HPE Zerto Software vs. Zscaler Digital Experience (ZDX)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
HPE Zerto Software
Score 8.2 out of 10
Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
HPE Zerto Software aims to enable customers to run an always-on business by simplifying the protection, recovery, and mobility of on-premises and cloud applications.N/A
Zscaler Digital Experience (ZDX)
Score 8.8 out of 10
N/A
Zscaler digital experience is a cloud-native service, part of the Zscaler security cloud, that analyzes, troubleshoots, and resolves user experience issues. Zscaler Digital Experience is part of the comprehensive Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange™ platform, which enables fast, secure connections and allows employees to work from anywhere using the internet as the corporate network. Based on least-privileged access, it provides comprehensive security using context-based identity and policy…N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
HPE Zerto SoftwareZscaler Digital Experience (ZDX)
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Features
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Data Center Backup
Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Product A and Product B
HPE Zerto Software
8.3
3 Ratings
3% above category average
Zscaler Digital Experience (ZDX)
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Ratings
Universal recovery8.52 Ratings00 Ratings
Instant recovery8.33 Ratings00 Ratings
Recovery verification9.33 Ratings00 Ratings
Business application protection8.73 Ratings00 Ratings
Multiple backup destinations8.52 Ratings00 Ratings
Incremental backup identification8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Backup to the cloud7.43 Ratings00 Ratings
Deduplication and file compression7.73 Ratings00 Ratings
Snapshots8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Flexible deployment8.73 Ratings00 Ratings
Management dashboard9.03 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform support7.03 Ratings00 Ratings
Retention options9.03 Ratings00 Ratings
Encryption8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Enterprise Backup
Comparison of Enterprise Backup features of Product A and Product B
HPE Zerto Software
8.3
2 Ratings
2% below category average
Zscaler Digital Experience (ZDX)
-
Ratings
Continuous data protection9.52 Ratings00 Ratings
Replication8.52 Ratings00 Ratings
Operational reporting and analytics7.52 Ratings00 Ratings
Malware protection7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Multi-location capabilities9.52 Ratings00 Ratings
Ransomware Recovery8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Disaster Recovery
Comparison of Disaster Recovery features of Product A and Product B
HPE Zerto Software
8.3
3 Ratings
4% above category average
Zscaler Digital Experience (ZDX)
-
Ratings
Disaster Recovery Planning8.73 Ratings00 Ratings
Hot Sites8.03 Ratings00 Ratings
Disaster Recovery Testing9.33 Ratings00 Ratings
Automated Disaster Recovery7.02 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
HPE Zerto SoftwareZscaler Digital Experience (ZDX)
Likelihood to Recommend
8.3
(54 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.0
(4 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Usability
8.0
(29 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
4.0
(34 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
8.0
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
6.7
(16 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Professional Services
7.7
(5 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
HPE Zerto SoftwareZscaler Digital Experience (ZDX)
Likelihood to Recommend
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
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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Zscaler
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Pros
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
  • 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
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
  • 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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Zscaler
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Likelihood to Renew
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
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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Zscaler
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Usability
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
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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Zscaler
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Support Rating
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
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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Zscaler
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Implementation Rating
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
Make sure the end goal is in mind before implementing. That way results meet expectations.
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Zscaler
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Alternatives Considered
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
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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Zscaler
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
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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Zscaler
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Professional Services
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
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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Zscaler
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Return on Investment
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
  • 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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Zscaler
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ScreenShots

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