purchased the later appliances, they have probably been a little bit more expensive because they have to be good enough to keep the business running if the physical server goes down. We learned our lesson from the one that went down when we tried to run products and it wasn't quick enough."
"I appreciate their pricing. We went for this solution for its pricing."
"You get unlimited clients and buy a bucket of space. In addition to the standard fees there were setup fees."
"It is super competitive. It is worth taking a look at it from a licensing and pricing perspective."
"The licensing is based on how much data you have plus what appliances you need."
"The pricing is fair, and they are interested in working with MSPs as part of their market."
"Pricing of the product could be improved. It definitely makes it a harder sell. They will usually end up getting close to the price we need, but I have to go through everybody to get the price reduced. Their list pricing is significantly higher than that of other solutions."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Manufacturing Company
27%
Outsourcing Company
15%
Construction Company
12%
University
6%
Outsourcing Company
15%
Construction Company
10%
Healthcare Company
10%
Comms Service Provider
9%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
No data available
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business25
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise7
 

Questions from the Community

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Infrascale Platform?
Currently, there have been no surprises or challenges in pricing, setup costs, or licensing since I am still in the evaluation phase and not focused on costs at the licensing level.
What needs improvement with Infrascale Platform?
Regarding how Infrascale Backup & Disaster Recovery can be improved, I notice agent-based backing up is, in my opinion, limited, and that is definitely not a great sign. I am also recognizing t...
What is your primary use case for Infrascale Platform?
I am currently using Infrascale Backup & Disaster Recovery, which is in review at this time. My main use case for considering Infrascale Backup & Disaster Recovery is the principal concern ...
 

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Sample Customers

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
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