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Infrascale Backup & Disaster Recovery vs Oracle Data Guard comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 11, 2024

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
5.7
<p>Infrascale Backup &amp; Disaster Recovery improves ROI with fast recovery, reduced costs, enhanced efficiency, and minimized business disruptions.</p>
Sentiment score
1.0
Users praised Oracle Data Guard for reducing downtime, improving data protection, and cutting costs through automation and operational efficiency.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
7.2
<p>Infrascale Backup &amp; Disaster Recovery's support is highly praised for its responsiveness, expertise, and proactive assistance despite minor challenges.</p>
Sentiment score
8.8
Oracle customer service experiences vary, with satisfaction dependent on support levels, regional teams, and access to documentation.
Their average mean time to resolve open tickets is an hour.
President at IT1 Service
The right expertise, a timely response, and being able to get to the right person to help you resolve the problem are very important.
President at a media company with 11-50 employees
The most valuable aspects of Infrascale’s support for my company are the turnaround time and the resolution time.
President at LET US DEAL WITH IT, LLC
Oracle has the best support and a great knowledge center with a lot of accessible material for users and administrators.
Principal DB A at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
5.0
<p>Infrascale Backup &amp; Disaster Recovery efficiently supports scalable business continuity for SMBs, despite some concerns over hardware limitations.</p>
Sentiment score
8.9
Oracle Data Guard is scalable, supporting extensive user bases and many standby systems, though configuration challenges in read-only environments exist.
One person can manage hundreds and hundreds of endpoints without any issues.
President at IT1 Service
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.6
<p>Infrascale Backup &amp; Disaster Recovery offers high stability, minimal maintenance, and reliable performance with resolved past concerns through excellent support.</p>
Sentiment score
8.6
Oracle Data Guard is stable and reliable, with minor network dependency issues, praised for configuration ease and robust performance.
I would rate the stability a ten out of ten.
President at IT1 Service
There was a recent announcement in terms of moving Infrascale to the cloud, which makes it easier for the customer in terms of usability.
President at a media company with 11-50 employees
For the stability of Oracle Data Guard, I would rate it as the best.
Principal DB A at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
 

Room For Improvement

<p>Infrascale Backup &amp; Disaster Recovery needs improvements in UI, analytics, platform integration, security, pricing, and geographic coverage.</p>
Oracle Data Guard users seek improved GUI, monitoring, lower costs, replication, cloud support, and faster technical support.
Many customers do not rely on just one cloud provider and want to work with multiple clouds.
President at a media company with 11-50 employees
Having more advanced dashboards and executive-level reporting would help with compliance tracking and management visibility.
Cloud Security Architect at a insurance company with 501-1,000 employees
When the product works, there is really nothing to fix, but they can allow different types of backups, such as differential or incremental backups.
President at IT1 Service
It could benefit from more automated features that notify via email if the disaster recovery or primary side fails.
Principal DB A at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
 

Setup Cost

<p>Infrascale Backup &amp; Disaster Recovery offers flexible pricing with monthly options, unlimited clients, and negotiation for discounts despite complexity.</p>
Oracle Data Guard pricing is variable, influenced by features, organization type, and negotiations, balancing expense with cost-effectiveness.
We recently renewed one of our agreements with them, and even though we were going to renew anyway, they added more margin in terms of a discount for us for renewing early.
Co-Founder | Director | CTO | vCISO | Lead Consultant Infrastructure & Cloud at UBIQUITY Ltd
To someone considering Infrascale but is concerned about the price, I would say that they should get Infrascale's service no matter what it costs because any downtime or any loss of data is substantially worse than any cost for backup.
President at IT1 Service
The per-terabyte pricing is very competitive compared to the others.
President at a media company with 11-50 employees
The simple Data Guard is free.
Principal DB A at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
 

