Acronis Cyber Protect vs Cohesity DataProtect comparison

Acronis and Cohesity are both solutions in the Backup and Recovery category. Acronis is ranked #9 with an average rating of 8.1, while Cohesity is ranked #8 with an average rating of 8.3. Acronis holds a 4.8% mindshare in BRS, compared to Cohesity’s 4.0% mindshare. Additionally, 87% of Acronis users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 97% of Cohesity users who would recommend it.

Acronis Cyber Protect

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87% willing to recommend

Cohesity DataProtect

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97% willing to recommend

Acronis Cyber Protect

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 11, 2024

Comparing Acronis Cyber Protect and Cohesity DataProtect reveals distinct differences in features, areas for improvement, ease of deployment, customer service, pricing, and ROI. Cohesity DataProtect stands out for its feature set and user satisfaction regarding pricing and service.

Features: Users value Acronis Cyber Protect for its integrated cybersecurity, seamless recovery options, and reliability. Cohesity DataProtect users value its efficient data deduplication, scalability, and effective disaster recovery.

Room for Improvement: Acronis Cyber Protect needs better customer support and improvements to performance during large recoveries. Cohesity DataProtect requires enhancements in its initial setup process and more transparent documentation.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Acronis Cyber Protect is noted for a straightforward deployment but lacks in customer service responsiveness. Cohesity DataProtect's deployment can be complex, but effective support and consistent updates benefit it once established.

Pricing and ROI: Acronis Cyber Protect is generally seen as affordable but with variable ROI depending on the scale. Cohesity DataProtect has a higher initial cost yet offers significant long-term ROI due to its efficiency and scalability.

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Categories and Ranking

Acronis Cyber Protect

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

9th

Ranking in Cloud Backup

5th

Average Rating

8.2

Number of Reviews

119

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Cohesity DataProtect

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

8th

Ranking in Cloud Backup

7th

Average Rating

9.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Backup and Recovery category, the mindshare of Acronis Cyber Protect is 4.8%, up from 4.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Cohesity DataProtect is 4.0%, down from 4.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Stuart Grigor

Senior Manager Governance and Quality Assurance at Motus Car Rental

Good backup solution but challenges with the stability

It is recommended that people know what they are starting with. A part of our challenge was we bought and needed to implement it. So by the time we went to implement it, we were running into support issues. Also, make a market comparison to ensure that the product you choose is what you want to end up with. I would give it a six out of ten because restoring from a backup takes longer than usual. It should happen in a matter of hours, not a matter of days. We are yet to have an experience when trying to restore from Acronis that we haven't had to wait at least a couple of days for our server to be available for testing or working.

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Giovanni Golinelli.

Hybrid IT Architect at Quanture Spa

Easy to use, offers good scalability and responsive support

The deployment depends on the environment. Deploying on VMs is relatively simple. But for most of our customers, we implement physical clusters with at least three configured hosts using the existing model. So, it depends on the setup. Implementing DataProtect itself wasn't particularly challenging. One key requirement for successful DataProtect deployment is proper network configuration. If the network setup isn't right, you won't achieve optimal performance. We have developed a service for some of our customers where they implement an appliance or physical cluster of Cohesity at the customer site. Then, we use cloud clustering to replicate, and even in production, a second copy of the protected data. And in some cases, we have developed some disaster recovery procedures using Cohesity.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The main reason we went with Acronis Cyber Protect is because it provides a virtual machine backup feature."

"The most valuable feature is that you can do a bare-metal restore even with dissimilar hardware."

"The most valuable feature is its consistency."

"It works with different types of partitions or different OSs."

"The solution's most valuable features are its ease of use and its user-friendly interface compared to other tools."

"There is advanced management where we can do passing, software inventory, and hardware inventory."

"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."

"I have everything I need in the backup or in the partition. "

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"Instant recovery options are a big benefit for urgent restores, as we don't need to wait for hours or days for a restore to complete before being able to access the files."

"The customer service and support are fast and professional."

"Cohesity customer service is the best that I have ever used. They are extremely fast in responding to cases, fixed all issues, and answered every question in a very timely manner."

"I found value in the instant recovery with DataMove. I found value in the protection group model for applying policies to VMs. And in the overall UI navigation and the way that the application is laid out in the web browser."

