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Updated on Aug 13, 2023

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:

  • Ease of Deployment: Veeam Backup for Office 365's setup process is uncomplicated and easy, demanding only a small amount of time and technical knowledge. Opinions on Zerto's setup were mixed, with some users finding it effortless and fast, while others encountered difficulties and needed more time for deployment.
  • Features: Veeam Backup for Office 365 is highly regarded for its reliability, user-friendly interface, and capability to securely store data in both cloud and local settings. Zerto is appreciated for its uninterrupted data safeguarding, swift restoration process, and user-friendly design.
  • Room for Improvement: Veeam Backup for Office 365 requires enhancements in integration, automation, performance, user interface, storage, clarity for multiple environments, and support for different protocols. Zerto could benefit from improvements in licensing, configuration in cloud environments, file restore functionality, PowerShell scripting, replication to multiple sites, and retention and recovery indexing.
  • Pricing: Veeam Backup for Office 365's cost is not included in the O365 licenses and is charged per mailbox. It is seen as reasonable and affordable by most users, although some find it expensive. Zerto's pricing is in line with what is typically seen in the industry, but there are differing opinions on its complexity. 
  • ROI: Veeam saves resources and storage, and prevents incidents and data corruption. Zerto provides time and cost savings, ease of use, and improved regulatory compliance.
  • Service and Support: Customers generally praised the customer service and support of Veeam Backup for Office 365, describing it as good, very responsive, helpful, and quick in resolving issues. Zerto's support has received mixed feedback. While some customers have had positive experiences and found the support to be generally good with a helpful and responsive technical team, there are concerns raised, particularly after Zerto's acquisition by HP.

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. 

To learn more, read our detailed Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 vs. Zerto Report (Updated: March 2024).
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Pros
"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."

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"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."

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Cons
"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."

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"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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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "I think it's a fair price. It's around $36 per user, so I think it's a fair price for our customers."
  • "The pricing is middle-of-the-road compared with competing products."
  • "I'm not sure about the price, but I think it could be lower."
  • "The cost is a bit on the high side."
  • "The pricing model makes this solution more expensive than it needs to be."
  • "This is not a stand-alone product and requires a standard Veeam license for your organization in addition to the cost of the solution."
  • "We looked at a few cloud options. When we did the comparison, we found it to be a cost-effective solution, and it included everything."
  • "The licensing price is quite high. It's expensive."
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  • "Pricing depends on your future growth. Start small and then scale up."
  • "Zerto’s licensing model has changed a bit over the last year and they are in alignment with others. It is pretty simple and more economical."
  • "Licensing is based on the number of VMs to replicate. The first thing should be to get the number of VMs to replicate based on your business needs."
  • "Licensing is VM based so you can buy packages or single VM. Price is not low but the power of application is high, so you will get your money back."
  • "It's a little bit expensive."
  • "We believe the pricing, setup costs, and licensing are easy to understand. The pricing seems very reasonable."
  • "The solution is very cost-effective and very easy to set-up but does not compromise on features."
  • "While we find the twenty-five VM license somewhat inflexible, the actual setup costs are minimal as the product is so easy to install."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:AvePoint Cloud Backup for MS Office 365 is a SaaS backup whose features include secure storage and unlimited and automated backups. The storage is saved in AvePoint’s Azure storage or it can also be… more »
    Top Answer:The tool is easy to use and straightforward regarding restoration and creating backups. It's user-friendly, providing results and sending alerts when something goes wrong.
    Top Answer:It is an expensive product, and there is an additional cost involved in purchasing hardware. I rate the pricing an eight out of ten.
    Top Answer:Ik fluister:VM Host Oracle en DataGuard hebben we per toeval vervangen door Zerto :-) tijdens de Zerto implementatie en VPG werden de Host Data in write-ack Block-Level gerepliceerd. Qua licentie 1 =… more »
    Top Answer:Real-time replication is a valuable feature, ensuring that changes made to the production site are immediately reflected at the recovery site.
    Top Answer:Zerto's pricing doesn't depend on the number of virtual applications. Even if we have a server with 200 terabytes of data, we'll only pay for protecting that single server, not for the total size of… more »
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    Also Known As
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    Zerto Virtual Replication
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    Overview

    Veeam® Backup for Microsoft 365 aims to eliminate the risk of losing access and control over Microsoft 365 data including Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business and Microsoft Teams – so that data is always protected and accessible. Veeam gives the user secure backup of Microsoft 365 to any location, including on premises, a hyperscale cloud, or a service provider and:

    • Protects Microsoft 365 data from accidental deletion, security threats and retention policy gaps
    • Quickly restores individual Microsoft 365 email, files and sites with industry-leading recovery flexibility
    • Meet legal and compliance requirements with efficient eDiscovery of Microsoft 365 items

    NEW in version 6 - Self-Service Restore Portal for Microsoft 365 environments, empowering IT administrators to securely delegate restores of emails, files and more from one, centralized location. V6 also includes backup copy to Amazon S3 Glacier, Glacier Deep Archive and Azure Archive, enhancing cloud object storage integrations, which already include AWS S3, Azure Blob, IBM Cloud, Wasabi and other S3-compatible providers.


