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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

    Unitrends

    Score7.7 out of 10
    N/AThe Unitrends Recovery Series Backup Appliances are hardware developed for data backup and management. They cover enterprise backup, ransomware detection, recovery assurance, proactive monitoring, and cloud continuity into a single platform for organizations of all sizes.N/A
    Pricing
    Acronis Cyber ProtectUnitrends
    Editions & Modules
    Acronis Cyber Protect
    $85
    per year
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Acronis Cyber ProtectUnitrends
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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    Community Pulse
    Acronis Cyber ProtectUnitrends
    Considered Both Products
    Acronis
    Chose Acronis Cyber Protect
    I had so many issues with Unitrends appliance getting full and backups just failing. Switching over to Acronis has been such a hassle-free experience; I'm happy to have done so.
    Incentivized
    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 …
    Incentivized
    Chose Acronis Cyber Protect
    We use Unitrends for our enterprise Backup and DR. While it is significantly more expensive, requires hardware appliances, and entails a greater degree of implementation difficulty, it fulfills needs related to the scope and feature set which we found wanting in Acronis.
    Incentivized
    Chose Acronis Cyber Protect
    Acronis is a much easier to use software than Paragon, I tried a trial version of Paragon and it seemed to run me in circles. I never was able to use Paragon to backup a legacy XP machine which we wanted to keep with the program it had that was not available to us anymore. …
    Incentivized
    Kaseya
    Chose Unitrends
    They are similar, Datto is a great fit for smaller businesses I feel, they have a great space in multiple sites and have custom builds for larger business. However I feel some higher end enterprise level setups require larger devices. Education is a great spot oval for …
    Incentivized
    Chose Unitrends
    [Unitrends Data Center Backup and Recovery] gave us more "bang for the buck."
    Incentivized
    Chose Unitrends
    Unitrends was more involved to install and configure, but I have more confidence in its security with it being a Linux OS as opposed to just running on a Windows box. Acronis seemed to have more frequent failures on backups, even to local storage. It was also less …
    Incentivized
    Chose Unitrends
    I have not re-visited Unitrends Data Center Backup and Recovery for a few years, so the comparison is hard against current offerings. However, when looking at feature set and price, I believe Unitrends is competitive. Once invested in initial licensing/hardware maintenance is …
    Incentivized
    Chose Unitrends
    Unitrends Recovery Series Backup Appliance was simply the most fully featured out of the box, and easiest to scale. The support we received has been fantastic, and they even sent a tech over to help install and configure the appliance the first time we ordered one. The …
    Incentivized
    Chose Unitrends
    For us the cost, simplicity of use, system design, and features of the Unitrends system all matched up well to our organization's needs. They were products with more robust feature sets, but the cost was prohibitive. And, there were less expensive alternatives. But, they tended …
    Incentivized
    Chose Unitrends
    Unitrends was in place when I took over the position. I would have probably chosen something else, but it is here and functional. I am making it work.
    Incentivized
    Chose Unitrends
    Unitrends provided both a hardware and software solution that was 100% supported. Unitrends guaranteed that we would not run out of storage space. Reviews of the Unitrends Backup Appliance on Spiceworks were very favorable. When complaints were on Spiceworks, the complaints …
    Incentivized
    Chose Unitrends
    This has been a very reliable appliance. It provided an application to fill our needs and was able to scale to the size we needed while staying in our price range.
    Incentivized
    Chose Unitrends
    • Interactive dashboard
    • Retention days worry free
    • It just works
    Incentivized
    Chose Unitrends
    These other appliance have always been difficult to use and setup, and even more difficult to recover from. We have used Unitrends many times for many restores as well as set the appliance up a few different times for other offices that we work, with and the setup procedure is …
    Incentivized
    Chose Unitrends
    Unitrends is appliance based, did not want to have to purchase tape library and subscribe to local vaulting. Unitrends cloud and appliance came in cheaper and better recommended then the competitors.
