Compare Acronis Backup vs. Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows
Acronis Backup is ranked 22nd in Backup and Recovery Software with 9 reviews while Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows is ranked 17th in Backup and Recovery Software with 11 reviews. Acronis Backup is rated 7.6, while Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Acronis Backup writes "Good training and support, and it allows for bare-metal restore to dissimilar hardware". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows writes "Instant recovery feature enables you to recover a virtual machine in less than a minute". Acronis Backup is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Veritas Backup Exec, Veeam Backup for Office 365, Arcserve UDP and Rubrik, whereas Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, Veritas Backup Exec, Microsoft DPM and Nakivo. See our Acronis Backup vs. Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows report.
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We use Commvault IntelliSnap a lot. It's a very good product and has the functionality to enable a snapshot of a vendor's storage... It really helps to speed up the backup process for some of our environments. Its compression and deduplication allow us to store more backups and save storage space. The reporting is great; we are able to obtain critical business reports and infrastructure/usage information very easily. The solution’s user interface for managing the on-prem environment is good. What I find valuable is restoring the complete server. Restoring files is also valuable, but I like restoring the server because you don't have to rebuild a new one. One of the most valuable features is the encryption which helps save you from ransomware. Because the data is already encrypted, it cannot be encrypted again. The Command Center is provided from the web interface. You can back up the data for everybody, but also you can give everybody the ability to view and restore their data. For example, if a laptop, machine, or environment is owned by X, then X can look in and see the environment and data that he has backed up. He can see everything that he owns and can manage the environment as he wishes. It gives him an excellent view of his environment and infrastructure. Also, if you are a service provider, you can back up data for multiple companies and give everyone an interface for their environment to manage, backup, and restore data. Commvault has done excellent work in this area. The data is well-protected. It doesn't age off until it's copied. That's a big feature right there. When you reach the end of your retention, it does not expire until the secondary copy is completed. That allows you to hold onto data that otherwise would have aged off by retention. I like that feature. It's hard to just delete or lose data using the Commvault platform. Commvault software is a single platform where you can enable whatever you want to use, like endpoint protection. You can enable those licenses on a single platform screen. This is where I see the value ad. This is a single management tool. | It's always stable. It's very good, useful, and user-friendly. The most valuable feature is that you can do a bare-metal restore even with dissimilar hardware. One of the features I have found most valuable is the restore point - it gives us what we need at the time we need it. The important thing is that the backup for Acronis doesn't depend as much on the device. The web-based interface makes it easy to use. This is a full software so deployment time is very quick. It actually does its job very well and has interesting capabilities, but it has the most awful interface. The most valuable feature is its consistency. | The Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows is easy to use and performing a recovery is easy to do. I love Veeam because it is very easy to work with. The user interface is good. It provides a lot of information. Technical support is good. They're very responsive. It depends on the timezone responding, but I usually get a response within three hours of creating a ticket. The interface of this solution is quite good. A full-featured option for managing virtual machines with an instant recovery feature. I like working on the Azure platform. Application awareness is very good and the speed of this solution is good. |
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The software is good, but I always have issues with the documentation and, especially, the communication regarding new functionality. Commvault has a new maintenance release every three months, and it's always hard to know exactly what has changed in the software. They have improved a bit on that topic by communicating what has changed, but there is still a lot of room for improvement on that side. The solution requires constant attention. Commvault is very complex. We are constantly making adjustments and working through hotfixes, updates, and issues. Suppose I am restoring a particular file. If I want to restore the permissions only from that particular folder, that is not possible. I have to restore all the data for that particular folder. If there was an option to just restore the permissions, that would be better. We get an alarm if a lot of files are deleted, for example. That could look like ransomware, even if it is not. It takes a lot of technical expertise to implement. Commvault could increase the training it provides to customers and partners. I would like them to keep working on the new web interface to migrate out of the old interface because the old interface is a bit complex. It was driving customers away because of the complexity. If they migrate everything (100 percent of the features), this would make the product be perfect. Commvault likes to be ahead of the game when it comes to merging with other platforms, but sometimes it's before they have the solution truly baked in. Office 365 is an example. I feel that my company might be a litmus test for their solution, because we have such a large environment. Some of the promised solutions that we received from Commvault were more like testing solutions. They weren't really validated, meaning they were possibilities. There have been a lot of hot fixes for the solution that we're using right now, more than we expected. They don't market their products well. They don't do a lot of marketing to enable them to move forward. | I would like to have more hardware space. It would make it better. I would like to have two more terabytes. In the span of six months, maintenance is done at least twice and you are told that it is coming up, with apologies for the inconvenience. It's a distraction, and it interferes with the backup schedule. For smaller companies it's a little more challenging to maintain. When an error occurs, the information is not always easy to understand and these messages should be made more clear. No technical support and minimal documentation. 