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IBM Disaster Recovery Services vs NAKIVO Backup & Replication comparison

 

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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:
 

Categories and Ranking

IBM Disaster Recovery Services
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
8.4
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
Disaster Recovery as a Service (9th)
NAKIVO Backup & Replication
Average Rating
9.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.5
Number of Reviews
93
Ranking in other categories
Backup and Recovery (11th), Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (11th)
 

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.
EDERLEY TERRERO - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Consulting at Gestion IT
Has improved customer satisfaction through reliable replication and flexible deployment
NAKIVO Backup & Replication has positively impacted my organization and my customers because it is not expensive and easy to use. I can see all the backup and replication processes, and I can protect all my customer data. It's the best solution when compared with others. The time savings and customer satisfaction demonstrate specific positive outcomes. The customers are happy with the solution and appreciate that it is not expensive.

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."
"Disaster Recovery Services is stable."
"The initial setup is very easy and user-friendly."
"The solution is stable; there is no need to retry any sort of jobs in daily operations."
"We were looking for a product that is easy and simple to use, this product perfectly fit and ended up becoming a mainstay in our portfolio of products that we can't live without."
"With Nakivo, I have the peace of mind that all of my production environment is safely backed up and can be restored safely, easily, and quickly with a few clicks."
"It is easy to manage all of the individual backup jobs, check the status every day, and it can even send an email to keep us informed."
"The price is much lower than competitors that do the same function."
"Backup jobs are running smoothly every day with job reports sent to email after they finish each job. That gives us peace of mind."
"We have been able to set up a failover site that has replicas of our critical VMs."
"The Nakivo solution provided us with the ability to do automatic scheduled app-aware backups with great deduplication and compression, so they don't overload our local area network and don't require a lot of storage space."
 

Cons

"Disaster Recovery Services could provide better value for money."
"Stability could always be better."
"The infrastructure level of IBM's recovery systems could be improved."
"The infrastructure level of IBM's recovery systems could be improved."
"I think it is important to work not only in replicating the virtual machines in Amazon AWS but in other cloud systems."
"While the solution provides mostly what we need, it would be ideal if there were some additional feature capabilities for the API."
"Log and report creation can be improved."
"They need a better knowledge base with more information about support issues."
"An improvement would be to include a general data backup solution that is not only for virtual machines."
"In terms of what could be improved for the next release, I would probably answer better documentation and licensing models."
"Their product is good and it meets our requirements, however, new features are also most welcome and we never hesitated to try new features."
"The only thing I could say is maybe some more options for job scheduling are needed."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Disaster Recovery Services is expensive."
"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."
"Nakivo Backup & Replication also have another great value, which is that it is one of the lowest prices on the market."
"You have a lot of different options when it comes to pricing and the pricing models are pretty flexible and affordable."
"The licensing currently allows for host-based licensing, which is advantageous if you have a lot of data on a few hosts."
"Cost is very appropriate for SMEs."
"The pricing, setup costs, and licensing are easy to understand, no matter how you want to implement it."
"The licensing model is very affordable compared to competitors, with a good quality-to-cost ratio, and the software is quite simple and fast to setup."
"It has a very good price in the market."
"The prices are high."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
16%
Outsourcing Company
12%
Manufacturing Company
8%
University
8%
Financial Services Firm
16%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Construction Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business81
Midsize Enterprise16
Large Enterprise9
 

Questions from the Community

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 is your primary use case for IBM Disaster Recovery Services?
The use case is for high availability and disaster recovery.
How does Nakivo compare with Veeam Backup & Replication?
Nakivo is my favorite backup software. Below are the main benefits of Nakivo compared to Veeam 1. Low cost. 2. Backup storage with global deduplication (this is the main requirement of a backup sol...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Nakivo?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is very positive. The pricing is very low, and the licensing process makes it easy to obtain any quote.
What needs improvement with Nakivo?
NAKIVO Backup & Replication has been improving lately as they have released many updates, and it seems to work excellently at this moment. There will always be emerging needs, such as AI, which...
 

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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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