We compared Veeam Backup for Office 365 and Zerto across several parameters based on our users' reviews. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below:
Comparison Results: Veeam Backup for Office 365 is highly regarded for its stability, ease of use, and flexibility in backing up and recovering data. It seamlessly integrates with Office 365 and offers various storage options, all presented in a user-friendly interface. However, it does not have integration with SharePoint and its performance can be inconsistent. Zerto is praised for its continuous data protection and quick recovery capabilities. It has an intuitive interface and efficiently creates virtual machines. However, it requires a more complex initial setup and could improve in areas such as licensing granularity and long-term retention features.
"We are able to store it on various cloud providers such as Amazon S3, Rocket, Azure, and IBM Cloud. It can also do on-premise integration, and we are able to use storage from on-premise. We are also able to recover data. It is a really good and intuitive solution. Veeam has developed a fantastic product. I've never seen anything that I don't like about Veeam. It looks like a very complete solution. It is really mature, simple to use, and quite interrogative. It also has APIs for writing scripts."
"The solution is stable."
"The solution provides good backup services for Microsoft 365."
"The most valuable features of Veeam Backup for Office 365 are the ease of use and instant back and restore."
"Backup and replication are the most valuable features."
"Veaam technical support, from my perspective, is one of the best technical support I've ever engaged with."
"The solution helps reduce our workload."
"The solution is also easy to manage and work with."
"We have seen ROI. It reduced the time for failover and failback by 90%."
"Real-time replication is a valuable feature, ensuring that changes made to the production site are immediately reflected at the recovery site."
"Consistency Groups: If you replicate groups of VMs, then during failover, all of the VMs in groups are failed over to the exact same point in time."
"There are several valuable features because of the way we use it. The backup and restore features are definitely indispensable."
"Zerto's user-friendliness is valuable."
"It is cost-effective and stable. It protects virtual machines, and there is a fast recovery time."
"Another advantage is the ease of use. You can click through instead of typing in the code. It's all already scripted down to the network adjustments within the VMs and the timed delays for servers that need to come up in sequence. Overall, it's a good package for us to use. We started using it in about 2018 and haven't looked back."
"The most valuable features of this solution is the ease of use. In the event of a disaster, you don't need a technical person to actually run the software. You can bring anybody in, with the right instructions and credentials, and they can run the solution."
"It would be a great improvement to be able to recover cover a VM straight to on-prem."
"They need to enable the encryption of backups so that nobody can gain access unless they have encryption details."
"In the next release, it should have direct export to tape drive abilities and NDMP support."
"The solution is costly."
"When using Veeam Backup for Office 365 when there is a server that's running, I have to have a hard drive installed on it. For example, if I want to use another storage solution, I can't incorporate it very well. If I want to use SMB or other protocols I cannot use them with the Veeam Backup for Office 365. They have the support in the other Veeam Backup and Restore solutions, but it doesn't support it in this solution. Hopefully, in the future, they figured it out."
"The solution could improve scalability, both in terms of more storage and users. These two attributes are quite important when you talk about good scalability."
"The solution should provide more integration with Teams and SharePoint Online to perform other tasks."
"Some additional training materials would be helpful."
"There should be an automatic installation in a cluster. When I add a virtual client or ESX source to the cluster, it should automatically install that. There should be automatic installation. Currently, I have to do that manually."
"There's one feature that SRM had that Zerto doesn't have, and it's one that we've been asking for. With the orchestration part of the failover, with our DR and our primary sites, the IP addresses are almost identical. The only difference is one octet. With SRM, we could say during a failover change. With Zerto, we keep hearing that it's coming, but we haven't received it yet. It's a feature that would be very beneficial. It would reduce the time a little bit more."
"One thing I would like to see, and I know that this is on their roadmap, is the ability to use long-term storage in the cloud, like in Azure or AWS, making that even more seamless. Whether it's stored in glacier or on-prem, being able to retrieve that data in a quick manner would be helpful. They're just not there yet."
"There are still some pieces in testing that aren't automated. There are still some built-in scripts or workflows I wish Zerto would do out-of-the-box, versus having to PowerShell or have a vendor create it, or create it myself."
"Even though Zerto is for disaster recovery, it would be nice if it can also make backups."
"Zerto requires these thick provision walls for virtual machines that are always running."
"This solution could be improved by including some sort of compression or de-duplication for the same type of files."
"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."
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Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 is ranked 6th in Cloud Backup with 29 reviews while Zerto is ranked 3rd in Cloud Backup with 127 reviews. Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 is rated 8.0, while Zerto is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 writes "Reasonable pricing but has no encryption and the reporting is lacking". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zerto writes "Our average recovery time is now in seconds, and we can spin up a test version without affecting our production environment". Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 is most compared with AvePoint Cloud Backup, Acronis Cyber Protect, Commvault Cloud, Veeam Backup & Replication and Datto Cloud Continuity, whereas Zerto is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, VMware SRM, Rubrik, Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines and Cohesity DataProtect. See our Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 vs. Zerto report.
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