Acronis Disaster Recovery vs HPE Zerto Software comparison

Acronis Disaster Recovery vs. HPE Zerto Software

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Review summaries and opinions

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

ROI

Sentiment score

4.6

Acronis Disaster Recovery offers reliable data restoration, cost savings, and fast recovery, proving invaluable against modern threats and hardware failures.

Sentiment score

6.9

HPE Zerto Software offers rapid recovery, reduces downtime and costs, and simplifies disaster recovery with significant ROI and efficiency.

My customers are finding value in Acronis Disaster Recovery, as they are happy with the tool and continue to use the services after facing many situations where they found it useful and got good returns on their investment.

Technology Specialist at Ideeya technologies

Acronis regularly introduces new features to meet customer needs, which can lead to efficiencies.

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Technical Director at Tecstaq

Before, it was a huge cost. It was several thousand dollars to do a DR test, whereas now, I click a button.

Thomas Sipf

CTO at Erisa Administrative Services, Inc.

It saves us a lot of time and gives us the ability to perform other DR plans for other systems.

reviewer2728620

System Engineer at a wholesaler/distributor with 1,001-5,000 employees

It's not only in the cloud; it's DR as a service, which means that the recovery operations are performed by a dedicated team specializing in this area.

Itsik Ohana

Founder & CEO at Itix Cyber Ltd

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Customer Service

Sentiment score

7.0

Acronis Disaster Recovery offers reliable support praised for expertise, though improvements in response time and outage management are needed.

Sentiment score

7.5

HPE Zerto Software's support is highly rated for responsiveness, knowledge, though concerns exist post-HP acquisition about initial support levels.

A high-level technical team should be accessible swiftly to minimize customer downtime.

Technical Director at Tecstaq

The technical support is reliable and efficient.

Senior Engeneer at Telco Systems

We face issues connecting with the account manager, which needs to be improved.

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Technology Specialist at Ideeya technologies

I have never had an issue that was not resolved, and I have never been in a situation where they did not respond.

reviewer762012

Sr. Systems Engineer at a legal firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

I would give them a rating of ten because it represents the highest level of support based on the technical knowledge of the support team, response time, and effectiveness of the provided resolutions.

reviewer1599558

Disaster Recovery Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

When I open a ticket, I usually get a call within an hour or two.

David Comer

Systems Engineering Manager at a legal firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

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Scalability Issues

Sentiment score

7.4

Acronis Disaster Recovery is highly scalable and flexible, ideal for mid-sized businesses but costly for large enterprises.

Sentiment score

7.5

HPE Zerto Software scales easily across environments, offering adaptability, simple licensing, and robust disaster recovery with minor performance considerations.

If you set it up with a particular template and want to scale, you can always go to the template and edit and select a different template, demonstrating its scalability.

Daniel Inyang

Technical Support Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

The scalability of Acronis Disaster Recovery is good, and I would rate it an eight out of ten.

Senior Engeneer at Telco Systems

It is easy to scale; you can directly add licenses for scalability.

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Technology Specialist at Ideeya technologies

I would rate it a ten out of ten for scalability.

Alan Barrett

Head of IT at TWM SOLICITORS LLP

Customers need to follow good engineering practices for optimal product use.

Proby Patel

Tech Lead, Storage and Data Protection at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

By adding more hosts and installing VRAs on each, tasks can be efficiently managed.

reviewer2641974

Senior Systems Engineer at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees

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Stability Issues

Sentiment score

8.1

Acronis Disaster Recovery is stable and reliable, with users praising its performance despite early issues, especially in disasters.

Sentiment score

8.0

HPE Zerto Software is praised for strong stability, minimal issues, and reliability across various environments, including VMware and cloud platforms.

We have not experienced any downtime, bugs, or glitches.

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Senior Engeneer at Telco Systems

I promptly delete the malfunctioning elements and set them up again to resume replication, ensuring stability.

Jagadeesh Ethiraj

Technical Architect at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

The ease of use was so good with Zerto that they were able to migrate things much quicker.

reviewer2691450

Inside Sales Representative at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

It is very reliable.

David Comer

Systems Engineering Manager at a legal firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

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Room For Improvement

Acronis Disaster Recovery requires enhancements in backup, support, cost management, security, customization, and clearer documentation for international clients.

HPE Zerto Software requires better Hyper-V support, pricing, UI enhancements, integration, documentation, automation, and improved backup and alerting systems.

They could also enhance endpoint security by integrating EDR within the security framework.

