Acronis Backup Cloud - small to medium business contender among a sea of options
November 30, 2018
Acronis Backup Cloud - small to medium business contender among a sea of options
Score 8 out of 10
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Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Acronis Backup Cloud
Acronis is a solid software backup tool that is very flexible for small to medium businesses. It provides compatibility with numerous on premises as well as cloud-based infrastructures. It boasts the ability to back up database software applications including Exchange and SQL as well. There are not too many players backing up Office 365 Hosted Exchange, but it also assists with this.
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.
Cons
- No option for on premises hardware BDR. This means recovery restorations rely on self-supplied hardware performance.
- License per machine can get costly if large number of computers or servers.
- Easy to configure and install as well as setup.
- Restorations can be very quick if self provided hardware is powerful.
- Can require switching products if company has large growth as more endpoints require large cost investment.
Acronis is a great solution and provides a flexible amount of ways to backup and restore data. For software, it competes directly with Carbonite, ShadowProtect, Veeam, and Veritas. Most of these solutions are agent based and require licenses for each. Acronis does a great job for small to medium businesses and matches the features of the other software solutions.
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