Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office vs HPE Zerto Software comparison

Acronis and Hewlett Packard Enterprise are both solutions in the Backup and Recovery category. Acronis is ranked #40 with an average rating of 9.0, while Hewlett Packard Enterprise is ranked #2 with an average rating of 9.0. Acronis holds a 0.4% mindshare in BRS, compared to Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s 2.1% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Acronis users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 98% of Hewlett Packard Enterprise users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 21, 2025

HPE Zerto Software and Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office are both prominent in the data protection realm, but they serve different functions. HPE Zerto Software seems to have the upper hand in enterprise-level disaster recovery and scalability, whereas Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office leads in providing an integrated cybersecurity and backup solution for personal and small business users.

Features: HPE Zerto Software offers continuous data protection, robust disaster recovery solutions, and scalability ideal for enterprise applications. Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office integrates antivirus, backup, and cybersecurity, offering a unified protection package. Its comprehensive security features make it highly suitable for users seeking all-in-one protection.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office provides straightforward deployment and intuitive management, ideal for individuals and small businesses with limited IT resources. In contrast, HPE Zerto Software, while requiring detailed configurations, is tailored for complex enterprise environments. It comes with dedicated support, accommodating large-scale operations and specific recovery needs.

Pricing and ROI: Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office offers an accessible pricing model with packages targeting personal and small business users, ensuring good ROI through its comprehensive protection. In contrast, HPE Zerto Software, while more costly, justifies the higher expense through its powerful enterprise features, offering extensive data protection and disaster recovery to businesses emphasizing these capabilities.

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Categories and Ranking

Acronis Cyber Protect Home ...

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

40th

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Anti-Malware Tools (22nd)

HPE Zerto Software

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

2nd

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

343

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Migration (1st), Cloud Backup (3rd), Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (1st)

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Backup and Recovery category, the mindshare of Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office is 0.4%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of HPE Zerto Software is 2.1%, down from 2.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Backup and Recovery Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
HPE Zerto Software	2.1%
Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office	0.4%
Other	97.5%

Backup and Recovery

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Gerald Rodrigues

General Manager at Tilaknagar Industries Ltd

Reliable backups have protected our manufacturing data and now provide confident disaster recovery

Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office is used to take care of the data for our manufacturing company and its users. I work with CrowdStrike only for antivirus. We have antivirus products, but not as a main solution. The antiviruses we are using are from another vendor. For antiviruses, we are using Falcon CrowdStrike. My main experience is with CrowdStrike antivirus and Palo Alto firewall. These are the two things for security, and we are exploring other software solutions that will be beneficial for us. I track two levels of ransomware protection: one from Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office and one from CrowdStrike. I do not work with Cortex cloud by Palo Alto; I have the hardware on-premise at my location. I do not work with WildFire, Prisma Access, or Prisma SD-WAN, but I will be looking forward to it. This is the only firewall I am using, but very soon, I will be opting for another Palo Alto firewall of the same model that will be working on high availability. I am not knowledgeable about the CN-Series firewall; I can only talk about the one I have. We have acquired one particular brand, a company called Pernod Ricard, which manufactures products like Chivas Regal whisky and Beefeater. Endpoint Detection and Response is something we will explore after a certain period of time and we are looking for it very soon. I would rate this review an overall eight out of ten.

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David Riberdy

Enterprise data management supervisor at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

An all-in-one and cost-efficient solution that does what it promises

Zerto is very easy to use. Installation is about half an hour, and then it starts protecting the data and VMs. It is not very cumbersome. The UI is built very well. It is fairly self-explanatory. To be able to stand up a product you have never seen in half an hour and get it functioning and protecting speaks to how good the UI and workflow are. Zerto has near-synchronous replication. As a change is made on site A, it gets copied across the network to site B. We are five or six seconds behind production. If I have a heavily used system and I use traditional backups, I could be anywhere from 5 minutes to 23 hours behind. With Zerto, I am single-digit seconds behind. That works well for us. Our disaster recovery test, which used to span an entire week, now takes two days. We used to recover our servers in the first two or three days with a backup product and then test for two days before tearing it all down. Now, we spend half a day on new servers and ensuring things work with networking, etc. We test the next day, and we are done in two days. Across the entire company, we are able to save significant man-hours by shortening the test from a week to two days. We are now doing smaller tests once a month and larger tests once a year. Zerto has reduced our DR testing time by 60% to 70%. We are also able to do more disaster recovery testing. Previously, we were doing it once a year, whereas now, we are doing smaller tests once a month and our large tests once a year. In recovery point objectives, we are single-digit seconds behind. In terms of RTOs, I can recover 350 VMs in 30 minutes. It takes less than several seconds to restore a single VM. From days to 30 minutes for 350 compared to 100 VMs is an incredible time-saving in terms of RTOs and RPOs for us.

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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

"The malware feature is most valuable."

"The customer service and support are excellent."

"When it comes to backup, the biggest benefits of Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office are its reliability and the assurance it provides, which we have specifically tried and tested during disasters as it saved us from losing data."

"Acronis schedules in the background and does incremental images so it doesn’t take forever to backup."

"The reliable tool allows for quick restoration from backup copies, meaning I do not have to reload Windows or programs."

"The ease of setting up replication, the speed, and the ease with which I can fail over and fail back are all excellent aspects of the solution."

"The live test failover is the most valuable feature because it allows me to validate that my data is protected in the event of a failure."

"Zerto's ability to test failovers with a record of how long it takes to fail the motor is beneficial, as it allows us to know the timing in the event we have to do it live."

