Acronis Cyber Backup Cloud vs Azure Backup

Likelihood to Recommend

Acronis Backup Cloud is suited for backing up Windows Servers. Downtime is greatly decreased by using their virtualization options. You will need a Hyper-V enabled computer to virtualize, though, but this can be one of your general-use workstations. A Windows 10 Pro machine with 16 GB of RAM would do it for you.Or, if you have Macs that need to be backed up, you can do that as well. You can grab either full volume images, or files/folders.I can't really think of a scenario that you would not want Acronis Backup Cloud, except pre-Server 2012 OS's, since virtualization isn't supported on those older systems.

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Dan Gospe

Chief Operating Officer, and HIPAA Privacy Officer

dmi NetworkingInformation Technology and Services, 1-10 employees

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If you're looking to quickly establish backup schedules and need to quickly configure a set of new assets, Azure backup will work well. Azure backup works especially well if you're working with a standard set of needs around your scheduling, recovery, and distribution parameters. If you want to do more complicated integration into custom automation pipelines, some more web-services based providers might be a better fit.

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Verified User

Vice-President in Information Technology

Marketing & Advertising Company, 501-1000 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

Acronis Cyber Backup Cloud

Azure Backup

Versioning

Video files

Audio files

Document collaboration

Access control

File search

Device sync

Acronis Cyber Backup Cloud

Azure Backup

User and role management

File organization

Device management

Acronis Cyber Backup Cloud

Azure Backup

Performance

Reliability

Storage Reports

Pros

Full image and bare-metal recovery backups for any physical or virtual server.
Physical to virtual and other tools built-in to make conversions / recoveries easier and more efficient.
Ability to spin up servers on the fly from recovery media.
Options to backup on premise as well as offsite to Acronis cloud.

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Derek Schroeder

Service Manager

Kloud9Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

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Azure Backup is fast! Coupled with the fact that Microsoft created Azure and Windows - these two operate phenomenally together!
Administering the backups inside of Azure is a breeze. The ability to mount, restore entire backups, or recover files, has been made very easy. You do not have to download any media to recover something, you do this all in the cloud and it gets mounted in Microsoft's systems. Making this process less than a quarter of the time you would have spent with your 'other' backup solutions.

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John Fester

IT Manager

Travel Planners InternationalLeisure, Travel & Tourism, 1001-5000 employees

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Cons

The fact Acronis is an OS client base backup, which leads to more backup failures. Although most issues can be corrected with restarting services.
Recovering backups from the cloud(internet) is a lot slower then acessing local backups.
The backup error reports are not detailed enough to help administrators fix issues.

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Michael O'Riley

Director of Information Technology

International Food Protection Training InstituteNon-Profit Organization Management, 11-50 employees

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Restoring from Azure backup is a whole new VM deployment instead of just a VM restore.
Not as many metrics available for deep dive/analytics.

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Verified User

Technician in Information Technology

Information Technology and Services Company, 51-200 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

Acronis Cyber Backup Cloud 9.1

Based on 1 answer

The cost savings we realized from moving to this software has us hooked - it does everything we need it to do on a very high level (virtualization, for example) and is very low cost for us.

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Dan Gospe

Chief Operating Officer, and HIPAA Privacy Officer

dmi NetworkingInformation Technology and Services, 1-10 employees

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No answers yet

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Support

Acronis Cyber Backup Cloud 8.4

Based on 3 answers

We seldom make use of Acronis support, but when we have they have been brilliant. All our engineers are Acronis certified, if they not able to resolve an issue, we touch base with our local Acronis supplier, Synapsys, who resolve issues 90% of the time.

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Gary Fouche

Co-Owner

Gravit8Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

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Azure Backup 8.3

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Microsoft has really listened to its user base and developed a solution to backups that work well. Their support of Azure Backup falls under the umbrella of the Azure support team overall which continues to impress as always. I feel that Azure Backup adds to the many compelling reasons that Azure continues to grow year over year.

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Verified User

Vice-President in Information Technology

Marketing & Advertising Company, 501-1000 employees

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Alternatives Considered

We went with Acronis Backup Cloud because we're able to backup all platforms, not just PCs. And the price was good when it comes to all those options. It's a hard sell to clients, but when explained properly, the understand the cost of a good solution. It's like having good car insurance.

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Rob Rotundo

Service Manager

Professional Computer AssociatesInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

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Azure Backup is based on the most secure and encrypted cloud storage facility available...Microsoft. They have been doing this a long time and have ironed out all the kinks, leaving only the good and dependable solution in place. Azure Backup is fast also, you do not have major delays and internet throttling happening from Microsoft, unlike nearly all other competitors. Have you ever tried downloading a backup you have in the cloud from any solution other than Microsoft Azure Backup? If you have, you know they throttle the speed drastically and it could take you more than an hour to restore just 100mb of data. Most server backups are over 50 GB, some of mine are over 1.5 TB. With those slow speeds it could take weeks to recover your system just because you are waiting on the download to finish. Those companies then offer to send you an external drive with your data on it...but for a major price tag! You should not have to pay extra to get your data back and should not have to wait more than an hour to get it all downloaded either. Microsoft does not throttle Azure Backup downloads and I can almost guarantee that they have faster speeds than you have, meaning that you will be able to download at your maximum internet speeds and recover your systems quickly!

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John Fester

IT Manager

Travel Planners InternationalLeisure, Travel & Tourism, 1001-5000 employees

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Return on Investment

Acronis met our business objectives by simplifying our backup infrastructure
Reduced costs of our off site backup infrastructure
Reduced staff dedicated to monitoring off site backups

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Ted Cook

IT director\System Administrator

T3kOPSInformation Technology and Services, 501-1000 employees

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The ability to provide customers with peace of mind that their VM's are protected.
Low cost as you only pay for the storage.

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Verified User

Technician in Information Technology

Information Technology and Services Company, 51-200 employees

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Pricing Details

General

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

Rating Summary

Acronis Cyber Backup Cloud

Azure Backup

Acronis Cyber Backup Cloud

Azure Backup

Acronis Cyber Backup Cloud

Azure Backup

Likelihood to Recommend