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. This is not a feature-rich solution. | I would like to see the capability for remote installation of third party applications added( Like installing WinRar MS Office etc..) , and Firewall for servers. It is not always easy to update this solution to the newer version, so the update process needs to be improved. The predictability of the solution needs improvement. Sometimes, if it's doing something at the back end, it may go slow. Today, the backup completion took four hours, but sometimes it can do the backup in 30 minutes or an hour. With solutions like NetBackup, I can predict to a much higher degree of certainty how long something will take to complete. I've found a lot of difficulties on the initial setup and especially in terms of credentials. We really need a Window OS. It doesn't like the domain admin account. it's a primary permission issue. An area that this solution could be improved would be with the licensing. Updating and configuration can sometimes be a little bit of a hassel, but once you know the product better it is easy to use. I am not very impressed by the technical support I received when I had an issue. The stability of this solution needs to be improved. |
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We work with Commvault and a partner on our environment needs according to capacity, licensing, pricing, components, modules, etc. Additional costs depend on your backup needs. We have checked some other products, but we are not testing them because price-wise, Commvault is better than the other solutions. It is cheaper than Veeam. It was not very popular because of its previous cost, but they have been working on the pricing, and now anyone can afford to use Commvault. They changed the modeling criteria for their pricing. Previously, there was only the capacity modeling based on your content capacity. In this case, they would give you a license and you would have to pay it. Now, most of the environment is virtualized so you can have the best CPU, VMs, etc. You buy whatever you need and pay for what you need. We went from Veritas NetBackup to Commvault. We switched due to upfront licensing and costs. We have more visibility into what we're actually purchasing. It seemed like, overall, the cost of Commvault was cheaper. The complete license gives us options for all the features. Commvault does not license based on storage or the management components. It can integrate with any storage vendor. That means that when we are out of storage and need more, we can integrate without additional licensing. In my opinion, Commvault needs to reduce the licensing cost by 20 to 40 percent to make it cost-efficient. Commvault licensing is a perpetual license so only the support is being renewed yearly. There is a bit of cost involved with signing up the entire solution. It's not a cheap solution. | The pricing is comparable to the newest solution available on the market, Altaro. Our licensing fees are on a yearly basis. | The pricing is good. We purchased a three-year license, and I think that the prices are ok. There are costs in addition to the standard licensing fees, and pricing can be a disadvantage or a weakness for this solution. Pricing is based on license packaging and duration. Longer term licenses are less per year and license packages also offer a discount. Our licensing fees are on a yearly basis. More Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows Pricing and Cost Advice » |
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Also Known As | ||
| Acronis Backup, Acronis Backup 12.5 Standard, Acronis Backup 12.5 Advanced | ||
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| Commvault | Acronis | Veeam Software |
Overview  | ||
Commvault can help you transform your data into a powerful strategic asset, with data protection and information management solutions that enable you to protect, access and use all of your data anywhere and anytime. | Acronis Backup 12.5 is the world’s easiest and fastest backup solution for all your data, whether it is located on-premises, in remote systems, in private and public clouds, or on mobile devices. With enhanced backup validation and blockchain-based authentication of your backups with Acronis Notary, Acronis Backup 12.5 is the most reliable backup solution on the market today. Available in Standard and Advanced editions, Acronis Backup 12.5 protects data on 21 platforms. With active protection from ransomware, 15-second Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs), and backups that are two times faster than the closest competitor, it is easiest to-use, fastest, most secure and complete backup solution available today. Acronis Backup simplifies the management of data protection and reduces IT manual efforts with innovative features that automate data protection. These features include a zero-installation, unified touch-friendly web-based console to manage backup and recovery of all workloads and data, agentless and agent-based backups; and flexible granular, bare-metal, and dissimilar hardware recovery options. | Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows is a simple backup agent that’s designed to ensure the Availability of your Windows‑based servers and workstations, both on‑premises and in the public cloud. The built‑in integration of Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows with Veeam Backup & Replication allows you to leverage your on‑premises Veeam backup repositories or your Cloud Connect provider to get your on‑premises backups off‑site. https://www.veeam.com/windows-cloud-server-backup-agent.html |
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| Aberdeenshire Council, Acxiom, BAM Group Ireland, Catholic Education Diocese of Parramatta, CI Investments, Clifford Chance, Alliant Credit Union, American Municipal Power, American Pacific Mortgage, AstraZeneca, Dongbu Steel, Denver Health, Dow Jones, Emirates Steel, Penn State Health, Prime Healthcare, Sonic Healthcare, Sony Network Communications, TiVO, UCONN Health, The Weitz Company | Kings Academy, Rush Memorial, Pentagon Credit Union, Oxford School District, New York City Probation, Dolmen Insurance, New Bedford Community Health, Gerard Darel, Ready Honda | ContinuitySA, Landmark Information Group |
Top Industries | ||
Comms Service Provider19% Energy/Utilities Company10% Government10% Healthcare Company10% Computer Software Company44% Comms Service Provider10% Government6% Media Company6% | Government12% Manufacturing Company12% Non Profit12% Energy/Utilities Company8% Computer Software Company30% Comms Service Provider17% Media Company6% Government5% | Comms Service Provider27% Computer Software Company18% Media Company11% Energy/Utilities Company9% |
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Small Business30% Midsize Enterprise28% Large Enterprise43% Small Business6% Midsize Enterprise10% Large Enterprise84% | Small Business41% Midsize Enterprise23% Large Enterprise36% | Small Business64% Midsize Enterprise7% Large Enterprise29% |
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