Acronis Advanced Backup (formerly Cyber Backup Cloud) vs IBM Cloud Block Storage

Likelihood to Recommend

Acronis Backup Cloud is suited for backing up Windows Servers. Downtime is greatly decreased by using their virtualization options. You will need a Hyper-V enabled computer to virtualize, though, but this can be one of your general-use workstations. A Windows 10 Pro machine with 16 GB of RAM would do it for you.Or, if you have Macs that need to be backed up, you can do that as well. You can grab either full volume images, or files/folders.I can't really think of a scenario that you would not want Acronis Backup Cloud, except pre-Server 2012 OS's, since virtualization isn't supported on those older systems.

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Dan Gospe

Chief Operating Officer, and HIPAA Privacy Officer

dmi NetworkingInformation Technology and Services, 1-10 employees

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The service in general is great because on the backend. IBM offers experience and knowledge in the use of data center technologies undeniably.
I recommend it for almost any situation but particularly for databases and especially large ones. That possibility of adjusting IOPS dynamically to levels that other data centers do not offer makes it unique. I don't recommend using the service if you don't have an infrastructure expert who knows about servers, Linux, and storage because a lot of the configuration and settings require an expert hand.

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Alfonso de la Guarda Reyes

CTO (Chief Technical Officer)

AputekInformation Technology & Services, 11-50 employees

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Pros

Single pane of glass for managing customer tenants
Quick and reliable backup recovery
Both onsite and offsite backup destinations are supported

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Josh Spern

Lead Systems Engineer

N2M TechnologyInformation Technology & Services, 11-50 employees

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Great pricing structure that scales based on what you need to use it for
Very easy to deploy
Very easy to link into existing IBM set up
Good, easy to follow documentation

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Charlie Pusey

Technical Operations Manager

Sunrise Software LtdComputer Software, 11-50 employees

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Cons

No option for on premises hardware BDR. This means recovery restorations rely on self-supplied hardware performance.
License per machine can get costly if large number of computers or servers.

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Derek Schroeder

Service Manager

Kloud9Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

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The default naming is not easy to remember
It would be nice to see which resource groups they are associated to
Dashboard has very minimal details

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Verified User

Administrator in Information Technology

Airlines/Aviation Company, 10,001+ employees

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Likelihood to Renew

Acronis Advanced Backup (formerly Cyber Backup Cloud) 9.1

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The cost savings we realized from moving to this software has us hooked - it does everything we need it to do on a very high level (virtualization, for example) and is very low cost for us.

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Dan Gospe

Chief Operating Officer, and HIPAA Privacy Officer

dmi NetworkingInformation Technology and Services, 1-10 employees

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Support Rating

Acronis Advanced Backup (formerly Cyber Backup Cloud) 8.5

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We seldom make use of Acronis support, but when we have they have been brilliant. All our engineers are Acronis certified, if they not able to resolve an issue, we touch base with our local Acronis supplier, Synapsys, who resolve issues 90% of the time.

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Gary Fouche

Co-Owner

Gravit8Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

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Alternatives Considered

We went with Acronis Backup Cloud because we're able to backup all platforms, not just PCs. And the price was good when it comes to all those options. It's a hard sell to clients, but when explained properly, the understand the cost of a good solution. It's like having good car insurance.

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