We performed a comparison between Nakivo and StorageCraft ShadowProtect 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."All in all, NAKIVO helped us save a lot of time."
"The features that I have found most valuable are that it is a cheaper price and user-friendly."
"The price is much lower than competitors that do the same function."
"It can be quickly configured via web pages."
"The product license and support delivery have been great!"
"Technical support responds very quickly."
"The backup for physical machines and replication for the virtual environment are the most valuable aspects."
"Nakivo makes our backs-ups more reliable and easy to recover in case of full damage or partial retrieval of files - all at a convenient cost."
"It is easy to configure."
"The ease of use is the best feature of the product."
"This product is extremely user-friendly and it is capable of performing large-scale archive/backup (five+ years worth). It is easy to store, maintain, and check backups."
"The most valuable feature of StorageCraft ShadowProtect is the speed and the compression of the backups. The compressed backed-up files do not take up as much storage. Additionally, the incremental backups can be done in one minute and be backed up on a disc very fast."
"The ability to switch between different hardware platforms and utilization tools are some of this solution's most valuable features."
"Space is always an issue."
"Nakivo's implementation documentation could use a little beefing up."
"It would be good if I could have a remote upgrade of our Synology Transporters, but the manual upgrade is easy and no problem at all."
"There could be better integration with other solutions, such as Amazon S3."
"The only thing I could say is maybe some more options for job scheduling are needed."
"Updating VM tools on a replicated VM could be better."
"An additional feature that would be appreciated is disaster recovery automation."
"Updating VM Tools on a replicated VM could be better."
"I think that the price could still be a bit cheaper and I do not like that they have been purchased by Arcserve."
"It takes much time to verify and consolidate images for backups."
"Licensing can be quite difficult."
"StorageCraft ShadowProtect can improve by making one console that can control backups of all desktops and servers in one place. Additionally, the recovery process of the backups is very slow and could improve. It's very slow when we went to recover a complete disc but to recover one file is very fast."
"A lot of their new technologies are not very good."
Nakivo is ranked 5th in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software with 37 reviews while StorageCraft ShadowProtect is ranked 21st in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software with 5 reviews. Nakivo is rated 9.6, while StorageCraft ShadowProtect is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Nakivo writes "Our clients tell us they appreciate the user-friendly interface and the space savings they realize from compression". On the other hand, the top reviewer of StorageCraft ShadowProtect writes "Transitions easily from physical to virtual servers, reliable, with comparable pricing". Nakivo is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup, Acronis Backup, Rubrik and N-able Cove Data Protection, whereas StorageCraft ShadowProtect is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Datto Cloud Continuity, Azure Site Recovery, Acronis Disaster Recovery and Zerto. See our Nakivo vs. StorageCraft ShadowProtect report.
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