"The features I appreciate the most about HPE Zerto Software are the automated failover and orchestration, and then the journal for point-in-time recovery."

"Zerto's most valuable features include its user-friendly interface, multi-tenancy capabilities, and near-zero downtime recovery."

"The real-time capability is what we're looking for."

"I assess the stability and reliability of the HPE Zerto Software as very robust, with no real performance issues experienced; it just works and is easy to use."

"What I appreciate the most about the product is its simplicity. It's very easy to use for my staff."

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Cons

"Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office needs to improve their reporting part, and the support provided is sometimes inadequate, which causes issues for customers."

"I originally intended to use Acronis for cloud backup, however, the cloud backup had major problems."

"I originally intended to use Acronis for cloud backup, however, the cloud backup had major problems. After struggling with it for about two years, I switched to Carbonite and have not gone back."

"I had a couple of false positives, but that’s it."

"The configuration needs improvement."

"The new licensing model didn't work out for us because we used one-to-one replication."

"The ease of setup can be improved in the next release of HPE Zerto Software. The initial setup of the DNS environments and backup environment took us time to implement, and if the process was wizard-driven, that would have been really beneficial."

"The email alerts can be excessive, so better control over frequency or resolution may be a worthwhile improvement."

"One improvement that could make it easier would be to have an easier way to track journal usage and a little bit more training around journal sizing. I've done all the training and the journal is still a gray area. There is confusion surrounding how it's billed and how we should bill clients. It would be easier if it had billing suggestions or billing best practices for our clients to make sure that we're not leaving money on the table."

"There's one feature that SRM had that Zerto doesn't have, and it's one that we've been asking for. With the orchestration part of the failover, with our DR and our primary sites, the IP addresses are almost identical. The only difference is one octet. With SRM, we could say during a failover change. With Zerto, we keep hearing that it's coming, but we haven't received it yet. It's a feature that would be very beneficial. It would reduce the time a little bit more."

"The only negative I would give is that with the latest version of the appliance, setting up authentication was a bit of a challenge, but that is just a matter of using Keycloak and how things have changed."

"HPE Zerto Software could evolve to where, instead of me having to push a button, it can detect disasters on the fly and automate disaster detection."

"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."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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"The cost is not dirt cheap but also is not terrible."

"It's very equitable, otherwise you wouldn't do it. It's something that we utilize for the licenses per core as far as what we're backing up. Therefore, it's very cost-efficient as far as the licensing goes. For the amount of stuff that we're backing up and what we're utilizing it for, the licensing is not very expensive at all."

"It is less expensive than the full solution that we had previously, but at the same time, it's not an inexpensive product either."

"The pricing for this solution is reasonable."

"If you are an IT person and you think that DR is too expensive then the cloud option from Zerto is good because anyone can afford to use it, as far as getting one or two of their criticals protected."

"Its price can be better, but it is not bad. Most small-scale organizations can afford it, but they can come up with more customer-friendly packages."

"It is expensive."

"The solution is expensive, but it's worth the price."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Comms Service Provider

35%

Computer Software Company

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

Computer Software Company

11%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Healthcare Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

No data available

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	90
Midsize Enterprise	86
Large Enterprise	196

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office?

The malware feature is most valuable.

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What needs improvement with Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office?

I originally intended to use Acronis for cloud backup, however, the cloud backup had major problems. After struggling with it for about two years, I switched to Carbonite and have not gone back.

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What is your primary use case for Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office?

I use Acronis for backups. I use it to back up to other drives on the network, back up the entire system, including system images of the Windows C drive and all the data drives. This is for a small...

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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...

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What do you like most about Zerto?

Its ability to roll back if the VM or the server that you are recovering does not come up right is also valuable. You have the ability to roll back a few seconds or a few minutes. The rollback feat...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Zerto?

From a pricing perspective, HPE Zerto Software is expensive in comparison to other products on the market, but I think it is an easier sell because it works so well and it is so easy to set up a de...

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Overview

Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office is used primarily for data backup and recovery. Highlights include effective malware protection, ransomware defense, ease of use, and cloud storage integration.

Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office offers robust backup and recovery, advanced ransomware protection, and anti-malware features. Integrated tools such as disk cloning, image backup, and cloud storage enhance its functionality. Users benefit from automatic backups, flexible scheduling, intuitive operation, and hybrid cloud-local protection. Regular updates ensure threat detection and reliability.

What are the main features of Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office?

Backup and Recovery: Comprehensive options for safeguarding data.
Ransomware Protection: Advanced defenses against ransomware threats.
Anti-Malware: Strong malware detection and removal capabilities.
Disk Cloning: Efficient disk cloning tools for data migration.
Cloud Storage: Seamless integration with cloud storage solutions.
Automatic Backups: Convenient scheduling for regular backups.
Hybrid Protection: Combines cloud and local backups for added security.
Regular Updates: Ensures the latest threat protection and features.

What benefits and ROI should users expect?

Data Security: Ensured through comprehensive backup and recovery.
Reliability: Consistent performance with quick restoration processes.
Ease of Use: Simplified operation with intuitive tools and interfaces.
Cross-Platform Support: Compatible with multiple systems and devices.
Customer Support: Dependable assistance and regular software updates.

In specific industries such as healthcare, finance, and education, Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office is implemented to secure sensitive data and ensure business continuity. Its encryption capabilities and cross-platform support make it a versatile choice for handling large volumes of critical information while providing seamless integration with existing IT infrastructures.

Acronis

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.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Sample Customers

Information Not Available

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

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