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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Unitrends

    Score7.7 out of 10
    N/AThe Unitrends Recovery Series Backup Appliances are hardware developed for data backup and management. They cover enterprise backup, ransomware detection, recovery assurance, proactive monitoring, and cloud continuity into a single platform for organizations of all sizes.N/A

    Zerto on IBM Cloud

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/AZerto on IBM Cloud protects, expands, and migrates existing VMware vSphere and other hypervisor workloads onto IBM Cloud, in order to provide a secure, flexible, and scalable disaster recovery solution. These single-tenant environments are deployed on IBM Cloud's data centers around the world and provide cloud application recovery in minutes.

    $40

    per VM

    Pricing
    UnitrendsZerto on IBM Cloud
    Editions & Modules
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    Zerto
    $40.00
    per VM
    Zerto One-To-Many
    $60.00
    per VM
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    UnitrendsZerto on IBM Cloud
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalOptional
    Additional Details—Zerto one-to-many license available
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    Community Pulse
    UnitrendsZerto on IBM Cloud
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    89%
    Would buy again
    170 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    91%
    Delivers good value for the price
    164 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    93%
    Happy with the feature set
    178 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    89%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    154 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
    87%
    Implementation went as expected
    156 Answers
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    Features
    UnitrendsZerto on IBM Cloud
    Data Center Backup
    Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Unitrends and Zerto on IBM Cloud
    Feature
    Unitrends
    7.5
    360 Ratings
    11% below category average
    Zerto on IBM Cloud
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    Ratings
    Universal recovery6.8302 Ratings00 Ratings
    Instant recovery8.7290 Ratings00 Ratings
    Recovery verification7.3288 Ratings00 Ratings
    Business application protection6.5262 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multiple backup destinations8.0268 Ratings00 Ratings
    Incremental backup identification8.3338 Ratings00 Ratings
    Backup to the cloud6.5213 Ratings00 Ratings
    Deduplication and file compression8.0326 Ratings00 Ratings
    Snapshots7.3243 Ratings00 Ratings
    Flexible deployment7.37 Ratings00 Ratings
    Management dashboard6.17 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform support9.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    Retention options7.57 Ratings00 Ratings
    Encryption8.36 Ratings00 Ratings
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    UnitrendsZerto on IBM Cloud
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    User Ratings
    UnitrendsZerto on IBM Cloud
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (372 ratings)
    8.0
    (9 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.9
    (25 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    8.3
    (16 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Availability
    6.2
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    5.6
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.9
    (23 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    7.1
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.7
    (12 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    7.1
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    3.8
    (2 ratings)
    -
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    Vendor post-sale
    8.2
    (2 ratings)
    -
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    Vendor pre-sale
    8.2
    (2 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    UnitrendsZerto on IBM Cloud
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Kaseya
    We have a traditional stack and pretty typical needs as a manufacturer. I have used and evaluated everything out there, but the Unitrends solution fits very well and was competitively priced. I would think if it fits us, it could fit anyone like us with a similar stack.
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    IBM
    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.
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    Pros
    Kaseya
    • It has fully automated and customizable dashboards that can run with less administrative attention.
    • It should be able to run on virtual machines or be deployed as a virtual machine within MS Azure or AWS.
    • It's AI-based ransomware detection helps to understand data characteristics and alerts for ransomware attacks.
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    IBM
    • 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.
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    Cons
    Kaseya
    • Errors on backup jobs could be more clearly explained. As the administrator of the device for my company, I often don't know what caused an error, and can't tell from the error information what happened or caused the error.
    • Updates of the devices should have an automatic option. It takes to much time to do an update to the devices if updates haven't been maintained.
    • Shutdown and restarting the device should be available from the main UI screen to eliminate some time when doing updates or if you're doing some maintenance on the device.
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    IBM
    • 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.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Kaseya
    We have grown very attached to the Unitrends appliances and their use for recovery and other file restoration needs as well as data archival, data replication to other appliance and data migration to other servers or long term storage requirements. The appliances work well and the support for them is very good as well.
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    IBM
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    Usability
    Kaseya
    I have never used such an easy product that is stable and scalable like Unitrends. I have been running backups for MANY years. On premise, tape, disk, cloud, you name it. Unitrends is very flexible, stable and has incredible reporting features. It's nice when management requests a report and it takes you 5 minutes to run it and dump it to PDF. How can you beat that?
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    IBM
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    Reliability and Availability
    Kaseya
    The appliances have been there when we need them and have rarely if ever gone down. Hardware issues have been resolved quickly.
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    IBM
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    Performance
    Kaseya
    The hardware is adequate and speedy. The user interface responds quickly. Backups complete quickly.
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    IBM
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Kaseya
    They're incredible, attentive, thorough. They make sure my issue is resolved and follow up. I'm usually behind on giving them a reply or an update. They have always gone above and beyond for me, and I'll continue to do the same for them.
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    IBM
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    Online Training
    Kaseya
    It was sufficient to get started. It was not super deep. We called support often to get going.
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    IBM
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    Implementation Rating
    Kaseya
    The Unitrends employees involved in the installation were very friendly and knowledgeable. A certain degree of hiccups can be expected during any installation but never shook my confidence because of the friendly and knowledgeable team that was assigned to my project.
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    IBM
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    Alternatives Considered
    Kaseya
    Symantec Backup Exec was the primary tool used for backups for years. We also used Veeam for some Office 365/Exchange backups. Unitrends once configured and set up works very well against the competition. Backup Exec interface was more user friendly. The search tool for exploring backups was much better than Unitrends as well. Unitrends is much faster if you need to restore an entire VM or large file folders. Also once you have Unitrends all set up, it is very low maintenance, it just works. If something fails 9/10 it will correct itself on the next backup that is scheduled to run
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    IBM
    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.
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    Scalability
    Kaseya
    Once you exceed the capacity of the appliances, you have to forklift a new appliance. This is very expensive.
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    IBM
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    Return on Investment
    Kaseya
    • It has saved some deleted file server data for our business department.
    • We have lost some reports for the business department due to an overlooked setting that make the backup reports look great, but the server was not being backed up in reality.
    • Less anxiety for the IT department, we have backup plan and that is worth a lot to us.
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    IBM
    • 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.
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