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Microsoft Azure Site Recovery

Composite Score
8.4 /10
CX Score
8.6 /10
Category
Microsoft Azure Site Recovery
8.4 /10

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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Awards & Recognition

Microsoft Azure Site Recovery won the following awards in the Disaster Recovery Orchestration category

Microsoft Azure Site Recovery Ratings

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
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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

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100 Plan to Renew

85 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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Emotional Footprint Overview

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.

+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

94

Data Replication

90

Data Encryption

89

Managed Services Offering

88

Protection Groups

88

Scripted DR Execution

86

Status Reporting

85

Auto-Discovery

75

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 87

Quality of Features

91

Business Value Created

89

Ease of Implementation

89

Ease of Data Integration

88

Ease of IT Administration

88

Breadth of Features

88

Usability and Intuitiveness

85

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

85

Ease of Customization

84

Vendor Support

84

Availability and Quality of Training

84

Microsoft Azure Site Recovery Reviews

Harry E.

  • Role: Sales Marketing
  • Industry: Manufacturing
  • Involvement: End User of Application
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Dec 2022

Protect and recovers after even huge disaster

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Azure Site Recovery from other similar products?

The best-to-best solution that we deployed and used as a DR solution was Azure Site Recovery (ASR). To enable your DR solution for your business applications, ASR offers a number of options. Azure RTO is really quick, and it includes a number of options and internal integration that make managing the infrastructure simple. We also employed a backup and disaster recovery service.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

With lightning-fast efficiency, Azure Site Recovery builds copies of virtual machines that are utilized in other parts of the business and adds all the data to the active physical servers. As a result, the data cannot be changed by outside parties, and since it is so secure, many database systems can be examined.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Although AWS EC2 is supported as the primary location, it only works one way, making failback impossible. It is helpful for moving away from AWS but not for boosting resilience. Failure to return from Azure can consume a lot of outbound traffic and raise your monthly Azure charges. Due to the complexity of the VMWare arrangement, extra servers must be deployed locally.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

With Azure Site Recovery, you can set your production practices to fail over to a different site using a fail step-over strategy, keeping your business operational. The description claims that the solution can be utilized with both physical servers and virtual machines from VMware and AWS, which is also fantastic.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Enables Productivity

Emely P.

  • Role: Information Technology
  • Industry: Technology
  • Involvement: End User of Application
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Sep 2022

Take good care of your data with Azure site.

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Azure Site Recovery from other similar products?

Utilizing and testing Azure Site Recovery is quite simple. It is initially set up simply for region-to-region redundancy, but you can quickly customize it for each virtual machine to suit your needs. Compared to many other goods, it is considerably more straightforward and simple for using.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

The fact that Azure Site Recovery continues to support a variety of infrastructure models for working with data both individually and in groups, as well as the way that its artificial intelligence guarantees that there won't be any errors occurs documents of any type that are considered secret, is something I like very much.

What do you dislike most about this product?

The service cannot be reproduced in services hosted on-premises and can only be transferred to Azure. It looks that site failover is manual and involves some effort. The storage space on each drive is subject to some restrictions as well. With the exception of the easiest disaster recovery instances, you require IT-level knowledge. Additionally, for multi-VM deployments, system center virtual machine manager is necessary.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

With lightning-fast efficiency, Azure Site Recovery builds copies of virtual machines that are utilized in other parts of the business and adds all the data to the active physical server. Since it is so safe, the information cannot be changed by outside parties. It is among the most advanced cloud products now on the marketplace, in our perspective, and it offers a set of back-up, disaster recovery, and reporting capabilities that are simple to use. And all of these at a very reasonable cost.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing

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