HPE Zerto Software vs Veeam Cloud Connect [EOL] comparison

"The most valuable aspect of Zerto is the recovery speed."

"Zerto's most valuable features include its user-friendly interface, multi-tenancy capabilities, and near-zero downtime recovery."

"For us, the most valuable features are the quick upload time and how the sync works... We have VMware SRM and Veeam, and they have been pretty slow and sluggish."

"HPE Zerto Software has helped reduce downtime in some situations."

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

"It is cost-effective and stable. It protects virtual machines, and there is a fast recovery time."

"Zerto's two main features are ease of management and that the product just works. It does what they say it'll do."

"Most of the time, this is at least a two person job. We used to have three people doing it. Previously, when we had a disaster recovery drill, the way it worked was 12 of us would show up in the office on a Friday night and work overnight from 12:00 AM on Friday night to 8:00 AM in the morning on Saturday. Then, three of us would be working for four hours out of those eight or nine hours just getting applications up and running in Arizona. Now, for the disaster recovery drill, I just stay onsite to help and assist anybody else as they need during that time frame and my work is done in about a 30-minute time frame. This is compared to the four or five hours it used to take for the three of us to do it."

"The solution is already far more advanced than our customers require. It offers advanced scripting and automation pre-testing to support the custom library and custom tasks."

"The best part about this solution is that it just works."

"The stability and restore options on the solution are very good."

"Cloud Connect's best features are its simplicity, flexibility, and constantly-expanding options."

"The most valuable feature of Veeam Cloud Connect is the server backups, such as the Microsoft Windows server. Additionally, the updates provide useful enterprise functionality."

"The most valuable features of Veeam Cloud Connect are its ease of use and the portal is very useful."

"The most valuable quality of Veeam Cloud Connect is its reliability."

"It's a stable solution."

"Zerto added the backup feature, but it's not quite up to speed yet when you compare it with the backup capabilities of other solutions out there."

"For what we got it for, it does it great. I use a different solution for my disk-to-disk local backups to where I can have a local backup of files. I don't think Zerto does that well to where it keeps a memory of the files that are there. Basically, when something is deleted on Zerto, it gets deleted on the replicated version. So, some sort of snapshotting or something where I could have backups at different points in time of files would be a really helpful tool."

"It would be great if Zerto could automate replication more."

"Their data backup and restore have some ways to go."

"The solution is very expensive."

"They are not cheap. They are more expensive than others."

"In the future, the tool's user interface needs to be refreshed since it seems to be becoming somewhat antiquated."

"I haven't been a super big fan of the support area. The support could really be better in terms of responsiveness. I've had some issues that took two or three days to get resolved. Once I got to the right person, they were resolved quickly, but it took a while to get to that person."

"We encountered some issues with stability at the beginning."

"The pricing is much higher than what our clients expect it to be."

"The dashboard could be more intuitive."

"The biggest thing that Cloud Connect needs is native deduplication."

"We need the solution to offer IT storage."

"We were interested in investing hundreds of thousands of dollars in VMware. VMware right now is one of the biggest solutions in the world, in terms of the IT environment. But for Cloud Connect it's not. I think they need the cloud version to reach more customers, to enable the cloud version to be used by more people."

"Pricing could be improved and I also think archiving could be improved."

"The flexibility results in more administrative GUI. The GUI needs improvement."

"It's fair. My biggest gripe with Zerto is the initial scoping. What we were promised didn't work with what we ended up with."

"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."

"They should adjust the pricing because I feel its price is too much. If they reduce the price, there will be more users and customers."

"There is a lot of confusion with Zerto licensing. They have a migration license and a replication license. They should simplify the licensing process. The migration license costs a lot of money, and it is only on a one-time basis. If you use that license, it ties to that VM. I might re-migrate that VM in the next five to ten years. It is another environment, but my license is stuck there. The replication license is fine, and I have no issue with its pricing model, but they should simplify the migration license."

"Everyone knows Zerto is a little on the expensive side, but what else is there on the market that does the same thing?"

"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."

"The solution is very cost-effective and very easy to set-up but does not compromise on features."

"It works very well as a backup and recovery solution, with frequent recovery points. It's very good. But it's too pricey for us to use it as a backup solution for all of our clients. Not every customer needs recovery points every five seconds."

"The licensing is MSP-based. It is connected to the portal, and you can deploy it to your end users as well."

"The price of the solution could be cheaper. There are monthly or yearly subscription options available. The annual subscription tends to be cheaper."

"The pricing of Veeam Cloud Connect is good."

"I think that this is one of the most cost-effective solutions."

"The price of the solution is reasonable because of our good standing with the vendor."

"It's not the cheapest solution on the market but it's reliable, so we find it cost-effective."

"The licensing fee is on a monthly basis."

"We are looking into how we can extend the license of this product."