"Instead of four different solutions for protecting VMs, physical servers, SQL, and NAS, we now have one solution with Cohesity that is lightning fast and has amazing features."

"We are very satisfied with the product as a whole—all the backup functions, the data protection functions. We are very satisfied with those, and the product is very simple to use."

"I have found that the speed of restores, especially files and folders, are extremely fast. This bodes well for us, and our end users are always amazed at how fast you can get them their files."

"The support is awesome. They are very fast, competent and friendly."

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Cons

"Acronis Backup isn't scalable at all."

"If there was a wizard that would lead you down a road, when creating a backup, that would probably be better than having to go online or call somebody to actually do a backup. It's not intuitive..."

"It could back up more things. I don't think it can back up Box and some of the other third-party ones. Not that we use them that much, but the more they can do, the better it would be. There could also be better integrations with RMM tools."

"When I first started using Acronis, I found it a little bit confusing when it came to the configuration."

"There are some limitations to the backup."

"Acronis Backup can improve on the virtualization backups because they are not as good as Veeam Backup."

"I've had some issues with the understandability of the interface. I think if they had someone with expertise in user interfaces to look at this, they could clean up the user interface."

"I believe that the next release should be easier to configure as this one is difficult to configure even the easiest of tasks."

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"For Oracle DBs, we have observed a few bugs. This can be done better."

"They could always keep up with continuous interface refinements."

"At times, you may click the wrong server or click too fast and accidentally restore a cluster of servers. It would be very helpful to have a cancel option under restores."

"Cohesity cluster upgrades have not been as easy as a single button click. They are a manual process that requires upgrading each node into a cluster individually."

"The solution's dashboard or UI can be enhanced and made more user-friendly than its competitors."

"We are waiting on the AIX agent to be released."

"Cohesity DataProtect can improve in the area of databases. We have had some challenges with both Cohesity and Rubrik being able to effectively back up in a timely manner the SQL Oracle workloads."

"We have had our share of minor bugs over the past two years and a few bigger ones."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"We were on a perpetual license for Acronis Backup."

"The pricing model is a little complex to find the right size for what you need. It takes a lot of hours to figure it out."

"It is a low-cost solution."

"The price of Acronis Backup could be reduced, it is expensive."

"Its price is quite friendly on the pocket. You need to pay the licensing cost upfront, and then the support charges are on an annual basis."

"There are monthly fees to use Acronis Backup."

"I like the pricing, and that it is easy to use and has performed well. "

"If the solution was less expensive it would be better."

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"It has reasonable pricing, and we know they can give discounts. If you look at the primary pricing or the list pricing, it conforms to the market pricing, but you have to have a discount on it. Otherwise, it is way too expensive."

"There is monthly licensing."

"Licensing is per node and per protected terabyte. You will also pay 10-15% annually for support."

"The tool's licensing costs are yearly. It is cheaper than other backup solutions."

"I expect the system to probably pay off within the first two years."

"My advice is to always negotiate for better pricing."

"The tool's pricing is average."

"Cohesity came in at the best price."

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Computer Software Company

19%

Comms Service Provider

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

Educational Organization

41%

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Questions from the Community

Major Differences Between These 4 Backup and Disaster Recovery Solutions?

Comparing the features of the four is not the right approach. You need to develop a list of requirements for backup and DR that are specific to your organization and then compare each of the four ...

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How does Acronis Backup compare with Veeam Backup & Replication?

Acronis Backup is a versatile backup-as-a-service solution for service providers. It allows you to protect workloads on-premises and in the cloud and provide backup to any storage. The deployment i...

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What do you like most about Acronis Backup?

One of its most valuable aspects is its user-friendly interface.

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What do you like most about Cohesity DataProtect?

Several features enable us to perform fast recovery, such as instant fast recovery. All our virtual machines protected with the product can be quickly restored to another healthy environment with m...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Cohesity DataProtect?

Typically on-premises nodes/clusters are deployed for primary backup (to enable instant mass restore) so price will be dependent on chosen OEM and capacity required. MSPs like us utilise PPU licens...

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What needs improvement with Cohesity DataProtect?

Cohesity DataProtect needs to improve its reporting capabilities.

