Druva Phoenix vs HPE Zerto Software comparison

Druva and Hewlett Packard Enterprise are both solutions in the Disaster Recovery (DR) Software category. Druva is ranked #22 with an average rating of 8.3, while Hewlett Packard Enterprise is ranked #1 with an average rating of 9.0. Druva holds a 1.3% mindshare in DRS, compared to Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s 7.9% mindshare. Additionally, 88% of Druva users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 98% of Hewlett Packard Enterprise users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 21, 2025

HPE Zerto Software and Druva Phoenix are competitors in the data management and protection sector. HPE Zerto Software is favored for its superior disaster recovery and replication abilities, while Druva Phoenix stands out with comprehensive backup features that make it cost-effective.

Features: HPE Zerto Software excels in disaster recovery with robust data replication, near real-time recovery, and journaling from various virtual environments. Druva Phoenix offers seamless cloud integration, agent-based backups, and a flexible cloud-native deployment model.

Room for Improvement: HPE Zerto Software could improve by simplifying its configuration process and reducing dependency on technical expertise. Better support for immutable backups should be considered. For Druva Phoenix, expanding support for more platforms like Hyper-V and enhancing real-time monitoring would increase its appeal. Simplifying the setup for complex environments would also enhance user experience.

Ease Of Deployment and Customer Service: HPE Zerto Software offers straightforward deployment but requires advanced configuration skills, and cloud integration is limited. Druva Phoenix boasts easy cloud-based deployment with reliable customer support, simplifying setup and management.

Pricing and ROI: HPE Zerto Software has higher initial costs, justified by its extensive feature set, and provides significant ROI for organizations prioritizing disaster recovery. In contrast, Druva Phoenix features a predictable pricing model and delivers substantial ROI through a comprehensive service suite, minimizing the need for additional tools.

To learn more, read our detailed Druva Phoenix vs. HPE Zerto Software Report (Updated: January 2026).

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Druva Phoenix

Ranking in Cloud Backup

31st

Ranking in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software

22nd

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Disaster Recovery as a Service (7th), SaaS Backup (12th)

HPE Zerto Software

Ranking in Cloud Backup

2nd

Ranking in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software

1st

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

345

Ranking in other categories

Backup and Recovery (2nd), Cloud Migration (1st)

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2026, in the Disaster Recovery (DR) Software category, the mindshare of Druva Phoenix is 1.3%, up from 0.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of HPE Zerto Software is 7.9%, down from 10.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Disaster Recovery (DR) Software Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
HPE Zerto Software	7.9%
Druva Phoenix	1.3%
Other	90.8%

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Featured Reviews

ZubeenAhmad

Tam Adobe at Murdoch Webster

Cloud backup has reduced storage costs and now delivers fast, reliable data recovery

My overall experience in this field is seven years. The deployment model I have chosen for Druva Phoenix is mostly cloud-based backup. Government authorities and government customers majorly opt for on-premises deployment, but we have a very limited customer segment from that area. Druva Phoenix primarily operates on a private cloud, with some customers utilizing hybrid cloud solutions. If I assess the effectiveness of backup features in Druva Phoenix, particularly in minimizing operational disruptions, I would rate it as a very strong 9 or 9.5 on a scale of 10. I am not using Druva Data Security Cloud. My overall review rating for Druva Phoenix is 9.

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David Riberdy

Enterprise data management supervisor at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

An all-in-one and cost-efficient solution that does what it promises

Zerto is very easy to use. Installation is about half an hour, and then it starts protecting the data and VMs. It is not very cumbersome. The UI is built very well. It is fairly self-explanatory. To be able to stand up a product you have never seen in half an hour and get it functioning and protecting speaks to how good the UI and workflow are. Zerto has near-synchronous replication. As a change is made on site A, it gets copied across the network to site B. We are five or six seconds behind production. If I have a heavily used system and I use traditional backups, I could be anywhere from 5 minutes to 23 hours behind. With Zerto, I am single-digit seconds behind. That works well for us. Our disaster recovery test, which used to span an entire week, now takes two days. We used to recover our servers in the first two or three days with a backup product and then test for two days before tearing it all down. Now, we spend half a day on new servers and ensuring things work with networking, etc. We test the next day, and we are done in two days. Across the entire company, we are able to save significant man-hours by shortening the test from a week to two days. We are now doing smaller tests once a month and larger tests once a year. Zerto has reduced our DR testing time by 60% to 70%. We are also able to do more disaster recovery testing. Previously, we were doing it once a year, whereas now, we are doing smaller tests once a month and our large tests once a year. In recovery point objectives, we are single-digit seconds behind. In terms of RTOs, I can recover 350 VMs in 30 minutes. It takes less than several seconds to restore a single VM. From days to 30 minutes for 350 compared to 100 VMs is an incredible time-saving in terms of RTOs and RPOs for us.

