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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    Ansible

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AThe Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (acquired by Red Hat in 2015) is a foundation for building and operating automation across an organization. The platform includes tools needed to implement enterprise-wide automation, and can automate resource provisioning, and IT environments and configuration of systems and devices. It can be used in a CI/CD process to provision the target environment and to then deploy the application on it.

    $5,000

    per year

    Pricing
    Acronis Cyber ProtectAnsible
    Editions & Modules
    Acronis Cyber Protect
    $85
    per year
    Basic Tower
    5,000
    per year
    Enterprise Tower
    10,000
    per year
    Premium Tower
    14,000
    per year
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Acronis Cyber ProtectAnsible
    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 ProtectAnsible
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    Acronis
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    Red Hat
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    91%
    Would buy again
    21 Answers
    99%
    Would buy again
    265 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    90%
    Delivers good value for the price
    18 Answers
    96%
    Delivers good value for the price
    210 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    91%
    Happy with the feature set
    21 Answers
    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    263 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    91%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    20 Answers
    97%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    166 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    87%
    Implementation went as expected
    20 Answers
    89%
    Implementation went as expected
    201 Answers
    Features
    Acronis Cyber ProtectAnsible
    Data Center Backup
    Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Acronis Cyber Protect and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
    Feature
    Acronis Cyber Protect
    9.2
    40 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
    -
    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 dashboard8.930 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 Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
    Feature
    Acronis Cyber Protect
    7.6
    19 Ratings
    11% below category average
    Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
    -
    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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    User Ratings
    Acronis Cyber ProtectAnsible
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.6
    (66 ratings)
    8.8
    (292 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.2
    (3 ratings)
    9.2
    (8 ratings)
    Usability
    8.6
    (22 ratings)
    8.3
    (184 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.7
    (5 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.1
    (6 ratings)
    8.0
    (5 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.2
    (2 ratings)
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.6
    (5 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.5
    (26 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Acronis Cyber ProtectAnsible
    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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    Red Hat
    I think it's the best defacto orchestrator for automation because it's so easy to integrate in other tools to it (dynatrace, cyberark, terraform, etc). It is a lot for a new or smaller team to use so I wouldn't recommend it to a new team using Ansible, in that case using Ansible navigator is a better start to understanding playbooks/inventories before diving into the complexity of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. EDA also takes a lot of connectivity between Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and target systems to get working which can be difficult in very locked down envs unless you have approval from many other teams like networking and security.
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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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    Red Hat
    • Standardize controls and visibility for automation.
    • Provide RBAC and Vault for improved automation security and support.
    • Job Scheduling is much more effective than Cron or other home-grown solutions.
    • The Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform API is one of the best features as it makes automation accessible from any other platform.
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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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    Red Hat
    • Ansible is still not truly declarative like Terraform.
    • Simple automation is fine, but creating complex, scalable automation scripts is very difficult to learn.
    • For a higher number of nodes, Ansible consumes a lot of resources. It needs the paid version of AAP, which requires a cost.
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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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    Red Hat
    We are extremely happy with the use of AAP. It's better than expected, There is almost no limit when thinking of automation. The only problem is that the day to day is consuming a big part of our time. Patching and checking vulnerabilities are virtually killing us. But we can only improve with AAP.
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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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    Red Hat
    Everything has room for improvement, but Ansible is the best tool out there for what it does and what it can do. There are plenty of features and capabilities that can be added, but it's just a matter of time before it happens.
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    Performance
    Acronis
    No answers on this topic
    Red Hat
    Great in almost every way compared to any other configuration management software. The only thing I wish for is python3 support. Other than that, YAML is much improved compared to the Ruby of Chef. The agentless nature is incredibly convenient for managing systems quickly, and if a member of your term has no terminal experience whatsoever they can still use the UI.
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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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    Red Hat
    There is a lot of good documentation that Ansible and Red Hat provide which should help get someone started with making Ansible useful. But once you get to more complicated scenarios, you will benefit from learning from others. I have not used Red Hat support for work with Ansible, but many of the online resources are helpful.
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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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    Red Hat
    I spoke on this topic today!
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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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    Red Hat
    AAP compares favorably with Terraform and Power Automate. I don't have much experience with Terraform, but I find AAP and Ansible easier to use as well as having more capabilities. Power Platform is also an excellent automation tool that is user friendly but I feel that Ansible has more compatibility with a variety of technologies.
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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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    Red Hat
    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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    Red Hat
    No answers on this topic
    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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    Red Hat
    • First, it keeps our entire server infrastructure aligned with our standards and reduces the time and effort needed to maintain our systems.
    • Automate routine IT tasks to save time, reduce errors, and ensure every server is configured and updated consistently.
    • Tasks that used to take our teams weeks to complete manually now run automatically and reliably, with full visibility, making our infrastructure management more effective and our compliance tracking much easier.
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