Hornetsecurity VM Backup vs. BDRSuite

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Hornetsecurity VM Backup
Score 8.6 out of 10
N/A
Hornetsecurity VM Backup (formerly Altaro) is a backup and replication solution for Hyper-V and VMware virtual machines. VM Backup can manage large infrastructures, with the revamped backup repository providing long-term storage and more efficient use of disk space.
$59.80
per VM/per year
BDRSuite
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
Vembu BDR Suite is a universal backup solution catering to the backup, recovery, and disaster recovery needs of diverse IT environments. It is also optimized for service providers who deliver BaaS and DRaaS to their customers.
$12
per year per user
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
Subscription License - Standard Edition
$59.80
per VM/per year
Subscription License - Unlimited Edition
$73.80
per VM/per year
Subscription License - Unlimited Plus Edition
$89.20
per VM/per year
Perpetual License - Standard Edition
$595
per host
Perpetual License - Unlimited Edition
$695
per host
Perpetual License - Unlimited Plus Edition
$875
per host
Free
Free
Endpoint / Workstation Backup
$12
per year per endpoint
SaaS Backup
$12
per year per user
VMs, Servers & Cloud Backup
$48
per year per VM
Apps & DB Backup
$72
per year Apps
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Hornetsecurity VM BackupBDRSuite
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
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Considered Both Products
Hornetsecurity VM Backup

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BDRSuite
Chose BDRSuite
We tried to use Altaro first of all but found it to be very big, take up a lot of resources and found the features we needed hard to use. When we compared Vembu we just found everything was so much easier and as it was also free this ticked nearly all of our boxes and the …
Chose BDRSuite
The reason for choosing Vembu was that the free version's limits were very reasonable, the installation could be performed on a Linux based operating system, and management could be done using a web UI.
Chose BDRSuite
  • Easy to deploy.
  • User-friendly console.
  • Value for money. Veeam is a good backup solution but it's very complicated and expensive. On other the hand, Altaro was not so reliable as it crashed the storage many times. It lacks a few important features.
Chose BDRSuite
Vembu has been the only product that allowed us to backup mobile users (laptops) and the price [was a factor].
Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
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Data Center Backup
Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Product A and Product B
Hornetsecurity VM Backup
9.5
1 Ratings
11% above category average
BDRSuite
8.2
59 Ratings
1% above category average
Universal recovery10.01 Ratings8.348 Ratings
Instant recovery8.01 Ratings7.749 Ratings
Recovery verification10.01 Ratings9.150 Ratings
Business application protection8.01 Ratings7.541 Ratings
Multiple backup destinations10.01 Ratings7.741 Ratings
Incremental backup identification10.01 Ratings8.456 Ratings
Backup to the cloud10.01 Ratings8.534 Ratings
Deduplication and file compression10.01 Ratings8.946 Ratings
Snapshots7.01 Ratings8.143 Ratings
Flexible deployment10.01 Ratings7.652 Ratings
Management dashboard10.01 Ratings7.457 Ratings
Platform support10.01 Ratings8.557 Ratings
Retention options10.01 Ratings8.655 Ratings
Encryption10.01 Ratings8.449 Ratings
Enterprise Backup
Comparison of Enterprise Backup features of Product A and Product B
Hornetsecurity VM Backup
9.0
1 Ratings
10% above category average
BDRSuite
-
Ratings
Continuous data protection10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Replication10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Operational reporting and analytics6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Malware protection10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Multi-location capabilities8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Ransomware Recovery10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Hornetsecurity VM BackupBDRSuite
Likelihood to Recommend
9.9
(13 ratings)
8.9
(61 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(1 ratings)
8.9
(4 ratings)
Usability
10.0
(1 ratings)
8.5
(59 ratings)
Support Rating
10.0
(10 ratings)
7.0
(5 ratings)
Implementation Rating
10.0
(1 ratings)
8.0
(3 ratings)
User Testimonials
Hornetsecurity VM BackupBDRSuite
Likelihood to Recommend
Hornetsecurity Inc.
Do you have VMWare? Yes I can back it up. Do you have Hyper-V? Yes I can back it up. That in itself should speak for itself. Altaro has really given a great deal into their software, not only making it easy to use, BUT also a really good and reliable product where you can support your workloads hassle-free, and super lightweight
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Vembu Technologies
First of all Web UI makes it so much easier to manage, with few clicks you can schedule a backup, you can see the progress and you can instantly recover it. There is a multiple environment support which is great for hybrid environments. Pricing is more reasonable than other high priced backup solutions
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Pros
Hornetsecurity Inc.
  • Fast and simple setup. I didn't need to read through ANY documentation to set up and have a backup running.
  • Easy and cost-effective licensing. I didn't need to count CPU's or VM's or other random facts to work out my licensing. Just how many hosts, and then one of 3 feature levels of which two have unlimited VM licensing. Hosts x Feature Set = Cost.
  • Easy Restores. Backing up is one thing, but restoring and having confidence in the restore is another. It just works, simple and effective.
  • Help is easy to find if you need it. From within the app, it gives you options of email, phone, and live chat, which is usually available even with odd time zones in play.
