Acronis Cyber Infrastructure vs Dell PowerFlex comparison

Acronis and Dell Technologies are both solutions in the HCI category. Acronis is ranked #21 with an average rating of 8.0, while Dell Technologies is ranked #5 with an average rating of 8.6. Acronis holds a 0.3% mindshare in HCI, compared to Dell Technologies’s 12.6% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Acronis users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 96% of Dell Technologies users who would recommend it.

Acronis Cyber Infrastructure

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Acronis Cyber Infrastructure

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 31, 2024

Dell PowerFlex and Acronis Cyber Infrastructure compete in data management and protection. While Dell PowerFlex is noted for scalability, Acronis stands out with its data protection features.

Features: Dell PowerFlex is known for scalability, integration capabilities, and infrastructure adaptability, making it ideal for flexible environments. Acronis Cyber Infrastructure focuses on advanced data protection, disaster recovery features, and versatile storage solutions, prioritizing security.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Dell PowerFlex offers streamlined deployment with strong support services, facilitating quick adaptation to new systems. Acronis Cyber Infrastructure provides flexible deployment options with comprehensive pre-and post-deployment support, enhancing the transition experience for businesses focusing on security.

Pricing and ROI: Dell PowerFlex typically aligns its pricing with scalability and infrastructure, often requiring higher initial investment but yielding scalable ROI over time. Acronis Cyber Infrastructure offers competitive pricing focused on cost-effectiveness and delivering value in data protection, promising favorable ROI for companies emphasizing data integrity.

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Categories and Ranking

Acronis Cyber Infrastructure

Ranking in HCI

21st

Average Rating

7.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Dell PowerFlex

Ranking in HCI

5th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the HCI category, the mindshare of Acronis Cyber Infrastructure is 0.3%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Dell PowerFlex is 12.6%, up from 8.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Featured Reviews

Rishan Ahmed

Vendor and Partnership Manager at Dataguard MEA

Useful multi-tenancy model, reliable, and simple setup

Acronis Cyber Infrastructure is too populated. They have many features, but some features are still missing, it is not complete. They need to improve many features, such as email security and disaster recovery. In a future release, there needs to be analytics when there is an existing dashboard, this should be a requirement.

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Serdar De

IT Manager at ÜÇGE Shopfitting & Design

Initial setup has been straightforward and it has reasonable pricing

We are new to this, so we are still learning about the valuable features The solution is okay overall. It could be easier to learn. We haven't had any issues. They could have more AI functionality in the future. I have been using the solution for six months. I have not encountered any problems…

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The most valuable features are the full image backup, and the file or document sharing, allowing documents to be easily accessed from anywhere."

"The best feature of Acronis Cyber Infrastructure is how it backs up files in a user-friendly manner."

"The most valuable feature is the backup capability."

"The most valuable feature of Acronis Cyber Infrastructure is the multi-tenancy model, we can create customers and services for them."

"The technical support provided by Acronis is great."

"PowerFlex offers us more IOPS, improving the application performance. It also helps us reduce our storage and eliminate redundancy. The primary thing is that we work 24/7, so we shouldn't have operational issues."

"Saves us a lot of space in the data center."

"The solution is scalable."

"The most valuable feature of this solution is integration."

"Perfectly suits customers dealing with the combination of future storage needs and, at the same time, keeping up their computing power."

"It is easy to use for management and operations teams because the tools are in one place."

"Dell PowerFlex is a complete hyperconverge that makes automation easy to manage and extremely stable."

"It has reduced downtime. Before, on our previous solution, we used to have downtime on some of the servers because of the sort of convention. But currently I've not experienced any downtime on any of the servers, and there is no more resource congestion."

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Cons

"Acronis Cyber Infrastructure is too populated. They have many features, but some features are still missing, it is not complete. They need to improve many features, such as email security and disaster recovery."

"Backing up Azure resources is an area where there's room for improvement, as they are not fully covered yet."

"If they could make improvements with the virtual environment then it would be better."

"I would like to see real-time backup supported in the next release of this solution."

"It could be easier to learn."

"I would like to see a more user-friendly interface."

"Needs some more monitoring tools."

"They should provide continuous support for data migration."

"The initial deployment was complicated and required a lot of data nodes, IPs, internal vLANs, data vLANs, and many other things."

"The solution must be more flexible."

"I think there might be some room for improvement when it comes to pricing, because although I know how to convert customers, at the end of day, it's quite expensive. Sometimes your feature architecture is still coming out much cheaper than hardware costs for your infrastructure."

"The support of containers needs to be improved. At present, it is limited to VMware. There needs to be direct communication with the hardware rather than through a hypervisor."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The pricing is on the high side and the subscription is renewed every year."

"We pay monthly for the use of Acronis Cyber Infrastructure. There are additional features that we use that have an extra fee."

"The price could be improved."

"I rate the solution's pricing an eight out of ten."

"The product is expensive."

"The cost of this solution is fair."

"The pricing for this solution is good."

"From my perspective, pricing is expensive. If they can reduce the pricing or offer more customer incentives, it would attract more users."

"The solution is expensive and I give the cost a two out of ten."

"The solution's price is medium."

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Computer Software Company

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Financial Services Firm

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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Acronis Cyber Infrastructure?

Pricing is quite affordable. I would rate it a three on a scale from one to ten.

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What needs improvement with Acronis Cyber Infrastructure?

Backing up Azure resources is an area where there's room for improvement, as they are not fully covered yet. This includes storage accounts, blob storage, and container VMs in Azure.

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What is your primary use case for Acronis Cyber Infrastructure?

I use Acronis Cyber Infrastructure primarily to save our M365 resources. The implementation was simple, and the licensing fees were not too high. This allowed us to sell it to our customers with a ...

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What are the major differences between VxRail and Dell EMC PowerFlex?

VxRail vs. Dell EMC PowerFlex VxRail provides stable solutions for technical problems while at the same time not being too expensive for a company to invest in. Even if the user is working with a l...

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What do you like most about Dell EMC PowerFlex?

The support is highly responsive.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Dell EMC PowerFlex?

I don't know the cost of PowerFlex. I understand it is reasonable.

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Also Known As

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VxFlex, VxRack FLEX, PowerFlex

Overview

The Acronis Cyber Infrastructure Appliance is a ready-to-use cyber protection solution that combines proven and tested hardware and software in one easy to install and operate unit. The Acronis Cyber Infrastructure Appliance is currently available in selected countries.

Acronis

VxRack System consists of hyper-converged rack-scale engineered systems, with integrated networking, to achieve the scalability and management requirements of traditional and cloud native workloads. The VxRack series is purposely designed to enable customers to quickly deploy Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and/or Private Cloud architectures. VxRack Systems tightly integrate hardware with software and management layers.

The result is a fully tested, pre-configured, hyper-converged system with simplified operations at data center and Service Provider scale. VxRack Systems support the deployment of a variety of application workloads, allowing IT to rapidly deliver new services while improving overall agility and efficiency.

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Sample Customers

Computol, dmi Networking

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