Best Disaster Recovery Software (2026): Top 10 Compared

Zerto is a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, and the product is now sold as HPE Zerto Software. It replicates every write from protected virtual machines to a recovery site in near real time and stores recent changes in a journal. Recovery can then target any checkpoint in that journal, which Zerto says are separated by only 5 to 15 seconds.

The software groups VMs into application-level units so a multi-VM application fails over in a consistent state. Supported platforms on Zerto's site include VMware vSphere, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, IBM Cloud and Oracle Cloud. Real-time encryption detection flags suspicious write patterns as a ransomware warning, and immutable copies can be kept in Azure Blob, Amazon S3 or S3-compatible storage. HPE also sells a Cyber Resilience Vault built around Zerto for air-gapped recovery.

Zerto also positions the same replication for data center and cloud migrations, and sells through managed service providers that offer Zerto-based DRaaS.

AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery, often shortened to AWS DRS, replicates servers from on-premises data centers, other clouds or another AWS Region into a staging area subnet in the customer's own AWS account. The staging area uses low-cost storage and minimal compute to keep replication running until it is needed.

Administrators configure replication and launch settings in the AWS Management Console, monitor replication status and run non-disruptive drills. When a drill or recovery starts, the service converts the servers to boot and run natively on AWS and launches them from the latest state or an earlier point in time. Once the primary site is back, data can be replicated back and the workload failed back.

AWS recommends Business or Enterprise Support for production use. Because the fee is charged only while servers replicate, it suits teams that want a recovery site without leasing secondary hardware or signing a multi-year contract.

Azure Site Recovery is Microsoft's disaster recovery service in the Azure Recovery Services family, alongside Azure Backup. It replicates workloads running on Azure VMs, on-premises Hyper-V and VMware VMs and Windows or Linux physical servers to a secondary location, fails them over during an outage and fails them back once the primary site recovers.

Microsoft Learn states that the service provides continuous replication for Azure and VMware VMs and replication as frequent as every 30 seconds for Hyper-V. Data replicated to Azure is stored in Azure storage, and Azure VMs are created from it at failover. Recovery plans keep multi-tier applications consistent, and integration with Azure Traffic Manager can shorten recovery time further.

A High Churn option supports Azure VMs with data change rates up to 100 MB/s, and up to 500 MB/s in qualifying configurations. VMware replication to Azure uses an updated replication appliance in place of the older configuration server.

Veeam Data Platform is sold in three editions. Foundation covers backup and recovery for every workload, Advanced adds proactive monitoring, analytics and threat insights, and Premium is described as orchestrated recovery and full cyber resilience. The edition comparison lists instant verified recovery, broad hypervisor support and continuous data protection among the platform's resilience capabilities.

For disaster recovery specifically, the recovery orchestration and compliance group covers orchestrated recovery, validation testing, GRC audit reporting and compliance documentation. Veeam Vault, a secure cloud storage add-on, provides an offsite copy, and Veeam lists disaster recovery to cloud among its use cases.

Licences are metered per workload under the Veeam Universal License, which can move between virtual, physical and AWS, Azure or Google Cloud workloads. Veeam also points buyers to Veeam-powered BaaS and DRaaS providers for a managed recovery site.

Commvault Cloud is Commvault's unified data protection and cyber recovery platform, powered by its Metallic AI engine. It can be consumed as SaaS, as on-premises software or as an integrated appliance.

Disaster recovery sits in the Autonomous Recovery package, which adds continuous replication and automated failover to a secondary site on top of the Operational Recovery package. LiveSync replicates data to alternative sites without affecting production. Commvault describes recovery runbooks, instant VM recovery and IntelliSnap snapshot integration for low recovery points on databases.

Commvault Cleanroom provides an on-demand isolated recovery environment hosted in Microsoft Azure for testing and forensics after ransomware. Cloud Rewind rebuilds cloud environments, including configurations and dependencies, rather than restoring data alone.

