Carbonite Availability vs. Zerto

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Carbonite Availability
Score 9.8 out of 10
N/A
Carbonite acquired Double-Take, a data replication and disaster recovery option, in early 2017. The technology now powers Carbonite Availability, the now Carbonite supported high availability and data replication product.N/A
Zerto
Score 8.2 out of 10
Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
Zerto, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, aims to enable customers to run an always-on business by simplifying the protection, recovery, and mobility of on-premises and cloud applications. Zerto’s cloud data management and protection platform is designed to eliminate the risks and complexity of modernization and cloud adoption across private, public, and hybrid deployments. The software-only platform uses continuous data protection at scale to converge disaster recovery, backup, and data…N/A
Pricing
Carbonite AvailabilityZerto
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Carbonite AvailabilityZerto
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional Details
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
Carbonite AvailabilityZerto
Considered Both Products
Carbonite Availability
Chose Carbonite Availability

Zerto is a very nice tool when performing virtual to virtual replication. If you were to add a physical server in the mix, it would not be able to handle that server or the data on it.

Veeam is a way is similar to Zerto where it only has the ability to handle virtual to virtual …

Chose Carbonite Availability
It is better for critical apps than Veeam due to the lower RPO. Veeam is favoured by some customers due to it's attractive price point.

Zerto is a very strong product and is innovating continuously. I don't see so much of this from DoubleTake.
Zerto

