We compared Zerto and Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud across several parameters based on our users' reviews. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below:
Comparison Results: Zerto is praised for its easy setup, continuous data protection, and quick recovery. It is reliable and user-friendly, but could improve in licensing, cloud configuration, and documentation. Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud is also easy to set up and use, with a user-friendly console. It offers incremental backups, strong security, and protection against ransomware. Areas for improvement include server performance, user-friendliness, and pricing. Both products have positive customer support, but Zerto's support has mixed feedback after its acquisition by HP.
"It has one console for many loads and one backup for many recovery options. Converting backups as a virtual machine offers an edge as a low-cost Disaster Recovery solution."
"The most valuable features are its ease of use, the speed, and its got a reasonable amount of granular control."
"It is a scalable solution."
"The integration with multiple modules in the console and the backup and recovery features are very good."
"We find the product to be very scalable."
"The main strengths of Acronis lie in its cost-effectiveness, user-friendly interface, and comprehensive services."
"The agent, which is installed on the system, can do Quality of Service."
"The most valuable feature is disaster recovery."
"I would give it an eight out of 10, if not a nine out of 10, when it comes to ease of use."
"For most use cases, the failover time is a handful of minutes, if that. A single user can run the system."
"The ability to fully test your entire environment without actually performing a failover is invaluable."
"RPO time for the copied-off VMs appears to be quite short."
"It does what it's purported to do, which is to provide continuous data protection. We have a five-second RPO. It's definitely doing its job."
"I've used backup solutions like Veeam in the past, but Zerto seemed like a better, faster solution. We adopted Zerto because of the speed, and because we wanted to do everything in-house."
"Its ease of use and scalability are valuable."
"We now have the ability to replicate critical data to a secure, off-site location that can be brought back in seconds if needed."
"The shortcomings in the solution can be overcome if the product improves in the area of completion time so that the restoration process does not take much time."
"I faced some problems with the solution's local sign-in part."
"The Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud server could improve by having better performance."
"The logs could be better. Logs through the website are just too simple and basic."
"Not many people know about this product, so they may need to concentrate more on marketing."
"Reporting is not on par. It needs some more information as per customer or partner interest. I hope Acronis is working on it."
"The reporting could be improved. I would like to see some enhancements in that regard."
"We'd like to see more DLP, data loss prevention."
"We do have some sites that are very low-bandwidth sites. Zerto is able to set throttling in the solution, but the throttling is set at a site-wide level. In those instances that have very low bandwidth, I can't reduce the throttling on that site. It would be nice if there were a way to control the throttling by the protection group for a specific workload."
"The biggest pain points we have experienced are related to some of the SQL-intensive workloads just because the VPGs struggle a little bit to keep up. That might be because we are pushing too many transactions."
"There is a need to allow the source vCenter Inventory to be imported with a single click."
"It is expensive."
"The product could benefit from improvements in automation, specifically in the area of failovers."
"Zerto added the backup feature, but it's not quite up to speed yet when you compare it with the backup capabilities of other solutions out there."
"The interface is the only thing that we've ever really had an issue with. It's gone through some revisions. The UI, it's not clunky, but it's not as streamlined as it could be. Some of the workflow things are not as nice as they could be."
"You can create a VPG and put anywhere from one to 17 servers in that group. We build them one by one. If something changes in VMware, it would be nice to be able to go in and change that VPG, having it update without messing up. When you change them now, it only applies to the copies from the points when you changed it. I wish it would purge that older data from the past. Right now, we have to build a new VPG, which is not a big deal as it is just a few screens."
Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud is ranked 10th in Cloud Backup with 41 reviews while Zerto is ranked 3rd in Cloud Backup with 234 reviews. Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud is rated 8.6, while Zerto is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud writes "A solution that unites backup and next-generation, AI-based anti-malware, antivirus, and endpoint protection management in one solution". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zerto writes "Gives us business continuity capabilities during hurricane season and in case of ransomware". Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud is most compared with Acronis Cyber Protect, AWS Backup, Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365, Veeam Backup & Replication and Synology C2 Backup, whereas Zerto is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, VMware SRM, Rubrik, Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines and Commvault Cloud. See our Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud vs. Zerto report.
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