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.
"This is an easy-to-install easy-to-use solution for backing up Office 365 email."
"It was easy to set up."
"The installation process is very easy."
"The most valuable feature is the capability to back up not only to the cloud but also to your local environment so a copy of your data can be kept on-prem."
"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 most valuable feature is that we don't need different agents to back up our files from different accounts."
"The solution is stable and reliable."
"The pricing is reasonable."
"Zerto helped our organization meet compliance requirements by ensuring data protection and recovery strategies align with our regulatory standards."
"Zerto enables us to do sandboxing failovers. You can run tests on a production environment in a sandbox and spin up a copy of your actual production environment in a few hours. When you're done with it, you can click a couple of buttons, and it's all blown away. You don't need to worry about reverting changes or interfering with your on-prem production environments."
"The replication feature and DR functionality are most valuable. Zerto has many options when a new server is being provisioned."
"We're able to replicate all of our data and be able to bring up an entire data center within a matter of minutes, which has become our go-to for our resiliency within both of our data centers."
"Some of the most valuable features are the synchronous replication and migration with RDMs. I really like the conversion of RDM VMs for migration."
"I give Zerto's stability a nine out of ten."
"The granularity enables us to failover specific workloads instead of an all-or-nothing type of scenario, where you have to move your entire IP block and your data center, or you have to move large chunks of VMs. Those situations also make it prohibitive to test effectively."
"I really like how you can test the failover as often as you need."
"If you use a device to back up with compression and duplication, the solution doesn't work."
"Veeam is quite expensive."
"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 announced many features two years ago, and they still have not happened, so I would hope that the next release has these ready to go."
"Pricing is an area for improvement, and I would rate it at five out of ten."
"The capacity storage is a challenge everywhere in the backup industry. The general feedback people are coming back to about this is that there is no deduplication based on it."
"The solution is costly."
"They could include WAN acceleration to compress the traffic to make things faster."
"Analytics has a 90-day window, where it keeps data. It would be nice to have on-prem storage instead of cloud storage for that so we can keep the data for longer. Unless you discover the problem within three months, you don't know that you need the data. Then, it is gone by the time you realize there is an issue."
"In terms of improvement, it would be helpful if the implementation team had a better best practices guide and made sure things like the journaling are very clearly understood."
"There should be more comprehensive cyber recovery capabilities."
"We wanted to shut down the dev environment to focus on the prod environment. We couldn't find any option in Zerto to do that."
"The number-one area in which they need to improve their product is what I would call "automatic self-healing." This is related to running them at scale... We have 1,000 VRAs and if any one of their VRAs has a problem, goes offline, all of the customer protection groups and all of the customers that are tied to that VRA are not replicating at all. That means the RPO is slipping until somebody makes a manual effort to fix the issue. It has become a full-time job at my company for somebody to keep Zerto running all the time, everywhere, and to keep all the customers up and going."
"Improvements in stability would be welcome; there are some software bugs that can affect RPOs. We want more of a guarantee that we won't lose any of our backups, even in the event of a disaster."
"When we are trying to upgrade any virtual machines, we have to stop the virtual machines that have been replicated in Zerto and then upgrade or update to the virtual machines onsite. Instead of having to do it manually, there should be some way of automating that particular function."
"I wish Zerto had better file restoration capabilities. We have not been able to use that because of the limitations of Zerto's de-duplication technology."
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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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