Acronis Cyber Backup vs StorageCraft OneXafe | TrustRadius

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Score 8.4 out of 10

Based on 100 reviews and ratings

Score 8 out of 10

Based on 1 reviews and ratings

Pros

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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Sr. Computer Scientist / IT Engineer

Simulations Plus, Inc.Computer Software, 51-200 employees

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Exablox is simple to setup and relatively easy to use.
Exablox is priced very competitively and is a good value for the cost.
Exablox has good customer service.

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Professional in Information Technology

Higher Education Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Cons

The web interface is slow and can kick you off from time to time
I do find that the error messages are hard to decipher if/when a backup is unsuccessful. However, support is very good in helping out the solution
The user interface is not intuitive enough to find failures in backups or track logs with alerts or errors

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Professional in Information Technology

Entertainment Company, 201-500 employees

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Exablox is still in its infancy as a company and in some respects the product feels like a version 1.0.
Integration with VMware ESXi has some bugs that need to be figured out.

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Professional in Information Technology

Higher Education Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

Acronis Cyber Backup 9.1

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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StorageCraft OneXafe 7.0

Based on 1 answer

The price for Exablox was very appealing. If we can resolve the NFS datastore issues we are seeing in VMware, this is a perfect solution for a ESXi datastore. Once that issue is resolved, I will give Exablox a higher rating.

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Professional in Information Technology

Higher Education Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Usability

Acronis Cyber Backup 8.2

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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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StorageCraft OneXafe 10.0

Based on 1 answer

Again, the initial install, setup and config was simple through a web browser.

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Professional in Information Technology

Higher Education Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Reliability and Availability

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StorageCraft OneXafe 10.0

Based on 1 answer

Since the day we installed Exablox we have not had any down-time. The storage resources have been available 100% of the time.

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Professional in Information Technology

Higher Education Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Performance

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StorageCraft OneXafe 10.0

Based on 1 answer

SMB file access has been very responsive. We have not seen any slowness. Also, in using Exablox as tier 1 storage in our VMware environment, the VMs performed great. No slowness issues.

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Professional in Information Technology

Higher Education Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Support Rating

Acronis Cyber Backup 7.0

Based on 2 answers

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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StorageCraft OneXafe 9.0

Based on 1 answer

Exablox has been very responsive to our requests. They communicate very well and are extremely knowledgable

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Professional in Information Technology

Higher Education Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Implementation Rating

Acronis Cyber Backup 9.1

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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StorageCraft OneXafe 10.0

Based on 1 answer

Straightforward and simple implementation. We completed the implementation in less than 2 hours.

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Professional in Information Technology

Higher Education Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Alternatives Considered

We've looked at SolarWinds, Veritas, etc. but none of them had the right combination of features, price and ease of use when compared against Acronis and its ease of implementation, setup and recovery options. We didn't like the wait time for recovery with some of the others and being able to quickly get a machine back entirely was important to us.

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Administrator in Information Technology

Retail Company, 51-200 employees

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Exablox was much less expensive than other storage arrays and I think there are a lot of reasons to purchase them. I believe that as the product matures, it will be a great option for storage.

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Professional in Information Technology

Higher Education Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Scalability

Acronis Cyber Backup 8.5

Based on 26 answers

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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C-Level Executive in Customer Service

Computer Hardware Company, 1-10 employees

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We have not tried to scale Exablox so we are not familiar with this.

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Professional in Information Technology

Higher Education Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Return on Investment

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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Director in Information Technology

Information Technology and Services Company, 201-500 employees

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We purchased Exablox specifically for our ESXi environment, so we are hoping to get the wrinkles worked out to see a greater return on our investment.

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Professional in Information Technology

Higher Education Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Pricing Details

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Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

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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