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Acronis Cyber Cloud vs Datto Cloud Continuity comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

Acronis Cyber Cloud
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
8.1
Number of Reviews
7
Ranking in other categories
MSP Backup (5th)
Datto Cloud Continuity
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
9
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Backup (46th), Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (32nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

While both are Cloud Services solutions, they serve different purposes. Acronis Cyber Cloud is designed for MSP Backup and holds a mindshare of 2.9%, up 1.4% compared to last year.
Datto Cloud Continuity, on the other hand, focuses on Cloud Backup, holds 1.1% mindshare, up 1.1% since last year.
MSP Backup Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Acronis Cyber Cloud2.9%
N-able Cove Data Protection15.3%
MSP360 Backup12.1%
Other69.7%
MSP Backup
Cloud Backup Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Datto Cloud Continuity1.1%
Veeam Data Platform6.9%
Commvault Cloud4.8%
Other87.2%
Cloud Backup
 

Featured Reviews

Daniel Inyang - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Support Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Integrated backup and AI-based protection have strengthened our cybersecurity and simplified patch management across diverse platforms
Apart from backing up your on-premises servers, Acronis Cyber Cloud allows you to back up cloud servers on Azure, AWS, and Google. It also backs up in Azure Storage, Azure Blob, and S3 bucket on AWS. You can back up Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace, and it supports virtualization platforms such as Hyper-V, VMware, Nutanix, and Red Hat, and much more. Acronis Cyber Cloud supports a lot of platforms for backup. Acronis Cyber Cloud's API integration works fine, though I do not handle that part; my colleague handles the API integration. The ability to work with more platforms is important. My final rating for Acronis Cyber Cloud is eight.
TS
Assistant Director, Network Operations at Premier Marine Insurance
Provides enterprise-level protection from ransomware attacks
Speaking about how the product is deployed in my company's business operations, I would say that it is an appliance with a critical infrastructure. In terms of data protection capabilities, the tool's ability to boot a device and have a separate network has saved the day for many of our company's clients who use the solution. If you have a collection of old servers, and if one of the old servers dies, you could be dead in the water if you cannot locally boot a server. Even the new gears in place can have an issue if people are not spending money on robust hardware tools, and replace them. It is necessary to have the local boot options if and when you have a hardware issue. The product brings the most value in the area of virtual boot when it comes to disaster recovery since it can boot up a version of the server from before an incident, which is helpful and allows your company to have a lower RPO or recovery point objective. It makes a big difference if you can have an RPO in hours rather than in days. The image-based backup functionality has revolutionized and impacted our company recovery time objectives since we deal in hours and not in days. The interface of the product is intuitive. I like the product's functionality that provides the ability to see everything at a glance, along with the alerting feature. Maintenance is required since certain drives die at times. In general, maintenance is required to deal with dead RAMs and hard drives. The former clients with small offices and the old Linux servers that used to die in production used to boot such servers with the help of Datto Cloud Continuity. The aforementioned process allows the clients to continue running their business while buying time to get replacement hardware, making a big difference that helps them reduce potential data loss or downtime. The local boot provided by the product saved the day for many of our company's clients. I recommend the product to those who plan to use it. Though the tool is not inexpensive, it provides enterprise-level protection from ransomware. I rate the overall tool a nine out of ten.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The features I find most effective for cybersecurity include reporting, vulnerability scanning, ransomware protection, and encryption."
"I can expand on the fly by just adding space or the number of users."
"Data protection is an extensive intangible benefit, which makes me happy."
"It is a highly scalable solution. Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The assurance that we are always protected and backed up is a significant benefit."
"I would rate the overall solution as ten out of ten."
"The anti-malware feature is AI-based and helps improve my cybersecurity posture with its AI-based multi-ware feature."
"With Acronis Cyber Cloud, I can protect my backups and data from cyber threats."
"The product's initial setup phase is easy."
"The solution has the capability to scale well."
"The solution's reliability is one of its most valuable features...It is a very stable solution."
"The recovery time objective and recovery point objective were most valuable. It was easy to use, and it was easy to recover a file. I was the head of sales and a product evaluator for an MSSP, so I never had to deal with recovery from ransomware. However, I was confident that if ransomware had occurred, I would only lose a maximum of 59 minutes of data. The files were encrypted."
"For local backup, it works well."
"When you compare it to other systems that require a fat client to be installed or to have several VMs setup just to configure the system, Datto stands head and shoulders above."
"The platform provides a faster backup process."
"The data recovery of the solution is very good."
 