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Also Known As

Acronis Backup, Acronis Backup 12.5 Standard, Acronis Backup 12.5 Advanced

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Overview

Acronis Cyber Protect offers a revolutionary approach to cyber protection by integrating data protection with cybersecurity. This integrated method eliminates complexity challenges, delivers better protection against today’s threats, and maximizes efficiency by saving time and money. With its full-stack antimalware protection and comprehensive endpoint management, Acronis Cyber Protect combats advanced cyberattacks with a unique integration of protection technologies while simplifying daily IT operations, endpoint deployments and management, and reporting. Now you can manage all cyber protection aspects from a single pane of glass.

What is Cohesity DataProtect?

Cohesity DataProtect is a top-level, sophisticated, software-defined backup and recovery solution created for cloud environments. Cohesity DataProtect is made to hyperscale and is one the most thorough policy-based protection solutions available on the market today.

Cohesity DataProtect melds multiple-point products into a single software that is able to be deployed as on-premise or consumed as a service.

Top Features:

Hyperscale made easy: Cohesity DataProtect improves data protection by doing away with the need for backup silos and administers backup and recovery with a single user-friendly, easy-to-understand interface. Cohesity DataProtect provides extensive 24/7 enterprise-class protection for a large, varying set of sources, including virtual and physical servers, NAS and SaaS workloads, relational and distributed databases, and traditional and containerized applications.

Super fast recovery: Cohesity DataProtect offers near-zero recovery point objectives (RPOs) and near-instant recovery time objectives (RTOs) to satisfy your business service-level agreements (SLAs). Using Cohesity Helios’ unified data plane and control plane you can immediately search and recover data on any Cohesity cluster, located anywhere. DataProtect distinctively minimizes downtime by immediately mass restoring any amount of virtual machines (VMs) to any point in time, and lowers data protection costs by as much as 70% or more.

Backup as a Service: Feel free to take advantage of the elasticity of the public cloud and the cost-effective value of Cohesity DataProtect when delivered as a service. When you choose an OPEX option, you can eliminate the need for on-premises hardware. There is a SaaS option that will allow you to very simply configure your backup workloads and immediately begin protecting your vital all-important data and applications.

It’s as easy as: sign-up, connect, and protect!

Ransomware protection: Cohesity DataProtect offers stellar recovery at scale. The solution is so intuitive, it has machine learning-based anomaly detection to stop incidents before they happen. Cohesity DataProtection can provide immutable backups, Datalock write once, read many (WORM), encryption, and role-based access control (RBAC).

Cohesity DataProtect integrates well with many of today’s top solutions, including, but not limited to:

Hypervisors: VMware vSphere (5.5 and later), Microsoft Hyper-V (2019, 2016, 2012 R2), Nutanix AHV and RHeV

Kubernetes-based data and application state

Cloud: AWS EC2, Amazon RDS, Azure VM, and Google Compute

Physical: Windows, Linux(RHEL, CentOS, OEL, Debian, Ubuntu), AIX (7.x), and Solaris

Databases: Oracle (11g R2, 12c), Oracle RAC and SQL (2008 or later)

Distributed Databases (NoSQL and Hadoop): MongoDB, CouchbaseDB, Apache, Cassandra, Cloudera, and Hortonworks.

Bare Machine Recovery: Windows and Linux

Applications: MS Exchange (2010 SP3 or later), MSFT Active Directory, Microsoft 365 (Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, OneDrive, Teams, Groups), SalesForce (SFDC), and SAP HANA

Primary storage: Pure FlashArray, HPE Nimble, and Cisco Hyperflex

NAS: Pure FlashBlade, NetApp, Isilon, IBM GPFS, Google EFS, Elastifile, and generic solutions*

Reviews from Real Users

One reviewer, who is head of IT infrastructure at Kampmann says, “Cohesity really is a Next-Gen Data Management Software,” and goes on to indicate that Cohesity “works flawlessly with easy replication of backups and numerous supported backup sources.”

Another user, who is a senior network engineer at a legal firm, relates that "Cohesity is a robust and feature-rich solution"

Sample Customers

Kings Academy, Rush Memorial, Pentagon Credit Union, Oxford School District, New York City Probation, Dolmen Insurance, New Bedford Community Health, Gerard Darel, Ready Honda

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