Infrascale Backup & Disaster Recovery vs Oracle Data Guard comparison

Infrascale and Oracle are both solutions in the Backup and Recovery category. Infrascale is ranked #25 with an average rating of 10.0, while Oracle is ranked #24 with an average rating of 9.3. Infrascale holds a 0.7% mindshare in BRS, compared to Oracle’s 0.9% mindshare. Additionally, 90% of Infrascale users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 94% of Oracle users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 11, 2024

Infrascale Backup & Disaster Recovery and Oracle Data Guard compete in the data protection and disaster recovery category. Oracle Data Guard seems to have the upper hand due to its superior features and reliability, despite its higher cost.

Features: Infrascale Backup & Disaster Recovery offers comprehensive backup capabilities, flexibility, and competitive pricing. Oracle Data Guard provides high availability, real-time data protection, and advanced features suitable for enterprise environments.

Room for Improvement: Infrascale Backup & Disaster Recovery could improve in areas such as reporting tools, user permissions management, and more intuitive interfaces. Oracle Data Guard users highlight the need for better integration with non-Oracle systems, simplified configuration, and enhanced user experience.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Infrascale Backup & Disaster Recovery is easier to deploy and has strong customer support. Oracle Data Guard requires more time and expertise for deployment but offers highly regarded enterprise-level support.

Pricing and ROI: Infrascale Backup & Disaster Recovery is cost-effective and delivers solid ROI for small to mid-sized businesses. Oracle Data Guard has higher setup costs but delivers strong ROI for larger enterprises due to its advanced capabilities and reliability.

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Categories and Ranking

Infrascale Backup & Disaste...

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

25th

Average Rating

9.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Backup (18th), Disaster Recovery as a Service (6th), Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (17th), SaaS Backup (10th)

Oracle Data Guard

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

24th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Backup and Recovery category, the mindshare of Infrascale Backup & Disaster Recovery is 0.7%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Oracle Data Guard is 0.9%, up from 0.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Backup and Recovery Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Oracle Data Guard	0.9%
Infrascale Backup & Disaster Recovery	0.7%
Other	98.4%

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Featured Reviews

reviewer2649186

President at a media company with 11-50 employees

Its user-friendliness and consolidated dashboard make backups and recovery very easy

Having a single dashboard makes management and monitoring easier because you do not have to log into multiple services and multiple dashboards in order to gather the same information. It is always nice to have a consolidated view of your data and how you are performing your day-to-day operations with backup and recovery if you need to recover any file. It is very easy to restore data. The user interface or the dashboard is very intuitive. It is very easy to use, making it easy to recover or replicate any files. It is extremely important for us that Infrascale has the ability to recover data from any point in time. Data is the jewel crown of any business. If you do not have the right data, you are going to face many challenges in running your business. It is important to recover and restore the right data at the right time so that it does not impact your business and your bottom line.

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AbdulHameed

Assistant Vice President at ZTBL

Ensures high availability, disaster recovery, and data protection for Oracle databases through features like real-time data synchronization, automatic failover and zero data loss

Oracle Data Guard stands out by providing heavy-duty features that enable connecting multiple standby databases to a single production database. Oracle supports up to eight standby databases, offering a level of redundancy and scalability that other platforms cannot match. Implementing Oracle Data Guard ensures the protection and integrity of your data, even in the event of a disaster. With Data Guard, Oracle guarantees zero data loss, providing peace of mind for organizations relying on their data for critical operations. Data Guard offers multiple protection modes, each serving different needs. One such mode is active-active, where both the production and standby databases are actively accessible. In the event of a failure, seamless switchover occurs without disrupting client sessions, as they remain unaware of the transition between databases.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The recovery of data is the most valuable feature. The software backup, which is just a program that gets installed on a server, can back up to the cloud. You can install that on a server or PC, and that will simply back up a user's files and folders. If it is installed on the server, we just back up the relevant data. Recovering that, if there has been a malicious attack on a business or anything like that, has been invaluable in the past. The good features about that are obviously, if the physical hardware has a problem, then we can utilize the appliance, turn on the virtual machine, and carry on running the business while we put the hardware back and correct the issue."

