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Score 8.1 out of 10

Based on 75 reviews and ratings

Score 8.1 out of 10

Based on 34 reviews and ratings

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Pros

It's really easy to automate a backup. You can choose where you want the back up to be stored (locally or online) and how frequent you want your backups to be. And then just let it run on schedule.
It's very customizable. You can choose what you want to back up, where you want to back it up to and how frequently your backups should run.
Recovery is (I have only had to do it once) really fast and smooth. I was able to get back to a working state without calling in for support and all my stuff was right where I expected it to be.
It is very reliable. Backups very rarely fail and are easy to fix when they do.

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Manager in Corporate

Insurance Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Asigra's agentless architecture means it's much less labour intensive than agent-based alternatives.
Encrypted at Source gives the customer and service provider the confidence that their data is secure.
Continuous Development of the Asigra product suite by Asigra's dedicated engineers in Toronto means Asigra continues to protect data in the latest IT environments. Be that in the Office, Mobile Device, Cloud or Data Centre.

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Operations Director

Fantastic Cloud ServicesInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

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Cons

Backup failure error messages should be more helpful. Sometimes they are hard to decipher and you have to call in for support.

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Manager in Corporate

Insurance Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Image level VM backups need to quickly help doing file level restores.
Need support for larger environments like Sybase etc. as these databases are catching the market along with SAP.
Better deduplication on Oracle databases.

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C-Level Executive in Customer Service

Information Technology and Services Company, 11-50 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

Acronis Backup9.1

Based on 2 answers

We have renewed our subscription over the course of a few years now. We used to use Backup Exec and it was tedious and difficult to obtain our backups when needed. Acronis just fits our environment style and the way we prefer to do business and use our third party software.

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I.T. Team Leader

JST Corporation / Sales AmericaDesign, 1001-5000 employees

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Asigra8.5

Based on 14 answers

We covered so much... if you read my review in full, you will understand why this is a highly rated product.

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Matthew P. Grosso

Executive Vice President, CTO

Data Storage CorporationInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

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Usability

Acronis Backup8.2

Based on 1 answer

I give it a rating of 9 do to its ease of usability. It's ease of understanding how to setup - form - fit - and function. I have no sorrows when having to login to the console in order to setup a new backup schedule or retrieve and recover lost data.

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I.T. Team Leader

JST Corporation / Sales AmericaDesign, 1001-5000 employees

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Asigra8.0

Based on 6 answers

As I have described in various earlier questions, Asigra provides a simple GUI, easy to configure and manage backup jobs, simple recovery interface and you don't need learning cycles to understand the product and its functionalities.It is more of an on-the-fly easy to use product.

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Verified User

C-Level Executive in Customer Service

Information Technology and Services Company, 11-50 employees

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Reliability and Availability

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Asigra8.8

Based on 5 answers

At the front of Asigra availability is the N+1 capabilities of the DS-System. Multiple nodes that load balance and are fault tolerant giving the DS-System a robust availability offering. The N+1 can survive as long as 50% +1 of the nodes are running. Data availability is strong via Asigra's replication module. Both bidirectional and unidirectional replication for the DS-System exist. Bidirectional replication requires the MSP to purchase double the licensing. That cost is going to be passed on to the customer. Many MSP's opt for the unidirectional, which requires a manual switch over on the DS-License server to change a replication vault to a production vault. With that being said, Asigra replication is very efficient and allows for multiple, in-region and out-region backup vaults. The DS-System works best on Linux utilizing PostgreSQL for the backend database. Ideally, this should be clustered. Clustering a PostgreSQL database is not as straight forward as doing it with Microsoft. That adds some administrative overhead and requires some PostgreSQL expertise end users and MSP's have to find.The Windows DS-Client, the piece doing the backup, can be gridded for a multi-node backup cluster. Unfortunately, the Linux DS-Client cannot be gridded.

