We performed a comparison between Acronis Cyber Protect and Unitrends based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Backup and Recovery solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The web-based interface makes it easy to use."
"The solution was easy to install and to deploy."
"The main reasons that our customers like Acronis are that it is very strong and easy to use."
"The most valuable features of Acronis Backup are cloning and many other capabilities. For example, you are able to clone the whole operating system and drive. Additionally, the solution is a complete package."
"The user interface (UI) is easy to use."
"It makes a full image of the hard drive. If a hard drive fails, all we do is recover to another hard drive."
"It actually does its job very well and has interesting capabilities, but it has the most awful interface."
"One of the most valuable features of Acronis is its AnyData Engine which allows any device to connect to any other device for the purpose of data restoration."
"When we talk about a backup point of view, from a backup perspective, it's a good one."
"I am impressed with the tool's reporting and UniView features."
"The predictive analytics are great and the reporting is awesome."
"Iinstant recovery (allows a spin-up of your image as a VM on the appliance)."
"It is very easy to set up and get started. Almost too easy. We racked this device and had it up and running in less than 15 minutes."
"It is a quick and easy way to organize my backups and to keep track of them."
"It's not easy to scale it."
"The simple and fast restore routine."
"No technical support and minimal documentation."
"When I first started using Acronis, I found it a little bit confusing when it came to the configuration."
"The whole product structure is confusing. You can actually get to do what you want to do. But Acronis seems to have a singular ability to make things difficult."
"The biggest problem that we have is when the antivirus is installed, the whole machine runs very slowly and some of the machines hang."
"Improved support for immutability and Utility AirGAP could be beneficial."
"We needed to have help from the vendor for implementation. The vendor used two personnel. We have system administrators and they do the server backups themself."
"I would like to have more cybersecurity integration to properly round up the product and its offering. In terms of cybersecurity, if the offerings can be more versatile so that it is not just a backup solution, it would be great. Some addition to cybersecurity would really be helpful so that it becomes a kind of a suite of products. Backup and recovery form a part of the broader security strategy. Its integration with other cybersecurity solutions would provide proper visibility to not just your cybersecurity dashboard but also to all of your backups. You would have a pretty good view of the entire security landscape that you are managing."
"The pricing could be improved."
"Network-based storage stability could be improved."
"The solution’s UI can be improved. I am saying this because I have seen solutions with better UIs."
"Unitrends can be challenging to scale."
"Techs don't see to be well-versed in troubleshooting issues that arise and tickets stay opened for weeks for resolution."
"No appliance update notifications."
"There's a lot that can be made better. For example, it could be more scalable."
"If the interface could be less complex, it is would be great."
"The solution's base operating system needs to be improved."
Acronis Cyber Protect is ranked 10th in Backup and Recovery with 117 reviews while Unitrends is ranked 42nd in Backup and Recovery with 34 reviews. Acronis Cyber Protect is rated 8.2, while Unitrends is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Acronis Cyber Protect writes " Good backup solution but challenges with the stability". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Unitrends writes "The solution can be used to back up servers and Hyper-V cluster nodes, but its support is super expensive". Acronis Cyber Protect is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365, Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud, Azure Backup and N-able Cove Data Protection, whereas Unitrends is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Rubrik, Commvault Cloud, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and Arcserve UDP. See our Acronis Cyber Protect vs. Unitrends report.
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