We performed a comparison between Datto Cloud Continuity and VMware SRM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Disaster Recovery (DR) Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The solution's reliability is one of its most valuable features...It is a very stable solution."
"The product's initial setup phase is easy."
"Datto has strong competition, but they succeeded in linking their service to the device. It's easy for managed service providers to sell and upsell products using their portal and the remote monitoring and maintenance."
"The recovery time objective and recovery point objective were most valuable. It was easy to use, and it was easy to recover a file. I was the head of sales and a product evaluator for an MSSP, so I never had to deal with recovery from ransomware. However, I was confident that if ransomware had occurred, I would only lose a maximum of 59 minutes of data. The files were encrypted."
"The platform provides a faster backup process."
"The solution has the capability to scale well."
"Combined with RecoverPoint, it offers zero RPO and zero RTO."
"The product functionality is fairly high-quality."
"The most valuable features are the disaster recovery and testing."
"VMware is one of the best products in the industry when it comes to virtualization."
"VMware's tech support gets a nine-out-of-ten. They are responsive and get you a useful reply."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the integration part, along with the subsequent hardware."
"We find the back up feature of this solution to be particularly valuable."
"It's very reliable. The solution is stable."
"I don't have any feedback to provide in terms of features that may be lacking."
"The product's scalability features could be even better."
"Datto's only shortcoming is RMM. They have a portal-based connection service like ConnectWise, but it does backups and keeps things running. Datto purchased Backupify and Kaseya bought Datto. If they upped the ante in their RMM, I could see them dominating the MSP space. At the end of the day, MSPs are responsible for networks, software, devices, and backup. Datto covers all these functions so they could offer a turnkey MSP solution."
"The fact that Datto Cloud Continuity is not cheap is one of the aspects that I don't like about the product, making it an area where improvements are required."
"They are now providing the device instead of selling it, while wanting their users to sign a three-year contract, and this is something which my clients don't like...I dislike the fact that signing a three-year contract is required."
"At the time I was using it, I would've focused more on signatures of malicious software in the cloud. I love Datto, and I know they're on the right path, but I probably would've focused more on the operating system update management. When you go from the desk to the cloud or from the server room to the cloud, everything changes. Everything is different. You're not in control of your servers anymore. It is from the Active Directory management perspective and not from the perspective of zero-day attacks or other similar things. At the time, more focus on zero-day attacks and business email compromise (BEC) would've been a better protection factor than just educating about how many of these attacks have occurred."
"VMware SRM's platform agnostics should support on-cloud usage as well."
"The technical support is not very good and needs to make an effort to improve."
"They could enhance the automation features for the product."
"You need a lot of knowledge to work with the interface because it is not really easy to use, and it would be great if the dashboard were simplified."
"SRM has to be installed on two separate data centers, so both have to be coordinated very well, which becomes complicated when configuring the software for disaster recovery."
"The back sites sometimes are very, very complicated."
"The product's stability could be better."
"I would like to see this solution be more scalable."
Datto Cloud Continuity is ranked 13th in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software with 9 reviews while VMware SRM is ranked 6th in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software with 72 reviews. Datto Cloud Continuity is rated 8.0, while VMware SRM is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Datto Cloud Continuity writes "The vendor offers a complete turnkey solution for managed service providers". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware SRM writes "A scalable solution that integrates well with the VMware platform, but its platform agnostics do not support on-cloud usage". Datto Cloud Continuity is most compared with Acronis Cyber Protect, N-able Cove Data Protection, Veeam Backup & Replication, Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 and AvePoint Cloud Backup, whereas VMware SRM is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Zerto, Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines, Azure Site Recovery and VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery. See our Datto Cloud Continuity vs. VMware SRM report.
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