Acronis Cyber Protect vs NetApp SnapCenter comparison

Acronis and NetApp are both solutions in the Backup and Recovery category. Acronis is ranked #9 with an average rating of 8.2, while NetApp is ranked #51 with an average rating of 7.7. Acronis holds a 4.4% mindshare in BRS, compared to NetApp’s 0.6% mindshare. Additionally, 87% of Acronis users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of NetApp users who would recommend it.

Acronis Cyber Protect

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87% willing to recommend

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100% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 11, 2024

Acronis Cyber Protect and NetApp SnapCenter compete in the backup and data protection category. NetApp SnapCenter appears to have the upper hand due to its superior features and integration capabilities.

Features: Users highlight the advanced ransomware protection and integrated backup features of Acronis Cyber Protect. Acronis offers a wider range of security features. In contrast, NetApp SnapCenter is praised for its ease of integration with NetApp storage systems and efficient snapshot management.

Room for Improvement: Reviews indicate that Acronis Cyber Protect could improve its reporting and analytics capabilities. Users suggest enhancing its data insight tools and analytics issues. NetApp SnapCenter users desire improvements in workflow automation and user access controls. NetApp SnapCenter should focus on refining its automation and permission settings.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Acronis Cyber Protect is often commended for its straightforward deployment process and responsive customer service. NetApp SnapCenter may require more technical expertise for deployment but benefits from a strong support network and comprehensive documentation.

Pricing and ROI: Acronis Cyber Protect provides good value with its competitive pricing and solid ROI. NetApp SnapCenter, despite being perceived as pricier, delivers substantial ROI, particularly in environments already using NetApp solutions.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Acronis Cyber Protect

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

9th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

121

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Backup (5th)

NetApp SnapCenter

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

51st

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the Backup and Recovery category, the mindshare of Acronis Cyber Protect is 4.4%, down from 4.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of NetApp SnapCenter is 0.6%, up from 0.6% 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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Mir Gulzar Ahmed

IT Manager at Synergy Computers

Integrates well with various applications , provides a cloning feature for creating snapshots or clones of volume and a centralized command

It is basically centralized command control software. When the users visualize the workflow of the backup, the management and the customer storage administrator know the ins and outs of the backup and recovery. They can make the strategy for their backup and recovery and the certainty of their backups and restore. Strategic planning: Also, it is easy to make a strategy when you have visualized the inflow and outflow of the backup and recovery. With the CLI or native way, without any UI or management tool, you might not be able to create any strategy at all. This is especially important when you have multiple storage systems inside your data center or organization. You need a tool that connects and visualizes the workflow of the backup and recovery from all the storage systems and NetApp storage systems installed within the organization. It is very important when you have multiple storage systems, and you need to manage your backup and recovery workflow. Ease of Management: Unlike other storage vendors, NetApp has its own product called SnapCenter. Other vendors need to acquire third-party software or integrate with other software to manage storage systems. NetApp has its own solution, which is SnapCenter. NetApp's SnapCenter gels well with their storage systems and products. Ease of management is already there. It's a fine software with easy installation, management, and understanding. It's not a complicated software to understand.

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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

"Our customers can backup to local storage and they can back up or replicate to the cloud."

"This is a full software so deployment time is very quick."

"The administration is pretty flexible in terms of defining a multi-tenant type of setup."

"Acronis has a very rich functionality."

"I can encrypt the data, I can make it send me an email if it fails. It lets me choose which files I want to ignore during backup."

"The Acronis panel is user friendly and tracking backups across a number of different devices is great. Acronis provides prompts and reminders to users if certain files are not backed up."

"The backup timing and restoring process is great compared to other options."

"I recommend this solution every chance I get, including for personal use."

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"Most banks and financial institutions use the solution."

"You can quickly deploy new virtual environments. It provides efficient and easy-to-use data protection. If a file goes missing or corruption occurs, you can restore it swiftly using the snap restore feature, allowing you to return to work almost immediately."

