Systools Recovery Tools vs. Zerto

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Systools Recovery Tools
Score 8.4 out of 10
N/A
Systools Recovery Tools product line includes Outlook Mac Recovery allows conversion and recovery of multiple OLM file emails in EML file format. It generates .eml file for each mail in Outlook for Mac mailbox. Any number of OLM emails can be converted to EML. There is no size or quantity limitation. Outlook Mac Repair maintains folder hierarchy during OLM to EML file conversion. In order to save emails, it provides two options - Save as Subject and Save as Guide.N/A
Zerto
Score 9.1 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
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Systools Recovery ToolsZerto
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup Fee$149 Optional
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Axcient x360Cloud
Score 9.1 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies

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NAKIVO Backup & Replication
NAKIVO Backup & Replication
Score 9.2 out of 10
Enterprises

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Veeam Backup for Azure
Veeam Backup for Azure
Score 8.9 out of 10
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User Ratings
Systools Recovery ToolsZerto
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(1 ratings)
7.5
(51 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
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(0 ratings)
9.0
(3 ratings)
Usability
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(0 ratings)
8.4
(26 ratings)
Support Rating
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8.8
(33 ratings)
Implementation Rating
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8.0
(1 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
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(0 ratings)
6.7
(16 ratings)
Professional Services
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(0 ratings)
7.7
(5 ratings)
User Testimonials
Systools Recovery ToolsZerto
Likelihood to Recommend
SysTools Software Pvt. Ltd
I found that for a small business. with no dedicated IT, to be rather easy to use. I feel it would be less appropriate for a large business with a dedicated IT department that would probably have other tools to use in place of Systools. Although my experience was very well received,
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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
SysTools Software Pvt. Ltd
  • Better recovery, more complete, than other tools I've used before
  • Made it easy find the data after the recovery
  • It was faster than other recovery tools I've used in the past
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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
SysTools Software Pvt. Ltd
  • It could make copying thr data to the new drive easier
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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
SysTools Software Pvt. Ltd
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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
SysTools Software Pvt. Ltd
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Zerto
Usability was the primary reason we purchased the software in the first place. We had compared it to several other software products in the same area, and it was by far the easiest to set up and use. Long-term maintenance proved to be similar, with updates driven by updates to VMware and vSphere, rather than the product itself.
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Support Rating
SysTools Software Pvt. Ltd
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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
SysTools Software Pvt. Ltd
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Zerto
Make sure the end goal is in mind before implementing. That way results meet expectations.
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Alternatives Considered
SysTools Software Pvt. Ltd
It seemed to be a more professional and more complete resource. The support was very good. As said before as a small business the simplicity of use was better than what we had tried/used in the past. The utility was simpler to use than what we had tried before. I feel it was a more complete solution.
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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
SysTools Software Pvt. Ltd
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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
SysTools Software Pvt. Ltd
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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
SysTools Software Pvt. Ltd
  • In system recovery It has saved us from having to outsource our IT.
  • Return on investment has been about 2 to 1 in it's recover abilties
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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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