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.
"Technical support in Veeam is good."
"Veaam technical support, from my perspective, is one of the best technical support I've ever engaged with."
"Veeam is affordable and end-to-end configuration is straightforward, whether you're going from source to destination or vice versa. Retrieval is also easy."
"The solution is easy to use. It's very simple and clients find it very easy to find all objects and things they need with the Veeam Explorer."
"It is very easy to integrate. You can do it very fast."
"The solution is stable."
"It is very simple to set up."
"The product offers good stability."
"We can spin up our environment in DR without affecting production, which is probably the biggest feature for us. We have the ability to do passive testing. We can even test scenarios, such as installing software or changing software. We can make modifications without affecting our production environment. So, the test functionality of being able to test the failover solution and being able to bring up our virtual machines in a test mode is the biggest benefit."
"When we use our VMware environment, sometimes the HP hardware is not compatible, and we start to lose data. I like that we can restore our whole application and public-facing system through Zerto."
"Since the log files are continuously transmitted, the granularity of restores is amazing."
"Zerto is low maintenance, so I can set it and forget it. It has a great process and an excellent solution."
"Zerto's most valuable features include its user-friendly interface, multi-tenancy capabilities, and near-zero downtime recovery."
"Files can also be extracted from the VMDK at the remote site even when the VM is off."
"Zerto ensures a smooth transition during a disaster when we need to automatically switch from our primary environment to our recovery one."
"We own another solution called VMware Site Recovery Manager, SRM. We have licenses for our entire environment and we still decided not to use it. That's how big the difference was in the experience that Zerto provides."
"It's a new product. It's not mature."
"A while back, I had some trouble using the agent. It might be a problem with older versions. Sometimes, I also have issues installing or making backups from the console to that type of operating system."
"Veaam Backup can be confusing for customers when they start trying to understand how to use the product in multiple environments."
"They need to enable the encryption of backups so that nobody can gain access unless they have encryption details."
"Currently, I'm working for Huawei and they dropped the support for Huawei, so that's an issue for us."
"It needs to be able to integrate with other emailing systems, like Linux."
"They should improve the backup and restoration time."
"Veeam Backup for Office 365 can improve by reducing the time it takes for backups. I have mentioned this to Veeam and hopefully, in the next version, it will be a faster backup."
"Zerto's solution could benefit from additional security features, such as malware scanning tools at the recovery site."
"When building out a VPG and doing the machine types within Azure, they were not coming across correctly. It would say it had a CPU and memory of a specific type, but it was not accurate... It was a bug and they were working on it."
"Right now, our production environment runs on-premises, and we have a DR copy of everything that we run in production. However, our development runs on that hardware. In the case of a DR event, we would need to shut down development and bring up our secondary copy of production. We're hoping that Zerto is going to be the tool to help us do that."
"The replication layer can probably be improved."
"It would be beneficial if Zerto also offered integration with other cloud management platforms, such as VMware Aria Automation."
"The alerting doesn't quite give you the information about what exactly is going on when an issue comes up. We do get alerts inside of our vCenter, but it doesn't quite give you accurate information inside the plugin to be able to tell us what's going on without having to go into the actual Zerto application and figuring out what's causing the issue."
"The biggest pain points we have experienced are related to some of the SQL-intensive workloads just because the VPGs struggle a little bit to keep up. That might be because we are pushing too many transactions."
"There should be more comprehensive cyber recovery capabilities."
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Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 is ranked 6th in Cloud Backup with 57 reviews while Zerto is ranked 3rd in Cloud Backup with 236 reviews. Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 is rated 8.2, while Zerto is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 writes "Safe storage, reliable, and easy to use". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zerto writes "Gives us business continuity capabilities during hurricane season and in case of ransomware". Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 is most compared with AvePoint Cloud Backup, Acronis Cyber Protect, Cirrus Backup, Commvault Cloud and Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup, whereas Zerto is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, VMware SRM, Rubrik, Commvault Cloud and Acronis Cyber Protect. See our Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 vs. Zerto report.
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