Technical Director at Tecstaq

For the backup to compete in the enterprise market, there must be improvements.

Sahan Hettiarachchi

Associate Product Executive at Connex Information Technologies

If a server is completely offline and destroyed, the system should offer an intelligent response, providing options to start recovery without requiring manual intervention from engineers.

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Senior Engeneer at Telco Systems

If I have 350 objects that I am protecting, I would like Zerto to be able to fire them up in one order, rather than having to manually bring them up in a sequence.

David Riberdy

Enterprise data management supervisor at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

If the host has a lot of VMs on it, there may not always be enough time to relocate all of the VMs from a protection group standpoint to other hosts before the replication appliance that Zerto uses to manage that powers itself down.

David Comer

Systems Engineering Manager at a legal firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

If HPE Zerto Software has it built-in where we're going to vCenter and you click on it, it will build the VPG and indicate configuration requirements, that would be amazing.

reviewer2729427

Senior Converged Infrastructure Engineer at a educational organization with 1,001-5,000 employees

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Setup Cost

Acronis Disaster Recovery's pricing is seen as justified for its features, despite recent increases and regional cost perceptions.

HPE Zerto Software is seen as a worthwhile investment for enterprise needs despite higher costs than some competitors.

The pricing for Acronis products has increased by 10% to 15% over the past few years, making it challenging for existing customers to accommodate the rising costs annually.

Technical Director at Tecstaq

Acronis Disaster Recovery is fairly priced.

Senior Engeneer at Telco Systems

The price for Acronis Disaster Recovery is fair from the perspective of features, but for Indian customers and in light of the competition, it would be better if the price were a little lower to pitch services more effectively.

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Technology Specialist at Ideeya technologies

If you want a good-quality tool that is robust and does a good job for you, you have to pay a higher price to get that, and Zerto is no different.

JeffSmith12

IT Manager at American Pioneer Federal Credit Union

However, it can become quite expensive when you start looking at the number of workloads you have in the environment and what you would like to do.

reviewer2645856

Cloud and Infrastructure Services Manager at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Zerto is easier to set up and use, and it's less expensive.

Bill Dudgeon

Professional Services Engineer at US Signal

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Valuable Features

Acronis Disaster Recovery provides efficient backup, strong encryption, and automation, minimizing downtime with seamless restoration and advanced recovery options.

HPE Zerto Software offers real-time disaster recovery, data protection, and seamless replication, enhancing resilience and reducing downtime significantly.

The ability to automate the backup solution and recover entire mailboxes or even granular-level emails is very good for restoration and backup.

Sahan Hettiarachchi

Associate Product Executive at Connex Information Technologies

For data recovery, when we lose a server, we are able to restore it in place with the click of a button.

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Senior Engeneer at Telco Systems

The automation failback feature in Acronis Disaster Recovery is very helpful and very seamless, requiring only one click to initiate the failback, and Acronis does the rest automatically.

Daniel Inyang

Technical Support Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Zerto offers excellent technical support with responsive and helpful experts.

Sachin Vinay

Assistant Manager-Networks at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees

If we were attacked, I could revert to a backup from five seconds before the attack, and no one would know we were attacked.

reviewer2641974

Senior Systems Engineer at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees

The replication time and the minor amount of time it takes to sync a new server outside of any of my huge 40-terabyte boxes is ridiculously quick.

reviewer762012

Sr. Systems Engineer at a legal firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

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Categories and Ranking

Acronis Disaster Recovery

Ranking in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software

23rd

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

HPE Zerto Software

Ranking in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software

1st

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

357

Ranking in other categories

Backup and Recovery (2nd), Cloud Migration (1st), Cloud Backup (2nd), Autonomous Operational Resilience (1st)

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2026, in the Disaster Recovery (DR) Software category, the mindshare of Acronis Disaster Recovery is 1.7%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of HPE Zerto Software is 5.9%, down from 10.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Disaster Recovery (DR) Software Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
HPE Zerto Software	5.9%
Acronis Disaster Recovery	1.7%
Other	92.4%

Disaster Recovery (DR) Software

Featured Reviews

Mohamed Naeem

Responsible for Internet Technology Development at College of International Transport & Logistics - CITLC

Have achieved seamless data recovery and find disaster recovery immensely reliable

I trust Acronis Disaster Recovery because I have used it in many critical cases, such as managing an email server with inboxes for 5,000 users along with system data, and it successfully restored everything. Data authenticity is very important for all users and administrators, and the blockchain-based data integrity verification feature in Acronis Disaster Recovery provides great benefit. I recommend using Acronis Disaster Recovery. Once users have the software, they should schedule backups and save their data in a safe place within Acronis because it is trustworthy and reliable for data backup at any time. On a scale of 1-10, I rate Acronis Disaster Recovery a 10.

