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Compare Arcserve and Acronis BaaS solutions

Research done from February 2022 to June 2022 | Page publised on 13th June 2022

Below is a side-by-side comparison of Arcserve and Acronis based on a number of parameters such as Products, Licences, Workloads (Public Cloud, SaaS Applications, and Database & End Points), Vendor Advantages and Disadvantages (as per Gartner and Forrester), and Usecase to assist IT administrators and MSPs in making an informed decision.

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Arcserve

Product

Arcserve offers four products:

UDP Cloud Direct

UDP Cloud Direct is Arcserve's direct-to-cloud backup and disaster recovery as a service (BaaS/DRaaS) solution for SMBs and midmarket. It provides data protection without any hardware requirement on-premises.

UDP Cloud Hybrid

UDP Cloud Hybrid provides hybrid cloud backup, cybersecurity, disaster recovery, and long-term retention for midmarket and enterprises.

UDP Cloud Archiving

UDP Archiving is Arcserve's email archiving solution built for the midmarket and enterprises to protect corporate email records and make them accessible for audits and legal discovery.

Arcserve Backup

Arcserve Backup is a cloud storage management solution meant for midmarket and enterprises, that provides backup for tape, disk, and cloud storage.

Acronis

Product

Acronis offers three products:

Acronis Cyber Protect

Acronis Cyber Protect provides backup and ransomware protection for endpoints, physical or virtual servers, databases, applications, and cloud workloads. The product integrates backup, disaster recovery, cybersecurity, and endpoint management in one solution.

Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office (previously known as Acronis True Image)

Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office is the personal cyber protection solution by Acronis that provides backup and anti-malware in one solution. Since 2020, Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office includes malware and Zoom protection.

Acronis Disk Director

Acronis Disk Director helps to optimize disk usage and protect data. It also provides disk cloning, volume recovery, and partition management.

Both Cyber Protect Home Office and Disk Director are meant for individual users, whereas Cyber Protect is for businesses.

Licences

Arcserve provides both subscription-based licensing and perpetual licensing.

There are four types of subscription-based licensing:

1. Instance-based (per OS instance)

2. Socket-based (per CPU socket)

3. Capacity-based (per front-end TB)

4. Appliance-based (per appliance)

Licences

Acronis provides both subscription-based licensing and perpetual licensing.

License units are based on TB or instances based on the edition and the chosen workloads.

Backup workloads

SaaS applications backup

Microsoft 365

Public cloud backup

Azure and AWS

Data centers backup

SQL servers, VMWare, HyperV, Nutanix, XEN, and KVM

End points backup

Windows and Lunix

Backup workloads

SaaS applications backup

Google Workspace and Microsoft 365

Public cloud backup

Azure and AWS

Data centers backup

VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, Citrix XenServer, Red Hat Virtualization, Linux KVM, Oracle, and VM Server.

End points backup

Lunix, Mac, and Windows

Usecases

Ransomware protection

Minimize downtime

Prevent data loss

Protect Microsoft 365 data

Manage and protect cloud workloads

Reduce IT complexity

Reduce data protection costs

Compliance management

Usecases

Ransomware protection

Patch management for businesses

Anti-Malware

IT disaster recovery

File backup and recovery

Data loss prevention

Product

Arcserve

Arcserve offers four products:

UDP Cloud Direct

UDP Cloud Hybrid

UDP Cloud Hybrid provides hybrid cloud backup, cybersecurity, disaster recovery, and long-term retention for midmarket and enterprises.

UDP Cloud Archiving

UDP Archiving is Arcserve's email archiving solution built for the midmarket and enterprises to protect corporate email records and make them accessible for audits and legal discovery.

Arcserve Backup

Arcserve Backup is a cloud storage management solution meant for midmarket and enterprises, that provides backup for tape, disk, and cloud storage.

Acronis

Acronis offers three products:

Acronis Cyber Protect

Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office (previously known as Acronis True Image)

Acronis Disk Director

Acronis Disk Director helps to optimize disk usage and protect data. It also provides disk cloning, volume recovery, and partition management.

Both Cyber Protect Home Office and Disk Director are meant for individual users, whereas Cyber Protect is for businesses.

Licences

Arcserve

Arcserve provides both subscription-based licensing and perpetual licensing.

There are four types of subscription-based licensing:

1. Instance-based (per OS instance)

2. Socket-based (per CPU socket)

3. Capacity-based (per front-end TB)

4. Appliance-based (per appliance)

Acronis

Acronis provides both subscription-based licensing and perpetual licensing.

License units are based on TB or instances based on the edition and the chosen workloads.

Backup workloads

Arcserve

SaaS applications backup

Microsoft 365

Public cloud backup

Azure and AWS

Data centers backup

SQL servers, VMWare, HyperV, Nutanix, XEN, and KVM

End points backup

Windows and Lunix

Acronis

SaaS applications backup

Google Workspace and Microsoft 365

Public cloud backup

Azure and AWS

Data centers backup

VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, Citrix XenServer, Red Hat Virtualization, Linux KVM, Oracle, and VM Server.

End points backup

Lunix, Mac, and Windows

Usecases

Arcserve

Ransomware protection

Minimize downtime

Prevent data loss

Protect Microsoft 365 data

Manage and protect cloud workloads

Reduce IT complexity

Reduce data protection costs

Compliance management

Acronis

Ransomware protection

Patch management for businesses

Anti-Malware

IT disaster recovery

File backup and recovery

Data loss prevention

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