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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

"I found the cost-effectiveness of Druva Phoenix to be its most valuable feature, especially when compared to on-premises backup solutions."

"Once you set it up and you tell it exactly what needs to be backed up, you literally forget about it. It sends you emails and notifications of the current status of the jobs."

"The best features of Druva Phoenix include comprehensive backup capabilities where you can back up your data with agent plus backup, deploy the proxy, and integrate your VMs to take your backup."

"Druva Phoenix provides a return on investment and operational cost reductions after implementation."

"The initial setup was very straightforward."

"One of the best features in Druva Phoenix for me personally is that it is an air-gapped environment, where you can keep cloud backup on a separate air-gapped environment and save from any kind of ransomware attack, and it is a ransomware safer environment because a customer gets a separate environment."

"The most valuable features of Druva Phoenix are the simple portal to log in and flexibility."

"It's patch-based, so you don't have to bother about the backup server or the repository."

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"I've used backup solutions like Veeam in the past, but Zerto seemed like a better, faster solution. We adopted Zerto because of the speed, and because we wanted to do everything in-house."

"It reduced the time for DR tests from the infrastructure side. Being able to get our work done in a matter of a couple of minutes so the app teams can get to work and can do their testing has been significant."

"The replication being log-based is awesome."

"It protect and provide DR."

"The most valuable feature is the point in time recovery. This allows us to recover at any point in time, up to a minute or so."

"The features I appreciate most about HPE Zerto Software include their journal replication, which is a faster replication technology than what else is available."

"The most valuable features are the continuous streaming, that it takes very little CPU usage — it doesn't affect production — and the recovery time is very short."

"The most valuable feature of Zerto is its overall flexibility, where it can be used for standard DR or you can also use it for server migrations, data center consolidations, etc."

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Cons

"Druva Phoenix should include a few reporting features that it doesn't provide currently."

"The ransomware features are limited in Druva. There's a lot of improvement needed. It should extend to Nutanix and Hyper-V. It should extend to Azure as well."

"Druva Phoenix is optimized to work with x86 platforms, making it unsuitable for backing up non-x86 architectures like AIX. The solution is primarily designed for physical Linux and Windows systems based on the x86 architecture, as well as virtualized Windows and Linux environments. However, if you have an AIX system, it cannot be deployed in the cloud, and therefore, backing it up in the cloud is not a concern."

"Deploying it in a hybrid cloud model involves some minor complexities, though nothing represents a significant challenge."

"The product's pricing needs to be improved."

"They were very much responsive a few years back, but in the last one or two years, I believe the responsiveness has gone down."

"There is room for improvement in the reporting aspect of Druva Phoenix."

"They were able to give us a very reasonable price considering we were non-for-profit organizations, however, there is always room for improvement on that cost."

"One issue we've been having with Zerto lately is the ability to go into maintenance mode during vSphere upgrades. It doesn't have the hook into the lifecycle manager of the bump. During vCenter or ESXi upgrades, it causes VCF to fail its pre-checks because the machine doesn't power off and go into maintenance mode. It's been an issue since version 7.5 and it's impacting a basic automation function in vSphere."

"I would like to have more granular notifications for jobs and workloads within the applying case application."

"Not all of the knowledge required for implementing Zerto is available in their online documentation for non-partners."

"This solution could be improved by including some sort of compression or de-duplication for the same type of files."

"When it comes to a solution, one of the things the management wants is to standardize platforms. That's why when Rubrik came out with their solution, they wanted to look at it. For instance, if you have multiple technologies, you're going to need admins to manage all those different ones. I would like Zerto to be something that fits all our needs, including the backup that Rubrik provides, but I understand that not all solutions can be that way."

"Zerto gets most of the way there and would work for a smaller enterprise effectively, but for a larger enterprise, Veeam has capabilities that are beyond Zerto at this point."

