Compare Shield and Hyper-V Recovery - May 2022

Shlomi Lavi

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Bottom Line: Which is Better - Shield or Hyper-V Recovery?

Hyper-V Recovery is more expensive to implement (TCO) than Shield, and Shield is rated higher (85/100) than Hyper-V Recovery (62/100). Hyper-V Recovery offers users more features (3) than Shield (0).

Looking for the right Business Continuity solution for your business? Buyers are primarily concerned about the real total cost of implementation (TCO), the full list of features, vendor reliability, user reviews, and the pros and cons. In this article we compare between the two software products:

KingsBridge of (K.I.S.S.) Vs.

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Who is more expensive? Shield or Hyper-V Recovery?

The real total cost of ownership (TCO) of Business Continuity software includes the software license, subscription fees, software training, customizations, hardware (if needed), maintenance and support and other related services. When calculating the TCO, it's important to add all of these ”hidden costs” as well. We prepared a TCO (Total Cost) calculator for Shield and Hyper-V Recovery.

Shield price starts at $500 per month , On a scale between 1 to 10 Shield is rated 2, which is much lower than the average cost of Business Continuity software. Hyper-V Recovery price starts at $99 per license , When comparing Hyper-V Recovery to its competitors, the software is rated 6 - similar to the average Business Continuity software cost.

Bottom line: Hyper-V Recovery is more expensive than Shield.

Which software includes more/better features?

We've compared Shield Vs. Hyper-V Recovery based on some of the most important and required Business Continuity features.

Shield: We are still working to collect the list of features for Shield.

Hyper-V Recovery: Data Import/Export, Basic Reports, Online Customer Support.

Target customer size

The typical customers of Shield software are the individuals and/or organizations from SMBs (small to medium-sized businesses that have one to 100 employees and more than 100 to 1,000 employees, respectively) that utilize the services offered by the industry of IT, data hosting and information related services, mainly with security and BCP. and Hyper-V Recovery's target customer size include: Small business, Medium business, Large business, Private use.