Cloud Rewind (formerly Appranix) vs Zerto comparison

Commvault and Zerto are both solutions in the Cloud Backup category. Commvault is ranked #38 with an average rating of 9.0, while Zerto is ranked #2 with an average rating of 8.8. Commvault holds a 0.1% mindshare in CB, compared to Zerto’s 4.1% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Commvault users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 98% of Zerto users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 26, 2025

Zerto and Cloud Rewind compete in the disaster recovery and backup space. Cloud Rewind stands out for its comprehensive features justifying its cost, attracting those seeking enhanced cloud data management solutions.

Features: Zerto provides continuous data protection, real-time disaster recovery abilities, and seamless multi-platform support. Cloud Rewind offers cloud-native, automated backup and recovery, cloud service integration for improved scalability, and resilience enhancing features.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Cloud Rewind leverages automated deployment within cloud environments with responsive cloud-centric support. Zerto offers flexible deployment across hybrid infrastructures with comprehensive customer support.

Pricing and ROI: Zerto presents a cost-effective solution with significant ROI due to reduced downtime. Cloud Rewind's pricing reflects its feature set, providing considerable ROI for enterprises expanding in the cloud.

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Categories and Ranking

Cloud Rewind (formerly Appr...

Ranking in Cloud Backup

38th

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

SaaS Backup (22nd), AWS Marketplace (42nd)

Zerto

Ranking in Cloud Backup

2nd

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

301

Ranking in other categories

Backup and Recovery (2nd), Cloud Migration (3rd), Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (2nd)

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the Cloud Backup category, the mindshare of Cloud Rewind (formerly Appranix) is 0.1%, up from 0.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Zerto is 4.1%, down from 5.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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reviewer1370448

Ecosystem Solution Architect Lead for UK, Ireland, Arfica at Accenture

Provides operational efficiencies and recovers virtual instances quickly

For our clients, we use the solution to protect their virtual instances and instantly recover them in the event of a compromise The solution has provided operational efficiencies. The platform's most effective feature is quickly recovering virtual instances into a separate environment. They…

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Sachin Vinay

Assistant Manager-Networks at Amrita

Leverage disaster recovery with reliable support and cost-effective future-proof features

Zerto is straightforward to implement because it only requires the installation of an agent on the VMs designated for migration. A service, typically a VM, must also be deployed at the disaster recovery location. This entire process is simple and can be completed within three days. Zerto's near-synchronous replication occurs every minute, allowing for highly granular recovery points. This means that even if interruptions or malware disruptions occur within that minute, Zerto can restore to the last known good state, effectively recovering the entire setup to the latest backup. This capability ensures high data security and minimizes potential data loss. One of the main benefits of implementing Zerto is its data compression, which significantly reduces the load on our IPsec VPN. Zerto compresses data by 80 percent before transmitting it across the VPN, minimizing the data transferred between geographically dispersed locations. This compression and subsequent decompression at the destination alleviate the strain on the VPN, preventing overload and ensuring efficient data synchronization. Zerto simplifies malware protection by integrating it into its disaster recovery and synchronization features. This comprehensive approach eliminates the need for separate antivirus setups in virtual machines and applications. It streamlines our security measures and removes the need for additional software or solutions, resulting in an excellent return on investment. Zerto's single-click recovery solution offers exceptional recovery speed. Through the user interface, a single click allows for a complete restoration from the most recent backup within two to three minutes, enabling rapid recovery and minimal downtime. Zerto's Recovery Time Objective is excellent. In the past, if a virtual machine crashed, we would recover it from a snapshot, which could take one to two hours. With Zerto, the recovery process takes only five minutes, and users are typically unaware of any disruption. This allows us to restore everything quickly and efficiently. Zerto has significantly reduced our downtime. When malware affects our data, Zerto immediately notifies us and helps us protect other applications, even those not yet implemented with Zerto. By monitoring these applications, we can quickly identify and address any potential malware spread, minimizing downtime across our systems. Zerto significantly reduces downtime and associated costs during disruptions. Our services are unified, so in the event of a disruption without Zerto, even a half-day disruption would necessitate offline procedures. This would lead to increased manpower, service delays, and substantial financial losses due to interrupted admissions and other critical processes. By unifying service processes, Zerto minimizes the impact of outages. Zerto streamlines our disaster recovery testing across multiple locations by enabling efficient failover testing without disrupting live services. Traditionally, DR testing required downtime of critical systems, but Zerto's replication and failover capabilities allow us to test in parallel with live operations. This non-disruptive approach ensures continuous service availability while validating our DR plan, even in scenarios like malware attacks, by creating a separate testing environment that mirrors the live setup. This comprehensive testing provides confidence in our ability to handle real-world incidents effectively. This saves us over 60 percent of the time. Zerto streamlines system administration tasks by automating many processes, thereby reducing the workload for multiple administrators. This allows them to focus on other university services that require attention and effectively reallocate support resources from automated tasks to those requiring more dedicated management. Zerto is used exclusively for our critical services, providing up to a 70 percent improvement in our IT resilience.

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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

"The platform's most effective feature is quickly recovering virtual instances into a separate environment."

"Since the log files are continuously transmitted, the granularity of restores is amazing."

"The most valuable feature is how simple it is to implement and how quickly you can get up and running at the second site. The solution is also extremely easy to use, for example, You just log onto the console and you can do a test failover with a few clicks."

"Zerto offered a very good front-end GUI for orchestration. The graphic interface was very good."