Cons

"Support for legacy storage solutions, like tape, could be improved. Acronis Cyber Cloud only supports on-premises solutions, and I wish there were a way to implement this support with the cloud or have another backup location, other than the cloud, instead of tape."
"Sandboxing features would be beneficial."
"If there is any attack on the server, I would like to know whether the backup image will be in a healthy or unhealthy status. Sandboxing features would be beneficial."
"Pricing is still a little high, as other vendors offer better pricing."
"Pricing is still a little high, as other vendors offer better pricing."
"Some improvement is needed in the speed when downloading data from the cloud backups, which requires more bandwidth."
"I would give the pricing for Acronis Cyber Cloud a five. It could be a bit cheaper."
"The interface could be improved, especially the cloud configuration, which currently has many tabs."
"At the time I was using it, I would've focused more on signatures of malicious software in the cloud."
"The product's scalability features could be even better."
"The fact that Datto Cloud Continuity is not cheap is one of the aspects that I don't like about the product, making it an area where improvements are required."
"Right now the appliances have a functional limit of 50 protected servers each."
"At the time I was using it, I would've focused more on signatures of malicious software in the cloud. I love Datto, and I know they're on the right path, but I probably would've focused more on the operating system update management. When you go from the desk to the cloud or from the server room to the cloud, everything changes. Everything is different. You're not in control of your servers anymore. It is from the Active Directory management perspective and not from the perspective of zero-day attacks or other similar things. At the time, more focus on zero-day attacks and business email compromise (BEC) would've been a better protection factor than just educating about how many of these attacks have occurred."
"I don't have any feedback to provide in terms of features that may be lacking."
"Datto chose to build their own cloud, instead of leveraging AWS, Azure or GCP. It looks, feels and behaves like a beta product (lacks maturity)."
"They are now providing the device instead of selling it, while wanting their users to sign a three-year contract, and this is something which my clients don't like...I dislike the fact that signing a three-year contract is required."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The current price for the advanced version is approximately 35,000 Indian rupees."
"As the company grew from business continuity—or what used to be called business BCDR—they brought on services. Certain services, such as SaaS protection, were a value-add, but you would expect to pay for them. They are not going to be free. It is just the life that you live when you're evaluating software vendors, partners, etc. There is going to be some form of a base offering, and then there are going to be different tiers that you need to get up to a better level."
"I rate the product price an eight on a scale of one to ten, where one is low price and ten is high price."
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Top Industries

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Manufacturing Company
13%
Computer Software Company
10%
Outsourcing Company
7%
Construction Company
6%
 

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business7
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business8
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise1
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Acronis Cyber Cloud?
Acronis could add more platforms that can be protected, such as Proxmox. I am not sure they support that yet, but I would appreciate them adding that capability.
What is your primary use case for Acronis Cyber Cloud?
I currently use Acronis Cyber Cloud for backup of servers, desktop computers, and email, including Microsoft 365. I do use Acronis Cyber Cloud for disaster recovery.
What advice do you have for others considering Acronis Cyber Cloud?
Apart from backing up your on-premises servers, Acronis Cyber Cloud allows you to back up cloud servers on Azure, AWS, and Google. It also backs up in Azure Storage, Azure Blob, and S3 bucket on AW...
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Datto Cloud Continuity for PCs
 

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