Acronis Cyber Infrastructure vs DataCore SANsymphony comparison

Acronis Cyber Infrastructure vs. DataCore SANsymphony

Download the complete report

Helped 884,976 peers since 2012

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 Infrastructure

Ranking in HCI

18th

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

5.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

DataCore SANsymphony

Ranking in HCI

8th

Average Rating

9.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Storage Software (2nd), Software Defined Storage (SDS) (5th), Storage Performance (1st)

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the HCI category, the mindshare of Acronis Cyber Infrastructure is 1.2%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of DataCore SANsymphony is 2.3%, up from 1.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

HCI Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
DataCore SANsymphony	2.3%
Acronis Cyber Infrastructure	1.2%
Other	96.5%

HCI

Featured Reviews

Sahan Hettiarachchi

Associate Product Executive at Connex Information Technologies

Integrated cybersecurity and backup have improved ransomware resilience and simplified recovery

In my opinion, it would be better if Acronis expanded their integration with multiple products. Right now, backup and mail backup are only limited to M365 and Google. Most of the customers in my country use hosted servers or cPanel, IceWarp, and other small office and home office email solutions. If they can expand that integration, it would be helpful. Making it even better would be if they have an industrial-level backup solution with multiple integrations and multiple backup capabilities that their competitor has. This would allow us to focus on one singular license for backup and confidently position it to an enterprise-level environment, such as a data center-level environment.

Read full review

SigfridCecillon

Owner at Arsium

High availability and user-friendliness enhance infrastructure health and redundancy

I would rate technical support from DataCore SANsymphony a 10. Each time I contact the technical support, it's when I don't have a choice because it's very difficult for me on site, and each time, I have good people online who are able to help me solve the problem. Usually, the problems are not very technically difficult, but sometimes they are, and the support team is still there to help us resolve them. The majority of the problems are linked to licensing, so when the license has expired or the number is not correct, they are proactive and change things live, which is very good.

Read full review

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The most valuable feature is the backup capability."

"The reporting and auditing features of Acronis Cyber Infrastructure are the most effective for data protection; it has a single console management system, and all products are integrated into one console, which makes it very efficient."

"The technical support provided by Acronis is great."

"The most valuable features are the full image backup, and the file or document sharing, allowing documents to be easily accessed from anywhere."

"The most valuable feature of Acronis Cyber Infrastructure is the multi-tenancy model, we can create customers and services for them."

"The best feature of Acronis Cyber Infrastructure is how it backs up files in a user-friendly manner."

"The most valuable feature is the backup capability."

"The most valuable features are the full image backup, and the file or document sharing, allowing documents to be easily accessed from anywhere."

More Acronis Cyber Infrastructure pros

"It allows data to be available from two DataCore servers."

"It is a very stable solution."

"When we migrated from our physical SQL server hardware storage to SANsymphony's software-defined storage, with its clever caching mechanism, we saw a huge increase in performance."

"The best solution to build an always-on strategy, with zero downtime, very fast performance, and great flexibility."

"Storage is always available."

"Supporting of Automated-Storage-Tiering (AST) is a good feature that saves money."

"SANsymphony-V offers a comprehensive set of storage virtualization functions to build a very robust storage network that speeds up applications, ensures business continuity and facilitates disaster recovery."

"Inexpensive for the amount of storage."

More DataCore SANsymphony pros

Cons

"Acronis Cyber Infrastructure is too populated. They have many features, but some features are still missing, it is not complete. They need to improve many features, such as email security and disaster recovery."

"Acronis Cyber Infrastructure is too populated. They have many features, but some features are still missing, it is not complete."

"If they could make improvements with the virtual environment then it would be better."

"Backing up Azure resources is an area where there's room for improvement, as they are not fully covered yet."

"The support for this solution is a major thing that they need to focus on and improve."

"The only downside is when comparing backup scenarios. Veeam has much more backup capabilities for data center and enterprise environments, but Acronis only focuses on SMBs and mid-level markets."

"I would like to see real-time backup supported in the next release of this solution."

"If they could make improvements with the virtual environment then it would be better."

More Acronis Cyber Infrastructure cons

"Right now, the version used is run on Microsoft Windows Server. Having a Linux version or even an appliance would be better as it would eliminate the use of additional licensing for another piece of hardware."

"Even though it is easy to administrate, the initial installation and configuration can be complicated."

"I would like for it to improve into a more ergonomic management console and a translation into the French language. It should have some process for a shutdown of a VM properly in case of a problem."

"Datacore is developing a new WebUI with new dashboards. It is a good idea as the classic GUI is lacking dashboards."

"SANsymphony is missing some features that vSAN has. For example, vSAN has a special feature called continuous data protection. It provides the ability to go back in time to a given moment. You can see what was on your disk in the past up to two weeks. That's a great feature because ransomware attacks are increasingly common, and that provides you some kind of protection."

"The management should take place via OS-independent access; here a web-based client would be desirable."

"If it could integrate to a cloud gateway, then we could carry it directly to storage, instead of having middleware in between the storage and the cloud."

"For customers or technicians who don't speak and understand English, it would be great to have other language support, all the more so given the number of countries in which SanSymphony is used."

