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Datto ALTO vs Infrascale Backup & Disaster Recovery comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Datto ALTO
Ranking in Disaster Recovery as a Service
12th
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
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
21
Ranking in other categories
Backup and Recovery (17th), Cloud Backup (15th), Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (13th), SaaS Backup (8th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the Disaster Recovery as a Service category, the mindshare of Datto ALTO is 3.6%, up from 0.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Infrascale Backup & Disaster Recovery is 6.4%, up from 4.0% 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 Recovery6.4%
Datto ALTO3.6%
Other90.0%
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
Security Engineer at LTI Mindtree
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

"Previously, we used AppAssure; we switched to Datto ALTO because it was a better product, at the same price point."
"It stayed the same for a long time, which makes it easy to set up and easy to work with."
"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 Infrascale Dashboard is very easy to understand, has a good overview, and gives me access to all my appliances without having to have a local VPN connection to the individual clients. It makes it very easy to find my way around."
"The recovery of data is the most valuable feature. The software backup, which is just a program that gets installed on a server, can back up to the cloud. You can install that on a server or PC, and that will simply back up a user's files and folders. If it is installed on the server, we just back up the relevant data. Recovering that, if there has been a malicious attack on a business or anything like that, has been invaluable in the past. The good features about that are obviously, if the physical hardware has a problem, then we can utilize the appliance, turn on the virtual machine, and carry on running the business while we put the hardware back and correct the issue."
"For this particular client, the solution’s Critical Server Insurance feature that protects physical and virtual servers including Windows, Linux, VMware, and Hyper-V, was a very big factor as well. They have a bunch of physical servers, as well as virtual. The mix is predominantly virtual. They also have some NAS boxes that we back up using Infrascale."
"From a backup and disaster recovery perspective, it has been a night and day difference."
"Overall, this product is really solid and they're a very good company to work with."
"The initial setup was straightforward and we received support from the manufacturer."
"What I like the most about it is that backups and restores are simple, straightforward, and clean. It does not require six people to get involved in order to do a restore or perform a backup."
 

Cons

"Technical support was superior when it was owned independently."
"Their margin from what they're wholesale and their MSRP is kind of tight for people who have to manage it."
"I think they could increase security. I would like to see more features for the section on the viruses and maybe another in reference to two-factor authentication."
"The pricing model that they recently changed to is a little bit complicated, and the biggest area for improvement is a better way of figuring out how to price it."
"There could be some room for improvement in the on-premises hardware selection. It is hard for them to deploy a lot of different hardware options. Depending on footprint size and overall capabilities, that is where there could be some flexibility in some cases. However, it is not a deal-breaker."
"I'm a little bit disappointed that over the last year and a half, there hasn't been too much contact from them regarding what's going to be new or coming out."
"There is room for improvement by making the interface a little more intuitive when navigating to recover flat files or an old server."
"The performance of support can definitely be improved with easier on-call support features for P1 and P2 incidents."
"I would like to be able to limit the bandwidth in cases, for example, where we are uploading the backup."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"If you have a small server, it's approximately $100 per month."
"The licensing is based on how much data you have plus what appliances you need."
"You get unlimited clients and buy a bucket of space. In addition to the standard fees there were setup fees."
"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."
"Our licensing fees are billed every four months."
"The pricing is fair, and they are interested in working with MSPs as part of their market."
"They are incredibly fair and willing to work with their partners to make their pricing work for both partners and the end users."
"It is super competitive. It is worth taking a look at it from a licensing and pricing perspective."
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Top Industries

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Construction Company
13%
Healthcare Company
12%
Outsourcing Company
12%
Financial Services Firm
10%
 

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
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Small Business22
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise6
 

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Infrascale Platform?
The pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Infrascale Backup & Disaster Recovery have been handled by the account manager and leadership. The discussions regarding the pricing and licensing cos...
What needs improvement with Infrascale Platform?
In terms of how Infrascale Backup & Disaster Recovery can be improved, I can suggest using the recovery time objective system, where current state systems can be restored in about zero downtime...
What is your primary use case for Infrascale Platform?
My main use case for Infrascale Backup & Disaster Recovery is that day-to-day, we never use it; we use it only yearly once. I can give you a quick, specific example of a time when I used Infras...
 

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ALTO
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