We performed a comparison between Acronis Cyber Protect and NetApp SnapCenter based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Backup and Recovery solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature is the quick restoration. We can restore the data quickly."
"It has simple buying options and deployments. You can buy on-cloud, on-premises, or hybrid solutions. Acronis Backup is very easy to deploy. It also does not consume much hardware. The administrator's tasks are very simple. It is very user friendly, and it also has good security features with low-level encryption and data encryption."
"The backup timing and restoring process is great compared to other options."
"The most valuable feature is its ability to back up and recover our production environment from ransomware."
"Acronis Backup is easy to use, intuitive, and has high performance."
"Acronis Backup is valuable if your data is affected by ransomware, you are able to get it back."
"Universal Restore is valuable to us."
"In my opinion, it's the best product for end-users and PCs."
"It's very helpful because SnapCenter is already integrated with VMware Snapshot, so it's very easy to use."
"The central pane view is the most valuable feature. You have one console where you can monitor all your jobs, as opposed to going to different vCenters."
"It's all together managing both storage and backup, which makes it easier for troubleshooting issues and the automation part of it"
"What is very handy for our clients is the consolidated view. They have a dashboard with everything, through a single pane of glass. This is what they really need because, within seconds, they can have a good overview and see if there are any errors or any issues."
"The product’s most valuable feature is cloning."
"We have been very satisfied with the technical support's help. Their knowledge level is great. For a noncritical question, they will get back to us within a day."
"The most valuable feature is that it's centralized. In the old SnapManager days, we had software for each server. Now, with a centralized system, we're able to manage all systems remotely, and all agents remotely, and update them remotely. That's a huge benefit for us."
"The Exchange plugin is the most valuable because we have a lot of customers that use SnapManager Exchange and have to migrate to SnapCenter."
"The solution could be better if some of the features were more in-depth."
"Some of the default settings out-of-the-box should already be set up for the novice user. For instance, the warnings that say a hard drive has bad sectors and stops the backup from performing."
"Acronis Backup can improve on the virtualization backups because they are not as good as Veeam Backup."
"The product would be better if they offered more integration capabilities."
"There are a lot of products out there that are a little bit stronger than Acronis where AV is concerned."
"I can't select a network location. I have to map a drive on the server, and then I have to select the mapped drive in order for it to put the backup out there."
"The biggest problem that we have is when the antivirus is installed, the whole machine runs very slowly and some of the machines hang."
"It could have a better ability to manage backups over a longer period."
"There is one area that needs improvement and that's in the alerting. When you set up your SMTP alerts, it only has - and I don't understand why - the ability to send an anonymous SMTP. It doesn't do basic authentication, which frustrated me for a while until I figured out that I'm not missing something. It's just not there."
"Some of the minor functionalities from SnapManager did not transfer over to SnapCenter. These should be added in future releases."
"I'm waiting for SnapCenter for hybrid solutions. Right now, we only have SnapManager for hybrid. I need agents for that. People are looking to install SnapCenter in a SQL environment, but where they're running SQL on Hyper-V and using virtual files. Currently, we don't have support for hybrid."
"The GUI is still so-so. I' don't use the GUI that often anymore because it's really slow, refreshing disks, refreshing hosts, and you have to click a lot."
"Plugins should be developed in shorter times. Performance generally could be a little bit faster."
"The Microsoft environment is its biggest disadvantage due to the central management of all the actions. Because the SnapCenter server is where we deploy everything, it also affects the Microsoft environment, which can cause many difficulties when resolving issues like Windows update problems."
"The tool could be faster."
"The UI, the User Interface, needs to be improved. It's not as clean or modern as it could be."
Acronis Cyber Protect is ranked 9th in Backup and Recovery with 117 reviews while NetApp SnapCenter is ranked 42nd in Backup and Recovery with 24 reviews. Acronis Cyber Protect is rated 8.2, while NetApp SnapCenter is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Acronis Cyber Protect writes " Good backup solution but challenges with the stability". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NetApp SnapCenter writes "A stable solution that is mostly used by banks and financial institutions". Acronis Cyber Protect is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365, Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud, Azure Backup and Commvault Cloud, whereas NetApp SnapCenter is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Cohesity DataProtect, Commvault Cloud, NetApp Cloud Backup and Delphix. See our Acronis Cyber Protect vs. NetApp SnapCenter report.
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