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Acronis Cyber Protect vs Commvault Cloud comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 11, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

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

ROI

Sentiment score
7.8
Acronis Cyber Protect improved morale, efficiency, and cost recovery, offering peace of mind and reliable data recovery benefits.
Sentiment score
7.5
Commvault Cloud users gained financial benefits through cost savings, improved productivity, and efficient data recovery and backup management.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
6.4
Acronis Cyber Protect support has mixed reviews; technical support is praised for knowledge, but initial responses can be slow.
Sentiment score
7.3
Commvault Cloud's customer service is highly praised for responsiveness, despite some challenges with language, time zones, and support quality.
Whenever I have a question, they respond very quickly each time.
The support takes too much time to respond to callbacks.
Customer support has very closed departments, requiring us to shuffle between them to get one thing done because representatives have limited accessibility.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.0
Acronis Cyber Protect offers scalable growth and flexibility, though some users report issues with specific databases and backup durations.
Sentiment score
7.5
Commvault Cloud offers efficient scalability and flexibility, allowing seamless expansion across diverse environments and workloads with simple management.
Acronis Cyber Protect is a scalable product.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.4
Acronis Cyber Protect is generally stable, with minor setup challenges and occasional performance issues during large backups.
Sentiment score
7.8
Commvault Cloud is praised for its stability, reliability, minimal downtime, and quick issue resolution, with rare external-linked errors.
The stability of Acronis Cyber Protect is very high.
Commvault Cloud is highly stable, and I would rate it a ten out of ten.
 

Room For Improvement

Acronis Cyber Protect needs UI improvements, better support, enhanced backups, compatibility, and cloud integration to address user concerns.
Commvault Cloud requires UI improvements, better onboarding, integration enhancements, stronger support, and cost-effective solutions for a competitive edge.
The Protect environment should automatically secure the last backup screens to prevent any changes, even by an admin.
Acronis Cyber Protect could be more affordable, especially for us in South America.
I feel that the support is not yet up to the mark, with not enough professional engineers to provide assistance.
 

Setup Cost

Acronis Cyber Protect offers reasonable pricing and good value, though complex pricing may challenge evaluators, especially for smaller environments.
Commvault Cloud offers flexible pricing options, with potential savings compared to competitors, though it may be costly for small businesses.
I would rate the price as nine out of ten.
Commvault Cloud is expensive, and there is room for the price to be 10-15 percent lower than what they are charging currently.
 

Valuable Features

Acronis Cyber Protect provides comprehensive backup, security features, and management tools, ensuring data protection across multiple platforms for businesses.
Commvault Cloud offers seamless backup, global deduplication, strong security, and scalability for hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
The NASDAQ level CFS level backup is the feature I find most beneficial for our data protection strategy.
This is beneficial because any backup package stored in the cloud is not free, and if it shrinks well, it allows users to pay less for cloud storage.
We can back up unlimited TBs due to our per node license.
Other features include endpoint solutions, integration with Office 365, ransomware protection, archival for long-term retention, and no ingress or egress charges.
 

Categories and Ranking

Acronis Cyber Protect
Ranking in Backup and Recovery
8th
Ranking in Cloud Backup
5th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
121
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Commvault Cloud
Ranking in Backup and Recovery
3rd
Ranking in Cloud Backup
2nd
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
110
Ranking in other categories
eDiscovery (3rd), Disaster Recovery as a Service (2nd), File Archiving (1st), Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (3rd), SaaS Backup (1st), Threat Deception Platforms (1st), Container Backup Software (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2025, in the Backup and Recovery category, the mindshare of Acronis Cyber Protect is 4.3%, down from 4.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Commvault Cloud is 7.5%, up from 5.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Backup and Recovery
 

