Top Rated Disaster Recovery Products
These products won a Top Rated award for having excellent customer satisfaction ratings. The list is based purely on reviews; there is no paid placement, and analyst opinions do not influence the rankings. Read more about the Top Rated criteria.
Disaster Recovery Software TrustMap
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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.
Disaster Recovery Products
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Veeam Backup & Replication
Veeam Backup & Replication is a backup platform for virtual environments built on VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisors. The software provides backup, restoration, and replication functionality for virtual machines, physical servers and workstations as well as cloud-based…
Druva Phoenix
As businesses are adopting a “cloud-first” strategy, data protection is one of the first IT functions to migrate to the cloud. However, it can lead to a number of challenges. With a thoughtful cloud strategy, businesses can achieve the best results. According to the vendor, with…
Vembu BDR Suite
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.
NAKIVO Backup & Replication
NAKIVO Backup & Replication is a VM data backup solution for protecting VMware, Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV, and AWS EC2 environments. It also features replication, failover, backup to cloud, backup copy, backup size reduction, screenshot verification, and site recovery through a single…
Carbonite Server (also replacing the former EVault products acquired from Seagate in 2016) is a full backup and discovery solution. Designed to recover anything from a single file to an entire system with the click of a button, Carbonite Server users can protect virtually any type…
Zerto
Zerto is a disaster recovery solution that promises to help customers eliminate the risk and complexity of modernization and cloud adoption. By replacing multiple legacy solutions with a single IT Resilience Platform, Zerto aims to change the way disaster recovery, backup and cloud…
Axcient BRC can not only recover a single server or desktop, but can automate the recovery of an entire customer site through its Virtual Office and automated Runbook features. In a disaster event, authorized users can log into the web application or Remote Management Console and…
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.
Altaro Hyper-V Backup, from Altaro, is a data center backup and disaster recovery solution.
Acronis Backup Cloud is a Backup-as-a-Service solution for Service Providers.
Zerto on IBM Cloud seamlessly protects, expands, and migrates your existing VMware vSphere and other hypervisor workloads onto IBM Cloud, giving you a secure, flexible, and scalable disaster recovery solution. These single-tenant environments are deployed on IBM Cloud's data centers…
ShadowProtect SPX, from StorageCraft in Draper, supports business continuity with data backup and system protection; the vendor boasts fast system restore capabilities relative to other similar solutions.
Tivoli Storage Manager from IBM is a data protection & backup and disaster recovery solution.
The Infrascale Platform is the flagship cloud storage, data protection, and disaster recovery platform from the California based company, Infrascale.
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus provides data recovery for virtual environments and databases.
Paragon Software headquartered in Irvine offers Paragon Hard Disk Manager, a storage management solution for physical and virtual drives, and disaster recovery framework solution for businesses of all sizes.
Assure MIMIX is a database management and disaster recovery option, now part of Syncsort. MIMIX was developed by Vision Solutions, now part of the Syncsort family of companies and products.
CloudEndure Disaster Recovery is a one-touch disaster recovery solution that utilizes block-level continuous replication, as well as automated machine conversion and orchestration, to ensure minimal RPO and RTO for all applications and to significantly reduce traditional disaster…
Continuum Recover is a combination of disaster recovery technology and Continuum's NOC with 24x7 monitoring and troubleshooting support, supporting MSPs with extended BDR capacity. Continuum was acquired by ConnectWise in late 2019.
GRC specialist MetricStream offers the MetricStream Business Continuity Management (BCM) App, a solution for disaster planning, recovery, and minimizing disruption.
Acronis Cyber Cloud for Enterprise is a multi-tier platform that delivers data protection services with access to a suite of integrated services like secure backup, files sync and share, ransomware protection, blockchain-based notarization and data verification, and disaster recovery…
Actifio in Waltham, Massachusetts offers Resiliency Director, a disaster recovery tool.