We performed a comparison between IBM Disaster Recovery Services and Zerto based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Veeam Software, Zerto, Commvault and others in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software."Disaster Recovery Services is stable."
"The solution works well for very large organizations. It can scale quite well."
"The Zerto university for training staff is very useful."
"Zerto's ability to test failovers with a record of how long it takes to fail the motor is beneficial, as it allows us to know the timing in the event we have to do it live."
"Stable disaster recovery solution with a very simple setup and fast failover."
"When we need to failover or move workloads, Zerto significantly decreases both the time it takes and the number of people involved. It only takes a single person to activate a failover and we can pretty much automate everything else."
"The solution's most valuable aspect is allowing a failover from our remote sites to our data center. Our remote sites have failed several times, and on each occasion, we were able to bring a plant back online within 30 minutes, even though the hardware repair took many days."
"It is very user-friendly. There is no wondering about what a feature does. It is easy to use."
"The most valuable feature is the point in time recovery. This allows us to recover at any point in time, up to a minute or so."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of upgrades."
"The infrastructure level of IBM's recovery systems could be improved."
"Disaster Recovery Services could provide better value for money."
"The documentation needs improvement in terms of the setup, getting enough detail, and getting that up to speed."
"I'm not sure if it has throttling, meaning, what's going over the wire and how we can throttle that to reduce the amount of data that's going across the bandwidth. I can't remember if that's something that's in this product. It might be in the more recent version."
"Right now, our production environment runs on-premises, and we have a DR copy of everything that we run in production. However, our development runs on that hardware. In the case of a DR event, we would need to shut down development and bring up our secondary copy of production. We're hoping that Zerto is going to be the tool to help us do that."
"The limitation with Zerto is that you're required to have one Zerto Manager per virtual center, and this means that you're only able to replicate one way. Technical support for this product was fantastic, before they were acquired by HP. You're now able to tell that the company is becoming too big, in terms of the support they provide."
"Zerto is too reliant on VMware's vCenter. It's tough to upgrade, move, or do anything related to virtual servers with vCenter."
"The setup process is time-consuming."
"It needs to support more public cloud."
"The solution is very expensive."
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IBM Disaster Recovery Services is ranked 5th in Disaster Recovery as a Service with 2 reviews while Zerto is ranked 2nd in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software with 235 reviews. IBM Disaster Recovery Services is rated 8.0, while Zerto is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of IBM Disaster Recovery Services writes "Quite stable with good scalability for large organizations but the recovery system infrastructure could be better". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zerto writes "Gives us business continuity capabilities during hurricane season and in case of ransomware". IBM Disaster Recovery Services is most compared with Precisely Assure MIMIX, Sungard Disaster Recovery Services and Azure Site Recovery, whereas Zerto is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, VMware SRM, Rubrik, Commvault Cloud and Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines.
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