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Acronis Disaster Recovery vs Azure Site Recovery comparison

Acronis and Microsoft are both solutions in the Disaster Recovery (DR) Software category. Additionally, 90% of Acronis users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 91% of Microsoft users who would recommend it.
Acronis Disaster Recovery
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90% willing to recommend
Azure Site Recovery
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91% willing to recommend
 

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We performed a comparison between Acronis Disaster Recovery and Azure Site Recovery based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Categories and Ranking

Acronis Disaster Recovery
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.5
Number of Reviews
16
Ranking in other categories
Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (13th)
Azure Site Recovery
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
23
Ranking in other categories
Disaster Recovery as a Service (2nd)
 

Featured Reviews

RandeepPawar - PeerSpot reviewer
Have improved recovery preparedness and see potential growth with better technical support
Acronis provides ease of use with all tools and solutions operating through a single console and agent. This reduces the workload on endpoints during backups and other cybersecurity operations. Backup is crucial as it allows data recovery. Email security helps protect against malicious emails. The failover process is preconfigured, offering a simplistic switch over for servers.
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RituparnaBhattacharya - PeerSpot reviewer
The time-saving aspects allow us to write PowerShell scripts to automate failover processes
First of all, we initially faced a challenge as Azure Site Recovery was not supporting shared disk options on SQL clusters with VMs, which are important for a Windows cluster mode. Additionally, the setup is quite easy, only requiring the creation of a vault. Its time-saving aspects allow us to write PowerShell scripts to automate failover processes.
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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

"Using the backup as an image helps our organization to have a clean machine in disaster recovery."
"The solution can be improved by including a load balancer."
"The recovery feature is user-friendly and offers effective protection for our backups."
"Acronis provides ease of use with all tools and solutions operating through a single console and agent."
"Acronis provides ease of use with all tools and solutions operating through a single console and agent."
"Performance-wise, it works efficiently for backup and recovery compared to other tools."
"DR and failover are good features of the tool."
"Our customers use Acronis Disaster Recovery for data backup."
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"Site Recovery's most valuable features include its user-friendly console and the ease of migration."
"Azure Site Recovery allows my company to save around 30 percent of the time on every VM that we need to back up and restore."
"Azure Site Recovery is an easy-to-use and fairly stable solution for disaster recovery."
"They're moving a lot of their workload to cloud and aiming for a seamlessly integrated product."
"It’s native to Azure and does exactly what it’s designed to do—recover one site to another without creating all the VMs on that site. This helps reduce costs on the secondary site."
"Our primary use case is for disaster recovery and business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR)."
"Azure Site Recovery helps to save costs."
"Provides generally good performance, from protection to production to failover to data recovery."
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Cons

"Acronis could improve by incorporating an application or network load balancer."
"We need the server configuration capacity to be enlarged with the solution's help, as it does not currently include capabilities for storage expansion during recovery."
"The solution covers specific versions of Windows and Linux, and it would be good if other Linux versions or some special appliances could work in the Acronis Disaster Recovery environment."
"Acronis Disaster Recovery should provide software information wherein I can change my setup to collect more information."
"I wish the Disaster Recovery system could do more, like integrating irregularity features and combining VLP functionalities."
"The cost is acceptable."
"The documentation can be improved, this would have helped."
"For the backup to compete in the enterprise market, there must be improvements."
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"In the newest version of Azure Site Recovery, the configuration was a little more complex, so this is an area for improvement."
"It is for site-to-site replication. When something goes wrong on your site, you only get 15 minutes before it also goes wrong on your replicated site. There should be some way to be able to say that we want to restore it, but we want to restore it to the version from yesterday. It should support versioning. I would also like to see real-time scanning for advanced threat protection, more straightforward billing, and quicker turnaround on the tech support."
"The pricing predictability and clarity around the final cost of the plan of this solution could be improved."
"Azure Site Recovery does not support shared disk options."
"The primary area for improvement in Azure Site Recovery is its pricing."
"Currently, Azure Site Recovery does not support shared disk options. Moreover, it does not support services like AppConfig or App Services."
"The product's performance is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The immutable backup could be better."
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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution’s pricing is average."
"The product has an affordable price."
"The price of the solution is inexpensive."
"On a scale from one to ten, where one is expensive and ten is cheap, I rate the solution's pricing two or three out of ten."
"The tool's pricing is reasonable."
"This pricing is quite reasonable."
"Acronis Disaster Recovery is a cheap solution."
"The tool is a little bit expensive. When it comes to pricing, there is a range for the VMs and endpoints. It depends. A set of backups on a DR probably costs around 10 to 20 USD per endpoint."
"Azure Site Recovery is neither very expensive nor very cheap."
"Azure Site Recovery is a very reasonably priced product."
"The tool's licensing is yearly and not expensive."
"The tool is expensive. What is expensive to me might not be expensive to you. As I mentioned, we seek ways to reduce our costs. If the price goes down, that would be great. I rate the tool's pricing a six out of ten."
"I'm not sure about the Azure Site Recovery pricing, but my organization gets monthly bills from providers."
"Azure Site Recovery is affordable."
"They have a license to pay."
"It should have more straightforward billing. The billing was what got funky. It was really cheap. We would pay based on the usage. We paid around $225 a month for site-to-site replication."
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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company
18%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Insurance Company
6%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Acronis Disaster Recovery?
Acronis Disaster Recovery is fairly priced. I would rate the pricing a five out of ten, indicating it is not too expensive.
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What needs improvement with Acronis Disaster Recovery?
There is room for improvement in incorporating intelligence around disaster recovery. For instance, if a server is completely offline and destroyed, the system should offer an intelligent response,...
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What is your primary use case for Acronis Disaster Recovery?
Our primary use case is to ensure that if the critical services for our clients go down, it fails over to a secondary location.
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What do you like most about Azure Site Recovery?
Azure Site Recovery allows my company to save around 30 percent of the time on every VM that we need to back up and restore.
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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Azure Site Recovery?
The pricing of Azure Site Recovery is around a four out of ten, being somewhat cost-effective. Microsoft frequently restructures their pricing, causing us to adjust packages and subscriptions, whic...
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What needs improvement with Azure Site Recovery?
There is room for improvement in the release of patches, such as ensuring they are properly managed to avoid outages. The support help desk needs to improve escalation procedures. Azure ( /products...
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Also Known As

Acronis DRaaS
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Overview

Acronis Disaster Recovery Service is a hybrid cloud, all-in-one, IT continuity solution that protects and restores your data and servers in the event of a natural or man-made disaster. Leveraging the power of the Acronis AnyData Engine, Acronis Disaster Recovery Service can reliably recover your servers or entire data centers without the need for you to invest in duplicate systems or additional staff.

Acronis Disaster Recovery Service can reliably recover your servers or entire data centers without the need for your organization to invest in duplicate systems or additional staff. Providing flexible recovery time objective (RTO) options, Acronis Disaster Recovery Service combines the high performance and shortest recovery time of a local appliance with the low cost, predictability, and accessibility of a virtual private cloud.

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Help your business to keep doing business - even during major IT outages. Azure Site Recovery offers ease of deployment, cost effectiveness, and dependability. Deploy replication, failover, and recovery processes through Site Recovery to help keep your applications running during planned and unplanned outages. Site Recovery is a native disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS), and Microsoft been recognized as a leader in DRaaS based on completeness of vision and ability to execute by Gartner in the 2018 Magic Quadrant for Disaster Recovery as a Service.

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Sample Customers

Bristows LLP, Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP
Russell Reynolds Associates, Union Insurance, Rackspace
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