"It's all together managing both storage and backup, which makes it easier for troubleshooting issues and the automation part of it"

"The backup features are the most valuable because they allow the DBAs to replace SnapManager for Oracle (SMO), which is going away, and to do cloning as well. We can also clone to different servers and have the actual backup clone mounted on different servers. And we can split easily too."

"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 centralized GUI is the best feature, that there is only one webpage where we can see the states of all the backup jobs. We can see all the tasks that are running and we can quickly see if one fails; if they are running or have any issues. We have all that in one place."

"The main advantage is its fast backup and restore."

"The way that it interconnects with VMware is really handy, because you can go right into your vSphere client, where you spend a lot of the day anyway, right-click on one of the VMs where you have backups running for however long, and you can restore either some files or restore the entire thing."

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Cons

"The tool's dashboard for daily operations is useful, but I find that it could benefit from enhancements, particularly in terms of reporting. While exporting reports, the format is not fancy as it appears on the dashboard. The exported files are typically in Excel CSV or PDF format."

"The solution's reporting feature could be better."

"The replication part and failover are areas in which improvements are required."

"It could have a better ability to manage backups over a longer period."

"The solution needs to have better stability. I would like to improve the tool’s support through calls."

"The reporting can be improved."

"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 technical support of Acronis Backup could improve. They have the depth of knowledge but the speed of the response could be quicker."

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"The compatibility with other manufacturers, like Oracle and Hyper-V, could be improved. I would like to see it be more compatible with other software."

"Groups might be helpful for each site or data center so that we know a given data center has these resources while another data center has those resources. It's not always easy to group hosts by type."

"The Dashboard view needs to be more compressed with better ease of access and drill-down features. They should also reinstate Linux filesystem backups of storage volumes (which existed in the prior version)."

"Since the solution's initial setup is complex, it should make training documents available in the public space."

"It needs to support vSphere 6.7."

"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."

"We have hundreds of servers and systems and hundreds of customers and they're separated in a multi-tenancy way in NetApp SVM. Right now, the problem is that it always scan all SVMs. If I backup Customer A, it scans all SVMs, or tries to scan all SVMs, if there is a backup relationship on the storage. But it doesn't have the permissions, so we run into timeouts or the backup just takes too long. They're fixing that in the upcoming release..."

"We would like to see more granular repording and reporting in bigger sets available in SnapCenter."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"It has already paid off itself in the first few months that we implemented it."

"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."

"There is a license required to use this solution and it is inexpensive. However, it is an old license."

"You don't have to pay for licenses. You can pay per gig per month. It is pretty reasonable, especially when you do it per gig."

"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."

"The price of the solution is reasonable."

"Doing what this is capable of doing, the cost of it is in line."

"The current subscription model of Acronis Backup compared to other backup solutions is not costly."

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"The licensing is well-designed because it's already included in some packages with NetApp storage. Therefore, for most customers, it's okay as the SnapCenter license is already included in some NetApp bundles."

"We have a site license, so it comes with the product."

"The license for SnapCenter was included with the storage array."

"We see a financial value with SnapCenter because we don't have to license Commvault, which is pretty expensive."

"It's free. The license is included with other NetApp products."

"Pricing is very good because if you already have NepApp controllers, then it's included."

"The product is inexpensive."

"It comes free with the amount of equipment we purchase from NetApp. In terms of pricing, zero is my favorite number."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

18%

Comms Service Provider

10%

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

20%

Computer Software Company

14%

Financial Services Firm

Government

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By reviewers

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Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

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How does Acronis Backup compare with Veeam Backup & Replication?

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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 NetApp SnapCenter?

Most banks and financial institutions use the solution.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for NetApp SnapCenter?

The product should be free because it is just software to administrate systems purchased from NetApp, which are already expensive.

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What needs improvement with NetApp SnapCenter?

The interface usability needs improvement. It should be more user-friendly and easier for customers to use.

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Also Known As

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

SnapCenter

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.

Acronis

Unified, scalable platform for application-consistent data protection and clone management. This software simplifies backup, restore, and clone lifecycle management with application-integrated workflows.

NetApp

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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