"Journaling is by far the most valuable feature. We have used it several times for customers who have gotten ransomware and had to do a rollback. Having the right time period was important. Some of them had their backups encrypted. So, they didn't encrypt the Zerto machine seven days previously, and we were able to bring that back up."

"The main reasons for adopting Zerto are data protection and being able to do disaster recovery for site recovery."

"Zerto is easy to use and the interface is very intuitive."

"I like the automation of transferring data in the case of any disaster to our VMs. It is also easy to use and fast."

"The Zerto university for training staff is very useful."

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Cons

"They could add more intelligence features in the workflow through automation."

"Zerto's documentation is outdated. I'm finding it hard to find documents related to my questions. Their documentation is bad."

"The pricing could be a little bit lower."

"They are doing a lot of great things, but I have heard that Zerto is expensive."

"Increased granularity in how long to keep the journal would be nice."

"The new licensing model didn't work out for us because we used one-to-one replication."

"We would like some of the real fine or granular things. We've submitted a few minor things for enhancements such as being able to control bandwidth utilization for each facility you replicate to versus overall. We just need a little bit more granularity on some of the things, but there is not a whole bunch that is in need of tweaking."

"The biggest pain points we have experienced are related to some of the SQL-intensive workloads just because the VPGs struggle a little bit to keep up. That might be because we are pushing too many transactions."

"It is difficult to manage failing over between sites if you are at the site that was impacted."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The additional cost is cloud storage, which the public cloud provider charges."

"The pricing is very reasonable."

"I wouldn't say I like the licensing pricing structure. Every year, it increases exponentially, which bothers me a little. It's worth it in terms of the value, but I worry the price will increase even more often after the Zerto merger. I still think it's worth it and that the solution is cheaper than the others."

"Obviously, I wish it were cheaper and more affordable. But I get what I pay for, so I can't complain."

"The pricing for this solution could be cheaper. They have two licensing tiers. When we purchased it, they didn't have a license for the cloud model. Certain things that I used to get with the basic licensing are no longer available. They are only available in the Cloud. Overall, the licensing model could be simplified."

"I know it is per server, but I am not fully aware of the price model. I know for our VDI environment, they are looking at something that is on the lower end and that they can use just for migrations and not so much a disaster recovery."

"At close to $1,000 a license, it makes it very hard to protect all of your environment, especially for a smaller shop."

"It's very equitable, otherwise you wouldn't do it. It's something that we utilize for the licenses per core as far as what we're backing up. Therefore, it's very cost-efficient as far as the licensing goes. For the amount of stuff that we're backing up and what we're utilizing it for, the licensing is not very expensive at all."

"My impression is that Zerto is more expensive than other solutions, although I don't have exact numbers."

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Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Nov 9, 2014

VMware SRM vs. Veeam vs. Zerto

Disaster recovery planning is something that seems challenging for all businesses. Virtualization in addition to its operational flexibility, and cost reduction benefits, has helped companies improve their DR posture. Virtualization has made it easier to move machines from production to…

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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Appranix Cloud Application Resilience?

I rate the product pricing a seven. The additional cost is cloud storage, which the public cloud provider charges.

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What needs improvement with Appranix Cloud Application Resilience?

They could add more intelligence features in the workflow through automation, removing more of the human element. Additionally, improvements in the reporting features would be beneficial.

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What is your primary use case for Appranix Cloud Application Resilience?

For our clients, we use the solution to protect their virtual instances and instantly recover them in the event of a compromise.

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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?

Zerto is definitely more costly compared to its competitors, such as VMware Site Recovery Manager. It may not be suitable for small and medium-sized industries.

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Overview

Cloud Rewind (formerly Appranix) offers organizations reliable protection and recovery solutions, catering to complex business continuity needs. Its comprehensive features support system resilience and integrity, making it ideal for experienced IT professionals seeking robust data management capabilities.

Cloud Rewind enables streamlined data protection and disaster recovery processes. Designed to simplify backup and recovery tasks, it automates policies across multi-cloud environments, safeguarding data against disruptions. With its user-centric design, it provides businesses with the confidence to manage their cloud-based data securely, providing a seamless integration into existing IT infrastructures while maintaining efficiency.

What are the key features of Cloud Rewind?

Automated Disaster Recovery: Facilitates quick recovery with predefined plans, reducing downtime.
Multi-Cloud Support: Integrates smoothly with multiple cloud platforms for synchronized data management.
Policy Automation: Automates backup and recovery tasks based on user-defined rules, enhancing reliability.
Customized Alerts: Notifies users promptly of any issues, helping maintain operational continuity.

What benefits and ROI are expected from Cloud Rewind?

Reduced Downtime: Minimizes disruptions with rapid restoration strategies, enhancing productivity.
Cost Efficiency: Lowers operational costs by optimizing backup processes and resource allocation.
Scalability: Adapts to organizational growth, ensuring consistent data protection irrespective of size.
Enhanced Security: Offers robust data protection that helps mitigate risks associated with data loss.

Industries such as finance, healthcare, and retail use Cloud Rewind to ensure critical data is protected and easily recoverable, addressing stringent compliance demands. Its deployment in these sectors exemplifies its adaptability and relevance in safeguarding sensitive information across demanding 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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United Airlines, HCA, XPO Logistics, TaxSlayer, McKesson, Insight Global, American Airlines, Tencate, Aaron’s, Grey’s County, Kingston Technologies

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