N2W vs Nutanix Disaster Recovery as a Service comparison

N2WS and Nutanix are both solutions in the Disaster Recovery (DR) Software category. Additionally, 100% of N2WS users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Nutanix users who would recommend it.

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between N2W and Nutanix Disaster Recovery as a Service based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Disaster Recovery (DR) Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

To learn more, read our detailed N2W vs. Nutanix Disaster Recovery as a Service Report (Updated: December 2025).

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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

N2W

Average Rating

9.4

Reviews Sentiment

5.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Backup and Recovery (8th), Cloud Backup (6th), Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (7th)

Nutanix Disaster Recovery a...

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

5.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Disaster Recovery as a Service (4th)

Featured Reviews

reviewer2757345

Cloud Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Automation has transformed our backup process and validated our disaster recovery strategy

While the product is excellent, there are a couple of areas for potential improvement. The process for version upgrades, which sometimes requires deploying a new instance, could be streamlined to allow for a more seamless in-place update. It would be extremely useful to have the ability to set a retention period on manual backups. Occasionally, we take a manual snapshot before a major deployment, and currently, these can be forgotten, leading to unnecessary storage costs. Adding an 'auto-delete after X days' option to manual backups, similar to scheduled policies, would be a fantastic addition for cost management and general housekeeping. The EKS backup module should be a great feature, and it would have been a useful functionality to have for cluster backup management.

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AhmedKamal3

Regional Manager at VAD

Has improved cost efficiency and streamlined disaster recovery operations through flexible deployment options

The best features of Nutanix Disaster Recovery as a Service are the high availability and failover capabilities. The majority of customers use the One-Click Disaster Recovery orchestration feature, and they are very satisfied with it. One-Click Disaster Recovery improves the overall business processes within an organization. I am very satisfied with its performance, and our customers are equally satisfied. Nutanix Disaster Recovery as a Service's effectiveness in seamless failover to secondary sites is exceptional. The Recovery Point Objective is very small and fast. The metro availability and synchronous replication between different sites work very well. Disaster Recovery Orchestration is also good. The cloud disaster recovery as a service functionality is more than sufficient. Nutanix Disaster Recovery as a Service's audit-proof reporting assists with compliance needs in Saudi Arabia, where we have different compliance certificates. It needs to work more to comply with all available certificates for compliance, including healthcare, financial sector, and Aramco-specific requirements. The positive impact includes cost efficiency, which is the most important point. The pay-as-you-grow model works effectively. The operation is good, and the flexibility for options such as on-premise synchronization, near synchronization, or cloud-based solutions is beneficial. Everything is available within the Nutanix platform, built-in, without extra complexity or fees.

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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

"After acquiring two additional products in 2018, which we migrated from data centers to the cloud, N2W allowed us to streamline our backup process for three products within one tool."

"The most valuable feature is the ease of use."

"The ability to recover instances or volumes within minutes has improved our RTOs dramatically."

"A recovery process that had previously taken a team of engineers the better part of a day was successfully completed in under an hour."

"Having multiple policies and schedules handled for me takes the burden out of managing backups across multiple departments."

"The initial setup is easy."

"The backup and restore functionality is very easy to use and manage."

"N2WS Backup & Recovery is very easy to use and configure backup for AWS instances."

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"The solution is stable."

"Hyper-convergence gives me the ability to patch my firmware, software, and hypervisors with a single click. That is extremely useful."

"The tool's most valuable feature is ease of use."

"One-Click Disaster Recovery improves the overall business processes within an organization, I am very satisfied with its performance, and our customers are equally satisfied."

"The most valuable feature is its simplicity."

"It offers synchronous data replication, allowing us to sync our recovery data every hour and efficiently send applications to remote sites."

"We haven't needed anyone to maintain or deploy the solution. The traditional Nutanix administrator can administer the solution."

"One-Click Disaster Recovery improves the overall business processes within an organization, I am very satisfied with its performance, and our customers are equally satisfied."

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Cons

"The reporting engine could be easier to use, but it does a good enough job for what is needed."

"It's a global feature that the customer thinks they don't have enough tools to manage, to copy, to delay, and to classify the object file in the backup directory. So they need more tools to manage files in object directory."

"The process for version upgrades, which sometimes requires deploying a new instance, could be streamlined to allow for a more seamless in-place update."

"It could be improved to include disaster recovery in cross accounts for Azure in upcoming releases."

"The solution has the option to take backup on-prem servers, but it's not very efficient."

"Additional features I would like to see are the ability to restore to different vendors, AWS and Azure, and/or the ability or take the information out of the AWS cloud."

"They could expand their offering to include Lambda function backups and other native AWS services, as these can be recreated through CloudFormation or Terraform."

