Acronis Disaster Recovery vs Azure Site Recovery comparison

Acronis Disaster Recovery vs. Azure Site Recovery

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Acronis Disaster Recovery

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.5

Number of Reviews

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Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (13th)

Azure Site Recovery

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

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Disaster Recovery as a Service (3rd)

Featured Reviews

RandeepPawar

Technical Director at Tecstaq

Have improved recovery preparedness and see potential growth with better technical support

Acronis provides ease of use with all tools and solutions operating through a single console and agent. This reduces the workload on endpoints during backups and other cybersecurity operations. Backup is crucial as it allows data recovery. Email security helps protect against malicious emails. The failover process is preconfigured, offering a simplistic switch over for servers.

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RituparnaBhattacharya

Senior Infrastructure Engineer at MIC Global

The time-saving aspects allow us to write PowerShell scripts to automate failover processes

First of all, we initially faced a challenge as Azure Site Recovery was not supporting shared disk options on SQL clusters with VMs, which are important for a Windows cluster mode. Additionally, the setup is quite easy, only requiring the creation of a vault. Its time-saving aspects allow us to write PowerShell scripts to automate failover processes.

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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

"Using the backup as an image helps our organization to have a clean machine in disaster recovery."

"One key feature is it encrypts your data at rest which is really good."

"The most valuable features of the product for me are its backup and recovery functionalities."

"Acronis Disaster Recovery has good scalability."

"The most valuable feature is the hot restore capability."

"The ability to automate the backup solution and recover entire mailboxes or even granular-level emails is very good for restoration and backup."

"The backup and recovery options work flawlessly."

"Performance-wise, it works efficiently for backup and recovery compared to other tools."

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"It is a very stable product and very scalable."

"Azure Site Recovery allows my company to save around 30 percent of the time on every VM that we need to back up and restore."

"A major benefit is that you do not want to pay any more for huge costs to build a DR site."

"The solution is very easy to use."

"They're moving a lot of their workload to cloud and aiming for a seamlessly integrated product."

"Azure Site Recovery is an easy-to-use and fairly stable solution for disaster recovery."

"It’s native to Azure and does exactly what it’s designed to do—recover one site to another without creating all the VMs on that site. This helps reduce costs on the secondary site."

"The most valuable feature is the visibility of what is happening with our business as well as the good reporting and dashboards."

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Cons

"They could provide pricing models considering the requirements of various countries and organizations."

"The solution covers specific versions of Windows and Linux, and it would be good if other Linux versions or some special appliances could work in the Acronis Disaster Recovery environment."

"In the future, I would like to see cross-platform support."

"Acronis Disaster Recovery should provide software information wherein I can change my setup to collect more information."

"From an improvement perspective, the tool should allow users to add more data centers in the cloud."

"The product should improve compute points."

"Technical support from Acronis requires some improvisation; we do not get on-time support, and we face issues connecting with the account manager, which needs to be improved."

"Acronis could improve by incorporating an application or network load balancer."

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"Site Recovery's scalability could be improved."

"Could have more integration with other platforms."

"Azure Site Recovery's deployment is complex. There are a lot of bugs, and it needs to improve stability."

"I would like to see more security features."

"It is for site-to-site replication. When something goes wrong on your site, you only get 15 minutes before it also goes wrong on your replicated site. There should be some way to be able to say that we want to restore it, but we want to restore it to the version from yesterday. It should support versioning. I would also like to see real-time scanning for advanced threat protection, more straightforward billing, and quicker turnaround on the tech support."

"The tool should improve synchronization."

"The flexibility of Azure Site Recovery regarding integration with different IT environments is limited; it is purely an Azure platform service for business continuity, not meant for integration with other services."

"Recently, I worked with a mass issue related to Recovery Services Vault, and the VM support engineers are taking a lot of time to extend support to the customer."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The product has an affordable price."

"The solution’s pricing is average."

"This pricing is quite reasonable."

"On a scale from one to ten, where one is expensive and ten is cheap, I rate the solution's pricing two or three out of ten."

"The tool's pricing is reasonable."

"The tool is a little bit expensive. When it comes to pricing, there is a range for the VMs and endpoints. It depends. A set of backups on a DR probably costs around 10 to 20 USD per endpoint."

"The price of the solution is inexpensive."

"Acronis Disaster Recovery is a cheap solution."

"Azure Site Recovery is neither very expensive nor very cheap."

"I'm not sure about the Azure Site Recovery pricing, but my organization gets monthly bills from providers."

"They have a license to pay."

"Azure Site Recovery is affordable."

"Azure Site Recovery is a very reasonably priced product."

"The tool's licensing is yearly and not expensive."

"The tool is expensive. What is expensive to me might not be expensive to you. As I mentioned, we seek ways to reduce our costs. If the price goes down, that would be great. I rate the tool's pricing a six out of ten."

"It should have more straightforward billing. The billing was what got funky. It was really cheap. We would pay based on the usage. We paid around $225 a month for site-to-site replication."

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12%

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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Acronis Disaster Recovery?

The price for Acronis Disaster Recovery is fair from the perspective of features, but for Indian customers and in light of the competition, it would be better if the price were a little lower to pi...

What needs improvement with Acronis Disaster Recovery?

I am not using the blockchain-based data integrity verification feature. We have not implemented proactive ransomware protection and anti-malware features, so they have not been helpful to my custo...

What is your primary use case for Acronis Disaster Recovery?

We helped our customers to implement Acronis Disaster Recovery for their main use cases. Our customers are from multiple industries; they are currently implemented in manufacturing and finance. My ...

What do you like most about Azure Site Recovery?

Azure Site Recovery allows my company to save around 30 percent of the time on every VM that we need to back up and restore.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Azure Site Recovery?

The price of Azure Site Recovery was reasonable compared to other data costs. It was not the expensive part of our costs, but, as always, there is room to make it cheaper.

What needs improvement with Azure Site Recovery?

The flexibility of Azure Site Recovery regarding integration with different IT environments is limited; it is purely an Azure platform service for business continuity, not meant for integration wit...

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Overview

Acronis Disaster Recovery Service is a hybrid cloud, all-in-one, IT continuity solution that protects and restores your data and servers in the event of a natural or man-made disaster. Leveraging the power of the Acronis AnyData Engine, Acronis Disaster Recovery Service can reliably recover your servers or entire data centers without the need for you to invest in duplicate systems or additional staff.

Acronis Disaster Recovery Service can reliably recover your servers or entire data centers without the need for your organization to invest in duplicate systems or additional staff. Providing flexible recovery time objective (RTO) options, Acronis Disaster Recovery Service combines the high performance and shortest recovery time of a local appliance with the low cost, predictability, and accessibility of a virtual private cloud.

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Help your business to keep doing business - even during major IT outages. Azure Site Recovery offers ease of deployment, cost effectiveness, and dependability. Deploy replication, failover, and recovery processes through Site Recovery to help keep your applications running during planned and unplanned outages. Site Recovery is a native disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS), and Microsoft been recognized as a leader in DRaaS based on completeness of vision and ability to execute by Gartner in the 2018 Magic Quadrant for Disaster Recovery as a Service.

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Sample Customers

Bristows LLP, Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP

Russell Reynolds Associates, Union Insurance, Rackspace

Acronis Disaster Recovery vs. Azure Site Recovery