What are the differences between iCloud and Zetta?

Let us understand the concepts of iCloud and Zetta before learning the differences between them.

iCloud

iCloud is one of the cloud storage and provides cloud computing services, it was launched in the year 2011 by Apple Inc. It enables users to store data like documents, photos, and music on remote servers. It also provides wireless backup iOS devices directly to iCloud instead of manual backups.

We can store all type files in iCloud Drive, if they are less than 50GB in size. Generally if we sign up for iCloud we get 5GB free storage for Backup’s, Mail and iCloud Drive. If we want more storage we need to upgrade our iCloud storage based on the plans. We can also share 200Gb and 2TB plans with our family by paying a monthly bill in Apple.

Features

The features of iCloud are as follows −

• iCloud Drive helps us to save files and app data to iCloud.
• It is available for iOS, Macs, and Windows PCs.
• We can access all of our files and data from any device.
• Keeps the files/folders up to date in our devices.
• File sharing management.
• Cloud storage security.
• Cloud administration.
• Cloud storage platform.

Advantages

The advantages of iCloud are as follows −

• Increase efficiency.
• Portability
• Work from anywhere became easier.
• It is a clean platform.
• iCloud is user-friendly.

Disadvantages

The disadvantages of iCloud are as follows −

• Accessibility of photos on desktop platforms.
• App options on desktop.
• Automatically backs up files
• Customization is not possible
• To share large files, you need to upgrade to a paid version.

Zetta

Zetta Cloud is one of the high-tech and cutting-edge safety nets which gets broadcasters back on-air, easily, efficiently and quickly helps in natural disasters to viruses. There is a Zetta’s cloud-based Disaster Recovery tool which is used to backup all audio, schedules and metadata.

Zetta Cloud quickly restores all of the original data whenever the station is ready to return its live output.

Features

The features of Zetta are as follows −

• It has an ability to work with standard file systems.

• It has features like Multi-threading, WAN optimization, Advanced Data compression, Local backup and restore.

• It supports Multi-platform like Windows, Linux etc.

Advantages

The advantages of Zetta are as follows −

• For any level of user Zetta is a simple setup.
• It is one of the efficient, fast and secure backups to the cloud.
• For Zetta there should be no appliance required.

Disadvantages

The disadvantages of Zetta are as follows −

• We have to configure Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS) prior to use.
• There is no true bare metal recovery option.

Differences

The major differences between iCloud and Zetta are as follows −

Bhanu Priya

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Updated on: 22-Mar-2022

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