HYCU vs. HPE Zerto Software

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
HYCU
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
HYCU is a SaaS Data Protection platform that delivers SaaS-based data backup, recovery, and ransomware protection for on-prem, cloud, and SaaS environments serving vendors globally.N/A
HPE Zerto Software
Score 8.7 out of 10
Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
HPE Zerto Software aims to enable customers to run an always-on business by simplifying the protection, recovery, and mobility of on-premises and cloud applications.N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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Community Pulse
HYCUHPE Zerto Software
Considered Both Products
HYCU
Chose HYCU
This fits Nutanix better than anything I have found. HYCU clearly focuses on personalized service. You can email, call or open a web ticketed, depending on your urgency.
Chose HYCU
I have used several backup programs, I selected 2 just to be brief. The best thing I see with HYCU over Veeam is that it is much more difficult for an attacker if inside the network to gain access to the backups and objects saved in the backup storage.
The best part about HYCU …
Chose HYCU
We moved from VMware w/ Veeam to Hyper-V w/ Microsoft Data Protection Manager. Each backup solution worked well for its respective workload. We made the jump to AHV on Nutanix. MSFT DPM wasn’t compatible and HYCU was a better value than Veeam.
HPE Zerto Software
Chose HPE Zerto Software
I think Rubrik, VEEAM and Zerto are great products, really depends on the use case. Zerto is probably the best real time replication technology available for VMs to a single or multiple DR datacenter. They claim they have backup capabilities but they are not in the ballpark of …
Chose HPE Zerto Software
Migrations from Hyper-V to VMWare. This something VMware cloud availiblity not can do. Whit migrations from several platforms to VMWare, this is realy a missing part in VMware Cloud availity and a real + in Zerto. The RPO en RTO are almost the same, butnif you realy want 'the …
Chose HPE Zerto Software
Selected Zerto because it met our needs. Plus it was hardware agnostic. Definitely a good product with very good support.
Chose HPE Zerto Software
We initially purchased RecoverPoint and after stumbling through the installation with the consultant and realizing how clumsy and nonautomated it was we began looking elsewhere. We really disliked the amount of setup and manual configuration needed to get basic things …
Chose HPE Zerto Software
Zerto was far and away from a much better product than RecoverPoint. EMC was unable to perform near as fast and as good as Zerto and required a lot more setup and infrastructure to run.
Chose HPE Zerto Software
Zerto is a little more seamless however the price is a little higher than Veeam.
Chose HPE Zerto Software
Hands down Zerto blows VMWare SRM out of the water. The configuration is easy to setup. Managing replications are just a few short key strokes and there is an easy-to-navigate web dashboard.
Chose HPE Zerto Software
Veeam is an impressive solution, however, Zerto has a better feature set, customizable journal, and RPO timing. The price with Zerto was more competitive.
Chose HPE Zerto Software
We use VMware vSphere Replication as our disaster recovery tool for our Tier 2/3 systems. This was chosen as it saves us costs for our less critical, but still needed systems that keep our company running. Putting everything on Zerto would be great, but with this combination, …
Chose HPE Zerto Software
Zerto is best suited for critical applications that need live replication and lossless recovery. In the case of less critical VMs, we use Veeam.
Chose HPE Zerto Software
Zerto replication is a lot cheaper than any of the completion, it’s simple to set up and use, requires minimal training for users, and its simple interface and groups using VPG enables a granular setup. It just does what it says and is simple, reliable, and relatively cheap
Chose HPE Zerto Software
Zerto solves issues with snapshot-based backups and provides continuous data protection up to 14 days with an astonishing granularity. Zerto's One-2-Many can provide local and offsite backups with near real-time and fast restore of a VM
Zerto does not backup physical machines …
Chose HPE Zerto Software
With Zerto we are able to bring up environment faster and with less data loss without having to set backups every hour and replication to match
Chose HPE Zerto Software
While more expensive, Zerto does a better job of protecting our servers and keeping the RPO low. It was also supported by our financial core which was a huge factor in our adoption. However, one it was put into our system, we wanted to adopt it company wide. As long as you …
Chose HPE Zerto Software
We looked at both CommVault and NetBackup, which are similar platforms to that of the Zerto Replication Software stack. We thought the Zerto solution best met our specification needs, as well as our cost needs. The CommVault licensing was complicated, and we just have had a bad …
Chose HPE Zerto Software
We started out using Backup Exec which was in service until we virtualized our environment where it didn't perform as well at the time. Then we switched to Veeam which worked well, but then as we started needing to do migrations and off-site DR, we found ourselves relying on …
Chose HPE Zerto Software
Compared to VMware SRM, Zerto Virtual Replication is much simpler to use and is hypervisor agnostic.
