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.
"I believe the solution is very scalable. We can continuously add mailboxes and sites."
"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."
"This covers the areas of backing up Office 365 that Microsoft does not include in its standard routine."
"The most valuable feature of Veeam Backup for Office 365 is the WAN accelerator. This feature allows for large amounts of data from one location to another. If the bandwidth in the environment is slow it makes the transfer slow but the WAN accelerator feature helps speed the transfer."
"One of the valuable features is the ability to restore a specific email. For example, if a user has deleted an email and they would like that particular email back we are able to restore it."
"It is a stable solution."
"The product is easy-to-use."
"It was easy to set up."
"Using Zerto, you can have your VM up and running in a matter of minutes. All you need to do is flip a switch, then you are good to go."
"It helps us keep our required retention period for specific documents and allows us to recover older documents if we have to compare and recreate those."
"The ease of use is one of the best features. Previously, we were using Site Replication Manager with VMware and it was a little bit cumbersome. With Zerto, we liked the fact that it was hardware-agnostic and we were able to spin it up pretty quickly and get it working."
"We have seen ROI. It reduced the time for failover and failback by 90%."
"Zerto's two main features are ease of management and that the product just works. It does what they say it'll do."
"Its user interface is excellent, and when it comes to data duplication, Zerto is very fast."
"We can recover both systems on-premises and in the public cloud."
"Zerto offered us massive time saving and consistency. We have a consistent outcome every time we complete conversions."
"The installation could always be a little bit easier. You do need to be a bit technical."
"Its price could be improved."
"We have found that there is a limitation in this solution where it only takes the backup of users who are using Office 365 Enterprise email IDs. We have many users in management and approximately 50 other users who are using Office 365 of which Veeam is able to capture the backup. However, for the other users who are on the local email server at that time, the solution is not able to capture the backup."
"Veeam is quite expensive."
"It's a new product. It's not mature."
"If Veeam could offer backup as a service for data backup and recovery, that would be great. We'd like something like what Druva is offering at the moment."
"Veaam Backup can be confusing for customers when they start trying to understand how to use the product in multiple environments."
"They should improve the backup and restoration time."
"It is difficult to manage failing over between sites if you are at the site that was impacted."
"Even though Zerto is for disaster recovery, it would be nice if it can also make backups."
"The backup functions are in need of improvement."
"It is expensive."
"We're not fully satisfied with the support team."
"Zerto requires these thick provision walls for virtual machines that are always running."
"The overall management plan could improve. If something happens with the VM on the vSphere side, the error codes are pretty weak. If there was a way to click on something within the UI that takes us to a support page or article, that would be very beneficial."
"They definitely have room for improvement in a couple of areas. One is role-based access control. Right now, they don't have an identity source so they use the identity of the vCenter or the VMM. If they connected to an identity source like Active Directory and allowed for granular roles and permissions, that would be an improvement."
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Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 is ranked 6th in Cloud Backup with 58 reviews while Zerto is ranked 3rd in Cloud Backup with 236 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 "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, Cirrus Backup, Commvault Cloud, Acronis Cyber Protect and Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup, whereas Zerto is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, VMware SRM, Rubrik, Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines and Oracle Data Guard. See our Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 vs. Zerto report.
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