AvePoint Cloud Backup vs HPE Zerto Software comparison

AvePoint and Hewlett Packard Enterprise are both solutions in the Cloud Backup category. AvePoint is ranked #12 with an average rating of 9.0, while Hewlett Packard Enterprise is ranked #3 with an average rating of 9.0. AvePoint holds a 2.2% mindshare in CB, compared to Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s 3.2% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of AvePoint users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 98% of Hewlett Packard Enterprise users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 21, 2025

HPE Zerto Software and AvePoint Cloud Backup are competing in the data protection and management category. HPE Zerto Software may lead in pricing and support, but AvePoint Cloud Backup offers enhanced features that make the investment worthwhile.

Features: HPE Zerto Software provides reliable disaster recovery capabilities, continuous data protection, and quick data recovery times. AvePoint Cloud Backup stands out with its comprehensive cloud-based data protection, support for diverse platforms, and robust automation features.

Room for Improvement: HPE Zerto Software could improve its cloud integration and automation features. Additionally, enhancing ease of setup for mid-sized businesses may benefit broader adoption. AvePoint Cloud Backup might enhance its pricing structure to appeal to a larger market and could improve its integration capabilities.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: AvePoint Cloud Backup offers easy deployment with a focus on cloud integration, allowing smooth service across various environments. HPE Zerto Software is tailored for large enterprises, offering enterprise-level deployment necessitating dedicated resources complemented by robust technical support.

Pricing and ROI: HPE Zerto Software is generally higher in setup costs but offers substantial ROI for extensive disaster recovery solutions. AvePoint Cloud Backup offers competitive pricing with promising ROI due to its cloud integration and automation efficiencies, providing a cost-effective cloud-centric option.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

AvePoint Cloud Backup

Ranking in Cloud Backup

12th

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

SaaS Backup (5th)

HPE Zerto Software

Ranking in Cloud Backup

3rd

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

343

Ranking in other categories

Backup and Recovery (2nd), Cloud Migration (1st), Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (1st)

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Cloud Backup category, the mindshare of AvePoint Cloud Backup is 2.2%, down from 3.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of HPE Zerto Software is 3.2%, down from 4.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Cloud Backup Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
HPE Zerto Software	3.2%
AvePoint Cloud Backup	2.2%
Other	94.6%

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reviewer1908255

Sales Manager at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Self-service integration enhances data protection and control over automated backups, offering robust restoration quality

The product is highly recommended for my enterprise customers due to its quality. The score for the product is between eight and ten, based on satisfaction levels. My clients are satisfied, but AvePoint Cloud Backup is costlier for smaller or medium-sized enterprises. Commercial discussions can be challenging on that front. I rate the overall solution a 9 out of 10.

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David Riberdy

Enterprise data management supervisor at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

An all-in-one and cost-efficient solution that does what it promises

Zerto is very easy to use. Installation is about half an hour, and then it starts protecting the data and VMs. It is not very cumbersome. The UI is built very well. It is fairly self-explanatory. To be able to stand up a product you have never seen in half an hour and get it functioning and protecting speaks to how good the UI and workflow are. Zerto has near-synchronous replication. As a change is made on site A, it gets copied across the network to site B. We are five or six seconds behind production. If I have a heavily used system and I use traditional backups, I could be anywhere from 5 minutes to 23 hours behind. With Zerto, I am single-digit seconds behind. That works well for us. Our disaster recovery test, which used to span an entire week, now takes two days. We used to recover our servers in the first two or three days with a backup product and then test for two days before tearing it all down. Now, we spend half a day on new servers and ensuring things work with networking, etc. We test the next day, and we are done in two days. Across the entire company, we are able to save significant man-hours by shortening the test from a week to two days. We are now doing smaller tests once a month and larger tests once a year. Zerto has reduced our DR testing time by 60% to 70%. We are also able to do more disaster recovery testing. Previously, we were doing it once a year, whereas now, we are doing smaller tests once a month and our large tests once a year. In recovery point objectives, we are single-digit seconds behind. In terms of RTOs, I can recover 350 VMs in 30 minutes. It takes less than several seconds to restore a single VM. From days to 30 minutes for 350 compared to 100 VMs is an incredible time-saving in terms of RTOs and RPOs for us.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"It is the best product in the market for Office 365 backup, and our customers are satisfied with it."