Chose HPE Zerto Software
The speed of WAN replication is great. It is faster compared to RecoverPoint and 20 VMs replicating over a 20Mbps VPN, which has a RPO less than one minute. Of course, your mileage will vary.
Chose HPE Zerto Software
We used to use Veeam for our replication solution but due to the snapshot issues that we used to experience with our larger virtual machines, i.e we would encounter some lost of connectivity. We were told by two of our partners that Zerto would solve our needs and we did our …
Chose HPE Zerto Software
Zerto is easy to install and maintain. Most importantly, the replication feature with a journal that provides recovery point every few seconds cannot be found in any other software we evaluated.
Chose HPE Zerto Software
Physical recoverpoint and virtual Recovperpoint for VMware are still very basic in their feature set. Physical recoverpoint requires months of planning, installation, configuration, before systems are replicated and then protected. There is no backup feature such as Zerto, …
Chose HPE Zerto Software
Recoverpoint only handled the array level replication, and that left the VMs unaccounted for. Zerto does both.
Chose HPE Zerto Software
Zerto replicates at the hypervisor level, not the VM level like VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM). SRM replicates vms within or across vSphere clusters, but not between different hypervisors. While I only replicate from vcenter to vcenter, if we needed to replicate to a …
Features
HYCUHPE Zerto Software
Data Center Backup
Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Product A and Product B
HYCU
8.9
Ratings
5% above category average
HPE Zerto Software
8.3
Ratings
2% above category average
Universal recovery9.00 Ratings8.50 Ratings
Instant recovery5.00 Ratings8.30 Ratings
Recovery verification9.00 Ratings9.30 Ratings
Business application protection8.00 Ratings8.70 Ratings
Multiple backup destinations8.00 Ratings8.50 Ratings
Incremental backup identification9.00 Ratings8.10 Ratings
Backup to the cloud10.00 Ratings7.40 Ratings
Deduplication and file compression10.00 Ratings7.70 Ratings
Snapshots9.00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Flexible deployment9.00 Ratings8.70 Ratings
Management dashboard9.00 Ratings9.10 Ratings
Platform support10.00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Retention options10.00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Encryption10.00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Enterprise Backup
Comparison of Enterprise Backup features of Product A and Product B
HYCU
-
Ratings
HPE Zerto Software
8.3
Ratings
2% below category average
Continuous data protection00 Ratings9.50 Ratings
Replication00 Ratings8.50 Ratings
Operational reporting and analytics00 Ratings7.50 Ratings
Malware protection00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Multi-location capabilities00 Ratings9.50 Ratings
Ransomware Recovery00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Disaster Recovery
Comparison of Disaster Recovery features of Product A and Product B
HYCU
-
Ratings
HPE Zerto Software
8.3
Ratings
3% above category average
Disaster Recovery Planning00 Ratings8.70 Ratings
Hot Sites00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Disaster Recovery Testing00 Ratings9.30 Ratings
Automated Disaster Recovery00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Best Alternatives
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Small Businesses
Cove Data Protection
Cove Data Protection
Score 9.9 out of 10
Cove Data Protection
Cove Data Protection
Score 9.9 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Bacula Enterprise
Bacula Enterprise
Score 9.2 out of 10
Cove Data Protection
Cove Data Protection
Score 9.9 out of 10
Enterprises
Bacula Enterprise
Bacula Enterprise
Score 9.2 out of 10
Keepit
Keepit
Score 9.7 out of 10
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User Ratings
HYCUHPE Zerto Software
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
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8.3
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Likelihood to Renew
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8.0
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Usability
9.0
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8.0
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Support Rating
9.0
(0 ratings)
4.0
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Implementation Rating
-
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8.0
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
HYCUHPE Zerto Software
Likelihood to Recommend
It’s well suited for Nutanix AHV data protection and includes the ability for immutable backups via WORM policy. I’m unsure of its performance in environments that use Hyper-V OR VMware for virtualization. The use of tiered backups without additional policies are great when creating new VMs, even automatically assigning a default backup policy to ensure that all workloads have at least a minimal level of data protection
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Zerto is well suited for disaster recovery and virtual machine replication between multiple data centers. DR testing for audit or regulations is much easier with Zerto, great reporting, dashboard etc. It is not well suited for physical server replication for disaster recovery or as a primary backup solution.
