Acronis Cyber Protect vs Zerto comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 11, 2024

Acronis Cyber Protect and Zerto compete in the cyber protection and disaster recovery category. Acronis Cyber Protect has the upper hand for comprehensive support and better pricing, while Zerto is recognized for superior features and reliability.

Features: Acronis Cyber Protect is known for user-friendly integration, advanced cybersecurity features, and seamless backup and recovery processes. Zerto stands out with powerful disaster recovery, continuous data protection, and efficient failover capabilities.

Room for Improvement: Acronis Cyber Protect could enhance scalability and real-time monitoring. Zerto users suggest improving user guidance and simplifying configurations.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Acronis Cyber Protect users find deployment straightforward and praise responsive customer support. Zerto users face a steeper learning curve but acknowledge effective customer service once running.

Pricing and ROI: Acronis Cyber Protect is cost-effective with quicker ROI due to lower setup costs. Zerto has higher initial costs but offers long-term value through robust performance.

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Acronis Cyber Protect vs. Zerto

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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

Zerto

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

2nd

Ranking in Cloud Backup

3rd

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.5

Number of Reviews

282

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Migration (4th), Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (2nd)

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 Zerto is 2.7%, down from 3.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Featured Reviews

Stuart Grigor

Senior Manager Governance and Quality Assurance at Motus Car Rental

Apr 24, 2023

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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Girish Agarwal

Security Architect at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

Aug 29, 2023

Easy to use, quick to understand, and simple to set up

It's easy to use. It wasn't too difficult to start with. With most vendors, initially, you have a learning curve or configurations. In this case, Zerto was quick to understand. The dashboard was easy and the UI was simple. The experience is comparatively good with Zerto. The near-synchronous replication has not been used much. That said, it does help when talking about storage layers. The availability of the VMs is good. In terms of resiliency, there are a lot of benefits to it. Most have a recovery of 24 to 48 hours; Zerto has gotten recovery down to four hours. We've done a POC with a DR to AWS. It was limited, however, it worked well and there was support. We didn't run into any challenges. The effect on the RPOs has been excellent. It's been impacted greatly. Customers enjoy the shorter timeline to recovery. The customer confidence is high.

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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

"Universal Restore is valuable to us."

"The setup is very easy."

"The tool is user-friendly."

"The ability to clone backups."

"The most valuable feature is its consistency."

"One of the most valuable features of Acronis is its AnyData Engine which allows any device to connect to any other device for the purpose of data restoration."

"It is a very fast and reliable backup, which requires less management and restores quickly."

"It actually does its job very well and has interesting capabilities, but it has the most awful interface."

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"Zerto's two main features are ease of management and that the product just works. It does what they say it'll do."

"It reduced the backup recovery time of our main backup solution by several hours. It's reduced our time because before we have to build a system and restore the data, we install the application and restore the data that took us at least a good 24 hours to do that. And now it's really minutes for us to recover our backup solution."

"The Zerto functions I like the most are data protection, static discovery, and, most importantly, virtual machine backups."

"The most valuable tool is the dashboard, which allows us to immediately check the DLP status, replication data, and all other data needed to have cleaner and immediate control of the situation."

"Since the log files are continuously transmitted, the granularity of restores is amazing."

"I love the seamless data integration between on-premises and cloud environments. Fast disaster recovery is also valuable."

"It is pretty easy to use. The interface is intuitive and easy to use. Once you set it up, it just works. So, it is great."

"It has enabled DR protection for virtual appliances with minimal administrator time."

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Cons

"The solution could improve by providing more database backup features and have better integration with many different types of databases. We cannot implement it in all of our infrastructures."

"The pricing could be improved."

"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."

"It would be nice to have it on the cloud platform without using third-party equipment."

"Acronis Backup can improve the latency when the file size is larger, we have had issues. Additionally, they could allow more flexibility when searching for information and I cannot download the CBIS backup copy information which could be made easier."

"I have no suggestions for improvements as I have only used the product for a month and have yet to really discover all of its aspects."

"This might be a lack of understanding on my part, but it's difficult to purge old backups."

"We would always support better pricing."

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"The only issue that I observed was that depending on the number of virtual machines that are being replicated, you will have to provision the appropriate bandwidth for the link that the replicated systems will traverse."

"We did look at the long-term retention backup feature of Zerto a few years ago, and at that time, it was limited. I can't say what it is right now, but at the time, its functionality was limited in terms of basically where we could save it and how we could save it. Offsite air gapping our backups is important to us to help protect against ransomware, and at the time, it couldn't do that. That would be one area that would be important before we consider using the long-term retention again. I haven't looked at it recently, and they may have addressed this in the meantime, but if not, this would be an area of improvement."

"The alerting could be fine tuned and improved. It does a lot of alerts, but it's a little bit cumbersome to modify them."

"I would like to see better notifications when the sync is off for an extended length of time."

"Its price should be improved."

"I think Zerto could do better with size planning because it would be nice to analyze a server for a week and give an estimate on sizing the Journal."

"Sometimes we require extra storage for Zerto."

"There should be more comprehensive cyber recovery capabilities."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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

"Our licensing fees are on a yearly basis."

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

"This is an affordable product and fits within our customers' budgets."

"We have a Cyber Cloud backup license and we have on-premises storage. Both can be useful for our customers."

"It is very cost-effective for the SMB segment, especially for start-ups and smaller environments. It is cost-effective for on-premises and on-cloud deployments in such environments."

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

"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."

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"Zerto’s licensing model has changed a bit over the last year and they are in alignment with others. It is pretty simple and more economical."

"The pricing for this solution is reasonable."

"Get the Enterprise Cloud license because it's the most flexible, and the pricing should come in around $1,000 per VM."

"I'd like to see better tiering for Zerto's pricing. We do multi-tier VMs. I don't think I should be paying a penalty and price for a tier-three VM where I don't need a really tight SLA like I do for a tier-one."

"Zerto previously had a perplexing licensing structure, but they have since resolved it by implementing a unified license."

"License-wise, we budgeted $1,000 per VM. The minimum spend on it, in the beginning, can sometimes be a little bit of a headache for people, and they might have to budget creatively to get there, but once you're there, the renewals are worth it."

"Zerto is very cost-effective. We get really great value for the cost of the service."

"The pricing is very reasonable."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

19%

Comms Service Provider

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

Computer Software Company

21%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Manufacturing Company

Healthcare Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

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.

What advice do you have for others considering Oracle Data Guard?

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What do you like most about Zerto?

The most valuable feature of Zerto for us is its DR capability.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Zerto?

Zerto is priced high.

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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.

Zerto is used for disaster recovery, business continuity, data migration, and ransomware recovery, providing continuous data protection and near real-time replication. Valued for ease of use, efficient failover processes, and versatile integration, it enhances organizational efficiency, reduces errors, and boosts productivity.

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

United Airlines, HCA, XPO Logistics, TaxSlayer, McKesson, Insight Global, American Airlines, Tencate, Aaron’s, Grey’s County, Kingston Technologies