"Improved disaster recovery options and expanded multicloud support are two areas where N2WS has already made significant advancements in the latest version."

More N2W cons

"I think that Nutanix should support public clouds instead of the Nutanix data centers."

"The pricing could be better."

"The product is more costly than other platforms. The price could be better."

"The solution needs improvement in cost."

"It needs to work more to comply with all available certificates for compliance, including healthcare, financial sector, and Aramco-specific requirements."

"For moving the data for DR, we are using Megaport. We are using a Megaport link between the data centers, so we have a third party for the site-to-site connectivity between the data centers. If such connectivity is available from the Nutanix side, it would be helpful for us."

"They need better reporting on the environment."

"It needs to work more to comply with all available certificates for compliance, including healthcare, financial sector, and Aramco-specific requirements."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price is not cheap, nor is it costly."

"The purchasing process through the AWS Marketplace is easy. Just click the button."

"The pricing and licensing on AWS is fine, because you can do it for smaller tiers depending on your number of instances, so it's not that scary."

"AWS adds more features and offer things for free, or cheaply. Therefore, we will be evaluating AWS Data Lifecycle Manager, because it will probably do backups. Thus, make sure the product that you are using is competitive or adds more value than AWS."

"It has very good pricing per instance and comes with three options, for both small and large environments, to fit your needs."

"It's very economical and worth the cost."

"I always want it to be cheaper."

"Besides the license, there are additional costs with the network connection. The customer may want a direct connection between the two data centers and that has an extra cost."

"It is a little bit cheaper than the other products in the market. It is affordable."

"One-time costs may initially seem high, but they reflect the quality of the service received."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

12%

University

Government

Outsourcing Company

Computer Software Company

18%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Financial Services Firm

Healthcare Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	10
Midsize Enterprise	4
Large Enterprise	9

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	5
Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	3

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for N2WS Backup & Recovery?

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is smooth, as I have not faced any issues while spinning up the instance from the marketplace, and the documentation is very comprehensive.

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What needs improvement with N2WS Backup & Recovery?

The EKS environment solution could be improved.

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What is your primary use case for N2WS Backup & Recovery?

Backup and snapshots. Before implementing a dedicated cloud-native solution, our primary pain point was the fragmented and manual nature of our data protection strategy. We were relying on a patchw...

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What do you like most about Nutanix Xi Leap?

The tool's most valuable feature is ease of use.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Nutanix Xi Leap?

Regarding the pricing of Nutanix compared to the competition, currently there is only one OEM competitor in VMware. There are other vendors, but the feature functionality is not available on their ...

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What needs improvement with Nutanix Xi Leap?

I previously faced some issues with Nutanix Disaster Recovery as a Service, but currently, we are not experiencing any compatibility issues. For future updates, incorporating AI capabilities would ...

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Also Known As

N2WS Backup & Recovery, N2WS Cloud Protection Manager, N2W Backup & Recovery for AWS Free Trial/BYOL

Nutanix Xi Leap

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Overview

N2W offers a cloud-native backup and recovery platform tailored for AWS and Azure environments, delivering secure and rapid data protection.

N2W enables IT teams to effortlessly manage backup and restore processes within AWS and Azure environments. By leveraging policy-based management, users gain full control over rapid, secure recovery across regions and accounts. Designed to scale with workloads of any size, N2W ensures business continuity through features like immutable ransomware-protected backups and smart data lifecycle management. Hosted directly in the cloud account, it simplifies the protection and recovery of mission-critical applications.

What are N2W's key features?

Immutable Backups: Protects against ransomware with unchangeable data versions
Fast Recovery: Ensures rapid data restoration within seconds
Policy-Based Management: Automates backup processes for efficiency
Cost Savings: Optimizes storage with smart data lifecycle management
Granular Reporting: Offers detailed compliance-ready audit trails
Seamless Archival: Supports low-cost storage integration including Wasabi

What benefits should users consider?

Ease of Use: Simple management for quick data recovery
Automation: Reduces manual intervention with automated policies
Cost Optimization: Manages storage efficiently to save costs
Business Continuity: Ensures resilience with flexible scheduling

Organizations across sectors use N2W for automated backup and disaster recovery of AWS resources like EC2 instances and RDS databases. It's employed to manage schedules, streamline backups in production settings, and rely on S3 for storage, providing a robust data protection approach.

N2WS

Nutanix Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS) is a fully managed DR service that eliminates the need for a dedicated DR site, minimizes data loss and downtime, and helps organizations meet RTO/RPO SLAs confidently.

Nutanix

Sample Customers

Deloitte, NASA, Johnson & Johnson, Dyson, Deuthsche Bahn, Skechers, Allan Gray, Hewlett Packard, St. John's University, City of Oakland

JetBlue, International Speedway Corporation, SAIC Volkswagen

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