HPE Zerto Software vs Reduxio [EOL] comparison

"Zerto is scalable."

"The ease of use, ease of setup, and the dashboard, which is quite user-friendly, are valuable features."

"What I appreciate the most about the product is its simplicity. It's very easy to use for my staff."

"The ease of use is one of the most valuable features when it comes to making changes and configuring. It's very easy to set up and configure. It's a great product."

"The software has been awesome."

"My organization has experienced the benefits of using the tool, which include the ability to test our disaster recovery quickly."

"The portal is a valuable feature. I am here in Baton Rouge, and I can get into the Vegas data center and see real-time replication on the portal."

"While I cannot provide a specific example where these features helped my organization since we haven't had a real recovery scenario, it provides peace of mind knowing our data is protected and we can always return to previous checkpoints."

"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."

"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."

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

"The TimeOS support and I/O performance. For instance, recovery of data from any point in time, and the speed of the unit, are incredible compared to other devices we reviewed."

"The biggest feature, and one of the reasons we use it with the file shares, is its continuous Snapshotting. We can go back to almost to any point in time, not only to last night at midnight or a week ago, but 10 minutes ago or three-hours-and-so-many-seconds, or whatever the case may be. We already had a brush with ransomware in the past, so it's good to know we can dial back to just before a mishap happens."

"We can offer a lot more storage to our end users.​"

"Reduxio delivers a self-contained system with all of the features rolled in and functional."

"Efficiency of data management (Tier-X tiering, and NoDup inline dedupliclation and compression) provide for quick response time (+150k IOPS) during regular usage."

"The monitoring and alerting functionality need to be improved."

"I think Zerto could do better with size planning because it would be nice to analyze a server for a week and give an estimate on sizing the Journal."

"The pricing could always be lower."

"One improvement could be addressing the market segment related to physical servers. I understand this is a limitation of Zerto's technology. Still, from a customer's perspective, I would ask the vendor to find a solution to use Zerto for virtualized physical systems, such as physical servers."

"The new licensing model didn't work out for us because we used one-to-one replication."

"The ease of setup can be improved in the next release of HPE Zerto Software."

"The quoting for the Cyber Vault was probably the stickiest part, as it had to be tailored to our size of company."

"Sometimes we require extra storage for Zerto."

"Needs to be made easier to use with slightly older versions of VMware."

"Would love to have role-based access and an active directory integration."

"I am waiting for the vSphere Plug-In with individual VM level control."

"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 only critique that we have is it needs the ability to have local users added. You have to log in as one built-in admin account. You can't create your own."

"They're trying to do this, but they need to show more what their growth plan is, the development, what the next steps are, the future."

"the only thing I would say negative about Reduxio is the cabling was a little bit confusing at first, but now that we understand it, it's easy. It was just so different from what we've seen before. That was the only hard part to get used to. The storage array is fully redundant, so there are some cross-connect cables that you have to run, from the A side to the B side, and the B side back to the A side, and we've just never seen anything like that before. But now that I understand the design, it makes complete sense. But initially it was confusing."

"It would be helpful to have the ability to recover virtual machines individually without having to restore the full LUN."

"Zerto is pretty reasonable. I haven't checked to see how much Rubrik is going to quote us for their solution. At least for us, the price doesn't play a big factor in the decision-making because it is a pretty small deployment for our use case."

"My understanding is that it's expensive but worth the price."

"Zerto does a per-workload licensing model, per-server. It is simple and straightforward, but it is not super flexible. It is kind of a one size fits all. They charge the same price for those workloads. I feel like they could have some flexible licensing option possibly based on criticality, just so we could protect less important work. I would love to protect every workload in my environment with Zerto, whether I really need it or not, but the cost is such that I really have to justify that protection. So, if we had some more flexibility, e.g., you could protect servers with a two-, three-, or four-hour RPO at a certain price point versus mission-critical every five minutes, then I would be interested in that."

"I am not very involved with the pricing, but from my understanding, it is fairly expensive for us. This is why we limit its use to our tier-one customers. We have other disaster recovery solutions for our other customers due to the cost."

"Zerto's pricing structure could be more competitive to better suit the needs of a wider range of businesses."

"My experience with pricing, setup costs, and licensing was straightforward."

"Zerto is reasonably price for the product that you're getting. We keep on buying more licenses, so it's a good price."

"Its price can be better, but it is not bad. Most small-scale organizations can afford it, but they can come up with more customer-friendly packages."

"Set up costs are minimal. We were early adopters so we received really good pricing."

"The compression and dedupe are very effective on Reduxio, so it may be worth asking about licensing partial capacity on a unit, if the full capacity seems overkill for your environment."

"I think the pricing is good value, because you're not just buying a storage array, you're buying a backup solution and a DR solution and a "time machine" solution, all bundled in one storage array. When we had NetApp storage we had to then go out and buy a copy of Veeam which is a backup solution. With the Reduxio, you still need to do backups but you don't need that software product."

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

"For less money than my previous solution, I receive way more performance and backup features that far surpass anything on the market."

"I think they're really worth what I get. It's not cheap, but I get all I need."

"Only one device is sold. Negotiate the initial storage, but you can start small and move up with ease. Negotiate."

"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."