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Pros
  • Backup of virtual machines.
  • Upload to Cloud backups.
  • Recovery of databases backed up through HYCU.
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  • It is simple to set up and use. In my opinion, one of the most important functions of a tool is its interface. If you have the best product in the world but it takes an arm and a leg to configure and a doctorate degree to use, then the product isn't worth very much.
  • The continuous replication is done very well. The failover and failback process runs smoothly.
  • This has less to do with the product than the company, but Zerto as a company really listens to their customer base. We've always had a very good interpersonal experience with their support and sales teams. Having great people behind their product is definitely one of Zerto's strengths.
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Cons
  • Better DR support guidance/best practices
  • Reporting isn’t straightforward and as customizable as I’d like
  • Including M365 backups without additional cost would be a big value add for us
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  • Moving a VM from one protection group to another could be simplified.
  • I would like to see an executive-style report of recovery and testing for upper management.
  • The ability to deploy Zerto as a virtual appliance, without the need for a windows server.
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Likelihood to Renew
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We really like the easy setup of this replication solution, as well as the ease of management. Not to mention, our internal IT Economist determined that the Zerto solution would provide the best ROI out of the competing solutions we analyzed. So far, his calculations have been spot on, and we have saved substantially
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Usability
Very simple interface. Can learn it in a day. The instances where I needed a little hand holding, I just called support and they assisted immediately. That's the best of both worlds.
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Zerto is very easy to implement and support. Uses are broad, only issues are once something doesn't sync it is difficult to get assistance until your reach tier 2 or tier 3 support. Basic file and folder recovery is great. Live and test fail overs are also easy to implement without issue.
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Support Rating
I have had several requests, and issues with the rollout and deployment of HYCU in our production environment. The HYCU team of support and developers have met each issue with importance and some kind of resolution or explanation of help. They have been so supportive even in the not so easy ones. That says something for their product and team behind it.
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Very responsive, very capable. Overall, the product is very easy to set up and configure. Problems usually encroach when lower-level components are updated for changed, for instance, vSphere. Support usually can help us work through any issues that pop up from upgrades to other software, but their own updates can lag behind a little.
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Implementation Rating
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Ease and speed of initial co figuration.
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Alternatives Considered
I have used several backup programs, I selected 2 just to be brief. The best thing I see with HYCU over Veeam is that it is much more difficult for an attacker if inside the network to gain access to the backups and objects saved in the backup storage. The best part about HYCU over Bacula is that it is much easier to use and more stable. The interface alone will save you from time and energy using other products
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Zerto solves issues with snapshot-based backups and provides continuous data protection up to 14 days with an astonishing granularity. Zerto's One-2-Many can provide local and offsite backups with near real-time and fast restore of a VM
Zerto does not backup physical machines or VMs that are turned off, but there are other products to do that.
Other backup products are stepping up with ease of deployment and small organizations would find them a little easier to use as there are fewer configuration options.
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Return on Investment
  • I trust this product to protect our organization if things go badly.
  • I am able to not lose sleep thinking about backups.
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  • DR and CyberSecurity recovery can be done in minutes or a few hours via Zerto, as opposed to days with backup/recovery.
  • DR testing and recovery can be done anytime in an isolated environment to test recoverability and functionality.
  • Zerto licensing is very affordable to protect critical business functions.
  • On-prem to cloud migrations are very quick and easy to perform.
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ScreenShots

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HPE Zerto Software Screenshots

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