Azure Site Recovery vs IBM Disaster Recovery Services comparison

Microsoft and IBM are both solutions in the Disaster Recovery as a Service category. Microsoft is ranked #3 with an average rating of 8.0, while IBM is ranked #5 with an average rating of 10.0. Microsoft holds a 23.2% mindshare in DRS, compared to IBM’s 2.9% mindshare. Additionally, 92% of Microsoft users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of IBM users who would recommend it.

Azure Site Recovery

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92% willing to recommend

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100% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 14, 2024

IBM Disaster Recovery Services and Azure Site Recovery compete in the disaster recovery category. Azure Site Recovery seems to have the upper hand due to its comprehensive features and integration capabilities, outweighing potential pricing concerns.

Features: IBM Disaster Recovery Services offers high availability, managed services, and strong server and data protection. Azure Site Recovery provides automatic replication, monitoring, and seamless integration with Microsoft tools, emphasizing automated processes and easy compatibility as key strengths.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Azure Site Recovery enables smooth cloud integration with intuitive deployment models and extensive documentation. Its customer service, while sometimes facing delays, offers efficient online resources. IBM Disaster Recovery Services presents a more hands-on approach with tailored service options, leading to longer deployment times but more personalized support.

Pricing and ROI: IBM Disaster Recovery Services generally has lower setup costs with an attractive ROI for large-scale deployments due to tailored solutions. Azure Site Recovery's setup costs are higher but provide increased ROI over time through scalable solutions and automated processes, delivering extended value in the long term.

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Categories and Ranking

Azure Site Recovery

Ranking in Disaster Recovery as a Service

3rd

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

IBM Disaster Recovery Services

Ranking in Disaster Recovery as a Service

5th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

8.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2025, in the Disaster Recovery as a Service category, the mindshare of Azure Site Recovery is 23.2%, up from 22.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of IBM Disaster Recovery Services is 2.9%, up from 2.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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RituparnaBhattacharya

Senior Infrastructure Engineer at MIC Global

The time-saving aspects allow us to write PowerShell scripts to automate failover processes

First of all, we initially faced a challenge as Azure Site Recovery was not supporting shared disk options on SQL clusters with VMs, which are important for a Windows cluster mode. Additionally, the setup is quite easy, only requiring the creation of a vault. Its time-saving aspects allow us to write PowerShell scripts to automate failover processes.

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Şefik Mert Polatay

General manager at Atlas Consulting Bilisim Hizmetleri Ltd.

Ease of use, performance, availability, and scalability

The initial setup is very easy, user-friendly, and not complex. It mostly comes with all installed, an operating system, database, and security, all included in Power Systems. So users can easily install, configure, and use it. It's integrated with other systems. You can run different systems from IBM Power Systems, AIX Linux, or IBM I operating system. It's also integrated into Windows systems and other databases and servers.

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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 most valuable features of Azure Site Recovery are its ease of use and speed of recovery."

"Azure Site Recovery helps to save costs."

"We use the tool for business continuity purposes."

"What I love about Azure Site Recovery is its simplicity for basic configurations."

"It’s native to Azure and does exactly what it’s designed to do—recover one site to another without creating all the VMs on that site. This helps reduce costs on the secondary site."

"The solution is very easy to use."

"They're moving a lot of their workload to cloud and aiming for a seamlessly integrated product."

"The features I find most valuable in Azure Site Recovery include the test failover, which allows us to test our site recovery without bringing down the primary; disaster recovery provides that feature."

More Azure Site Recovery pros

"The initial setup is very easy and user-friendly."

"The solution works well for very large organizations. It can scale quite well."

"Disaster Recovery Services is stable."

Cons

"The solution needs to improve replication and failover processes. We are still looking for improvements in the cost baseline."

"It could include more of a backup and recovery."

"One area for improvement with Azure is helping customers predict usage more accurately."

"The support team took a lot of time to respond and was not very professional."

"I would like to see more security features."

"we lack a straightforward method to automate the restart of services, which can be quite time-consuming."

"When it runs, it runs well but when it doesn't run, the solution needs to make it clearer as to why and what the troubleshooting process is. All this would be possible if the error logging was streamlined a bit."

"I conveyed the feedback to the agent, suggesting an increase in the agent count in our VNS in the USA. I also addressed notification concerns, as some issues didn't trigger alerts during a recent call."

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"The infrastructure level of IBM's recovery systems could be improved."

"Disaster Recovery Services could provide better value for money."

"Stability could always be better."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Azure Site Recovery is neither very expensive nor very cheap."

"Azure Site Recovery is affordable."

"I'm not sure about the Azure Site Recovery pricing, but my organization gets monthly bills from providers."

"Azure Site Recovery is a very reasonably priced product."

"It should have more straightforward billing. The billing was what got funky. It was really cheap. We would pay based on the usage. We paid around $225 a month for site-to-site replication."

"The tool's licensing is yearly and not expensive."

"They have a license to pay."

"The tool is expensive. What is expensive to me might not be expensive to you. As I mentioned, we seek ways to reduce our costs. If the price goes down, that would be great. I rate the tool's pricing a six out of ten."

"The pricing of the solution is based on the scale of the project or business. It's based on the server amount and the amount of data being stored. For our client, based on the amount of data they have, it may be around $20,000 USD. It could get much more expensive on the customer side."

"Disaster Recovery Services is expensive."

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Azure Site Recovery?

Azure Site Recovery allows my company to save around 30 percent of the time on every VM that we need to back up and restore.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Azure Site Recovery?

A major advantage is that you do not want to pay any more for huge costs to build a DR site. It is very flexible and will save your cost.

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What needs improvement with Azure Site Recovery?

The flexibility of Azure Site Recovery regarding integration with different IT environments is limited; it is purely an Azure platform service for business continuity, not meant for integration wit...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for IBM Disaster Recovery Services?

The pricing is perfect. It's not expensive because it's all-inclusive. The operating system, database, security, different file systems. So, overall, it's cheaper than Oracle or UNIX systems with O...

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What needs improvement with IBM Disaster Recovery Services?

Nothing, it’s almost perfect.

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What is your primary use case for IBM Disaster Recovery Services?

The use case is for high availability and disaster recovery.

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Overview

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 been recognized as a leader in DRaaS based on completeness of vision and ability to execute by Gartner in the 2018 Magic Quadrant for Disaster Recovery as a Service.

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IBM Resiliency Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) can provide end-to-end integrated services using private, public and/or hybrid cloud. IBM Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) provides continuous replication of critical applications, infrastructure, data and systems to the cloud so users can recover within minutes of an IT outage. Intelligent Orchestration offers a unified DR management approach that delivers real-time readiness validation.

IBM

Sample Customers

Russell Reynolds Associates, Union Insurance, Rackspace

i-Virtualize, QD, Continuum Managed Services LLC, Royal Arctic Line, Department of Science and Technology of the Republic of the Philippines, Idwala Industrial Holdings Limited, A-Plant c.a.r.u.s. Information Technology GmbH Hannover, eASPNet Taiwan Inc., Mobile Mini Inc., TriDatum Solutions Inc., M7 Managed Services Ltd., Hospital de la Concepci‹n

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