More DataCore SANsymphony cons

Pricing and Cost Advice

"We pay monthly for the use of Acronis Cyber Infrastructure. There are additional features that we use that have an extra fee."

"The pricing is on the high side and the subscription is renewed every year."

"The cost is at the same level as other storage solutions and it is easy to understand the licensing."

"Pricing has improved but it is still expensive."

"In my case, the licensing per terabytes is very high and it must be licensed for each extra functionality."

"This solution allows the use of off-the-shelf hardware and charges by the TB of storage."

"DataCore SANsymphony's pricing is very high and should be much cheaper."

"The pricing and licensing are better with DataCore."

"We have licensing costs on a yearly basis. They charge per terabyte, so in terms of cost, it can be very costly. They have three different features, and you have to pay extra for those."

"This product has a good ratio between quality and price. In many cases, it's less expensive to work with DataCore than other storage systems."

More DataCore SANsymphony pricing and cost advice

See which vendors are best for you

Use our free recommendation engine to learn which HCI solutions are best for your needs.

See recommendations

884,976 professionals have used our research since 2012.

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

No data available

Manufacturing Company

14%

Comms Service Provider

12%

Computer Software Company

12%

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

No data available

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	36
Midsize Enterprise	12
Large Enterprise	22

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Acronis Cyber Infrastructure?

Compared to the products in the market, Acronis is very affordable. Because they have multiple solutions integrated into one license, we can justify the cost. It is affordable within region-wise po...

What needs improvement with Acronis Cyber Infrastructure?

What is your primary use case for Acronis Cyber Infrastructure?

I am working with Acronis, and I have experience with Veeam Backup for VMware and similar technologies. I have experience with VMware configuration from vSphere and backup, replication, and related...

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for DataCore SANsymphony SDS?

I am saying that the pricing is reasonable. It's not that expensive, and the product is also pretty stable. It's a good solution and the price is okay regarding the other products.

What do you like most about DataCore SANsymphony?

The dashboard is very intuitive, and there are a lot of counters to diagnose what happens during a short period (like when a backup is in progress).

What needs improvement with DataCore SANsymphony?

It's difficult to know how DataCore SANsymphony can be improved. I think DataCore SANsymphony could be deployed on Linux environments, which could be a great thing for clients. I would like to see ...

Atlantis Hyperscale vs Acronis Cyber Infrastructure

Comparisons

Compared 10% of the time

Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) vs Acronis Cyber Infrastructure

Compared 9% of the time

Sangfor HCI - Hyper Converged Infrastructure vs Acronis Cyber Infrastructure

Compared 8% of the time

StarWind Virtual SAN vs Acronis Cyber Infrastructure

Compared 8% of the time

Huawei FusionCube Hyper-Converged Infrastructure vs Acronis Cyber Infrastructure

Compared 7% of the time

More Acronis Cyber Infrastructure Competitors

StarWind Virtual SAN vs DataCore SANsymphony

Compared 6% of the time

VMware vSAN vs DataCore SANsymphony

Compared 5% of the time

Red Hat Ceph Storage vs DataCore SANsymphony

Compared 5% of the time

StorMagic SvSAN vs DataCore SANsymphony

Compared 4% of the time

StarWind Virtual Tape Library vs DataCore SANsymphony

Compared 2% of the time

More DataCore SANsymphony Competitors

Product Reports

HCI

Download Acronis Cyber Infrastructure product report

DataCore SANsymphony

Download DataCore SANsymphony product report

Also Known As

No data available

DataCore Virtual SAN

Overview

The Acronis Cyber Infrastructure Appliance is a ready-to-use cyber protection solution that combines proven and tested hardware and software in one easy to install and operate unit. The Acronis Cyber Infrastructure Appliance is currently available in selected countries.

Acronis

Experience peace of mind with DataCore SANsymphony, the ultimate software-defined storage solution alleviating storage management challenges. Say goodbye to the complexities of managing different storage tiers and disruptions with SANsymphony's block-level storage virtualization technology, empowering you to automate capacity provisioning and data placement across diverse storage environments including SAN, DAS, HCI, and JBOD. Break down silos, control data placement, meet business continuity objectives, boost performance, and seamlessly expand or refresh hardware with SANsymphony. Benefit from features like asynchronous replication for disaster recovery, minimizing data loss, accelerating application responsiveness, and integrating new technology non-disruptively. Trusted by industry leaders like NASA, Thorntons, Inc., and TUI Cruises, DataCore SANsymphony guarantees unparalleled flexibility, scalability, and reliability, ensuring uninterrupted data access and application availability while reducing storage costs and inefficiencies.

DataCore

Sample Customers

Computol, dmi Networking

Volkswagen , Maimonides Medical Center, NASA, Thorntons, Inc., TUI, ISCO Industries, Pee Dee Electric Cooperative, United Financial Credit Union, Derby Supply Chain Solutions, Mission Community Hospital, Bellarmine College Preparatory, Colby-Sawyer College, Mount Sinai Health System, The Royal Institute of International Affairs, Quorn Foods, Bitburger, University of Birmingham, Stadtverwaltung Heidelberg, NetEnt to name a few.

Acronis Cyber Infrastructure vs. DataCore SANsymphony