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    Acronis Cyber Protect

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/AAcronis Cyber Protect integrates backup with cybersecurity with the goal of delivering comprehensive cyber resilience. It offers rapid, one-click recovery, and simplified management for all IT environments.

    $85

    per year

    Microsoft System Center

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft System Center is an enterprise-grade IT Operations Management (ITOM) suite designed for the centralized administration of data center infrastructure, virtualized environments, and hybrid cloud workloads. The platform provides unified management across heterogeneous environments, including support for Windows Server, Linux, and Azure Stack HCI. System Center is Microsoft's ITOM stack for organizations that maintain a significant on-premise footprint, vs the company's Azure-based…

    $1,323

    per month

    Pricing
    Acronis Cyber ProtectMicrosoft System Center
    Editions & Modules
    Acronis Cyber Protect
    $85
    per year
    Standard Edition
    $1323
    Datacenter Edition
    $3607
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Acronis Cyber ProtectMicrosoft System Center
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Acronis Cyber ProtectMicrosoft System Center
    Considered Both Products
    Acronis
    Chose Acronis Cyber Protect
    I think Acronis is better than Unitrends first because of one simple thing. Ease of use. Unitrends is a bear to use sometimes and getting one file can make you spend your whole day on it. Acronis is much more intuitive and easy to use when trying to locate a file or backup. It …
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    Microsoft
    Chose Microsoft System Center
    It's better than others because Microsoft knows its own OS better than anyone. It has a very rich feature set and allows companies to hit many areas of need with one tool. You can have IT staff get multiple tasks done just by logging in and they don't even have to leave their …
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    91%
    Would buy again
    21 Answers
    91%
    Would buy again
    31 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    90%
    Delivers good value for the price
    18 Answers
    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
    33 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    91%
    Happy with the feature set
    21 Answers
    91%
    Happy with the feature set
    31 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    91%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    20 Answers
    95%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    21 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    87%
    Implementation went as expected
    20 Answers
    97%
    Implementation went as expected
    28 Answers
    Features
    Acronis Cyber ProtectMicrosoft System Center
    Data Center Backup
    Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Acronis Cyber Protect and Microsoft System Center
    Feature
    Acronis Cyber Protect
    9.2
    40 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Microsoft System Center
    -
    Ratings
    Universal recovery9.735 Ratings00 Ratings
    Instant recovery9.733 Ratings00 Ratings
    Recovery verification9.735 Ratings00 Ratings
    Business application protection8.829 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multiple backup destinations9.832 Ratings00 Ratings
    Incremental backup identification9.837 Ratings00 Ratings
    Backup to the cloud9.925 Ratings00 Ratings
    Deduplication and file compression9.724 Ratings00 Ratings
    Snapshots8.619 Ratings00 Ratings
    Flexible deployment7.723 Ratings00 Ratings
    Management dashboard8.830 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform support9.729 Ratings00 Ratings
    Retention options9.728 Ratings00 Ratings
    Encryption7.823 Ratings00 Ratings
    Enterprise Backup
    Comparison of Enterprise Backup features of Acronis Cyber Protect and Microsoft System Center
    Feature
    Acronis Cyber Protect
    7.6
    19 Ratings
    11% below category average
    Microsoft System Center
    -
    Ratings
    Continuous data protection8.316 Ratings00 Ratings
    Replication7.215 Ratings00 Ratings
    Operational reporting and analytics7.615 Ratings00 Ratings
    Malware protection7.29 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multi-location capabilities7.510 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ransomware Recovery8.012 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Score8.2 out of 10
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    Carbonite by OpenText
    Score7.1 out of 10
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    Enterprises
    Druva Security Cloud
    Score9.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Acronis Cyber ProtectMicrosoft System Center
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.6
    (66 ratings)
    9.3
    (58 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.2
    (3 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    8.6
    (22 ratings)
    8.4
    (5 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.1
    (6 ratings)
    9.0
    (14 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.2
    (2 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.5
    (26 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Acronis Cyber ProtectMicrosoft System Center
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Acronis
    It works great as a cloud backup solution, and restoring data from a past backup is easy. If you need an easy-to-use cloud backup solution for some servers, I would recommend Acronis. If we had a need, I would use this to back up all of our computers as well. I am not too sure how it would handle backing up over 50 devices, though.
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    Microsoft
    For companies with more than 10 Windows devices and needing to standardize the OS, AV, access, share resources, and install software. SCCM is the way to go. This software is unnecessary if the business is all remote users and not in an office-type setting. There are cloud offerings or none to accomplish what a business needs.
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    Pros
    Acronis
    • Image based backups. After the initial backup, the backups happen quite quickly. This allows for multiple backups per day.