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Features
Carbonite AvailabilityZerto
Data Center Backup
Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Product A and Product B
Carbonite Availability
-
Ratings
Zerto
8.3
3 Ratings
2% above category average
Universal recovery00 Ratings8.52 Ratings
Instant recovery00 Ratings8.33 Ratings
Recovery verification00 Ratings9.33 Ratings
Business application protection00 Ratings8.73 Ratings
Multiple backup destinations00 Ratings8.52 Ratings
Incremental backup identification00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
Backup to the cloud00 Ratings7.33 Ratings
Deduplication and file compression00 Ratings7.73 Ratings
Snapshots00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
Flexible deployment00 Ratings8.73 Ratings
Management dashboard00 Ratings9.03 Ratings
Platform support00 Ratings7.03 Ratings
Retention options00 Ratings9.03 Ratings
Encryption00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
Enterprise Backup
Comparison of Enterprise Backup features of Product A and Product B
Carbonite Availability
-
Ratings
Zerto
8.3
2 Ratings
2% below category average
Continuous data protection00 Ratings9.52 Ratings
Replication00 Ratings8.52 Ratings
Operational reporting and analytics00 Ratings7.52 Ratings
Malware protection00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Multi-location capabilities00 Ratings9.52 Ratings
Ransomware Recovery00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
Disaster Recovery
Comparison of Disaster Recovery features of Product A and Product B
Carbonite Availability
-
Ratings
Zerto
8.3
3 Ratings
3% above category average
Disaster Recovery Planning00 Ratings8.73 Ratings
Hot Sites00 Ratings8.03 Ratings
Disaster Recovery Testing00 Ratings9.33 Ratings
Automated Disaster Recovery00 Ratings7.02 Ratings
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User Ratings
Carbonite AvailabilityZerto
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(11 ratings)
8.3
(54 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(4 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(2 ratings)
8.0
(29 ratings)
Support Rating
7.3
(1 ratings)
4.0
(34 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(2 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
-
(0 ratings)
6.7
(16 ratings)
Professional Services
-
(0 ratings)
7.7
(5 ratings)
User Testimonials
Carbonite AvailabilityZerto
Likelihood to Recommend
Carbonite, an OpenText company
I believe it would work well with continuous replication in a DR scenario with no time limits and having the ability to fail back is a bonus, but in a one off move the decision to restrict the time it can sync for has proven to be an issue for us.
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Zerto
Zerto is well suited for disaster recovery and virtual machine replication between multiple data centers. DR testing for audit or regulations is much easier with Zerto, great reporting, dashboard etc. It is not well suited for physical server replication for disaster recovery or as a primary backup solution.
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Pros
Carbonite, an OpenText company
  • A product is worthless in my opinion if you don't have a great support team to work with. I've had issues with replication jobs that were resolved quickly and easily by the support team.
  • DR - Doubletake is the only tool that I'm aware of that can handle DR replication of both physical and virtual environments. There sre others, but they use a snapshot technology, where doubletake has continuous replication of data.
  • Move - we have moved physical and virtual environments from around the world without ever having to leave the office. One of the companies we migrated started off with their equipment in Switzerland, and after the servers were in a fully protected state in the US, that failover to the new location took 45 min.
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Zerto
  • Anyone with a large disk (VMDK) knows the issues of VMware snapshots. Most backup software is a "point in time backup" that uses snapshots. While the backup can be run multiple times per day the stress of the snapshot on the host and storage is eliminated by the continuous protection of Zerto log replication.
  • A client had a the disks on a VM go missing for some reason. We had them "flip the switch" for a real fail over and press the fail over button. The VM on our DR site started to come alive as the VM at the customer site was brought down. When the DR VM was fully up, automatic reverse replication started. The DR machine was available in a few minutes (to take into account different host hardware) for access. One the vm at both sites were in sync, we had the customer again repeat the fail over process and the DR site VM was turned off and the Production site VM was brought back on line. This was a 200 GB VM and the whole process was finished in about 3 hours.
  • Zerto also allows for "Test" fail overs that can be configured on many different functions, such as host, datastore, network and IP usage. Configuring the IPs is crucial to avoid inadvertent site cross contamination of the same VM.
  • Zerto can also retrieve files from any VM disk on the DR site without starting a VM. Very handy for retrieving files or directories.
  • Since Zerto is running continuous log replication, changes on the production VM are nearly instantaneously copied to the DR site. As with any data process, having sufficient bandwidth for "churn" peaks minimizes the delay in updating the DR site.
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Cons
Carbonite, an OpenText company
  • The initial set-up can be challenging in some regard.
  • Would like to see version updates that support all OS. Unfortunately we use several OS and are on an older version with 7 of our 8 servers.
  • Will be doing the upgrades to version 8 shortly and hope the software is compatible with all OS.
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Zerto
  • Moving a VM from one protection group to another could be simplified.
  • I would like to see an executive-style report of recovery and testing for upper management.
  • The ability to deploy Zerto as a virtual appliance, without the need for a windows server.
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Likelihood to Renew
Carbonite, an OpenText company
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Zerto
We really like the easy setup of this replication solution, as well as the ease of management. Not to mention, our internal IT Economist determined that the Zerto solution would provide the best ROI out of the competing solutions we analyzed. So far, his calculations have been spot on, and we have saved substantially
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Usability
Carbonite, an OpenText company
Cabonite Availability is a very practical and useful tool that can help any business weather any type of IT disaster. The ease and quickness of restoring data helps us provide as seamless an experience as possible. Many times our customers will never know there was an outage. This brings confidence in our brand and improves our organization's standing and reputation.
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Zerto
Zerto is very easy to implement and support. Uses are broad, only issues are once something doesn't sync it is difficult to get assistance until your reach tier 2 or tier 3 support. Basic file and folder recovery is great. Live and test fail overs are also easy to implement without issue.
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Support Rating
Carbonite, an OpenText company
Once through to support it is very good and they have assisted us through a number of issues. I don't always think that they provide a solution, more a workaround, but in a move situation where each copy is moving once, that isn't an issue. I'd be more concerned if we were using it to manage a DR scenario.
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Zerto
Overall support is very good. We sometimes get pushback when asking Level 1 support to escalate to Level 2. This causes undue frustrations when you need a more knowledgeable support person to get involved. We've had to escalate to account reps a few times for this scenario. Zerto is very responsive and normally handles our requests very quickly.
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Implementation Rating
Carbonite, an OpenText company
No answers on this topic
Zerto
Make sure the end goal is in mind before implementing. That way results meet expectations.
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Alternatives Considered
Carbonite, an OpenText company
It is better for critical apps than Veeam due to the lower RPO. Veeam is favoured by some customers due to it's attractive price point. Zerto is a very strong product and is innovating continuously. I don't see so much of this from DoubleTake.
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Zerto
We started out using Backup Exec which was in service until we virtualized our environment where it didn't perform as well at the time. Then we switched to Veeam which worked well, but then as we started needing to do migrations and off-site DR, we found ourselves relying on Zerto more often.
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
Carbonite, an OpenText company
No answers on this topic
Zerto
For my organization, the pricing model was an upfront investment for the Zerto licenses. My organization prefers to pay upfront and not deal with month-to-month or year-to-year pricing models that most companies are moving to. But for some, the investment may be more than they can afford, and would prefer the year-to-year pricing model.
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Professional Services
Carbonite, an OpenText company
No answers on this topic
Zerto
I mean, it was 6 years ago, but we were up and going with all applications synchronizing in short order. The longest tasks was getting the 30 TB of application data synchronized between the datacenters.
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Return on Investment
Carbonite, an OpenText company
  • From data recovery perspective for customers- Carbonite DoubleTake is a good solution.
  • The honest price for Carbonite DoubleTake and for the ROI -it's a good transaction for the customer.
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Zerto
  • Zerto is like having the best possible insurance ... it just works, and often provides the backups taken overnight that are key in recovering data/work between overnight backups.
  • Zerto easily enabled the move of primary datacenters by allowing easy failover to a secondary site, and failback to the primary site.
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