We performed a comparison between Acronis Cyber Protect and NetApp SnapCenter based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Backup and Recovery solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Acronis Backup is valuable if your data is affected by ransomware, you are able to get it back."
"The best thing about it is that we can back up pretty much everything we want to. We don't have to have multiple solutions. It can back up any physical or virtual server, including servers in Azure. It can back up SharePoint, OneDrive, and G Suite. Everything we need to back up can be backed up, and that's why we like it."
"In terms of system-critical support, Acronis' technical support does really well. I would give them an eight out of ten for that."
"The solution was easy to install and to deploy."
"The solution has all the features I need and user friendly."
"This is a perfect option for an SMB."
"All the necessary features required to set up a proper backup are already present in Acronis Backup."
"It has simple buying options and deployments. You can buy on-cloud, on-premises, or hybrid solutions. Acronis Backup is very easy to deploy. It also does not consume much hardware. The administrator's tasks are very simple. It is very user friendly, and it also has good security features with low-level encryption and data encryption."
"The Exchange plugin is the most valuable because we have a lot of customers that use SnapManager Exchange and have to migrate to SnapCenter."
"It's all together managing both storage and backup, which makes it easier for troubleshooting issues and the automation part of it"
"I like the instant backups and recovery feature that SnapCenter provides within NetApp storage systems."
"Being able to add everything in as resource groups is a valuable feature... Having all the SQL servers put into specific buckets, based on their year of release - 2008, 2012, 2014 - allows us to get almost immediate backups that are easily seen and reported on."
"The simplicity of backup and restore directly with VMware is an advantage and the time to backup and restore is reduced."
"It has greatly improved our DR activity."
"A feature that stands out is cloning databases. If you have a SQL database and it's huge, like one terabyte, the classical SQL way would be to do a backup-restore to create a clone of your database for test purposes. With SnapCenter now, we can clone a database but through the Snapshot technology, which means if you right-click and you click Clone, the one terabyte database is there instantly."
"Technical support has been very helpful when we have issues."
"The whole product structure is confusing. You can actually get to do what you want to do. But Acronis seems to have a singular ability to make things difficult."
"The reporting can be improved."
"I believe that the next release should be easier to configure as this one is difficult to configure even the easiest of tasks."
"It would be nice to have a partition that I can boot and reinstall when taking a backup image from the operating system."
"It could have a better ability to manage backups over a longer period."
"Acronis has some limitations on the cloud side."
"If we could have a mass deployment option using Acronis, that would be helpful."
"The biggest problem that we have is when the antivirus is installed, the whole machine runs very slowly and some of the machines hang."
"The UI, the User Interface, needs to be improved. It's not as clean or modern as it could be."
"We tend to have a lot of Hyper-V... so now we have two management consoles and we would ideally like to leverage SnapCenter to include Hyper-V."
"I'm waiting for SnapCenter for hybrid solutions. Right now, we only have SnapManager for hybrid. I need agents for that. People are looking to install SnapCenter in a SQL environment, but where they're running SQL on Hyper-V and using virtual files. Currently, we don't have support for hybrid."
"The DBAs are comparing it to SMO but it doesn't have a lot of the functionalities that SMO has."
"Some of the minor functionalities from SnapManager did not transfer over to SnapCenter. These should be added in future releases."
"The GUI is still so-so. I' don't use the GUI that often anymore because it's really slow, refreshing disks, refreshing hosts, and you have to click a lot."
"The Dashboard view needs to be more compressed with better ease of access and drill-down features. They should also reinstate Linux filesystem backups of storage volumes (which existed in the prior version)."
"Reporting of the jobs could be better."
Acronis Cyber Protect is ranked 10th in Backup and Recovery with 117 reviews while NetApp SnapCenter is ranked 40th in Backup and Recovery with 24 reviews. Acronis Cyber Protect is rated 8.2, while NetApp SnapCenter is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Acronis Cyber Protect writes " Good backup solution but challenges with the stability". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NetApp SnapCenter writes "A stable solution that is mostly used by banks and financial institutions". Acronis Cyber Protect is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365, Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud, Azure Backup and N-able Cove Data Protection, whereas NetApp SnapCenter is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Cohesity DataProtect, NetApp Cloud Backup, Commvault Cloud and Veritas NetBackup. See our Acronis Cyber Protect vs. NetApp SnapCenter report.
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