Reduxio [EOL] vs Zerto comparison

"We are able to recover to the second, if needed, our data. This greatly improves restore capability, for example, if there is a cryptolocker outbreak or data loss."

"The whole product is based on point-in-time restore capabilities built into their storage appliance, and no one else I know does that."

"I like the performance. I think it's what you call a hybrid SAN. It has solid state drives and, of course, regular optical drives, which would make performance a lot better, faster."

"In terms of deployment and also data storage, the deduplication ability of it has reduced that footprint."

"The Reduxio box has improved our resiliency and management overhead."

"Flexibility and frequency of restore points: allow me to economically customize the range of time for data restoration, according to the varying sensitivities of each type of data."

"We were also pleased to learn that Reduxio also has, beside dedup and compression that actually works, the "time machine" built in, which allows you to go back a few seconds or a few minutes before a ransomware attack gets you."

"We like the way the Reduxio is designed, the way the managing/operating end is just so much easier; fewer steps, more intuitive steps. It has a number of features baked into it that, in other products, are additional licensed components, like compression and dedupe."

"I like the granularity of the checkpoints."

"The stability is great; there's very little downtime. I don't have to worry that there will be a surprise update to one of the ZVRAs or the host that I have to contend with. We're given plenty of notice to plan ahead for an update. As far as losing service and downtime, we haven't had that happen."

"The journaling is the most valuable aspect of the solution."

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

"Zerto gives us peace of mind knowing that if we were attacked by ransomware, we would be able to recover data from the time before the ransomware to get us back to being fully functional."

"Zerto is extremely easy to use. You set it and forget it."

"We implemented Zerto because it is crucial for our organization, especially as we move into the cloud. We needed to ensure that we could retrieve data properly and migrate easily. The solution allows us to keep our users collaborating throughout the migration process, making it much quicker than our previous solution."

"Moving the VPGs from one location to another is a valuable feature. You just click on it and move it and it's done."

"The user interface for the web console could be more user-friendly, while it is flashy, how to find functions is not necessarily obvious.​"

"Scalability is a little unusual. We came from the NetApp world where, if you needed more disk space, you just added more drives into the chassis, whereas with Reduxio, if you need more disk space, you have to buy a new chassis."

"We had a brief hiccup, a brief outage, during one upgrade process, but it wasn't too extreme."

"Needs some hooks into cloud storage for backup. Also they should update the system to use additional secondary storage as a resource."

"I am waiting on a feature set in the new version which should allow me to replicate between Reduxio iSCSI SANs for disaster recovery and also to 3rd party iSCSI SANs which are cheaper for an archive or DR target."

"Maybe it should come in stainless steel, just like its DeLorean time machine predecessor."

"The latest release limits web access to the admin console via Chrome only, and that's a bit of a hassle. Would definitely prefer something less restrictive there."

"The only thing that I would point out would be the basic administration management of the machine. Everything has rights, meaning that there's either all control or no delegated control. So to sum that up, it would be a feature request for delegated management in the administrative console."

"The biggest improvement would be exporting VPGs and a configuration of VPGs, as well as increasing or improving their IP customization rule set."

"Another thing that would help would be a recommender, or some type of tool that says, 'Hey, you're not conforming to best practices.' It would do a conformance or compliance check to tell you if your VPGs are set up according to best practices and whether your Zerto clusters are set up optimally. It would see if you have HA enabled and whether your alerting is turned on."

"I wish Zerto had better file restoration capabilities. We have not been able to use that because of the limitations of Zerto's de-duplication technology."

"If we have multiple VMs in a VPG (Virtual Protected Group) and one VM is hung for DR, it holds things up. The only alternative is to create multiple VPGs. It would be nice to have one VPG where, if one VM is failing, it does not impact the overall process."

"I would like to have more granular notifications for jobs and workloads within the applying case application."

"I wouldn't mind seeing Zerto sold at a cheaper price point, although the cost is comparable to VMware SRM."

"I would like to request better reporting in Zerto. I can see the data that I need in the console, but if I need to put the data or the history into a report, it is difficult. It is something that auditors might require, so reporting is something that needs to be improved."

"I would like Zerto to provide more detailed information when there is an issue."

"I think that you are able to buy a minimum capacity, then grow your capacity within the box as you expand your data needs."

"They have very competitive pricing and were able to work within our budget constraints as a public school."

"ROI is how much (time, money, resources) you will save in case of a ransomware attack because you had this box."

"They are very competitive in pricing, so I would definitely recommend Reduxio."

"All of their new features that were released following our purchase are free of charge. For example, we are about to upgrade getting cloud integration for free."

"​The advantage of using HDDs to store (versus pure flash) makes the price point attractive versus other options.​​"

"Setup and licensing are included in the solution cost."

"Depending on your cost of data loss, one ransomware or accidental deletion could pay for a Reduxio appliance."

"Having backup and DR is somewhat moderately important to us. The problem with us, and a lot of companies, is the issue with on-prem Zerto. It utilizes whatever you have for a SAN. Or, if you are like us, we have a vSAN and that storage is not cheap. So, it is cheaper to have a self-contained backup system that is on its own storage rather than utilizing your data center storage, like your vSAN. While it is somewhat important to have both backup and DR, it is not incredibly important to have both. I know Zero is trying to heavily dip their toes in the water of backup and recovery. Once you see what Zerto can do, I don't think anyone will not take Zerto because they don't necessarily specialize in backup and recovery 100 percent. They do replication so well."

"Its price is reasonable. I have not worked with other tools, but as compared to its competitors such as VMware, its price is lower. So, in my opinion, its price is good."

"Zerto is slightly expensive, but we do see the value in it."

"To ensure proper data protection, we require a separate backup solution alongside Zerto for disaster recovery therefore the price for Zerto is high."

"I wouldn't say I like the licensing pricing structure. Every year, it increases exponentially, which bothers me a little. It's worth it in terms of the value, but I worry the price will increase even more often after the Zerto merger. I still think it's worth it and that the solution is cheaper than the others."

"I would like to see different service levels. They're good, but it still takes a lot of our budget in ops."

"I would suggest getting a dedicated, well-informed rep."

"Zerto is not cheap but is an invaluable asset."