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Vembu Technologies
  • Seed an offsite backup. A simple checkbox to seed a large backup prior to backing it up to our datacenter. Previously with another well knows backup provider this was convoluted and time-consuming.
  • Backup Speed. Vembu BDR is fast and allows me to schedule multiple jobs within time constraints that prohibit some backup products from working.
  • DR - Vembu BDR provides an option to mirror your backups to an offsite datacenter without taxing production servers with a secondary backup job.
  • Bare Metal Recovery: the ability to create a custom bootable ISO that you can quickly recover a failed physical server or workstation.
  • Ease of use: The console is consistent and very easy to use. From initial install to being fully configured takes just a few minutes.
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Cons
Hornetsecurity Inc.
  • More cloud-based storage options. Currently, only Azure is supported, which is excellent, but it would be good to have AWS and Google storage options too.
  • It would be AWESOME if they could do a restore from Azure cloud direct to an Azure VM instance. Currently, you need to set up an Azure VM machine with nested Hyper-V, install Altaro on that, and then restore into a nested VM, this gets crazy expensive.
  • Better notification of errors, or more around having a threshold, so if it misses one backup of a constant backup that happens every 5 minutes but recovers at the 10 minutes back, it is ok. Just think it needs to identify significant or long-running issues better than the occasional little issues.
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Vembu Technologies
  • User interface on the servers do not have enough tools to better monitor the systems and finding information is difficult.
  • User interface at portal is difficult to navigate and confusing
  • Support documentation is too generic and rarely answers my questions.
  • Licensing and acquisition. As a reseller and partner the licensing model is confusing and the portal interface to manage licensing should be scrapped and rebuilt. It is difficult to navigate and the available information is too vague.
  • Recently, communication with new channel contact. My previous contact was articulate and answered my questions.
  • Did I mention licensing? This is the most confusing and difficult process I've dealt with in 25 years. Makes Microsoft look simple.
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Likelihood to Renew
Hornetsecurity Inc.
It simply works and it is making our lives easier. The renewal process is also really good
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Vembu Technologies
Because of the product functions and possibilities: - it's easy to use through WEB browser - installation process is not complicated - Vembu BDR solution is reliable, and works properly. It does the job. This product could get extra points for the appliance that could be imported to virtual environment (no need for windows server license or some linux knowledge).
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Usability
Hornetsecurity Inc.
A lot of people in the technical industry deliver what I would call snack crackle pop topics, where the software gets over complicated, and they drown people in all the "fancy" features. Altaro, from my point of view" has designed the software to be super usable, easy to implement, as well as support. It is really one of the best designs
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Vembu Technologies
As outlined in are parts of this review, I have various issues with the way their KB center is structured and how error codes aren't documented or KBs for a specific error provide steps for older versions of the software and aren't applicable to the current version because of a design layout change. "Go here and select Y" where the "here" has been removed and doesn't exist anymore. Or they release a new version without any supporting documentation even though they restructured a lot of the interface and updated the error messages.
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Support Rating
Hornetsecurity Inc.
One of the most important benefits of the Altaro HyperV backup solution is the support. From the free edition, you're able to chat with the support that can assist you in a remote session an find a quick solution that solves the issue. It is always available. The email support is also.
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Vembu Technologies
It often takes a very long time to get an issue fixed. the support folks seem committed to getting it fixed but they often seem to be trying different things and hoping something works. I did not get the sense that they had a clear idea what was wrong.
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Implementation Rating
Hornetsecurity Inc.
Altaro has really designed their product so well that you can honestly implement this within a couple of minutes
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Vembu Technologies
It wasn't difficult at all, it fact, it was mostly simple, implementation doesn't require much skills and knowledge, but the configuration part does require some skills to create the jobs and configure certain settings, overall, its an easy implementation, especially for experienced IT People
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Alternatives Considered
Hornetsecurity Inc.
The only other competitor I am personally familiar with is Carbonite. I use that for file-level backups throughout my network and it works well but while it does offer backups for virtual machines, I have never found it to be a reliable option. Jobs failed for me regularly for no apparent reason. In the handful of times I have needed support, they were helpful and straight-forward.
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Vembu Technologies
I tested Vembu against Veeam and for the price, Vembu was the better option. I also had a great support experience as I had to contact Vembu twice after mistakes I made. While using Veeam the software was not as intuitive and support responses were not as swift and accurate.
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Return on Investment
Hornetsecurity Inc.
  • Restoring our primary ERP VM has already saved many hours of rebuilding from data backups, so that in itself already gave us an excellent ROI for having Altaro running.
  • The quick and easy setup also makes sense for a fast ROI as we didn't need to spend much time or effort in its set up.
  • Lastly, any other restores we have done for retrieving files or testing backups were so simple and easy to do that the process didn't take long and saved us time and cost.
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Vembu Technologies
  • For organizations that use different tools for Backup and recovery, this could be the single tool for Storage and Backup Administrators to automate and work effectively.
  • Software cost is lesser thus the money can be invested for other tools/software procurement
  • I don't think there is any negative impact as of now
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