Likelihood to Recommend The Infrascale Platform solution we have in place is certainly not cheap - I believe we are paying about $2800/month for it, though it is quite robust. We have 18TB of on-site storage available, with the same available in a secondary - remote - device for replication. They do have a wide range of products available to any size business though, so I'm sure they have cheaper offerings as well. The on-site appliance is fantastic - in that in houses your backups, but can also be utilized as an emergency piece of hardware to spin up a backup and run it in the event of your primary hardware failing. You can also traverse full backups to grab single, contained, files if you so choose. We love that feature as we must perform file recovery monthly for audit purposes.
Read full review Zerto on IBM Cloud is great to get your datacenter redundant and highly available. It overcomes geographic contingencies and makes your production environment reliably flexible. If you do not like the added cost of redundancy or cost of cloud services, this inconvenient fee may not fit you well. But you'd be better off in the long run to have Zerto protecting your bottom line despite the cost.
Read full review Pros Makes consistent, verifiable onsite backups of our corporate data. Makes consistent, verifiable offsite backups of our corporate data Plays very nice with VMware, the infrastructure we currently use Read full review It is easy to get started. It is also very simple to set up the backup. Disaster recovery is no longer a dreadful or painful process. Read full review Cons More expensive than Backblaze Read full review Enable the ability to use IBM Cloud Object Storage as a target for Zerto's long-term retention feature. Easier access to the underlying VMware infrastructure would be nice. Right now we have to connect to IBM's VPN and use other tools to do some infrastructure management tasks. More insight into the IBM-side VMware environment that we replicate to (i.e. ability to see available IPs, etc). Most of that is managed by IBM. Read full review Usability It is one of the best cloud back up data protection software and software platforms on the entire market for MSPs. There are not many other solutions that offer this level of customization and execution in the data protection and disaster recovery arena better than Infrascale. I highly recommend it for any MSP.
Read full review Support Rating It is the cheapest way to truly protect data and has an amazing support team behind the product. You get what you pay for.
Read full review Alternatives Considered Infrascale Platform is the most modern backup service/device we've utilized. EaseUs and Ghost were just software that would run within a Windows environment (at the time) and backup to a device that we kept on-site. EaseUs would fail quite often with Incremental backups - so I would spend a lot of time re-running full backups to ensure we didn't experience data loss in the event of a crash. Ghost was used when I was first hired at this district - so I didn't have much hands-on experience with it. But I know it was a bundled offering with Anti-Virus back when we utilized it ('07-'09ish).
Read full review Before we were using native backup solutions. We elected to bring in Zerto on IBM Cloud so that our team could have the ability to take small increments of data over time so that the final cutover would be quick and efficient.
Read full review Return on Investment Peace of mind: our entire virtual environment is backed up both onsite and offsite As stated, it is pricey. Since we haven't needed to do anything more than basic file restores, ROI is hard to measure. A full restore of a virtual server immediately would be priceless. So, on that note, ROI is good. Read full review Positive is the option of bringing your own license. Negative - the complex environments are not supported. This cannot be used as a backup replacement rather DR tool. Read full review ScreenShots Zerto on IBM Cloud Screenshots