Azure Site Recovery vs IBM Disaster Recovery Services comparison

Azure Site Recovery vs. IBM Disaster Recovery Services

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Categories and Ranking

Azure Site Recovery

Ranking in Disaster Recovery as a Service

3rd

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

IBM Disaster Recovery Services

Ranking in Disaster Recovery as a Service

5th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

8.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2025, in the Disaster Recovery as a Service category, the mindshare of Azure Site Recovery is 23.2%, up from 22.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of IBM Disaster Recovery Services is 2.9%, up from 2.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Disaster Recovery as a Service

Featured Reviews

RituparnaBhattacharya

Senior Infrastructure Engineer at MIC Global

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.

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Şefik Mert Polatay

General manager at Atlas Consulting Bilisim Hizmetleri Ltd.

Ease of use, performance, availability, and scalability

The initial setup is very easy, user-friendly, and not complex. It mostly comes with all installed, an operating system, database, and security, all included in Power Systems. So users can easily install, configure, and use it. It's integrated with other systems. You can run different systems from IBM Power Systems, AIX Linux, or IBM I operating system. It's also integrated into Windows systems and other databases and servers.

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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’s native to Azure and does exactly what it’s designed to do—recover one site to another without creating all the VMs on that site. This helps reduce costs on the secondary site."

"Azure Site Recovery is an easy-to-use and fairly stable solution for disaster recovery."

"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."

"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."

"The setup is quite easy, just requiring the creation of a vault."

"The most valuable feature is the visibility of what is happening with our business as well as the good reporting and dashboards."

"The solution is very easy to use."

"The most valuable features of Azure Site Recovery are its ease of use and speed of recovery."

More Azure Site Recovery pros

"The initial setup is very easy and user-friendly."

"Disaster Recovery Services is stable."

"The solution works well for very large organizations. It can scale quite well."

Cons

"Currently, Azure Site Recovery does not support shared disk options. Moreover, it does not support services like AppConfig or App Services."

"Could have more integration with other platforms."

"It is for site-to-site replication. When something goes wrong on your site, you only get 15 minutes before it also goes wrong on your replicated site. There should be some way to be able to say that we want to restore it, but we want to restore it to the version from yesterday. It should support versioning. I would also like to see real-time scanning for advanced threat protection, more straightforward billing, and quicker turnaround on the tech support."

"The system did go down a couple of times, which impacted our operations. For stability, I would rate it a seven out of ten."

"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."

"When it runs, it runs well but when it doesn't run, the solution needs to make it clearer as to why and what the troubleshooting process is. All this would be possible if the error logging was streamlined a bit."

"Site Recovery's scalability could be improved."

"It would be good if we could replicate the solution to multiple locations simultaneously because we are currently allowed to replicate to just a single location."

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"The infrastructure level of IBM's recovery systems could be improved."

"Stability could always be better."

"Disaster Recovery Services could provide better value for money."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Azure Site Recovery is a very reasonably priced product."

"The tool's licensing is yearly and not expensive."

"I'm not sure about the Azure Site Recovery pricing, but my organization gets monthly bills from providers."

"They have a license to pay."

"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."

"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."

"Disaster Recovery Services is expensive."

"The pricing of the solution is based on the scale of the project or business. It's based on the server amount and the amount of data being stored. For our client, based on the amount of data they have, it may be around $20,000 USD. It could get much more expensive on the customer side."

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Questions from the Community

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?

The price of Azure Site Recovery was reasonable compared to other data costs. It was not the expensive part of our costs, but, as always, there is room to make it cheaper.

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...

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for IBM Disaster Recovery Services?

The pricing is perfect. It's not expensive because it's all-inclusive. The operating system, database, security, different file systems. So, overall, it's cheaper than Oracle or UNIX systems with O...

What needs improvement with IBM Disaster Recovery Services?

Nothing, it’s almost perfect.

What is your primary use case for IBM Disaster Recovery Services?

The use case is for high availability and disaster recovery.

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Overview

Help your business to keep doing business - even during major IT outages. Azure Site Recovery offers ease of deployment, cost effectiveness, and dependability. Deploy replication, failover, and recovery processes through Site Recovery to help keep your applications running during planned and unplanned outages. Site Recovery is a native disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS), and Microsoft been recognized as a leader in DRaaS based on completeness of vision and ability to execute by Gartner in the 2018 Magic Quadrant for Disaster Recovery as a Service.

Microsoft

IBM Resiliency Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) can provide end-to-end integrated services using private, public and/or hybrid cloud. IBM Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) provides continuous replication of critical applications, infrastructure, data and systems to the cloud so users can recover within minutes of an IT outage. Intelligent Orchestration offers a unified DR management approach that delivers real-time readiness validation.

IBM

Sample Customers

Russell Reynolds Associates, Union Insurance, Rackspace

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