HPE Zerto Software vs Mozy Pro [EOL] comparison

"The simplicity of use is valuable. It is easy. We just click Failover and do it. It is pretty straightforward. If someone wants to do a test failover, they log in to the console and do a test failover"

"For most use cases, the failover time is a handful of minutes, if that. A single user can run the system."

"The most valuable for us and for my company is that we are replicating most of our production customers to the DR site, and we can do testing whenever we want."

"During a failover to a DR site, Zerto can automatically change the IP address of servers."

"Zerto dramatically decreases the amount of time it takes to do a failover; I can essentially do it all by myself and I'm one person, and it allows me to restore our environment fully in a matter of seconds, literally."

"Zerto is fast to restore our mission-critical servers when needed."

"Being hardware agnostic is nice in that we don't really need a 15 second recovery time. It's easy to use. It's always doing updates behind the scenes. These are the positive things. The setup is pretty easy. Building out the VPGs is pretty easy. And it works like it's supposed to."

"The most valuable feature is the Restore file, where you can go back in time on a file-level."

"I was using Symantec Backup Exec, and we switched because Mozy is easier to use, and the cost is less."

"The data restoration feature is the most valuable because the end user requires minimum support to recover lost data."

"The ability to kick start the service live on the users machine; I also like the graphical representations of data space."

"I've had good experience with the Mac backup client running silently and keeping files backed up."

"It is crucial for Zerto to collaborate closely with VMware in order to promptly test updates."

"In Azure... We have to make sure that every resource group is tagged correctly, with the correct team and department because we have to bill them at the end of the month. The problem is that Zerto does not have that ability. When the product fails over or migrates a VM from on-prem, or even within Azure, to another site, it does not give you the option of selecting an existing resource group."

"Near-synchronous replication has some trade-offs."

"Zerto's current reporting capabilities are insufficient for our needs."

"My only business complaint is the cost of the solution."

"The reporting could be improved in terms of the reports that you can show to auditors to prove that you have done the testing. I provide the reports that it generates now but, it would be great if, at the end of a DR test, it would generate a report of everything that Zerto did."

"There should be more comprehensive cyber recovery capabilities."

"I think Zerto could do better with size planning because it would be nice to analyze a server for a week and give an estimate on sizing the Journal."

"The selection of directories and files to back up can't be managed centrally, it has to be set on each user's computer."

"The support staff were directed to give support on specifics and to stick to the support plan; anything out of the ordinary would be a challenge."

"Automated client deployment was not straightforward and never worked for me."

"The sales support is too poor and there is no point of contact, local representatives are not in positions to assist or even provide a proposal."

"It is not cheap, but it is reasonable for what it is offering. It gives me the peace of mind that my data is protected. It is worth the cost."

"If it were easier to license, and to scale it out a little bit more economically, that'd be a godsend. At the end of the day, my druthers would be to have all 200 of our servers protected by this platform. But for a company our size, that stretches our IT budget and it just doesn't make economic sense."

"Zerto is definitely more costly compared to its competitors, such as VMware Site Recovery Manager. It may not be suitable for small and medium-sized industries."

"Its pricing is very competitive. As compared to VMware SRM, Zerto has reduced our OPEX cost by at least 30%."

"Obviously, I wish it were cheaper and more affordable. But I get what I pay for, so I can't complain."

"Pricing is kind of expensive, but for what we get, it is probably worth it. I know they just had a huge price increase due to the VMware stuff getting expensive, which added about a thousand dollars a month to our bill."

"Zerto is reasonably price for the product that you're getting. We keep on buying more licenses, so it's a good price."

"I've been told that when they originally got the quote, it was a little bit of a sticker shock. However, now that we've actually been using it for six months, I've been told that the investment was well worth it."