    The vendor offers a 30-day trial and a demo on Microsoft 365 backup.

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    Zerto, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, specializes in data protection and empowers customers to run a business by simplifying the protection, disaster recovery, and mobility of on-premises and cloud applications. Zerto uses advanced hybrid cloud IT technologies to recover and protect business-critical applications in on-premises and cloud environments, enabling them to deliver continuous service without compromising security. Zerto’s foundation is based on continual data protection (CDP) technology. Users can benefit from a single, unified, and automated recovery and data management experience across all virtualized or container-based workloads.

    Zerto's native clustering technology creates a resilient, fault-tolerant system that automates recovery of critical virtual machines while supporting software updates, new OS releases, and upgrades. With native clustering, a creation, migration, or deletion of a virtual machine is automatically replicated to all nodes in the cluster. This creates an automated failover and availability solution with the features of high-end dedicated servers running at a fraction of the cost.

    Zerto Features

    Zerto has many valuable key features. Some of the most useful ones include:

    • Continuous data security
      • Continuous replication
      • The industry's lowest RPOs and fastest RTOs
      • App and database protection and recovery on a granular level
    • Agility across hybrid and multi-cloud
      • Protection between clouds
      • Simple on-premises to cloud migration
      • User-friendly native cloud services
    • Simple to scale
      • Automation and orchestration are built-in
      • Cross-platform, multi-site analytics
      • Unified experience regardless of cloud
    • Software-based
      • Hardware, hypervisor, and cloud are all independent
      • No physical appliances
      • Future-proof

    Zerto Benefits

    • Robust disaster recovery: Continuous data protection enables recovery of entire clusters, multi-VM applications, or even a single server with the lowest RPOs and fastest RTOs. Zerto allows users to safeguard, manage, and recover all of their key digital assets, whether they’re recovering to a secondary location, the public cloud, or a managed service provider.
    • Constant backup: Instead of making backups every 12 or 24 hours, Zerto creates backups every 5-15 seconds. Zerto backup has no impact on production and eliminates the burden of micromanaging backup windows by using CDP instead of snapshots. Its backup provides immediate recovery of data, folders, or virtual machines (VMs) that are only seconds behind the original, which is a simple approach to completely avoid ransomware or erase inadvertent deletions.
    • Strong long-term retention: Send data to the cloud or a purpose-built storage appliance of your choice for months or years of retention. These long-term copies can be made from local backups or DR replicas, and they can be kept wherever is most convenient for your company. Its powerful indexing and search makes discovering and restoring data simple. For data you want to maintain but only use infrequently, use cost-effective cloud tiering to shift LTR copies from hot to cold to deep-freeze storage.

    Reviews from Real Users

    Zerto stands out among its competitors for a number of reasons. Two major ones are its disaster recovery abilities and its ease of use. PeerSpot users take note of the advantages of these features in their reviews:

    Justin C., Director of IT at Arnott Inc. writes of the solution, “If we had to deal with a ransomware event, Zerto would be one of the first things I would use, because it is going to be the fastest to restore data to a certain point. If there were a fire in our building, Zerto would be a big thing too, because we would shut down everything that's in our building… It's definitely going to be one of our prevalent DRBC layers of protection."

    Brad W., Vice President of Information Technology at a financial services firm, notes, “The file restoration is very helpful. They've improved it over the years to make it a lot more user-friendly and easy to do, which I appreciate. So, we use that quite a bit. The failover process is quite simple and intuitive. Even the configuration and setup are pretty easy to do.”

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    Insurance Company12%
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    Computer Software Company18%
    Financial Services Firm10%
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    Small Business51%
    Midsize Enterprise29%
    Large Enterprise20%
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    Small Business35%
    Midsize Enterprise20%
    Large Enterprise45%
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    Buyer's Guide
    Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 vs. Zerto
    March 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 vs. Zerto and other solutions. Updated: March 2024.
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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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