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Datto ALTO vs Infrascale Backup & Disaster Recovery comparison

 

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

Categories and Ranking

Datto ALTO
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
Infrascale Backup & Disaste...
Ranking in Disaster Recovery as a Service
5th
Average Rating
9.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
19
Ranking in other categories
Backup and Recovery (24th), Cloud Backup (22nd), Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (16th), SaaS Backup (11th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2026, in the Disaster Recovery as a Service category, the mindshare of Datto ALTO is 2.9%, up from 0.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Infrascale Backup & Disaster Recovery is 6.3%, up from 3.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Disaster Recovery as a Service Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Infrascale Backup & Disaster Recovery6.3%
Datto ALTO2.9%
Other90.8%
Disaster Recovery as a Service
 

Featured Reviews

DG
Owner at Oxford Network Solutions, Inc
Easy to scale, reliable, reasonably price, extremely simple to use, and manage
We are a reseller and primarily use Datto ALTO for disaster recovery It is extremely simple to use, set up, and manage. They do a good job of it.  The interface is very easy. It stayed the same for a long time, which makes it easy to set up and easy to work with. Technical support was superior…
Vivek_Jaiswal - PeerSpot reviewer
Cyber Security Senior Specialist at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Cloud backups have strengthened ransomware recovery and now protect critical business data
I see several areas where Infrascale Backup & Disaster Recovery could be improved. First is the architectural design and configuration, along with operational maturity, as well as security integration. The performance of support can definitely be improved with easier on-call support features for P1 and P2 incidents. Getting quick support from the vendor during major recoveries or disasters would be greatly appreciated. Additionally, improving the strength of ransomware protections, addressing critical gaps in deployments, enforcing backup immutability policies, and making disaster recovery testing routine instead of an ad hoc process are important. Validating that I can quickly recover data should be a priority, and improved runbooks or operational maturity platforms would be beneficial for data recovery from critical incidents.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"It stayed the same for a long time, which makes it easy to set up and easy to work with."
"Previously, we used AppAssure; we switched to Datto ALTO because it was a better product, at the same price point."
"Its Critical Server Insurance feature for protecting physical and virtual servers, including Windows, Linux, VMware, and Hyper-V is mandatory for me and it makes me happy. If I had a backup solution that didn't do that, it would not be a backup solution and would not be any good."
"The ease of use is valuable. It is user-friendly. Performing backup and recovery can be done very intuitively with the solution and the interface that is part of the solution."
"The best part is the possibility to spill over the lock-ups to the cloud and the spin-up part."
"It works a treat and does the job perfectly."
"The overall ease of use and ease of management of the solution using the Infrascale dashboard is excellent. I'd rate it 10 out of 10 because the dashboard is very simple to use. For someone with a technical background, it's a wonderful piece of software to be using in a cloud environment. But if you're not technical, then it might be a problem. It could be confusing for non-technical people. If you don't know what you're doing, you could kind of screw it up. Any human with two brain cells can do it. It's like anything else. So, once you train a human, they're good. Anybody can do it. Anybody with a competent brain can use it and go with a little bit of technical skill. It might be confusing in the beginning, but once you're trained up and you've used it a little bit, like anything else in your life, it'll be easy. They'll come as normal."
"The experience that we have had with this product is generally good."
"Given that we are in the hurricane belt, the spin-up of replicated servers in the cloud is among the most valuable features. If our site goes down we can just connect to the cloud appliance, spin up the servers, and we are good to go."
"The most valuable feature is disaster recovery, where we have the ability to boot up VMs quickly in a disaster."
 

Cons

"Technical support was superior when it was owned independently."
"Technical support was superior when it was owned independently."
"The only thing I would suggest, and I have talked to my manager about it already, is that they should have a direct backup-to-cloud solution. It should be something that does not require me to do an image backup, and then individual file and folder backups, to be able to restore individual files."
"The only thing I would suggest, and I have talked to my manager about it already, is that they should have a direct backup-to-cloud solution."
"I would like to see more features for the section on the viruses and maybe another in reference to two-factor authentication."
"In terms of overage, or outgrowing capacity with backups, I have an issue."
"Today, they are not as cost-efficient as many other places, but I'm comfortable, I trust the service."
"When the product works, there is really nothing to fix, but they can allow different types of backups, such as differential or incremental backups."
"The performance of support can definitely be improved with easier on-call support features for P1 and P2 incidents."
"They set me up as a vendor, not as a client. So sometimes I end up in the wrong portal and I'm doing vendor things instead of client things, and I didn't realize that right away. Once I figured it out I just changed my favorites on my desktop to go to the client-side."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"If you have a small server, it's approximately $100 per month."
"It is super competitive. It is worth taking a look at it from a licensing and pricing perspective."
"Our licensing fees are billed every four months."
"The pricing is pretty good and competitive with the market. The per-terabyte pricing is very competitive compared to the others."
"I appreciate their pricing. We went for this solution for its pricing."
"The appliances have different prices because of storage, size, and memory. For example, the older machines support more virtual machines, whereas the new one only supports one virtual machine. As we have purchased the later appliances, they have probably been a little bit more expensive because they have to be good enough to keep the business running if the physical server goes down. We learned our lesson from the one that went down when we tried to run products and it wasn't quick enough."
"You get unlimited clients and buy a bucket of space. In addition to the standard fees there were setup fees."
"The licensing is based on how much data you have plus what appliances you need."
"Pricing of the product could be improved. It definitely makes it a harder sell. They will usually end up getting close to the price we need, but I have to go through everybody to get the price reduced. Their list pricing is significantly higher than that of other solutions."
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Top Industries

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Construction Company
14%
Healthcare Company
14%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Computer Software Company
8%
 

Company Size

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Small Business
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Company SizeCount
Small Business19
Large Enterprise4
 

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Infrascale Platform?
The pricing of Infrascale Backup & Disaster Recovery is premium; if it went down, I would definitely be happy, but I don't want to see it go up. Their margin from what they're wholesale and the...
What needs improvement with Infrascale Platform?
What I would like to see improved or enhanced in Infrascale Backup & Disaster Recovery includes additional features for scalability.
What is your primary use case for Infrascale Platform?
I can describe a few use cases for Infrascale Backup & Disaster Recovery, which we primarily use for data protection and recovery.
 

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