"Its Critical Server Insurance feature for protecting physical and virtual servers, including Windows, Linux, VMware, and Hyper-V is mandatory for me and it makes me happy. If I had a backup solution that didn't do that, it would not be a backup solution and would not be any good."

"The most valuable feature of this solution is that it is simple to use."

"The ease of use is valuable. It is user-friendly. Performing backup and recovery can be done very intuitively with the solution and the interface that is part of the solution."

"Get Infrascale and talk to their team. They will support you, and they will make you the happiest customer out there."

"What I like the most about it is that backups and restores are simple, straightforward, and clean. It does not require six people to get involved in order to do a restore or perform a backup."

"The initial setup was straightforward and we received support from the manufacturer."

"The most valuable feature is the ability to boot locally, as well as in Infrascale's cloud. This means that we can either do on-site failover or failover to their cloud."

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"We have not encountered any major challenges with replication. We were able to achieve near-real-time replication. Also, with the switchover failover, we were not getting any technical issues. It's a pretty stable product."

"The solution has been stable so far."

"The solution can scale as needed."

"It's a very good solution if you want to protect your data across two data centers, or you have a middle man or many administrators who use these solutions for protecting their data. It's very reliable compared to other solutions that are most often not storage-based."

"If you have a problem with your primary site and can't access your primary database, you can continue working with the database that you have as standby on the other site, by changing its role to primary."

"It is a top-notch product, super stable, making it our go-to for internal operations."

"The most important feature is that if I want to test the database at the disaster recovery site, I can take a snapshot, test it, and then revert it back to the original state without needing to restore the complete database from the primary data center to the disaster recovery."

"Snapshot and Data Guard Manager are awesome features."

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Cons

"The only thing I would suggest, and I have talked to my manager about it already, is that they should have a direct backup-to-cloud solution. It should be something that does not require me to do an image backup, and then individual file and folder backups, to be able to restore individual files."

"When the product works, there is really nothing to fix, but they can allow different types of backups, such as differential or incremental backups."

"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."

"One of the significant drawbacks of it is due to the fact that we're using two devices to manage the same vCenter, or virtualization environment, and they don't talk to each other. That means I can't easily see what VMs are already being protected. If I'm on Infrascale device "A" and I have protected these VMs, when I go over to device "B," I can't see that those VMs are already covered."

"I would like to see more features for the section on the viruses and maybe another in reference to two-factor authentication."

"When you are ordering hardware appliances, they have to be delivered from America. In the past, hard drives on the appliance have been simple SSD drives that are installed. However, they don't have a local supply for the SSD drives in the UK. They have to be exported from the US, arrive, and then I have to go and install them. Then, they will rebuild it from their side of things. However, I could order that same SSD drive online and get it the next day. So, I have to wait days for things to come when I could get the exact same drive the next day in the UK, if I wanted to. That causes a bit of a problem. I don't know how many businesses they have in the UK, but I do think that having to import stuff from the US is a time-consuming problem. If there was a holding in the UK, then we wouldn't have that delay in time."

"They can always make the GUI a little bit nicer, the interface level a bit better. There's always room for improvement."

"Their margin from what they're wholesale and their MSRP is kind of tight for people who have to manage it."

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"The usage of block storage devices in the cloud or migration of a type of storage from one site to another site can be improved. Currently, we have to use multi-node to single node because of the lack of storage support on the Azure side. It did not really work. Our DBA had to spend a lot of time tweaking the Data Guard tools, or the underlying Oracle VMs, to make sure that Data Guard would run on top of different types of storage. So, if it can support transporting or getting from one type of storage to another type of storage in a different site or a different technology, it would be very helpful."

"It is a rather complex solution, so it could be more user-friendly."

"The deployment cost is expensive."

"The only difficult part is the cost factor, licensing. Another area of improvement is support."

"For every standby server you have, you must pay a licensing fee, which is the main disadvantage."

