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Acronis Disaster Recovery vs Zerto comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 15, 2024
 

Categories and Ranking

Acronis Disaster Recovery
Ranking in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software
11th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.8
Number of Reviews
13
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Zerto
Ranking in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software
2nd
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.5
Number of Reviews
282
Ranking in other categories
Backup and Recovery (2nd), Cloud Migration (4th), Cloud Backup (3rd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Disaster Recovery (DR) Software category, the mindshare of Acronis Disaster Recovery is 0.6%, down from 0.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Zerto is 15.4%, down from 19.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Disaster Recovery (DR) Software
 

Featured Reviews

Darwin Cabiluna - PeerSpot reviewer
Aug 19, 2024
Offers good DR and failover features
My company's customers mostly use the solution for backup purposes, specifically as a cloud backup. I think it is also used as a cloud DR. The government mostly uses the tool, and then we do have some customers in the private sector The tool's most valuable feature is in the area of DR because we…
Girish Agarwal - PeerSpot reviewer
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.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Our customers use Acronis Disaster Recovery for data backup."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is data restoration or data recovery."
"The most valuable features of the product for me are its backup and recovery functionalities."
"Performance-wise, it works efficiently for backup and recovery compared to other tools."
"Patch management, backup, and disaster recovery have been the solution's most valuable features for our data protection strategy."
"The backup and recovery options work flawlessly."
"One key feature is it encrypts your data at rest which is really good."
"The solution can be improved by including a load balancer."
"I like the ease of recovery and backup the most."
"The near-synchronous replication is key. That has allowed us to provide the low RPOs that we promise. For key systems, that has been the deciding factor."
"We use the solution for one-to-one replication from data center one to data center two, from server one to server two, or from the cloud to on-premises."
"We've never had any major headaches with the virtual-protection groups. They seem to work exactly as they should. If there's ever an issue with replication, we know right away, so it's all been very reliable."
"The mobile application is very useful as a real-time monitoring, reporting tool. When asked the status of our machine backup and recovery ability, an easy answer is to display the status on the real-time application or browser. The Zerto Analytics tool helps predict future storage needs by tracking trends in space, journal size, and I/O rate. These are reportable statistics making quantifiable tracking easy and accurate. Having a web interface simplifies access by other system administrators."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the live migration."
"It gives us a seamless, performant data center migration. When we were migrating between physical data centers, we did what normally would have been a 72-hour job in about 18 hours. A large part of that was thanks to Zerto being able to rate limit and throttle how much data was being sent or transfers were happening. Being able to script around it and create governors was important. We didn't have that previously. That is one big use case that has saved an immense amount of time and effort."
"The replication works really well. We perform multiple tests a month and annual tests for our tier-one and many of our tier-two apps... Migrating systems as a failover rollback or a system move are two of the functions that I like the most."
 

Cons

"The documentation can be improved, this would have helped."
"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."
"Acronis Disaster Recovery is an expensive solution compared to other products."
"I wish the Disaster Recovery system could do more, like integrating irregularity features and combining VLP functionalities."
"In the future, I would like to see cross-platform support."
"From an improvement perspective, the tool should allow users to add more data centers in the cloud."
"They could provide pricing models considering the requirements of various countries and organizations."
"It took some time to get to know the solution in general, and exactly what functions each of the features is used for."
"While Zerto's current version supports VMware environments, I'd like the added flexibility of using Hypervisors as well."
"Whenever we do a failover, there's a confirmation box that shows up later. It's a little hard to see sometimes... A popup to continue would be a little bit better because then you're not sitting and waiting for something and it's already there."
"Zerto requires these thick provision walls for virtual machines that are always running."
"If possible, I'd like to recover my data in seconds."
"It would also be nice if they could find a way to make it where one VM does not impact the entire journal history of the VPG."
"The recovery processes of large datasets in the Cloud have room for improvement."
"I want to have an OVF or some local deployment where I can deploy the ZVRA rather than having to push it from the console. Some of our smaller remote sites have relatively poor bandwidth, and they can't keep up with the constant deployment stream from our center console, meaning we have to find some creative hours to get around the bandwidth bottlenecks. If I could push out a small install file, install it locally, and then reach back to the console, that would be excellent."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"This pricing is quite reasonable."
"The tool's pricing is reasonable."
"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."
"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."
"Acronis Disaster Recovery is a cheap solution."
"The price of the solution is inexpensive."
"The product has an affordable price."
"The solution’s pricing is average."
"The pricing is pretty competitive to that of other options out there. When we shopped around, it was in line with the price of other solutions."
"The licensing costs are not cheap. It is kind of an expensive product. However, I am a get-what-you-pay-for kind of person. After using this product, I can understand why the licensing costs are high."
"The pricing seems fair."
"The product pricing is good."
"Zerto is a little bit expensive [for our budget] but as far as the value that it provides, it is completely justified by all of the savings."
"Zerto does a per-workload licensing model, per-server. It is simple and straightforward, but it is not super flexible. It is kind of a one size fits all. They charge the same price for those workloads. I feel like they could have some flexible licensing option possibly based on criticality, just so we could protect less important work. I would love to protect every workload in my environment with Zerto, whether I really need it or not, but the cost is such that I really have to justify that protection. So, if we had some more flexibility, e.g., you could protect servers with a two-, three-, or four-hour RPO at a certain price point versus mission-critical every five minutes, then I would be interested in that."
"Zerto is fairly expensive, but worth it."
"Zerto is more cost-effective than Azure."
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Comparison Review

it_user159711 - PeerSpot reviewer
Nov 9, 2014
VMware SRM vs. Veeam vs. Zerto
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
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Computer Software Company
21%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Healthcare Company
7%
 

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?
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.
What needs improvement with Acronis Disaster Recovery?
I can't tell what needs to be improved in the tool because the product is considered to be an all-in-one solution. The tool has security, and one can enable endpoint security. The tool also has bac...
What is your primary use case for Acronis Disaster Recovery?
My company's customers mostly use the solution for backup purposes, specifically as a cloud backup. I think it is also used as a cloud DR. The government mostly uses the tool, and then we do have s...
What advice do you have for others considering Oracle Data Guard?
Ik fluister:VM Host Oracle en DataGuard hebben we per toeval vervangen door Zerto :-) tijdens de Zerto implementatie en VPG werden de Host Data in write-ack Block-Level gerepliceerd. Qua licentie 1...
What do you like most about Zerto?
The most valuable feature of Zerto for us is its DR capability.
 

Comparisons

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Also Known As

Acronis DRaaS
Zerto Virtual Replication
 

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Sample Customers

Bristows LLP, Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP
United Airlines, HCA, XPO Logistics, TaxSlayer, McKesson, Insight Global, American Airlines, Tencate, Aaron’s, Grey’s County, Kingston Technologies
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