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DPS Enterprise Manager

Daymark Solutions Inc.Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

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Support

Acronis Backup8.2

Based on 1 answer

We have only had to contact support a hand full of times. The reason for this 9 out of 10 is do to how quickly and cooperative they have been on the rare occasion we needed to chat with them about our small questions or queries with potential issues do to the nature of our business.

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I.T. Team Leader

JST Corporation / Sales AmericaDesign, 1001-5000 employees

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Asigra1.3

Based on 4 answers

They respond quickly on your request.They ask for details at the time of logging the support request itself ensuring the first response is not for collecting the basic details only.They refund you the support request if they find it as a functionality issue.They follow up on you to ensure you are satisfied and happy with the response and resolution that they have provided.

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Verified User

C-Level Executive in Customer Service

Information Technology and Services Company, 11-50 employees

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Online Training

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Asigra1.0

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Anything training past level 1 and level 2 is a waste of time. They do not offer training, just an exam and require you to read 2500 pages of their documentation as their training. They are selling you something which you already have. Training exams are far fetched and cover topics hidden within the documentation. A lot of their documentation does not match across itself. They don't even follow the standard versions Major.Minor.ServicePack.Hotfix. They use the MAJOR.MAJOR.MAJOR.Hotfix method, which doesn't match their documentation.They require you to take training in order to keep your engaged hybrid partnership. If you ask me personally, their training is a scam to make more money.

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NOC Manager

SagissInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

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Implementation

Acronis Backup9.1

Based on 1 answer

I don't have any real key 'insights' per say except that it wasn't difficult at all, and do not be afraid to dabble in its tools and settings. It is quite intuitive with built in common sense. I cannot say enough good things about our companies experience when using this backup software.

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I.T. Team Leader

JST Corporation / Sales AmericaDesign, 1001-5000 employees

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Asigra1.2

Based on 3 answers

Quick to install, easy to create jobs, schedules and retention policies. No large cycles of setting up backup volumes or trash volumes. Retention job itself configures the BLM functionality so you don't need an expertise to handle the BLM module separately.

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Verified User

C-Level Executive in Customer Service

Information Technology and Services Company, 11-50 employees

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Alternatives Considered

We found the pricing, pre-sales technical support, customer service, billing, and post-sales technical support to be above par as compared to almost all other enterprise backup solutions. Some were equal or better in one or more areas, but no one had as high of marks as Acronis across the board

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Verified User

Consultant in Information Technology

Information Technology and Services Company, 51-200 employees

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I would say that it has the same functionality as the three mentioned above in their respective fields (might have a bit less than some of them) but Asigra offers all of this and more so if you are looking for a single backup solution across the entire firm then Asigra is the much better choice

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Njaal Michelsen

Servicedesk Consultant

Upheads ASInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

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Scalability

Acronis Backup7.7

Based on 26 answers

It appears to be very scalable. It has handled everything that we could throw at it, and believe me, we hit it hard during our initial testing phase. It has performed like a champ day in and day out for several years now. Even through upgrades, we have been able to handle our workloads seamlessly.

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Verified User

Consultant in Information Technology

Information Technology and Services Company, 51-200 employees

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Asigra4.5

Based on 1 answer

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Return on Investment

Positive ROI in that at least three (3) times during the past year, users have been able to recover valuable data that may not have been replaceable by any other means.
The ROI was positive in that returns were seen the very first year we implemented it.
ROI is a difficult sell to middle and upper management... until they have a data loss or breach.

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Consultant in Information Technology

Information Technology and Services Company, 51-200 employees

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Using the Asigra platform, we have been able to provide much better customer service to our clients, with increased visibility into the health of clients backup and recovery processes
Using Asgira, we have a much more efficient process, from backup and recovery, through DR and even Billing individual departments or end users
We now need less technicians managing backup processes, freeing up their time to work on other services providing DR and Infrastructure as a Service

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Matthew P. Grosso

Executive Vice President, CTO

Data Storage CorporationInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

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Pricing Details

Acronis Backup

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

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Asigra

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

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