"If I had to pick anything, it would be the documentation for upgrades. They need to make it easier for users to do upgrades without having to contact support, by providing better documentation for that."

"Some of the integrations with our internal tools, in particular, company-specific ones, do not work. In cases like this, we have to ask for additional support."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"We’ve had experience with the data center for a while and we have had solutions that were able to support older versions of the operating systems that we needed. I would like for Druva to support it as well."

"It's very costly. Normal people wouldn't understand how their credits are calculated. It's pretty complex."

"I assume clients use Druva Phoenix because it is cheaper than other products."

"Druva Phoenix's pricing is based on the service provided, and it's reasonable. The cost of the service will depend on the size of your data and the number of virtual machines being backed up. However, the pricing structure is straightforward and easy to understand."

"It is not the cheapest option on the market, but it offers a number of features that make it a good value for businesses that need a comprehensive disaster recovery plan."

"Its pricing is way better than Veeam."

"You are getting what you pay for, as this is a solution that requires minimal management after it is configured."

"The pricing seems really good. We're an enterprise customer, so we get all the bells and whistles."

"Zerto is a little bit expensive [for our budget] but as far as the value that it provides, it is completely justified by all of the savings."

"Zerto's pricing is competitive, given the benefits and ease of setting it up. It may seem more expensive upfront, but you're going to save that over the long term by spending less engineering time configuring, reconfiguring, etc."

"They should adjust the pricing because I feel its price is too much. If they reduce the price, there will be more users and customers."

"Zerto previously had a perplexing licensing structure, but they have since resolved it by implementing a unified license."

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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company

13%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Financial Services Firm

Marketing Services Firm

Computer Software Company

10%

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Manufacturing Company

Healthcare Company

Company Size

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Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	6
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	2

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	90
Midsize Enterprise	87
Large Enterprise	197

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Druva Phoenix?

While Druva Phoenix is a good solution for a cloud-to-cloud environment, such as moving from AWS to another AWS, I see complexity when a customer wants to move from a physical environment or a phys...

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What is your primary use case for Druva Phoenix?

Druva Phoenix is for server backups on cloud, which is the deployment model chosen by my customers. While Druva Phoenix is a good solution for a cloud-to-cloud environment, such as moving from AWS ...

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What advice do you have for others considering Druva Phoenix?

Many customers use Druva Phoenix's continuous data protection feature, but not for Phoenix. Not for Phoenix because Phoenix is server backups, and you generally do not keep continuous backup for se...

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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?

From a pricing perspective, HPE Zerto Software is expensive in comparison to other products on the market, but I think it is an easier sell because it works so well and it is so easy to set up a de...

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Also Known As

CloudRanger

Zerto Virtual Replication

Overview

Druva Phoenix is a comprehensive cloud-based data protection and management solution that enables organizations to securely backup, recover, and manage their data across endpoints, physical servers, virtual machines, and cloud applications. With its scalable and flexible architecture, Druva Phoenix simplifies data protection and eliminates the need for traditional backup infrastructure.

By leveraging the power of the cloud, Druva Phoenix offers organizations a cost-effective and efficient way to protect their critical data. It provides automated backup and recovery capabilities, ensuring that data is always protected and easily recoverable in the event of a disaster or data loss. With its global deduplication and compression technology, Druva Phoenix minimizes storage requirements and reduces costs.

Druva Phoenix also offers advanced features such as point-in-time recovery, allowing organizations to restore data to a specific point in time, and granular file-level recovery, enabling users to recover individual files or folders. Its intuitive web-based console provides a centralized view of all protected data, making it easy to manage and monitor backups across the entire organization.

In addition to data protection, Druva Phoenix offers comprehensive data management capabilities. It enables organizations to gain insights into their data through advanced analytics and reporting, helping them make informed decisions and optimize their storage resources. Druva Phoenix also supports legal and compliance requirements by providing eDiscovery capabilities and ensuring data is retained and disposed of according to regulatory guidelines.

With its cloud-native architecture, Druva Phoenix offers organizations the flexibility to protect and manage their data across a wide range of environments, including on-premises, remote offices, and cloud applications such as Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace. It seamlessly integrates with popular cloud platforms like AWS and Azure, allowing organizations to leverage their existing cloud investments.

Druva

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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