    Incentivized
    Chose Unitrends
    As I mentioned in the previous answer, Unitrends brought us new functionality that Acronis simply didn't have for us. We could have certainly upgraded Acronis and obtained many of the same features, but we liked the appliance approach, not having to build a huge server or NAS …
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    91%
    Would buy again
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    89%
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    170 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    90%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    91%
    Delivers good value for the price
    164 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    91%
    Happy with the feature set
    21 Answers
    93%
    Happy with the feature set
    178 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    91%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    89%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    154 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    87%
    Implementation went as expected
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    87%
    Implementation went as expected
    156 Answers
    Features
    Acronis Cyber ProtectUnitrends
    Data Center Backup
    Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Acronis Cyber Protect and Unitrends
    Feature
    Acronis Cyber Protect
    9.2
    40 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Unitrends
    7.5
    360 Ratings
    11% below category average
    Universal recovery9.735 Ratings6.8302 Ratings
    Instant recovery9.733 Ratings8.7290 Ratings
    Recovery verification9.735 Ratings7.3288 Ratings
    Business application protection8.829 Ratings6.5262 Ratings
    Multiple backup destinations9.832 Ratings8.0268 Ratings
    Incremental backup identification9.837 Ratings8.3338 Ratings
    Backup to the cloud9.925 Ratings6.5213 Ratings
    Deduplication and file compression9.724 Ratings8.0326 Ratings
    Snapshots8.619 Ratings7.3243 Ratings
    Flexible deployment7.723 Ratings7.37 Ratings
    Management dashboard8.830 Ratings6.17 Ratings
    Platform support9.729 Ratings9.07 Ratings
    Retention options9.728 Ratings7.57 Ratings
    Encryption7.823 Ratings8.36 Ratings
    Enterprise Backup
    Comparison of Enterprise Backup features of Acronis Cyber Protect and Unitrends
    Feature
    Acronis Cyber Protect
    7.6
    19 Ratings
    11% below category average
    Unitrends
    -
    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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    Acronis Cyber ProtectUnitrends
    Small Businesses
    NAKIVO Backup & Replication
    Score8.2 out of 10
    BDRShield
    Score6.5 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Carbonite by OpenText
    Score7.1 out of 10
    Bacula Enterprise
    Score8.6 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Druva Security Cloud
    Score9.4 out of 10
    Bacula Enterprise
    Score8.6 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Acronis Cyber ProtectUnitrends
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.6
    (66 ratings)
    8.0
    (372 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.2
    (3 ratings)
    8.9
    (25 ratings)
    Usability
    8.6
    (22 ratings)
    8.3
    (16 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.2
    (2 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.6
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.1
    (6 ratings)
    7.9
    (23 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.1
    (2 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.2
    (2 ratings)
    8.7
    (12 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.1
    (2 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.5
    (26 ratings)
    3.8
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Acronis Cyber ProtectUnitrends
    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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    Kaseya
    We have a traditional stack and pretty typical needs as a manufacturer. I have used and evaluated everything out there, but the Unitrends solution fits very well and was competitively priced. I would think if it fits us, it could fit anyone like us with a similar stack.
    Incentivized
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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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    Kaseya
    • It has fully automated and customizable dashboards that can run with less administrative attention.
    • It should be able to run on virtual machines or be deployed as a virtual machine within MS Azure or AWS.
    • It's AI-based ransomware detection helps to understand data characteristics and alerts for ransomware attacks.
    Incentivized
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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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    Kaseya
    • Errors on backup jobs could be more clearly explained. As the administrator of the device for my company, I often don't know what caused an error, and can't tell from the error information what happened or caused the error.
    • Updates of the devices should have an automatic option. It takes to much time to do an update to the devices if updates haven't been maintained.
    • Shutdown and restarting the device should be available from the main UI screen to eliminate some time when doing updates or if you're doing some maintenance on the device.
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Kaseya
    We have grown very attached to the Unitrends appliances and their use for recovery and other file restoration needs as well as data archival, data replication to other appliance and data migration to other servers or long term storage requirements. The appliances work well and the support for them is very good as well.
    Incentivized
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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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    Kaseya
    I have never used such an easy product that is stable and scalable like Unitrends. I have been running backups for MANY years. On premise, tape, disk, cloud, you name it. Unitrends is very flexible, stable and has incredible reporting features. It's nice when management requests a report and it takes you 5 minutes to run it and dump it to PDF. How can you beat that?
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    Reliability and Availability
    Acronis
    No answers on this topic
    Kaseya
    The appliances have been there when we need them and have rarely if ever gone down. Hardware issues have been resolved quickly.
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    Performance
    Acronis
    No answers on this topic
    Kaseya
    The hardware is adequate and speedy. The user interface responds quickly. Backups complete quickly.
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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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    Kaseya
    They're incredible, attentive, thorough. They make sure my issue is resolved and follow up. I'm usually behind on giving them a reply or an update. They have always gone above and beyond for me, and I'll continue to do the same for them.
    Incentivized
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    Online Training
    Acronis
    No answers on this topic
    Kaseya
    It was sufficient to get started. It was not super deep. We called support often to get going.
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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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    Kaseya
    The Unitrends employees involved in the installation were very friendly and knowledgeable. A certain degree of hiccups can be expected during any installation but never shook my confidence because of the friendly and knowledgeable team that was assigned to my project.
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Kaseya
    Symantec Backup Exec was the primary tool used for backups for years. We also used Veeam for some Office 365/Exchange backups. Unitrends once configured and set up works very well against the competition. Backup Exec interface was more user friendly. The search tool for exploring backups was much better than Unitrends as well. Unitrends is much faster if you need to restore an entire VM or large file folders. Also once you have Unitrends all set up, it is very low maintenance, it just works. If something fails 9/10 it will correct itself on the next backup that is scheduled to run
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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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    Kaseya
    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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    Kaseya
    Once you exceed the capacity of the appliances, you have to forklift a new appliance. This is very expensive.
    Incentivized
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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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    Kaseya
    • It has saved some deleted file server data for our business department.
    • We have lost some reports for the business department due to an overlooked setting that make the backup reports look great, but the server was not being backed up in reality.
    • Less anxiety for the IT department, we have backup plan and that is worth a lot to us.
    Incentivized
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