Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup vs Nutanix Mine Integrated Backup [EOL] comparison

Hornetsecurity and Nutanix are both solutions in the Backup and Recovery category. Additionally, 96% of Hornetsecurity users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 50% of Nutanix users who would recommend it.

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50% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 23, 2025

Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup and Nutanix Mine Integrated Backup [EOL] both serve the virtual machine backup sector. Altaro is generally preferred for affordability and user satisfaction, while Nutanix Mine was valued for its enterprise-level features.

Features: Altaro offers seamless live VM backups, offsite replication, and granular restore options, supporting Hyper-V and VMware environments with ease of use and setup reliability. Nutanix Mine integrated well with Nutanix's platform, provided rapid recovery, and supported feature-rich data protection.

Room for Improvement: Altaro could improve its Linux file-level restore, expand to physical machine backups, and enhance scalability and pricing. Nutanix Mine faced limitations in scalability, cloud integration, and security protocols.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Altaro provides a hybrid cloud and on-premise solution, praised for excellent customer support with helpful responses. Nutanix Mine offered flexible deployment but had varied customer service experiences.

Pricing and ROI: Altaro is competitively priced, delivering substantial ROI, making it attractive for small businesses. Nutanix Mine was more expensive, suitable for larger enterprises, but high initial costs and scalability issues could impact its value for smaller setups.

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Categories and Ranking

Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Ba...

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Backup and Recovery (30th), Cloud Backup (28th), Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (18th)

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Average Rating

7.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Featured Reviews

Asif Usmani

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…

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Ingvar Ingason

Channel Sales Manager at Arrow Electronics

An affordable product that offers a reasonably good technical support

I rate the product's initial setup phase an eight on a scale of one to ten, where one is a difficult setup phase, and ten is an easy setup phase. The product's installation phase took me around two weeks. On average, it usually takes about a week or two to deploy when everything is in place. The solution is deployed on a hybrid cloud from Azure.

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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 initial setup was very straightforward, as the software installs easily, is very easy to configure and has a nice GUI."

"I find the solution to be user-friendly and easy to manage and deploy."

"The ease of use of the solution is its most valuable feature."

"No other product offers these features for this price."

"Altaro is always our go-to VM backup software."

"I could create VM backups from live machines without any issues."

"Since moving to Altaro, we feel that backing up and restoring files has become much more efficient in our organization."

"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."

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"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten...Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten...I rate the technical support a nine out of ten."

"Nutanix has its own backup system known as HYCU, as well as its own virtual server."

"I like the autofill-over feature and the simplicity of the solution."

"We use this solution as an integrated backup solution and it is integrated from the backup provider to the Nutanix solution."

"Our primary use case for the solution is to back up our devices and equipment for employees and some equipment in airport software."

"We use this solution as an integrated backup solution and it is integrated from the backup provider to the Nutanix solution."

"Nutanix, in my opinion, will eventually take over."

"Nutanix can converge legacy-style rack mount servers, so it is highly scalable."

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Cons

"The scalability of the solution is limited."

"We use Linux guests on Hyper-V clusters and we really need the file level restore on these VMs (ext3 and 4 file systems) functionality."

"The scalability of the solution is limited."

"If you look into the performance of a virtual machine and you look to the performance of the physical machine, the correlation between these is totally unclear."

"Basically, how it works is that you have a single local drive, and then you have a cloud backup. It'd be nice if you could rotate the single local backup drive. As of now, you can't."

"The replication time between virtual machines is slow."

"Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup could be improved in several areas, such as enhancing scalability features and possibly reducing the price."

"I did not manage to import my old configuration, in v4, into v5 just after it what was released, however, I believe this functionality has been improved."

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"The pricing could be improved. It's an expensive solution."

"This solution could be improved with regards to the hosts that integrate with the platform itself. Each of the hosts integrated with the storage and networking only provide one instance of a backup."

"Nutanix is not secure enough, and it needs to be more resilient."

"I would like to see the multi-cloud improve."

"The solution could be cheaper and they should include more education or marketing materials for users to understand how to use the solution."

"The price of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."

"The solution's setup process should be simplified."

"It could be cheaper."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"No other product offers these features for this price. The ROI is great."

"There is a free version for two VMs. I would advise to study the deployment environment well, prior to committing to order a license per host."

"The pricing is okay,"

"Altaro had the best prices and ROI in the whole bunch that we evaluated."

"Altaro VM Backup is affordably priced. It is a best value for its price and has almost every feature that an expensive, popular product offers."

"There is a free version for Hosts with 2 VMs."

"The price is great for the utility you get and the licensing has never caused any issues with my company."

"VMware is a little pricey, but it is a good solution and priced similar to other products."

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"While Nutanix Mine is extremely expensive for small businesses, it is a very cost-effective product for enterprise businesses."

"I rate the pricing a five out of ten because the price is average."

"Nutanix Mine Integrated Backup is fairly priced."

"On a scale of one to ten, where one is affordable or low, and ten is expensive or high, I rate the price as two."

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10%

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Company Size

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Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	22
Midsize Enterprise	4
Large Enterprise	4

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Small Business	4
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	3

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.

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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.

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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...

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Overview

Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup is a powerful, reliable and easy-to-use backup and replication solution for Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware virtual machines (VMs) and physical Windows servers, to protect against enterprise data loss. The award-winning solution provides robust, streamlined and enterprise-level functionality.

Reduce downtime and data loss: Thanks to Continous Data Protection (CDP) and WAN-optimized replication, your backup files are available in just minutes in the event of a data loss scenario and you can continue working as usual. The solution’s unique Augmented Inline Deduplication also gives you massive savings on your backup storage and dramatically reduces costs.

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Nutanix Mine Integrated Backup is a turnkey solution that makes backup infrastructure simple and invisible by combining the Nutanix Cloud Platform technology with leading enterprise backup software for dedicated data backup and recovery.

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Thomson Reuters, Microsoft, Amazon, Harvard University, MIT, Peugeot, Xerox

JetBlue, International Speedway Corporation, SAIC Volkswagen

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