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We performed a comparison between Acronis Disaster Recovery and Azure Site Recovery based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Disaster Recovery (DR) Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
To learn more, read our detailed Acronis Disaster Recovery vs. Azure Site Recovery Report (Updated: March 2024).
772,679 professionals have used our research since 2012.
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Pros
"The backup and recovery options work flawlessly.""Performance-wise, it works efficiently for backup and recovery compared to other tools.""One key feature is it encrypts your data at rest which is really good.""The most valuable feature of the solution is data restoration or data recovery.""Acronis Disaster Recovery has good scalability.""Our customers use Acronis Disaster Recovery for data backup.""Patch management, backup, and disaster recovery have been the solution's most valuable features for our data protection strategy.""The solution can be improved by including a load balancer."

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"They're moving a lot of their workload to cloud and aiming for a seamlessly integrated product.""Provides generally good performance, from protection to production to failover to data recovery.""The most valuable feature is the visibility of what is happening with our business as well as the good reporting and dashboards.""The solution is secure, reliable, and scalable.""It is a very stable product and very scalable.""Azure Site Recovery's automated file synchronization was a game-changer in managing legacy systems.""The solution is very easy to use.""The most useful thing is that it provides a snapshot of your environment in about 15 minutes. It is stable, and it always works. It is also scalable and easy to set up."

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Cons
"I wish the Disaster Recovery system could do more, like integrating irregularity features and combining VLP functionalities.""The cost is acceptable.""They could provide pricing models considering the requirements of various countries and organizations.""The product should improve compute points.""In the future, I would like to see cross-platform support.""Acronis Disaster Recovery is an expensive solution compared to other products.""The solution covers specific versions of Windows and Linux, and it would be good if other Linux versions or some special appliances could work in the Acronis Disaster Recovery environment.""The documentation can be improved, this would have helped."

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"In the newest version of Azure Site Recovery, the configuration was a little more complex, so this is an area for improvement.""It could include more of a backup and recovery.""Could have more integration with other platforms.""The tool should improve synchronization.""The support team took a lot of time to respond and was not very professional.""It would be good if we could replicate the solution to multiple locations simultaneously because we are currently allowed to replicate to just a single location.""The immutable backup could be better.""I conveyed the feedback to the agent, suggesting an increase in the agent count in our VNS in the USA. I also addressed notification concerns, as some issues didn't trigger alerts during a recent call."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "This pricing is quite reasonable."
  • "The price of the solution is inexpensive."
  • "The tool's pricing is reasonable."
  • "Acronis Disaster Recovery is a cheap solution."
  • "The product has an affordable price."
  • "The solution’s pricing is average."
  • "On a scale from one to ten, where one is expensive and ten is cheap, I rate the solution's pricing two or three out of ten."
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  • "It should have more straightforward billing. The billing was what got funky. It was really cheap. We would pay based on the usage. We paid around $225 a month for site-to-site replication."
  • "I'm not sure about the Azure Site Recovery pricing, but my organization gets monthly bills from providers."
  • "The tool's licensing is yearly and not expensive."
  • "Azure Site Recovery is neither very expensive nor very cheap."
  • "They have a license to pay."
  • "Azure Site Recovery is affordable."
  • "Azure Site Recovery is a very reasonably priced product."
  • "The tool is expensive. What is expensive to me might not be expensive to you. As I mentioned, we seek ways to reduce our costs. If the price goes down, that would be great. I rate the tool's pricing a six out of ten."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:The solution covers specific versions of Windows and Linux, and it would be good if other Linux versions or some special appliances could work in the Acronis Disaster Recovery environment.
    Top Answer:We have backup services, and all of them are enabled on Acronis Disaster Recovery in another country. In case our production environment collapses, we can start working from the data center in Acronis… more »
    Top Answer:Azure Site Recovery allows my company to save around 30 percent of the time on every VM that we need to back up and restore.
    Top Answer:The tool is expensive. What is expensive to me might not be expensive to you. As I mentioned, we seek ways to reduce our costs. If the price goes down, that would be great. I rate the tool's pricing a… more »
    Top Answer:The solution needs to improve replication and failover processes. We are still looking for improvements in the cost baseline.
    Ranking
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    353
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    222
    Reviews
    6
    Average Words per Review
    450
    Rating
    8.7
    Views
    1,067
    Comparisons
    805
    Reviews
    14
    Average Words per Review
    333
    Rating
    8.2
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    Also Known As
    Acronis DRaaS
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    Overview

    Acronis Disaster Recovery Service is a hybrid cloud, all-in-one, IT continuity solution that protects and restores your data and servers in the event of a natural or man-made disaster. Leveraging the power of the Acronis AnyData Engine, Acronis Disaster Recovery Service can reliably recover your servers or entire data centers without the need for you to invest in duplicate systems or additional staff.

    Acronis Disaster Recovery Service can reliably recover your servers or entire data centers without the need for your organization to invest in duplicate systems or additional staff. Providing flexible recovery time objective (RTO) options, Acronis Disaster Recovery Service combines the high performance and shortest recovery time of a local appliance with the low cost, predictability, and accessibility of a virtual private cloud.

    Help your business to keep doing business - even during major IT outages. Azure Site Recovery offers ease of deployment, cost effectiveness, and dependability. Deploy replication, failover, and recovery processes through Site Recovery to help keep your applications running during planned and unplanned outages. Site Recovery is a native disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS), and Microsoft been recognized as a leader in DRaaS based on completeness of vision and ability to execute by Gartner in the 2018 Magic Quadrant for Disaster Recovery as a Service.

    Sample Customers
    Bristows LLP, Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP
    Russell Reynolds Associates, Union Insurance, Rackspace
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Comms Service Provider28%
    Computer Software Company11%
    Construction Company9%
    Energy/Utilities Company9%
    REVIEWERS
    Computer Software Company29%
    Financial Services Firm14%
    Manufacturing Company14%
    Government7%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company20%
    Financial Services Firm9%
    Manufacturing Company9%
    Insurance Company7%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business80%
    Large Enterprise20%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business28%
    Midsize Enterprise18%
    Large Enterprise54%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business25%
    Midsize Enterprise10%
    Large Enterprise65%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business24%
    Midsize Enterprise16%
    Large Enterprise60%
    Buyer's Guide
    Acronis Disaster Recovery vs. Azure Site Recovery
    March 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about Acronis Disaster Recovery vs. Azure Site Recovery and other solutions. Updated: March 2024.
    772,679 professionals have used our research since 2012.

    Acronis Disaster Recovery is ranked 10th in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software with 11 reviews while Azure Site Recovery is ranked 1st in Disaster Recovery as a Service with 19 reviews. Acronis Disaster Recovery is rated 8.6, while Azure Site Recovery is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Acronis Disaster Recovery writes "Easy to implement and provides good features like patch management and disaster recovery". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Azure Site Recovery writes "Useful for restoration purposes that ensures that the users get to save a lot of time". Acronis Disaster Recovery is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, whereas Azure Site Recovery is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Zerto, VMware SRM, AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery and Commvault Cloud. See our Acronis Disaster Recovery vs. Azure Site Recovery report.

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