We performed a comparison between Actifio 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."Actifio was very stable. Whenever they identified bugs, they would promptly provide us with patches."
"Very user-friendly and the QSA is very good."
"They will assist me in achieving whatever budget issue the client may be having."
"This product has unique capabilities that lead the product category in test data management, cloning and recovery."
"Very user-friendly and the QSA is very good."
"Using Zerto for the migration was incredibly valuable, enabling us to save tremendous amounts of time."
"Zerto's two main features are ease of management and that the product just works. It does what they say it'll do."
"We are moving to a new data center. There are several VMs that we have to move over there that have RDM disks or SQL clusters. Those are the hardest things to move at this point in time, but now that I have the setup and it is ready to go, all we have to do is just flip the switch and get everything over where they are supposed to be. It is going to be a lifesaver for me. It will save me a whole lot of time in putting things back together."
"Its ease of use and scalability are valuable."
"Real-time replication is a valuable feature, ensuring that changes made to the production site are immediately reflected at the recovery site."
"Zerto's user-friendliness is valuable."
"The Zerto university for training staff is very useful."
"Implementing this solution has given us sandboxing and the ability to move VMs."
"Areas that need improvement would be the support for recovery in the physical environment."
"The initial setup is complex."
"The solution doesn't support AIX software or in-cloud, and we have a lot of servers running on AIX and Oracle."
"Lacks the option to price backup costs within the solution itself."
"While the product does support various databases, the company needs to make more of an effort to support N-minus-one compatibility."
"It would also be nice if they could find a way to make it where one VM does not impact the entire journal history of the VPG."
"Some of the features need improvement. One would be, as you're creating a Move group or a VPG, as they call it, it should either autosave or have the ability so that you can save it for coming back to later because if the setup times out, you lose all your work. That would be a nice improvement to have."
"I don't like the evacuation process. The host evacuation process could be a little simpler too. It takes our maintenance a bit longer, when we are doing host maintenance, because we still need to evacuate the vRAs manually. I know they tried to make it more automatic, but it is not quite there yet."
"Their offsite backup is a bit clunky, but it will probably improve."
"The GUI could be streamlined a bit more to enhance the administrative tasks."
"I need to get up to the latest version so I can move my journals to a particular LUN, saving them with a particular storage altogether, rather than with the virtual machine. This is not available until I upgrade, and I need to upgrade all my hypervisors. This would be something that would be nice to have if it could be used on older versions."
"We would like more mobile options. If we are at a restaurant or out and about in our normal daily lives, we would like to be able to interface via our mobiles."
"It would be nice to have the option to do automatic failover, but right now the only option is manual."
Actifio is ranked 32nd in Backup and Recovery with 4 reviews while Zerto is ranked 2nd in Backup and Recovery with 127 reviews. Actifio is rated 8.8, while Zerto is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Actifio writes "Actifio enables quick and efficient data refreshes". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zerto writes "Our average recovery time is now in seconds, and we can spin up a test version without affecting our production environment". Actifio is most compared with Rubrik, Delphix, Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Cloud and Cohesity DataProtect, whereas Zerto is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, VMware SRM, Rubrik, Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines and Commvault Cloud. See our Actifio vs. Zerto report.
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