Valuable Features

<p>Infrascale Backup &amp; Disaster Recovery offers centralized management, fast recovery, ransomware defense, and data encryption for enhanced business continuity.</p>
Oracle Data Guard provides disaster recovery with features like replication, failover, stable deployment, data integrity, and minimal downtime.
What I like the most about it is that backups and restores are simple, straightforward, and clean.
President at IT1 Service
Performing backup and recovery can be done very intuitively with the solution and the interface that is part of the solution.
President at a media company with 11-50 employees
Active Data Guard is the most valuable feature. We use the secondary side for reporting purposes, which reduces the load on the primary side.
Principal DB A at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
 

Categories and Ranking

Infrascale Backup & Disaste...
Ranking in Backup and Recovery
17th
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
20
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Backup (15th), Disaster Recovery as a Service (5th), Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (13th), SaaS Backup (8th)
Oracle Data Guard
Ranking in Backup and Recovery
37th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
32
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the Backup and Recovery category, the mindshare of Infrascale Backup & Disaster Recovery is 1.0%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Oracle Data Guard is 0.8%, down from 0.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Backup and Recovery Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Infrascale Backup & Disaster Recovery1.0%
Oracle Data Guard0.8%
Other98.2%
Backup and Recovery
 

Featured Reviews

MX
Dev Ops Engineer And Solution Architect at Scania
Automated backups have increased user trust and ensured reliable multi-region disaster recovery
While I think the integration of Infrascale Backup & Disaster Recovery is pretty seamless, the backup takes slightly more time to complete, which could also be because of the huge data in our databases. The networking flow can definitely improve, which could speed up the scale at which backups are performed. Increased availability into more regions would be beneficial. Currently, Infrascale Backup & Disaster Recovery is limited to certain regions in the world, but there could be customers who would want to use it in Mumbai or other parts of the globe. That would increase their use case and help cater to more customers across the world.
AdnanNaseem - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal DB A at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
Active data protection has ensured high availability and supports seamless reporting workloads
In my opinion, Active Data Guard is the most valuable feature. We use the secondary side for reporting purposes, which reduces the load on the primary side. Oracle Data Guard includes functions such as automatic failover, but we use manual managed failover. After some months, we converted our primary to secondary and secondary to primary. Oracle Data Guard is effective in minimizing data loss and provides a good solution for that. The main benefits of Oracle Data Guard include minimizing data loss during a production failure. It is used for maximum availability when paired with Oracle RAC, so if any disruption occurs, we have an alternative Data Guard to convert our load to the disaster recovery site. Oracle Data Guard maintains a high level of data integrity by using archive logs. When a transaction happens, redo logs create archive logs, which are then applied on the disaster recovery side, ensuring that both databases are synchronized.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
13%
Healthcare Company
12%
Outsourcing Company
12%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Construction Company
11%
Outsourcing Company
9%
Government
9%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business22
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise5
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business7
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise22
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Infrascale Platform?
The pricing of Infrascale Backup &amp; Disaster Recovery is premium; if it went down, I would definitely be happy, but I don't want to see it go up. Their margin from what they're wholesale and the...
What needs improvement with Infrascale Platform?
In terms of how Infrascale Backup &amp; Disaster Recovery can be improved, I can suggest using the recovery time objective system, where current state systems can be restored in about zero downtime...
What is your primary use case for Infrascale Platform?
My main use case for Infrascale Backup &amp; Disaster Recovery is that day-to-day, we never use it; we use it only yearly once. I can give you a quick, specific example of a time when I used Infras...
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 advice do you have for others considering Oracle Data Guard?
It is a very useful administrative IT tool. It saves on costs. I strongly recommend Data Guard. I've been using it for eight years and I would strongly recommend it. I'd rate Oracle Data Guard a se...
What advice do you have for others considering Oracle Data Guard?
We're Oracle partners. We've worked with databases 11G and 12C. If a company is planning to implement Oracle solutions, I would suggest they also implement Data Guard. I'd rate the solution nine ou...
 

Also Known As

Infrascale Platform
Active Data Guard
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

MSPs servicing small and mid-size companies VARs servicing mid-sized companies Direct SMB or mid-sized companies
Athenahealth, Discover Financial Services
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