Disaster Recovery Software

Top Rated Disaster Recovery Software include: NAKIVO Backup & Replication, Zerto Virtual Replication, Veeam Backup, Datto, and Vembu BDR Suite.
Other Disaster Recovery Software on the TrustMap include: Carbonite Availability, Acronis Backup Cloud, VMware SRM, Carbonite EVault, and Tivoli Storage Manager.
A complete list of Disaster Recovery Software is available here.

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Disaster Recovery Software Overview

What is Disaster Recovery Software?

Disaster Recovery Software is designed to provide business continuity and recovery following natural or man-made disasters and outages. The ultimate goal is to recover and restore data and applications in physical or virtual environments to their pre-disaster, functional state with minimal time and hassle.

Disaster Recovery vs. Backup Software

This is different to backup software, which only really ensures that data is replicated and stored somewhere so that it can be restored if data is lost or corrupted. Disaster recovery is about more than just data backup. Instead, it’s about re-installing software and data on new machines and then configuring them with the appropriate settings and preferences.

Disaster recovery has become a little easier with the widespread use of virtual servers for daily operations. Virtual infrastructures are much easier to replicate across than more traditional data center architectures.

Data Center Replication

Data center replication is the main concept behind disaster recovery. There are three main types of data center replication.

Hot Site: A hot site is a mirror of the data center infrastructure. The hot site has servers and infrastructure, which run, concurrently with the data center, syncing with it to provide complete redundancy.

Cold Site: A cold site is just datacenter space with no servers or equipment set up. In order to be operational, extensive engineering and IT assistance is required to install servers and other equipment and migrated data and software.

Warm Site: A warm site is somewhere between the two. It will have pre-installed servers ready for installation of production environments, but that work must be done before the site is operational.

Metrics

Two important metrics determining what kind of data replication to choose are:

RTO – Recovery time objective. The target time between the moment of the disaster and the point at which users can work again.

RPO – Recovery point objective. This is the age of files that must be recovered from backup storage for normal operations and business continuity.

Pricing Information

There are a variety of pricing models in this domain, including charging by each GB of storage used, an average per user cost, or a per device model. Typical pricing ranges from $10 per instance, per month, up to several times that for larger-scale enterprise products.

Veeam Backup & Replication

149 Ratings

Veeam Backup & Replication Software is a data center backup solution, providing recovery and protection of data.

NAKIVO Backup & Replication

30 Ratings

NAKIVO Backup & Replication is a fast, reliable, and affordable VM backup solution for protecting VMware, Hyper-V, and AWS EC2 environments. According to the vendor, NAKIVO Backup & Replication offers advanced features that increase backup performance, improve reliability, speed up recove...

Zerto Virtual Replication

38 Ratings

Zerto aims to help businesses be available to their customers, 24/7/365. The vendor says, Zerto provides Resilience for Evolving IT™, ensuring enterprises and their customers always have access to applications without any IT interruption, downtime or delay. Additionally, the vendor says Zerto’s a...

Vembu BDR Suite

31 Ratings

Vembu BDR Suite is a comprehensive universal backup solution catering to the backup, recovery and disaster recovery needs of diverse and heterogeneous IT environments. Through its flagship offering, Vembu can backup VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, Physical Servers, Workstations, Exchange Items...

Carbonite EVault

32 Ratings

Carbonite EVault helps organizations protect their most valuable assets. End-to-end encryption keeps confidential data safe at every step, and flexible deployment options protect complex, multi-platform sites and distributed networks. The vendor’s value proposition is that EVault makes it very ea...

Datto

30 Ratings

Datto headquartered in Norwalk, Connecticut offers cloud backup, disaster recovery, and continuity services.

Carbonite Availability (formerly DoubleTake)

22 Ratings

Carbonite acquired Double-Take, a data replication and disaster recovery option, in early 2017. The technology now powers Carbonite Availability, the now Carbonite supported high availability and data replication product.

Acronis Backup Cloud

16 Ratings

Acronis Backup Cloud is a Backup-as-a-Service solution for Service Providers.

VMware Site Recovery Manager

22 Ratings

VMware's Site Recovery Manager (VMware SRM) is a disaster recovery option.

ECHOplatform

1 Ratings

Intronis in Massachusetts offered the ECHOplatform for cloud backup and disaster recovery, and was acquired by Barracuda in 2015.

CloudEndure Disaster Recovery

2 Ratings

CloudEndure offers their cloud infrastructure to provide CloudEndure Disaster Recovery, a DR and cloud backup solution supporting enterprise level application or data backup needs.

Tivoli Storage Manager

17 Ratings

Tivoli Storage Manager from IBM is a data protection & backup and disaster recovery solution.