We performed a comparison between Veritas Backup Exec and Zerto based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Backup and Recovery solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It is one of the most stable backup solutions."
"It's quite stable, and so far, we have had no technical issues with Veritas Backup Exec."
"The product provides automated and faster data backup and recovery compared to other vendors."
"The beauty of the solution is that you can rely on it. It offers a quick recovery time when it's backing up items. The way it recovers data is excellent."
"This solution works well and has good integration with technologies such as VMware and Hyper-V."
"The flexibility is very good."
"The solution is very fast. It does not take a long time to backup everything."
"The solution is very scalable. Whenever we grew, it was just a matter of adding new licenses, so it's easy to grow."
"It is incredibly granular and I really appreciate that."
"There are two things that are keeping us with the solution: 1. It does a very good job of keeping the data in sync at all times. 2. In the event of a failover or in the event of a contingency, we are able to retrieve the data very quickly without any issues."
"We have had many instances where VMs were corrupted by an application owner, where they were installing something and did not create a snapshot in VMware for it. Instead of tapping into our backups, with just two clicks, we were able to restore the VM back to its original state. It helps a lot in the day-to-day running of our business."
"The ability to perform DR testing to ensure data integrity is critical."
"If we lost our data center and had to recover it, Zerto would save us a great deal of time. In our testing, we have found that recovering the entire data center would be completed within a day."
"The most valuable features are the single pane of glass and the reduction in time it takes for our systems engineering team to manage the platform."
"Its automation and the ability to replicate and keep an RTO of just seconds is valuable. It is all automatic. Everything is pretty transparent on the backend. It is just point-and-go."
"The Move feature is the most valuable feature because it allows us to move the VM from our old environment to our new environment with minimal disruption."
"I would like to improve their ability to back up the cloud environment. Additionally, it would be nice to have simpler UI."
"I have experienced some errors, such as failures, but there have not been very many."
"The backup is not robust enough when you have a lot of technology."
"Veritas Backup Exec's dashboard feature could be enhanced."
"I would like to be able to create a restore task that can be scheduled so that the same restore action will be performed automatically."
"Doesn't include disaster recovery."
"The initial installation needs some effort."
"The one thing which could be improved, which we have informed Veritas about, is the ability to plug in to the cloud. Meaning, instead of using local storage if we're backing up a small user or end user, we want to be able to make it so they can direct the backups directly to the cloud. It can't be done at the moment. We can only back up to the storage then replicate to the cloud, but we cannot use the cloud as a source of storage."
"When we do failover and failback, it doesn't maintain some of the settings that it should and I don't really understand why that happens."
"I would like to see them continuously improve Zerto's automated functions, such as putting hosts in maintenance mode within vSphere and not having to worry as much about how Zerto is going to react... Sometimes, Zerto almost holds the vSphere environment hostage when it comes to taking certain actions. You really need to be cognizant about what you're about to do. They should further automate that and increase Zerto's ability to handle things like that in a very slick, automated way, without intervention."
"I would like to see some improvements with APIs going into the cloud so that they can more natively orchestrate the migration point-to-point without special hands-on configuration. Azure does some of that natively by having an agent on the VM, but Zerto could improve on its APIs into Azure or Google so that spinning up works more natively in that environment. It would make things smoother."
"The technical support has room for improvement."
"The replication layer can probably be improved."
"The pricing could be a little bit lower."
"Long-term retention of files is a function that isn't available yet that I'm looking forward to them providing. The long-term retention is the only other thing that I think needs improvement."
"Zerto needs to improve its support for VMware Lifecycle Manager."
Veritas Backup Exec is ranked 15th in Backup and Recovery with 71 reviews while Zerto is ranked 2nd in Backup and Recovery with 236 reviews. Veritas Backup Exec is rated 7.8, while Zerto is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Veritas Backup Exec writes "Highly stable, intuitive design, and integrates well". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zerto writes "Gives us business continuity capabilities during hurricane season and in case of ransomware". Veritas Backup Exec is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Veritas NetBackup, Acronis Cyber Protect, Commvault Cloud and Veritas System Recovery, whereas Zerto is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, VMware SRM, Rubrik, Commvault Cloud and Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines. See our Veritas Backup Exec vs. Zerto report.
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