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Microsoft Azure Site Recovery

Composite Score

8.4 /10

CX Score

8.6 /10

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What is Microsoft Azure Site Recovery?

Help your business to keep doing business—even during major IT outages. Azure Site Recovery offers ease of deployment, cost effectiveness, and dependability. Deploy replication, failover, and recovery processes through Site Recovery to help keep your applications running during planned and unplanned outages. Site Recovery is a native disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS), and Microsoft has been recognized as a leader in DRaaS based on completeness of vision and ability to execute by Gartner in the 2019 Magic Quadrant for Disaster Recovery as a Service.

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Microsoft Azure Site Recovery Ratings

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Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

92 Likeliness to Recommend

1
Since last award

100 Plan to Renew

85 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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Emotional Footprint Overview

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+93 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love Microsoft Azure Site Recovery?

0% Negative

0% Neutral

100% Positive

Pros

Fair
Includes Product Enhancements
Helps Innovate
Reliable

Feature Ratings

Average 89

PaaS Protection

100

IaaS Protection

100

Continuous Data Protection

100

DR Testing

Data Replication

Data Encryption

Managed Services Offering

Protection Groups

Scripted DR Execution

Status Reporting

Auto-Discovery

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 87

Quality of Features

Business Value Created

Ease of Implementation

Ease of Data Integration

Ease of IT Administration

Breadth of Features

Usability and Intuitiveness

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Ease of Customization

Vendor Support

Availability and Quality of Training

Microsoft Azure Site Recovery Reviews

Rahul A.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Banking
Involvement: IT Leader or Manager

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jul 2023

Backups all your workload on Azure

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Azure Site Recovery from other similar products?

This is Azure native solutions inbuild for most of azure services. no additional integration needed

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

This is great too for file and folder level restore

What do you dislike most about this product?

Time it takes to restore whole VMs

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

If you running critical workload on Azure Vms then it is critical for your business to use backup services which is reliable.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Trustworthy

Charles W.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Technology
Involvement: End User of Application

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Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jun 2023

A Winning Choice for Microsoft Stack Users

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Azure Site Recovery from other similar products?

Microsoft Azure Site Recovery offers competitive pricing and its seamless integration with System Center makes it an attractive option, particularly for companies that have adopted the Microsoft technology stack as their standard.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

It offers flexibility in setting recovery point objectives (RPOs) and recovery time objectives (RTOs) based on the specific needs of different workloads.

What do you dislike most about this product?

While Azure Site Recovery supports a wide range of platforms, it primarily focuses on Microsoft technologies such as Hyper-V and VMware. Users with alternative platforms may face limitations or additional complexities in setting up and managing the solution.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Azure Site Recovery is a highly recommended solution for businesses aiming to safeguard important workloads running on either Hyper-V or VMware.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Reliable
Performance Enhancing
Enables Productivity

Santosh S.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Technology
Involvement: IT Leader or Manager

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Verified Reviewer

Submitted May 2023

Easy to use

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Azure Site Recovery from other similar products?

fully integration with Azure

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

ASR automates the failover and fail back process.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Robust security features

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Right choice to use this product.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Respectful
Client Friendly Policies
Fair

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Microsoft Azure Site Recovery Ratings

92 Likeliness to Recommend

1 Since last award

100 Plan to Renew

85 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

1 Since last award

Emotional Footprint Overview

+93 Net Emotional Footprint

How much do users love Microsoft Azure Site Recovery?

Pros

Feature Ratings Average rating of all product features, some of which may not be shown below

PaaS Protection Protects PaaS workloads in public cloud environments (e.g., Azure, AWS, GCP).

IaaS Protection Protects IaaS workloads in public cloud environments (e.g., Azure, AWS, GCP).

Continuous Data Protection For selected systems, changed data is replicated continuously to enable near-zero data loss (i.e., less than 30 seconds).

DR Testing Enable non-disruptive DR testing. E.g. simulate DR in a bubble network.

Data Replication Replicate data and system images to a secondary site to support recovery.

Data Encryption Encrypt data in flight and at rest.

Managed Services Offering In addition to the software service, managed services can be purchased from the vendor.

Protection Groups Organize applications/systems/VMs into groups based on recovery requirements (criticality, RTO, RPO).

Scripted DR Execution Script the failover to the DR environment based on recovery requirements (criticality, RTOs, RPOs).

Status Reporting Generate reports summarizing protected systems, DR configuration (e.g., protection groups), recovery results, and so on.

Auto-Discovery Automatically discovers physical and virtual machines as they come online, move, or change, and adds them to existing backup schedules based on set criteria

Vendor Capability Ratings Average rating of all vendor capabilities, some of which may not be shown below

Quality of Features Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

Business Value Created Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

Ease of Implementation Successfully implementing new software is necessary to realize its full value and promote end user adoption. This data indicates whether or not the product is easy to implement.

Ease of Data Integration Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.

Ease of IT Administration This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

Breadth of Features Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Usability and Intuitiveness End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement Vendors who don't stay on top of emerging needs and trends won't enable you to meet your business goals. Use this data to separate innovators from imposters.

Ease of Customization Don't get bogged down in a difficult customization; use this data to make sure you can easily achieve the functionality you need for your particular situation.

Vendor Support The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.

Availability and Quality of Training Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

Microsoft Azure Site Recovery Reviews

Rahul A.

Backups all your workload on Azure

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Charles W.

A Winning Choice for Microsoft Stack Users

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Santosh S.

Easy to use

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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Feature Ratings

PaaS Protection

IaaS Protection

Continuous Data Protection

DR Testing

Data Replication

Data Encryption

Managed Services Offering

Protection Groups

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Status Reporting

Auto-Discovery

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Quality of Features

Business Value Created

Ease of Implementation

Ease of Data Integration

Ease of IT Administration

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Usability and Intuitiveness

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Availability and Quality of Training