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We performed a comparison between Azure Site Recovery and IBM Disaster Recovery Services based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Disaster Recovery as a Service solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
To learn more, read our detailed Azure Site Recovery vs. IBM Disaster Recovery Services Report (Updated: May 2024).
771,157 professionals have used our research since 2012.
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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use.
Here are some excerpts of what they said:
Pros
"Azure Site Recovery allows my company to save around 30 percent of the time on every VM that we need to back up and restore.""The solution is very easy to use.""Provides generally good performance, from protection to production to failover to data recovery.""What I like best about Azure Site Recovery is that it's easier to use because my organization already has Azure as an Active Directory solution.""The most valuable feature is the visibility of what is happening with our business as well as the good reporting and dashboards.""We use the tool for business continuity purposes.""Azure Site Recovery helps to save costs.""They're moving a lot of their workload to cloud and aiming for a seamlessly integrated product."

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"The solution works well for very large organizations. It can scale quite well.""Disaster Recovery Services is stable."

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Cons
"Could have more integration with other platforms.""I conveyed the feedback to the agent, suggesting an increase in the agent count in our VNS in the USA. I also addressed notification concerns, as some issues didn't trigger alerts during a recent call.""The primary area for improvement in Azure Site Recovery is its pricing.""Azure Site Recovery's deployment is complex. There are a lot of bugs, and it needs to improve stability.""The product's performance is an area of concern where improvements are required.""It could include more of a backup and recovery.""It would be good if we could replicate the solution to multiple locations simultaneously because we are currently allowed to replicate to just a single location.""The support team took a lot of time to respond and was not very professional."

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"Disaster Recovery Services could provide better value for money.""The infrastructure level of IBM's recovery systems could be improved."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "It should have more straightforward billing. The billing was what got funky. It was really cheap. We would pay based on the usage. We paid around $225 a month for site-to-site replication."
  • "I'm not sure about the Azure Site Recovery pricing, but my organization gets monthly bills from providers."
  • "The tool's licensing is yearly and not expensive."
  • "Azure Site Recovery is neither very expensive nor very cheap."
  • "They have a license to pay."
  • "Azure Site Recovery is affordable."
  • "Azure Site Recovery is a very reasonably priced product."
  • "The tool is expensive. What is expensive to me might not be expensive to you. As I mentioned, we seek ways to reduce our costs. If the price goes down, that would be great. I rate the tool's pricing a six out of ten."
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  • "The pricing of the solution is based on the scale of the project or business. It's based on the server amount and the amount of data being stored. For our client, based on the amount of data they have, it may be around $20,000 USD. It could get much more expensive on the customer side."
  • "Disaster Recovery Services is expensive."
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    Top Answer:Azure Site Recovery allows my company to save around 30 percent of the time on every VM that we need to back up and restore.
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    Overview

    Help your business to keep doing business - even during major IT outages. Azure Site Recovery offers ease of deployment, cost effectiveness, and dependability. Deploy replication, failover, and recovery processes through Site Recovery to help keep your applications running during planned and unplanned outages. Site Recovery is a native disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS), and Microsoft been recognized as a leader in DRaaS based on completeness of vision and ability to execute by Gartner in the 2018 Magic Quadrant for Disaster Recovery as a Service.

    IBM Resiliency Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) can provide end-to-end integrated services using private, public and/or hybrid cloud. IBM Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) provides continuous replication of critical applications, infrastructure, data and systems to the cloud so users can recover within minutes of an IT outage. Intelligent Orchestration offers a unified DR management approach that delivers real-time readiness validation.
    Sample Customers
    Russell Reynolds Associates, Union Insurance, Rackspace
    i-Virtualize, QD, Continuum Managed Services LLC, Royal Arctic Line, Department of Science and Technology of the Republic of the Philippines, Idwala Industrial Holdings Limited, A-Plant c.a.r.u.s. Information Technology GmbH Hannover, eASPNet Taiwan Inc., Mobile Mini Inc., TriDatum Solutions Inc., M7 Managed Services Ltd., Hospital de la Concepci‹n
    Top Industries
    REVIEWERS
    Computer Software Company29%
    Financial Services Firm14%
    Manufacturing Company14%
    Government7%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company20%
    Manufacturing Company9%
    Financial Services Firm9%
    Insurance Company7%
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    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business25%
    Midsize Enterprise10%
    Large Enterprise65%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business24%
    Midsize Enterprise16%
    Large Enterprise60%
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    Buyer's Guide
    Azure Site Recovery vs. IBM Disaster Recovery Services
    May 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about Azure Site Recovery vs. IBM Disaster Recovery Services and other solutions. Updated: May 2024.
    771,157 professionals have used our research since 2012.

    Azure Site Recovery is ranked 1st in Disaster Recovery as a Service with 19 reviews while IBM Disaster Recovery Services is ranked 5th in Disaster Recovery as a Service with 2 reviews. Azure Site Recovery is rated 8.2, while IBM Disaster Recovery Services is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Azure Site Recovery writes "Useful for restoration purposes that ensures that the users get to save a lot of time". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Disaster Recovery Services writes "Quite stable with good scalability for large organizations but the recovery system infrastructure could be better". Azure Site Recovery is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Zerto, VMware SRM, AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery and NAKIVO Backup & Replication, whereas IBM Disaster Recovery Services is most compared with Precisely Assure MIMIX and Sungard Disaster Recovery Services. See our Azure Site Recovery vs. IBM Disaster Recovery Services report.

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