"The predominant issue lies in the communication link between the secondary and primary databases."

"Oracle could be improved by the ability to manage it on the cloud. This on-premises version is secure and reliable, but I'm sure that they will soon provide a cloud solution that will be even better. In one to two years, we will probably move to the cloud—we have already moved to the cloud with Microsoft Exchange, but our databases are still on-premises. I would prefer managing a cloud version of Oracle."

"The initial setup is complex."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The licensing is based on how much data you have plus what appliances you need."

"You get unlimited clients and buy a bucket of space. In addition to the standard fees there were setup fees."

"The pricing is fair, and they are interested in working with MSPs as part of their market."

"The licensing structure was changed some time ago and it's a lot more efficient and the price points are a lot better. They're improving and heading in the right direction."

"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."

"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."

"The pricing is pretty good and competitive with the market. The per-terabyte pricing is very competitive compared to the others."

"Infrascale's pricing, to me, was outstanding and was one of the major factors in my decision to go with Infrascale... My customer had a different solution before and his monthly payment was three times as much as the payment he now has with Infrascale."

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"The cost of the Oracle license will depend on the negotiations with Oracle."

"If you want to have everything automated and done smoothly, you have to add additional licenses."

"The pricing is on the higher side."

"The licensing cost is significantly high."

"It's a cost-effective solution."

"Oracle Data Guard is a feature available only in Oracle Database Enterprise Edition, and is available for extra cost."

"It is not a cheap product, but if you look at the price, features, availability, scalability, and maturity, it is a very good product."

"This is the best solution if you want something similar that's less expensive than Oracle Grid."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

11%

Healthcare Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

Performing Arts

Financial Services Firm

19%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Government

Educational Organization

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	17
Large Enterprise	1

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	7
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	22

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Infrascale Platform?

The pricing of Infrascale Backup & 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...

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What needs improvement with Infrascale Platform?

The only thing that I want to be released is Infrascale Backup & Disaster Recovery's ability to connect to Zoho, which they're working on right now. I've been in constant communication with the...

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What is your primary use case for Infrascale Platform?

I don't personally use Infrascale Backup & Disaster Recovery; I resell it and have it for a client who seems to like it. They're waiting for this upgrade and update that's going to allow more c...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Infrascale Platform

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Overview

Infrascale overcomes the complexity of creating backup and disaster recovery solutions without sacrificing performance and reliability. We provide fast, secure recovery that enables customers to feel confident that their data is fully protected from any type of disaster, whether it be operational, environmental, or malicious. Infrascale provides data protection for SaaS applications, endpoints, and servers.

SaaS BACKUP

Protect Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Box, Dropbox, and Salesforce data from accidental deletion and malicious attacks. Infrascale Cloud Application Backup (ICAB) provides customers with essential data protection that isn’t included in their SaaS provider’s limited retention policies. It also protects the broadest set of SaaS applications and delivers ease of use and ease of deployment.

ENDPOINT BACKUP

Direct-to-cloud backup and recovery solution for endpoints. Infrascale Cloud Backup (ICB) provides unlimited retention and version history, MSI installer and single pane of glass management, and ransomware anomaly detection. This delivers ease of use, ease of management, and protection from cybersecurity threats.

SERVER BACKUP AND DISASTER RECOVERY

Boot ready in minutes to run your systems when they go down due to any reason including server crashes, ransomware attacks, or natural disasters. Infrascale Backup & Disaster Recovery (IBDR) provides boot-ready time for failover that averages 2 minutes as well as unlimited disaster recovery and failover testing. In order to eliminate downtime and data loss, IBDR also provides a centrally managed Infrascale Management Dashboard.

Infrascale

Oracle Data Guard ensures high availability, data protection, and disaster recovery for enterprise data. Data Guard provides a comprehensive set of services that create, maintain, manage, and monitor one or more standby databases to enable production Oracle databases to survive disasters and data corruptions. Data Guard can be used with traditional backup, restoration, and cluster techniques to provide a high level of data protection and data availability.

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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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