"The SaaS feature of AvePoint Cloud Backup is very strong."

"I rate the overall solution a 9 out of 10."

"The initial setup is super easy."

"It is the only product in the market that offers platform backup."

"It is a very good and stable solution...With AvePoint's support, our experience has been exceptional"

"The recovery options in Microsoft 365 are not adequate and it does not help to recover data from the recycle bin that is older than 90 days. The solution has made us more efficient and helps to recover data that is older than 90 days."

"The backup and recovery functionalities of the product are very useful."

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"Consistency Groups: If you replicate groups of VMs, then during failover, all of the VMs in groups are failed over to the exact same point in time."

"One of the features I appreciate the most about the HPE Zerto Software is the simplicity of the replication, which allows the RPO to be in seconds rather than hours, which is what we were used to."

"I like the less than one-minute RPO, the ability to IP customize during failovers, and the cloning feature that I can use to clone VMs over at the target location. As part of the automation failover, if we need to change an IP when it fails over to the other data center, Zerto will handle that; there's no need for manual intervention. As far as the cloning, we use that to do quick testing of a VM in the remote data center for lift-and-shift processors."

"Implementing this solution has given us sandboxing and the ability to move VMs."

"If we lost our data center and had to recover it, Zerto would save us a great deal of time. In our testing, we have found that recovering the entire data center would be completed within a day."

"I give Zerto's stability a nine out of ten."

"If we had to deal with a ransomware event, Zerto would be one of the first things I would use, because it is going to be the fastest to restore data to a certain point. If there were a fire in our building, Zerto would be a big thing too, because we would shut down everything that's in our building. In most cases, Zerto is definitely one of the front lines. It's definitely going to be one of our prevalent DRBC layers of protection."

"HPE Zerto Software has improved our RPO and RTO."

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Cons

"AvePoint Cloud Backup's pricing could be lower and more flexible. Particularly, when dealing with smaller customers or more minor businesses, obtaining competitive pricing for bundles rather than on a one-by-one basis remains challenging."

"The component in the product that can be improved revolves around the area where the tool should focus on providing more of a custom touch to the policies."

"Some customers choose other backup solutions because AvePoint is Office 365 and CRM backup system, but they have other backup needs for Azure and so on. Such customers often choose another backup solution instead of AvePoint."

"The product's price is an area of concern where improvements are required."

"It is challenging for small or medium-sized businesses to purchase it."

"The configuration could be made easier."

"The restoration could be faster."

"It is not a traditional restore process and it is somewhat limited in what we can do."

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"It would be helpful if the reports can be generated periodically, on a schedule."

"Better communication around pricing would be useful - particularly in light of the economic and tariff situation we have going on."

"They should not make it so expensive so that I can buy more of it."

"I would like to see Zerto implement a pay-as-you-go model."

"I would like to see some graphical improvements in Zerto's interface. There's an option to export a list of all of our servers, but the information isn't presented the way we want. We want it in a specified sequence broken down by region, etc. We can't manipulate the data when we export it. Maybe they could change it to look more like an Excel sheet, and we can customize the graphics and data. We suggested these improvements to Zerto through their portal."

"There is a problem where you need what's called a full sweep to back up and sync a VM from the beginning, which occurs in multiple steps."

"The knowledge base could be improved. Sometimes, it's finicky, especially when moving storage around. We've had to redo entire processes, which was time-consuming and resulted in data loss. This has happened multiple times, and despite following support steps and contacting support, we often had to resolve issues on our own."

"Zerto's pricing model is cost-prohibitive for small—to medium-sized businesses."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"It costs a little bit more than other competitors in the market."

"I rate the product's price a nine on a scale of one to ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive."

"It is very good for many of my customers in the banking and finance segments. The price isn't a problem there, but in some other industries, people ask for a cheaper solution. When the price is an issue for the customer, we recommend Veeam, Metallic."

"I would say that the pricing policy of the product is flexible and good."

"I am not sure, but I believe that the cost is $7 USD per user."

