Acronis Advanced Backup vs. Paragon Hard Disk Manager

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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Paragon Hard Disk Manager is suitable for use by small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The graphical user interface helps to make the software easy to use, even by those with limited computer/technical knowledge and skills. The software will likely meet most, if not all, of the backup requirements of SMEs.

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• 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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• Disk wiping - quick and effective solution for simple wipe processes
• Partitioning - the software allowed us to work more closely with the partitions in a GUI environment
• Data Migrations - Paragon Hard Disk Manager made this process of data migration very easy and convenient

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• 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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• It can be upgraded to offer cloud storage services.
• The performance of the current features is stable.

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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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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I've never had to contact Paragon support which speaks to the quality of their product.

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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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Paragon has much more flexibility to manipulate partitions and clone drives

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• It's been a great investment especially knowing our data is protected.
• We no longer worry about upgrade storage hardware or devices.

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• Paragon Hard Disk Manager makes creating regular incremental backups straightforward. The ease of configuring the software to automatically perform backup jobs increases the likelihood that we will follow through with our backup strategy, thus protecting our data.
• Any loss of important data would potentially be catastrophic to our business. Paragon Hard Disk Manager minimizes this risk.
• The software's ease of use also means we can focus more on our core business activities (and spend less time and effort on data backups).

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