Featured Reviews

Mohd Fahim - PeerSpot reviewer
Cost-effective with good data protection and a straightforward setup
Acronis Cyber Protect shows only a few features. We are using their default type of security I am using the default features of Acronis Security. The NASDAQ level CFS level backup is the feature I find most beneficial for our data protection strategy. It's a very cost-effective product. The…
Matt Reller - PeerSpot reviewer
Provides extremely fast backup, is easy to manage, and is flexible
Commvault Cloud's automated policies provide the notification we need to ensure our data is secure and managed correctly. Commvault Cloud provides excellent visibility across all of our organization's data. It is extremely important to our organization that Commvault has a unified platform that offers recovery across cloud, on-prem, and SaaS workloads. It has helped our organization improve by simplifying the way we manage our environment. We could not manage the same environment with only half of our current staff. We have yet to find anything in our environment that Commvault does not support. Commvault Cloud's Risk Analysis helps us identify, categorize, and classify sensitive data enabling us to take the appropriate actions to protect it. Commvault does a good job helping us limit our exposure and ensure compliance. Commvault has helped us reduce our data management costs significantly. Compared to Dell Avamar, the costs are vastly different. Commvault is much more cost-effective. We are licensed by capacity, so we don't have to worry about licensing different features. We have all the features that are licensed by capacity. And as far as ongoing support costs and other expenses, they are much lower than what they were with Dell Avamar. Commvault also gives us the flexibility to use any storage we want, while Avamar is tied to the Data Domain, which is not cheap to support. It has helped us reduce our backup time unless we are using Data Domain. This is because we can perform deduplication and compression on the client layer, which reduces the load on the network. We cannot do this with Data Domain. In fact, if we even attempt to perform a quick progress check before sending data to the Data Domain, the system fails completely. We learned this the hard way. We are using many more advanced features in Commvault Cloud than we ever did in Dell Avamar, simply because we had to license each feature separately in Avamar. As a result, we did not perform many backups in Avamar, such as all database backups (DB2, SAP HANA, Oracle, and SQL). These backups were performed outside of Avamar. We are now using Direct Connect agents for all of our databases. This allows us to perform incremental backups, which we could not do with the previous method. As a result, we have reduced our backup times by two-thirds, or even more in some cases. Compared to when we were backing up directly to Data Domain, Commvault is now running our backups ten times faster. This has resulted in a significant reduction in our backup times. Commvault has helped us reduce the RPO. Even in Data Domain, it has reduced our storage times by about half. It has also helped us reduce the threat detection time. We reduced the RTO significantly with Commvault. Commvault has helped us reduce downtime primarily due to the increase in the performance of resources.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
18%
Comms Service Provider
11%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Financial Services Firm
6%
Computer Software Company
16%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Government
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

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How does Acronis Backup compare with Veeam Backup & Replication?
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What do you like most about Acronis Backup?
One of its most valuable aspects is its user-friendly interface.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Commvault?
The tool is affordable. I rate the pricing a six out of ten. Implementation requires additional costs because we need Commvault Professional Services.
What needs improvement with Commvault?
Data center backup must be improved. We also want the product to provide us with a cloud-based backup. If we use Microsoft Exchange Online for email services, we want to know how to get a backup in...
What do you like most about Commvault Complete Data Protection?
IntelliSnap and file system backups are valuable features.
 

Also Known As

Acronis Backup, Acronis Backup 12.5 Standard, Acronis Backup 12.5 Advanced
Commvault Complete Data Protection, Commvault Backup & Recovery, Commvault HyperScale X, Metallic, ThreatWise
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Kings Academy, Rush Memorial, Pentagon Credit Union, Oxford School District, New York City Probation, Dolmen Insurance, New Bedford Community Health, Gerard Darel, Ready Honda
Aberdeenshire Council, Acxiom, BAM Group Ireland, Catholic Education Diocese of Parramatta, CI Investments, Clifford Chance, American Municipal Power, American Pacific Mortgage, AstraZeneca, Dongbu Steel, Denver Health, Dow Jones, Emirates Steel, Penn State Health, Prime Healthcare, Sonic Healthcare, Sony Network Communications, TiVO, UCONN Health, The Weitz Company
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