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Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup vs Infrascale Backup & Disaster Recovery comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 11, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

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

ROI

Sentiment score
6.9
Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup enhances productivity and ROI by reducing recovery failures, troubleshooting time, and overall costs.
Sentiment score
5.9
Infrascale Backup offers a favorable ROI with quick restores, reduced downtime, and cost savings over previous solutions.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
8.3
Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup's customer service is praised for prompt, effective responses, though regional sanctions may limit access.
Sentiment score
7.3
Infrascale's support is praised for responsiveness, expertise, and personalized service, with high ratings despite initial time zone challenges.
Technical support is rated an eight out of ten.
Manager at a tech vendor with 1-10 employees
The most valuable aspects of Infrascale’s support for my company are the turnaround time and the resolution time.
President at LET US DEAL WITH IT, LLC
Their average mean time to resolve open tickets is an hour.
President at IT1 Service
The right expertise, a timely response, and being able to get to the right person to help you resolve the problem are very important.
President at a media company with 11-50 employees
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
8.3
Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup offers scalability, easy management, high reliability, but may struggle in high-end enterprise environments.
Sentiment score
5.8
<p>Infrascale Backup &amp; Disaster Recovery is scalable, adaptable, and supports diverse environments, though some face storage and hardware challenges.</p>
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.4
Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup is stable, highly rated for performance, with minimal issues, especially on Hyper-Visor systems.
Sentiment score
7.6
<p>Infrascale Backup &amp; Disaster Recovery is stable and reliable, with effective support resolving minor backup and cloud service issues.</p>
I would rate the stability a ten out of ten.
President at IT1 Service
There was a recent announcement in terms of moving Infrascale to the cloud, which makes it easier for the customer in terms of usability.
President at a media company with 11-50 employees
 

Room For Improvement

Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup needs enhancements in file restore, recovery speed, platform support, scalability, pricing, and user interface.
Users recommend enhancements in bandwidth control, licensing, data replication, hardware diversity, security, documentation, and cloud integration for Infrascale.
The solution needs multi-platform support as it is currently only available for VMware and Hyper-V.
Regional Sales Manager at S2
Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup could be improved in several areas, such as enhancing scalability features.
Manager at a tech vendor with 1-10 employees
Many customers do not rely on just one cloud provider and want to work with multiple clouds.
President at a media company with 11-50 employees
When the product works, there is really nothing to fix, but they can allow different types of backups, such as differential or incremental backups.
President at IT1 Service
 

Setup Cost

Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup is affordable, offers a free version for two VMs, and has variable regional pricing.
<p>Infrascale's Backup &amp; Disaster Recovery pricing varies, with competitive flexibility for some but challenges and negotiation needed for others.</p>
The pricing of the solution is considered affordable.
Manager at a tech vendor with 1-10 employees
The pricing and licensing cost is challenging since most competitors offer cheaper pricing, making it difficult to penetrate the market with the current pricing strategy.
Regional Sales Manager at S2
We recently renewed one of our agreements with them, and even though we were going to renew anyway, they added more margin in terms of a discount for us for renewing early.
Co-Founder | Director | CTO | vCISO | Lead Consultant Infrastructure & Cloud at UBIQUITY Ltd
To someone considering Infrascale but is concerned about the price, I would say that they should get Infrascale's service no matter what it costs because any downtime or any loss of data is substantially worse than any cost for backup.
President at IT1 Service
The per-terabyte pricing is very competitive compared to the others.
President at a media company with 11-50 employees
 

Valuable Features

Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup offers robust VM backup features, including easy setup, strong compression, and ransomware protection.
Infrascale excels in rapid recovery, flexible architecture, and user-friendly management, offering fast local or cloud data recovery.
The ability to perform data compression updates enhances overall efficiency and effectiveness.
Manager at a tech vendor with 1-10 employees
It provides storage for Office 365, which is beneficial, and the deduplication technology is excellent.
Regional Sales Manager at S2
What I like the most about it is that backups and restores are simple, straightforward, and clean.
President at IT1 Service
Performing backup and recovery can be done very intuitively with the solution and the interface that is part of the solution.
President at a media company with 11-50 employees
 

Categories and Ranking

Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Ba...
Ranking in Backup and Recovery
31st
Ranking in Cloud Backup
25th
Ranking in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software
20th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.6
Number of Reviews
31
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Infrascale Backup & Disaste...
Ranking in Backup and Recovery
25th
Ranking in Cloud Backup
18th
Ranking in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software
17th
Average Rating
9.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
17
Ranking in other categories
Disaster Recovery as a Service (6th), SaaS Backup (10th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Cloud Backup category, the mindshare of Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup is 1.2%, up from 0.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Infrascale Backup & Disaster Recovery is 1.0%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Cloud Backup Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Infrascale Backup & Disaster Recovery1.0%
Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup1.2%
Other97.8%
Cloud Backup
 

Featured Reviews

Asif Usmani - PeerSpot reviewer
Regional Sales Manager at S2
Lacks multi-platform support and physical infrastructure but excels in storage optimization
We use it for VM backup and Office 365 backup I find the solution to be user-friendly and easy to manage and deploy. It provides storage for Office 365, which is beneficial, and the deduplication technology is excellent, especially in optimizing storage capacity compared to others. In terms of…
reviewer2649186 - PeerSpot reviewer
President at a media company with 11-50 employees
Its user-friendliness and consolidated dashboard make backups and recovery very easy
Having a single dashboard makes management and monitoring easier because you do not have to log into multiple services and multiple dashboards in order to gather the same information. It is always nice to have a consolidated view of your data and how you are performing your day-to-day operations with backup and recovery if you need to recover any file. It is very easy to restore data. The user interface or the dashboard is very intuitive. It is very easy to use, making it easy to recover or replicate any files. It is extremely important for us that Infrascale has the ability to recover data from any point in time. Data is the jewel crown of any business. If you do not have the right data, you are going to face many challenges in running your business. It is important to recover and restore the right data at the right time so that it does not impact your business and your bottom line.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Comms Service Provider
9%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Government
8%
Computer Software Company
7%
Computer Software Company
12%
Healthcare Company
11%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Performing Arts
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business22
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise4
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business17
Large Enterprise1
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup?
The most valuable feature of Altaro VM Backup is its ability to backup and restore various types of data, including Active Directory, application servers, and SQL Server databases.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup?
The pricing and licensing cost is challenging since most competitors offer cheaper pricing, making it difficult to penetrate the market with the current pricing strategy.
What needs improvement with Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup?
The solution needs multi-platform support as it is currently only available for VMware and Hyper-V. It also lacks support for physical servers and workstations. Additionally, they should add more p...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Infrascale Platform?
The pricing of Infrascale Backup &amp; 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?
The only thing that I want to be released is Infrascale Backup &amp; Disaster Recovery's ability to connect to Zoho, which they're working on right now. I've been in constant communication with the...
What is your primary use case for Infrascale Platform?
I don't personally use Infrascale Backup &amp; Disaster Recovery; I resell it and have it for a client who seems to like it. They're waiting for this upgrade and update that's going to allow more c...
 

Also Known As

Altaro VM Backup
Infrascale Platform
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Thomson Reuters, Microsoft, Amazon, Harvard University, MIT, Peugeot, Xerox
MSPs servicing small and mid-size companies VARs servicing mid-sized companies Direct SMB or mid-sized companies
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