Rubrik Security Cloud is Rubrik's data security and protection platform. The address that once hosted Orchestrated Application Recovery now serves Rubrik Cyber Recovery, which focuses on returning applications and data to a clean state after a cyberattack or disaster.

Recovery Simulation lets teams create, test and validate recovery plans in isolated environments. Threat Containment isolates infected snapshots so malware is not restored with the data. Recovery runs through guided workflows at file, object, application or system level, scaling from a few files to hundreds of VMs, and Rubrik reports execution time and generates compliance reports. Post-attack forensics can run in isolated environments.

Rubrik Cloud Vault, a managed, immutable and air-gapped offsite copy on Azure or AWS, adds a separate recovery location. Rubrik has also published continuous data protection for VMware with near-zero recovery points.

Druva is a SaaS data protection platform whose cloud DR uses the same backups it already holds. For on-premises VMware, Druva describes one-click recovery into any AWS region with a recovery point of about an hour and a recovery time of minutes, plus failback to the source data center or to VMware Cloud on AWS.

For AWS-native workloads, Druva recovers Amazon EC2 and RDS resources across regions or accounts and can clone AWS environments so restored resources run in an identical setup. Automated runbook execution and unlimited testing are aimed at DR audit and compliance requirements.

Beyond DR, Druva protects data center workloads such as VMware, Nutanix, Hyper-V and Proxmox VMs, file servers and databases, public cloud services, Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Salesforce, endpoints and identity systems including Entra ID, Active Directory and Okta.

Arcserve Unified Data Protection (UDP) combines backup and recovery with disaster recovery features for on-premises, virtual, hyperconverged and cloud workloads. It supports VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV and Proxmox with agentless and agent-based options.

For DR, UDP offers instant VM and bare-metal recovery, local and remote virtual standby, and reusable recovery runbooks that automate how systems are restored, tested and validated. Scheduled testing produces SLA reports that compare target recovery times with actual ones. The ArcGenie assistant in the Arcserve Console adds AI anomaly detection on backup behavior and guided troubleshooting.

Arcserve also sells Ransomware Protection and Recovery Suites built on UDP Premium. The Core suite adds immutable offsite cloud storage and recovery validation, and the Pro suite adds scheduled DR runbook tests and dedicated disaster recovery guidance. UDP can run on AWS, Azure and other clouds.

Datto, a Kaseya company, defines SIRIS as an all-in-one business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) solution. A SIRIS appliance backs up physical, virtual and cloud systems locally and replicates them to the Datto Cloud.

When a system fails, SIRIS can virtualize it instantly on the local appliance or in the Datto Cloud, and administrators can restore entire systems or individual files. Datto describes verified backups and highly available cloud infrastructure behind those recoveries.

Security features listed on the SIRIS page include immutable backups, hardened appliances, end-to-end encryption, geographically distributed cloud storage, ransomware detection, forced two-factor authentication, role-based access control and patented Cloud Deletion Defense. The page addresses MSPs directly, presenting the $0 hardware offer as a way to standardize DR across all client accounts.

Unitrends DRaaS is a managed disaster recovery service layered on Unitrends backup appliances and the Unitrends Cloud. Unitrends experts perform custom implementation, testing, failover and recovery, spinning up designated servers or VMs in the Unitrends Cloud from a pre-planned runbook after a single call.

The service comes in four options on annual contracts. Premium DRaaS provides a contractually guaranteed 1-hour RTO with weekly Recovery Assurance testing and automated reports. Elite provides a 24-hour RTO SLA with monthly testing. Standard offers full failover for selected servers on a best-effort SLA, and Unlimited covers any number of systems based on Forever Cloud protected capacity, also best effort. Tiers can be combined so critical servers receive faster coverage.

Unitrends, also a Kaseya brand, pairs the service with hardened backup appliances, ransomware detection and an immutable cloud.