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reviewer2802231

Dev Ops Engineer at a media company with 201-500 employees

Near-zero downtime has protected critical workloads and now simplifies hybrid cloud recovery

The best features of HPE Zerto Software are mainly very sophisticated and relevant to the current market. The data protection CDP part has real-time replication, unlike other solutions that have snapshot backups. We can set it up hourly, making it ideal for use with workloads. Another attraction is the near-zero RTO, with automated failover within minutes and one-click failover and failback. Currently, we are using a hybrid cloud solution, and HPE Zerto Software supports multi-cloud environments, making it easy to migrate between on-premises and cloud. Regarding the impact of HPE Zerto Software on our RTOs, we have near-zero RTO, meaning the system must be back online within thirty minutes if we measure the time. It is very quick to recover services. With HPE Zerto Software's near-synchronous replication, we have some CDP protection, so we typically write interceptions along with some asynchronous replication. There is almost real-time replication available.

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

20%

Comms Service Provider

13%

Construction Company

10%

Marketing Services Firm

10%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Construction Company

Healthcare Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	14
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	3

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	93
Midsize Enterprise	93
Large Enterprise	204

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Acronis Disaster Recovery?

Acronis Disaster Recovery is very reasonably priced for this product. While it might be expensive for users in Egypt, I believe the benefits justify the cost.

What needs improvement with Acronis Disaster Recovery?

Apart from the cost, which is one aspect, there is no improvement I can think of at the moment for Acronis Disaster Recovery. The only area for improvement is the price.

What is your primary use case for Acronis Disaster Recovery?

If our clients want to have their servers to be highly available, we mainly use Acronis Disaster Recovery. In the event that there is an issue with their servers in the production site at the offic...

What advice do you have for others considering Oracle Data Guard?

Ik fluister:VM Host Oracle en DataGuard hebben we per toeval vervangen door Zerto :-) tijdens de Zerto implementatie en VPG werden de Host Data in write-ack Block-Level gerepliceerd. Qua licentie 1...

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Zerto?

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is good.

What needs improvement with Zerto?

I believe HPE Zerto Software can be improved by providing more clarity on roadmap features coming.

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Also Known As

Acronis DRaaS

Zerto Virtual Replication

Overview

Acronis Disaster Recovery provides seamless data protection with efficient backup, recovery, and cloud switchover capabilities. It eliminates downtime with automation and integrated malware scanning, securing critical servers.

Acronis Disaster Recovery features an intuitive single console for streamlined management, offering comprehensive solutions for patch management, email security, automated disaster tests, and failover capabilities. Its point-in-time recovery and imaging capability ensure data integrity while enabling rapid cloud switchovers. Integration with cloud platforms and single-click recovery enhance operational efficiency, although supporting more Linux versions and appliances, improved documentation, and better licensing visibility remain areas for enhancement.

What are the most important features?

Patch Management: Keeps systems up to date and secure.
Efficient Backup and Recovery: Ensures minimized data loss and quick restoration.
Email Security: Protects against email-based threats.
Automated Disaster Tests: Regular tests enhance preparedness.
Failover Capabilities: Quick switchovers ensure continuity.

What benefits and ROI should users look for?

Cost Efficiency: Reduces operational costs through automation.
Minimized Manual Intervention: Automation enhances recovery speed.
Data Integrity: Point-in-time recovery ensures reliable data restoration.
Seamless Cloud Integration: Supports efficient cloud operations.

In industries like pharma, education, and manufacturing, Acronis Disaster Recovery is vital for safeguarding data against threats like ransomware. It offers reliable on-cloud backup and rapid failover capabilities during server failures, protecting critical systems and ensuring business continuity.

Acronis

Zerto is used for disaster recovery, business continuity, data migration, and ransomware recovery, providing continuous data protection and near real-time replication. Valued for ease of use, efficient failover processes, and versatile integration, it enhances organizational efficiency, reduces errors, and boosts productivity.

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Sample Customers

Bristows LLP, Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP

United Airlines, HCA, XPO Logistics, TaxSlayer, McKesson, Insight Global, American Airlines, Tencate, Aaron’s, Grey’s County, Kingston Technologies

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