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

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Pros
"The solution is secure, reliable, and scalable.""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.""We use the solution across hospitality and healthcare domains. We use it for custom development. It helps us develop a seamless omnichannel for the healthcare industry.""Azure Site Recovery's automated file synchronization was a game-changer in managing legacy systems.""Site Recovery's most valuable features include its user-friendly console and the ease of migration.""Azure Site Recovery helps to save costs.""What I love about Azure Site Recovery is its simplicity for basic configurations.""Provides generally good performance, from protection to production to failover to data recovery."

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

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Cons
"The pricing predictability and clarity around the final cost of the plan of this solution could be improved.""Could have more integration with other platforms.""When it runs, it runs well but when it doesn't run, the solution needs to make it clearer as to why and what the troubleshooting process is. All this would be possible if the error logging was streamlined a bit.""The primary area for improvement in Azure Site Recovery is its pricing.""The support team took a lot of time to respond and was not very professional.""The immutable backup could be better.""I would like to see more security features.""In the newest version of Azure Site Recovery, the configuration was a little more complex, so this is an area for improvement."

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

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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."
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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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    Questions from the Community
    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.
    Top Answer:The product's performance is an area of concern where improvements are required. From an improvement perspective, the solution should provide ease of use to its users and try to be a complete solution… more »
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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
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    Computer Software Company25%
    Manufacturing Company17%
    Government8%
    Energy/Utilities Company8%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company20%
    Manufacturing Company9%
    Financial Services Firm8%
    Insurance Company6%
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    Company Size
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    Small Business28%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise61%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business25%
    Midsize Enterprise16%
    Large Enterprise59%
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    Azure Site Recovery is ranked 1st in Disaster Recovery as a Service with 14 reviews while IBM Disaster Recovery Services is ranked 5th in Disaster Recovery as a Service with 1 review. 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 "Stable and easy to set up". Azure Site Recovery is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, VMware SRM, Zerto, CloudEndure Disaster Recovery and NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP, whereas IBM Disaster Recovery Services is most compared with Sungard Disaster Recovery Services and Precisely Assure MIMIX.

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