"The pricing part of the solution is based on a subscription model, which is based on the number of users or storage capacity."

"The platform is more expensive than other vendors."

"It is very expensive. It is overpriced. No doubt. What held us up for many years from committing to buying it was always the cost. That's also why we only have 10 licenses."

"The cost is not dirt cheap but also is not terrible."

"We have seen ROI. Several times, we needed to recover, and we were able to go to Zerto."

"Having backup and DR is somewhat moderately important to us. The problem with us, and a lot of companies, is the issue with on-prem Zerto. It utilizes whatever you have for a SAN. Or, if you are like us, we have a vSAN and that storage is not cheap. So, it is cheaper to have a self-contained backup system that is on its own storage rather than utilizing your data center storage, like your vSAN. While it is somewhat important to have both backup and DR, it is not incredibly important to have both. I know Zero is trying to heavily dip their toes in the water of backup and recovery. Once you see what Zerto can do, I don't think anyone will not take Zerto because they don't necessarily specialize in backup and recovery 100 percent. They do replication so well."

"It is cost-effective."

"Currently, it is good, but the license we are using is based on VM count. We are only protecting mission-critical servers, so we are using a very low number, about 300. However, we have 3,000 or more servers. If we consider using Zerto for data protection, it would cost us more than what we have for data protection now."

"Its price can be better, but it is not bad. Most small-scale organizations can afford it, but they can come up with more customer-friendly packages."

"Zerto is pretty reasonable. I haven't checked to see how much Rubrik is going to quote us for their solution. At least for us, the price doesn't play a big factor in the decision-making because it is a pretty small deployment for our use case."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

13%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Financial Services Firm

Retailer

Computer Software Company

11%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Healthcare Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	7
Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	4

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	90
Midsize Enterprise	86
Large Enterprise	196

Questions from the Community

How does AvePoint Cloud Backup compare with Veeam Backup for Office 365?

AvePoint Cloud Backup for MS Office 365 is a SaaS backup whose features include secure storage and unlimited and automated backups. The storage is saved in AvePoint’s Azure storage or it can also b...

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What do you like most about AvePoint Cloud Backup?

The product's initial setup phase was super easy.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for AvePoint Cloud Backup?

When I deal with enterprises, good pricing is achieved. However, pricing becomes less favorable for smaller companies. Offering a package plan for multiple small clients would be beneficial.

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What advice do you have for others considering Oracle Data Guard?

Ik fluister:VM Host Oracle en DataGuard hebben we per toeval vervangen door Zerto :-) tijdens de Zerto implementatie en VPG werden de Host Data in write-ack Block-Level gerepliceerd. Qua licentie 1...

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What do you like most about Zerto?

Its ability to roll back if the VM or the server that you are recovering does not come up right is also valuable. You have the ability to roll back a few seconds or a few minutes. The rollback feat...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Zerto?

From a pricing perspective, HPE Zerto Software is expensive in comparison to other products on the market, but I think it is an easier sell because it works so well and it is so easy to set up a de...

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Overview

AvePoint Cloud Backup is a comprehensive data protection solution designed to safeguard critical business data stored in Microsoft 365 and Dynamics 365. It offers automated and secure backup and restore capabilities, ensuring that organizations can recover their data quickly in the event of accidental deletion, data corruption, or cyberattacks. With AvePoint Cloud Backup, businesses can easily manage and monitor their backup and restore processes through a centralized dashboard, enabling efficient data protection and compliance management.

This solution also provides granular recovery options, allowing users to restore individual files, folders, or entire sites with ease. AvePoint Cloud Backup offers flexible retention policies, enabling organizations to meet their specific data retention requirements.

Additionally, it provides advanced security features such as encryption and multi-factor authentication to ensure the confidentiality and integrity of backed-up data.

With its user-friendly interface and robust features, AvePoint Cloud Backup is a reliable and efficient solution for organizations seeking comprehensive data protection for their Microsoft 365 and Dynamics 365 environments.

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Zerto is used for disaster recovery, business continuity, data migration, and ransomware recovery, providing continuous data protection and near real-time replication. Valued for ease of use, efficient failover processes, and versatile integration, it enhances organizational efficiency, reduces errors, and boosts productivity.

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