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Acronis Disaster Recovery vs IBM Disaster Recovery Services comparison

 

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

Categories and Ranking

Acronis Disaster Recovery
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
19
Ranking in other categories
Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (22nd)
IBM Disaster Recovery Services
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
8.4
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
Disaster Recovery as a Service (9th)
 

Featured Reviews

SB
Technology Specialist at Ideeya technologies
Effective data recovery with strong backup features
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 customers. For shared drives, when configuring SharePoint services for backup, licensing becomes difficult to understand, so that would be a point of interest for improvement. The licensing features should be improved. The licensing for SharePoint should be more visible for SharePoint services backup to make it more feasible and understandable. In terms of management, group management is not available for bulk activities, which I have previously given feedback on in a training session conducted by Acronis. If you want to do any recovery for bulk users, the option for bulk activities is not available in Acronis currently. Bulk activity should be available. 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.
Şefik Mert Polatay - PeerSpot reviewer
General manager at Atlas Consulting Bilisim Hizmetleri Ltd.
Ease of use, performance, availability, and scalability
The initial setup is very easy, user-friendly, and not complex. It mostly comes with all installed, an operating system, database, and security, all included in Power Systems. So users can easily install, configure, and use it. It's integrated with other systems. You can run different systems from IBM Power Systems, AIX Linux, or IBM I operating system. It's also integrated into Windows systems and other databases and servers.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"One of the main benefits from Acronis Disaster Recovery is that there is no downtime for the end users, because if your server is down, you can quickly switch to the disaster recovery server in the cloud and continue running your application, ensuring that your users, customers, and clients do not experience any downtime, which is one crucial benefit."
"The tool's real-time replication is fast and enhances data security."
"Patch management, backup, and disaster recovery have been the solution's most valuable features for our data protection strategy."
"Acronis provides ease of use with all tools and solutions operating through a single console and agent."
"As a user or company, we found Acronis is beneficial in terms of support, product, and scalability."
"One key feature is it encrypts your data at rest which is really good."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is data restoration or data recovery."
"DR and failover are good features of the tool."
"The initial setup is very easy and user-friendly."
"Disaster Recovery Services is stable."
"The solution works well for very large organizations. It can scale quite well."
"The latest IBM environments are very powerful for our clients."
 

Cons

"From an improvement perspective, the tool should allow users to add more data centers in the cloud."
"There is room for improvement in incorporating intelligence around disaster recovery. For instance, if a server is completely offline and destroyed, the system should offer an intelligent response, providing options to start recovery without requiring manual intervention from engineers."
"We need the server configuration capacity to be enlarged with the solution's help, as it does not currently include capabilities for storage expansion during recovery."
"The documentation can be improved, this would have helped."
"Acronis Disaster Recovery is an expensive solution compared to other products."
"Apart from the cost, which is one aspect, there is no improvement I can think of at the moment for Acronis Disaster Recovery. The only area for improvement is the price."
"I wish the Disaster Recovery system could do more, like integrating irregularity features and combining VLP functionalities."
"Acronis needs to implement some kind of Real Time Backup or continuous backup feature."
"The infrastructure level of IBM's recovery systems could be improved."
"Disaster Recovery Services could provide better value for money."
"Stability could always be better."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."
"Acronis Disaster Recovery is a cheap solution."
"The product has an affordable price."
"The solution’s pricing is average."
"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."
"This pricing is quite reasonable."
"The price of the solution is inexpensive."
"The pricing of the solution is based on the scale of the project or business. It's based on the server amount and the amount of data being stored. For our client, based on the amount of data they have, it may be around $20,000 USD. It could get much more expensive on the customer side."
"Disaster Recovery Services is expensive."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
16%
Construction Company
13%
Outsourcing Company
13%
Comms Service Provider
13%
Outsourcing Company
16%
Construction Company
14%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Comms Service Provider
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business14
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise3
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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Acronis Disaster Recovery?
Acronis Disaster Recovery is very reasonably priced for this product. While it might be expensive for users in Egypt, I believe the benefits justify the cost.
What needs improvement with Acronis Disaster Recovery?
Apart from the cost, which is one aspect, there is no improvement I can think of at the moment for Acronis Disaster Recovery. The only area for improvement is the price.
What is your primary use case for Acronis Disaster Recovery?
If our clients want to have their servers to be highly available, we mainly use Acronis Disaster Recovery. In the event that there is an issue with their servers in the production site at the offic...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for IBM Disaster Recovery Services?
The pricing is perfect. It's not expensive because it's all-inclusive. The operating system, database, security, different file systems. So, overall, it's cheaper than Oracle or UNIX systems with O...
What is your primary use case for IBM Disaster Recovery Services?
The use case is for high availability and disaster recovery.
 

Also Known As

Acronis DRaaS
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Sample Customers

Bristows LLP, Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP
i-Virtualize, QD, Continuum Managed Services LLC, Royal Arctic Line, Department of Science and Technology of the Republic of the Philippines, Idwala Industrial Holdings Limited, A-Plant c.a.r.u.s. Information Technology GmbH Hannover, eASPNet Taiwan Inc., Mobile Mini Inc., TriDatum Solutions Inc., M7 Managed Services Ltd., Hospital de la Concepci‹n
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