BDRShield vs. Datto SaaS Protection

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
BDRShield
Score 7.0 out of 10
N/A
Vembu BDR Suite is a universal backup solution catering to the backup, recovery, and disaster recovery needs of diverse IT environments. It is also optimized for service providers who deliver BaaS and DRaaS to their customers.
$12
per year per endpoint
Datto SaaS Protection
Score 10.0 out of 10
N/A
Datto SaaS Protection is built exclusively for MSPs, offering 3x daily backup and flexible recovery options for the cloud applications that reside in Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace, including OneDrive, SharePoint, Teams, Gmail, and Google Drive. SaaS Protection aims to streamline onboarding with single dashboard management, and is available via per-license pricing with volume-based discounting for MSPs, with the goal of creating margin-rich bundled solutions for protecting cloud…N/A
Pricing
BDRShieldDatto SaaS Protection
Editions & Modules
Endpoint / Workstation Backup
$12
per year per endpoint
SaaS Backup
$12
per year per user
VMs, Servers & Cloud Backup
$48
per year per VM
Apps & DB Backup
$72
per year Apps
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
BDRShieldDatto SaaS Protection
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
BDRShieldDatto SaaS Protection
Features
BDRShieldDatto SaaS Protection
Data Center Backup
Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Product A and Product B
BDRShield
9.4
61 Ratings
10% above category average
Datto SaaS Protection
-
Ratings
Universal recovery9.850 Ratings00 Ratings
Instant recovery9.451 Ratings00 Ratings
Recovery verification9.852 Ratings00 Ratings
Business application protection8.943 Ratings00 Ratings
Multiple backup destinations9.543 Ratings00 Ratings
Incremental backup identification9.458 Ratings00 Ratings
Backup to the cloud8.536 Ratings00 Ratings
Deduplication and file compression9.748 Ratings00 Ratings
Snapshots9.545 Ratings00 Ratings
Flexible deployment9.654 Ratings00 Ratings
Management dashboard9.259 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform support9.459 Ratings00 Ratings
Retention options9.757 Ratings00 Ratings
Encryption9.651 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
BDRShieldDatto SaaS Protection
Likelihood to Recommend
6.9
(64 ratings)
8.8
(4 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.0
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
6.9
(62 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
9.0
(6 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
8.0
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
BDRShieldDatto SaaS Protection
Likelihood to Recommend
Vembu Technologies
It provides reliable daily backup tasks and it is important for us to have no worries of system crush. BDRSuite is full featured, I had been using BDRSuite to replicate servers from Hyper-v to ESXi, it's quite useful and easily to process than other VM migration tools between different platform. BDRSuite costs less than other backup product because I can decrease/increase/allocate license between VMs easily. The license charge two ways, server or VM. We choose VM license.
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Kaseya
In our experience and use of the SaaS service, it met all requirements we had. It worked really well in every single scenario that we used it for. Our company would work exclusively with Microsoft o365 so I can't speak for the Gsuite tooling. The one place I would have liked to see a bit of a facelift would be how it broke out the charge by users.
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Pros
Vembu Technologies
  • Seed an offsite backup. A simple checkbox to seed a large backup prior to backing it up to our datacenter. Previously with another well knows backup provider this was convoluted and time-consuming.
  • Backup Speed. Vembu BDR is fast and allows me to schedule multiple jobs within time constraints that prohibit some backup products from working.
  • DR - Vembu BDR provides an option to mirror your backups to an offsite datacenter without taxing production servers with a secondary backup job.
  • Bare Metal Recovery: the ability to create a custom bootable ISO that you can quickly recover a failed physical server or workstation.
  • Ease of use: The console is consistent and very easy to use. From initial install to being fully configured takes just a few minutes.
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Kaseya
  • Backup Office components
  • Allow easy restoration of files up to the entire site
  • Allows for reporting to find where backup errors have occurred so that these issues can be resolved by the user or by IT
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Cons
Vembu Technologies
  • User interface on the servers do not have enough tools to better monitor the systems and finding information is difficult.
  • User interface at portal is difficult to navigate and confusing
  • Support documentation is too generic and rarely answers my questions.
  • Licensing and acquisition. As a reseller and partner the licensing model is confusing and the portal interface to manage licensing should be scrapped and rebuilt. It is difficult to navigate and the available information is too vague.
  • Recently, communication with new channel contact. My previous contact was articulate and answered my questions.
  • Did I mention licensing? This is the most confusing and difficult process I've dealt with in 25 years. Makes Microsoft look simple.
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Kaseya
  • If possible, I'd like to give my customers the ability to retrieve their own data from my system.
  • It has to keep up with more training.
  • Google Workspace does not have access to SaaS defense.
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Likelihood to Renew
Vembu Technologies
Because of the product functions and possibilities: - it's easy to use through WEB browser - installation process is not complicated - Vembu BDR solution is reliable, and works properly. It does the job. This product could get extra points for the appliance that could be imported to virtual environment (no need for windows server license or some linux knowledge).
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Kaseya
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Usability
Vembu Technologies
Friendly web interface very clear, nicely and professionally designed. Usability, setup and forget. It has all features you need for hybrid environments even if you don't use it. You know the features are there when you needed. Email report is so informative. You get all the details about completed backup without logging in the system
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Kaseya
No answers on this topic
Support Rating
Vembu Technologies
It often takes a very long time to get an issue fixed. the support folks seem committed to getting it fixed but they often seem to be trying different things and hoping something works. I did not get the sense that they had a clear idea what was wrong.
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Kaseya
No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating
Vembu Technologies
It wasn't difficult at all, it fact, it was mostly simple, implementation doesn't require much skills and knowledge, but the configuration part does require some skills to create the jobs and configure certain settings, overall, its an easy implementation, especially for experienced IT People
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Kaseya
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
Vembu Technologies
I tested Vembu against Veeam and for the price, Vembu was the better option. I also had a great support experience as I had to contact Vembu twice after mistakes I made. While using Veeam the software was not as intuitive and support responses were not as swift and accurate.
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Kaseya
We also use Barracuda Backup to backup Office 365 for some of our clients who also use Barracuda Email security products. Each product is a tool, and it is necessary to understand each client's needs before determining which product is best for them. Having said that, Barracuda Backup and Datto SaaS are the two best products in my opinion.
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Return on Investment
Vembu Technologies
  • For organizations that use different tools for Backup and recovery, this could be the single tool for Storage and Backup Administrators to automate and work effectively.
  • Software cost is lesser thus the money can be invested for other tools/software procurement
  • I don't think there is any negative impact as of now
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Kaseya
  • Increase knowledge
  • Reduced management time
  • Availability
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ScreenShots

BDRShield Screenshots

Screenshot of EncryptionScreenshot of Multiple recovery optionsScreenshot of ReportsScreenshot of RetentionScreenshot of SchedulingScreenshot of VM Selection

Datto SaaS Protection Screenshots

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