We compared Acronis Cyber Protect and NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP across several parameters based on our users' reviews. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below:
Comparison Results: Acronis Cyber Protect is highly praised for its flexibility, user-friendly interface, and extensive backup options. However, users suggest enhancements in cybersecurity integration, stability, integration capabilities, and management features for large infrastructures. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is valued for its ease of use, user-friendly interface, and integration capabilities. Users recommend improvements in security vulnerabilities, interface navigation, metrics visibility, and performance issues. Acronis Cyber Protect is considered more cost-effective for SMB customers, while NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is seen as expensive but offers stability and features. Customer service and support for both products have received mixed feedback, with potential for improvement in response times.
"Consistency and reliability. The interface is easy to understand and consistent across applications. While not 100%, it is a very reliable backup solution."
"I would definitely say the backup and recovery. It used to be a separate module. It was a recovery part and it would literally duplicate the machine to bare bones."
"Stability is always good. I have used Acronis for 10 years now, if not more. I have never had a problem with availability, etc."
"I've reimaged servers and been back up and running in exactly no time with the completely new hardware."
"The solution was easy to install and to deploy."
"Acronis Backup is easy to use."
"The solution is stable and reliable."
"In terms of system-critical support, Acronis' technical support does really well. I would give them an eight out of ten for that."
"They have very good support team who is very helpful. They will help you with every aspect of getting the deployment done."
"We're able to use the SnapMirror function and SnapMirror data from our on-prem environment into Azure. That is super-helpful. SnapMirror allows you to take data that exists on one NetApp, on a physical NetApp storage platform, and copy it over to another NetApp storage platform. It's a solid, proven technology, so we don't worry about whether data is getting lost or corrupted during the SnapMirror."
"The solution’s Snapshot copies and thin clones in terms of operational recovery are the best thing since sliced bread. Rollback is super easy. It's just simple, and it works. It's very efficient."
"It makes sure we have control of the data and that we know what it's being used for. The main thing for us is that we need to know what applications are consuming it and responsible for it. The solution helps us do that."
"The stability has been really good."
"One thing I have noticed is that it is very simple to move the data where we need to move it, delete it, or archive it if we need to archive it to StorageGRID."
"The feature which I like the most is that it has the capabilities that the traditional storage system offers. It provides all the functionality. The deduplication and compression work exactly like ONTAP's traditional storage. So people who have experience with that find it very easy to manage."
"The solution’s unified file and block-storage access across our infrastructure is invaluable. Without it, we can't do what we do."
"It could have a better ability to manage backups over a longer period."
"It would be nice to have a partition that I can boot and reinstall when taking a backup image from the operating system."
"I needed tech support to straighten out an issue with cloud backup. I have troubleshooting to do with failed backups."
"The product needs to have a simple DR process."
"When an error occurs, the information is not always easy to understand and these messages should be made more clear."
"The biggest problem that we have is when the antivirus is installed, the whole machine runs very slowly and some of the machines hang."
"I can't select a network location. I have to map a drive on the server, and then I have to select the mapped drive in order for it to put the backup out there."
"I've had some issues with the understandability of the interface. I think if they had someone with expertise in user interfaces to look at this, they could clean up the user interface."
"We've just been dealing with general pre-requisite infrastructure configuration challenges. Once those are out of the way, it is easy."
"I would like to see something from NetApp about backups. I know that NetApp offers some backup for Office 365, but I would like to see something from NetApp for more backup solutions."
"I rate the scalability a five out of ten."
"In terms of improvement, I would like to see the Azure NetApp Files have the capability of doing SnapMirrors. Azure NetApp Files is, as we know, is an AFF system and it's not used in any of the Microsoft resources. It's basically NetApp hardware, so the best performance you can achieve, but the only reason we can't use that right now is because of the region that it's available in. The second was the SnapMirror capability that we didn't have that we heavily rely on right now."
"The integration wizard requires a bit of streamlining. There are small things that misconfigure or repeat the deployment that will create errors, specifically in Azure."
"We have customers that are still using IBM mainframes and that very old SNA architecture from IBM. There are questions about how you interconnect the data on the mainframe side... But I don't know if it's worth it for NetApp to invest in developing products to include mainframes for a few customers."
"Only AWS and Azure public clouds are currently available from China, and I would like to see support for Aliyun (Alibaba Cloud)."
"The encryption and deduplication features still have a lot of room for improvement."
Acronis Cyber Protect is ranked 5th in Cloud Backup with 117 reviews while NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is ranked 11th in Cloud Backup with 60 reviews. Acronis Cyber Protect is rated 8.2, while NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Acronis Cyber Protect writes " Good backup solution but challenges with the stability". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP writes "Its data tiering helps keep storage costs under control". 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 NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is most compared with Azure NetApp Files, Amazon S3, Amazon EFS (Elastic File System), Google Cloud Storage and Portworx Enterprise. See our Acronis Cyber Protect vs. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP report.
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