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Axcient x360Recover vs Azure Site Recovery comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Axcient x360Recover
Ranking in Disaster Recovery as a Service
11th
Average Rating
9.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Azure Site Recovery
Ranking in Disaster Recovery as a Service
3rd
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
26
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2025, in the Disaster Recovery as a Service category, the mindshare of Axcient x360Recover is 1.5%, up from 0.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Azure Site Recovery is 23.5%, up from 21.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Disaster Recovery as a Service
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer1267455 - PeerSpot reviewer
State-of-the-art disaster recovery
One of the areas that I would absolutely say that they should improve, is the recovery from the backup when you're running in a failover mode. In other words, if I have to bring the server online on the appliance (so I'm running on the backup image), there should be a way for me to replicate back to or restore back to the hardware or the original source, and then, in the end, you would do a Delta sync and switch over. As of today, I have to shut everything down and the entire resource has to be offline while I'm doing the recovery. So having the ability to kind of recover while running would be a great feature to have. Also, when you failover to the appliance, it doesn't retain the IP information. I have to go in and update the IP information for each of the boxes that I have to fill up. If you're only doing one or two, it's not really a big deal, but if you had to failover, for example, 10-12 boxes because an entire EM infrastructure went down hardware-wise for some reason, you have to know all those IPs and go in and set them up and restart them — that can take a little bit of time. So retaining the IP information would be great.
RituparnaBhattacharya - PeerSpot reviewer
The time-saving aspects allow us to write PowerShell scripts to automate failover processes
First of all, we initially faced a challenge as Azure Site Recovery was not supporting shared disk options on SQL clusters with VMs, which are important for a Windows cluster mode. Additionally, the setup is quite easy, only requiring the creation of a vault. Its time-saving aspects allow us to write PowerShell scripts to automate failover processes.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"It's super stable. We really like it."
"Our primary use case is for disaster recovery and business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR)."
"A major benefit is that you do not want to pay any more for huge costs to build a DR site."
"Provides generally good performance, from protection to production to failover to data recovery."
"You can create automation to move workloads and redirect traffic to another region."
"Despite the cost concerns and downtime management, I would still recommend Azure Site Recovery."
"The most useful thing is that it provides a snapshot of your environment in about 15 minutes. It is stable, and it always works. It is also scalable and easy to set up."
"What I like best about Azure Site Recovery is that it's easier to use because my organization already has Azure as an Active Directory solution."
"We use the solution across hospitality and healthcare domains. We use it for custom development. It helps us develop a seamless omnichannel for the healthcare industry."
 

Cons

"As of today, I have to shut everything down and the entire resource has to be offline while I'm doing the recovery. So having the ability to kind of recover while running would be a great feature to have."
"There is room for improvement in the release of patches, such as ensuring they are properly managed to avoid outages."
"One area for improvement with Azure is helping customers predict usage more accurately."
"Site Recovery's scalability could be improved."
"I conveyed the feedback to the agent, suggesting an increase in the agent count in our VNS in the USA. I also addressed notification concerns, as some issues didn't trigger alerts during a recent call."
"Could have more integration with other platforms."
"The support team took a lot of time to respond and was not very professional."
"The product's performance is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"We need to be able to move the virtual servers and not build and then port them across. They need to improve the hypervisor."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I believe that (if I'm not mistaken), there are a couple of different pricing models."
"They have a license to pay."
"Azure Site Recovery is a very reasonably priced product."
"I'm not sure about the Azure Site Recovery pricing, but my organization gets monthly bills from providers."
"The tool's licensing is yearly and not expensive."
"It should have more straightforward billing. The billing was what got funky. It was really cheap. We would pay based on the usage. We paid around $225 a month for site-to-site replication."
"Azure Site Recovery is affordable."
"Azure Site Recovery is neither very expensive nor very cheap."
"The tool is expensive. What is expensive to me might not be expensive to you. As I mentioned, we seek ways to reduce our costs. If the price goes down, that would be great. I rate the tool's pricing a six out of ten."
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What do you like most about Azure Site Recovery?
Azure Site Recovery allows my company to save around 30 percent of the time on every VM that we need to back up and restore.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Azure Site Recovery?
A major advantage is that you do not want to pay any more for huge costs to build a DR site. It is very flexible and will save your cost.
What needs improvement with Azure Site Recovery?
The flexibility of Azure Site Recovery regarding integration with different IT environments is limited; it is purely an Azure platform service for business continuity, not meant for integration wit...
 

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Sample Customers

Ford Bacon & Davis, Torrance Casting, Northeast Valley Health Corporation, Bartlett Cocke General Contractors, Bruno Gerbino and Soriano, IronEdge Group, The Pennington School, NSK, Datasafe, InPursuit Solutions, Borough of West Chester
Russell Reynolds Associates, Union Insurance, Rackspace
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