    • We have different classes of data which requires different retention policies. Acronis makes that easy to manage.
    • Restoration can be done directly to hardware or to a VM. This makes it easy to migrate a physical server to a VM.
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    Microsoft
    • Allows the grouping of devices by user.
    • Allows controlling updates being deployed to user devices.
    • Allows for the repurposing of machines by being able to load new or updated software on machines that already are in the system.
    • Allows us the ability to wipe a machine clean and restore it back to the configuration that was assigned the machine.
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    Cons
    Acronis
    • Backing up Sharepoint automatically backs up all users with access to Sharepoint even if the user is not needed to be backed up
    • Complex licensing structure
    • Needing to manually download workloads to move backups
    • Dormant users still backed up and incurring charges
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    Microsoft
    • The product could improve in the area of having better mechanisms in place with how the SCEP client is deployed/installed from the server on the management side. We have run into this firsthand with the client not installing on an endpoint, and then having to take the time to investigate why it was not installing.
    • A second improvement that can be made is to keep trying to improve the products detection rate for finding malware/viruses. The case can be made that there are some products out there that do a better job at this and have a higher detection rate.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Acronis
    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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    Microsoft
    Microsoft System Center Operations Manager is tightly integrated to Microsoft Windows servers os monitoring with great product support.
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    Usability
    Acronis
    The overall platform is great. The backup solution stands out with integrated cybersecurity. The ability to turn on the security features like endpoint protection, email security, RMM, and PSA is great. It makes things so much easier to manage a few different services from the same portal instead of logging into multiple accounts.
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    Microsoft
    It is not user-friendly for the most part. With IT infrastructure, sometimes it cannot handle excess requests. Every few months, you will need an upgrade in terms of server resources to keep up with incoming alerts and requests. This does not happen all of the time, but it does happen when there are too many requests.
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    Support Rating
    Acronis
    I only got one issue resolved for more than 20 cases open. The escalation is ineffective. Most of the time, I have the feeling that I know the solution better than the support technician. Overall, case management is time-consuming, as our resolution rate is really low
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    Microsoft
    There is a fair amount of documentation out there to help you when you have questions or run into issues with this product as well as tutorials on some of the more common tasks. Between the documentation and the overall ease of use we haven't had to deal with direct Microsoft support for this product.
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    Implementation Rating
    Acronis
    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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    Microsoft
    Easy to install with intuitive interactive interface during the installation process a and integration to MS SQL was smooth
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    Alternatives Considered
    Acronis
    Barracuda Cloud Essentials has email security, archiving, and allows users to manage their own spam email. Barracuda also comes with a backup feature and it all works together under one roof. Barracuda has been our alternative to other major services on the market. Acronis does well as a backup service, but Barracuda provides us a much more broader experience as an IT client.
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    Microsoft
    We previously used a mix of FOG and Clonezilla to image machines. The biggest issues with these products is that changing one piece of the image required you to rebuild the entire image itself. These pieces of software also did not allow you to manage applications and Windows Updates, causing IT to have to constantly touch machines after they were imaged and update or manage them with a much more hands on approach.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Acronis
    I would love it if they offered better cloud space pricing or even "unlimited"
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    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Scalability
    Acronis
    The ability to back up multiple servers from one source is a great tool to have for businesses that have equipment in different locations on the same network with a variety of software data to back up such as SQL, Exchange or a Files Server. You can decide to purchase individual server licenses as well if you would like to keep the process separate or have multiple sites where your data is housed.
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    Microsoft
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    Return on Investment
    Acronis
    • Every times you restore a file, you see the value and the ROI of backup.
    • Backup is a great protection against ransomware, you can always restore files that has been infected.
    • When you want to go back in previous version of files, it can be life saver.
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    Microsoft
    • It has allowed the enterprise to standardize on a single platform for monitoring.
    • Easier troubleshooting of issues with Microsoft platforms.
    • Greater visibility of issues across platforms when applications are hosted in a mixed environment.
    • Additional costs for monitoring systems that are not directly supported with additional packs (iSeries, Linux on Power).
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