All businesses can experience data loss, whether as a result of hardware failure, natural disaster, or malicious attack. Even cloud storage can experience downtime or data corruption if not backed up properly. For any business, downtime can be disastrous.
Businesses also rely on their backups as a means of ensuring continuity and preventing financial losses in case of catastrophic disasters such as fire, flood, or utility power outages. A backup solution offers enterprises multiple ways to retrieve lost or corrupted files so that enterprise workflows aren’t interrupted.
Backup platforms offer the following functions:
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Veeam Backup & Replication tool offers backup and recovery solutions designed to protect and recover Hyper-V, VMware, and physical machines. The solution offers quick VM-level recovery and scalability with enterprise-class performance and efficiency. It supports both storage snapshots as well as integration with Veeam’s cloud backup as a service offering.
Veeam’s backup solution allows users to restore their data from a central location. It comes with features such as the real-time recovery of workstations, instant file recovery from individual files and folders, full VM recovery from backups, data deduplication, and replication tasks.
Veeam offers a 30-day free trial. You can contact the sales team for detailed pricing
Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud is a comprehensive solution for backup and disaster recovery. It safeguards physical, virtual, cloud-based, mobile, and system resources across on-premises and public cloud environments. It combines backup with AI-based anti-malware, antivirus, and endpoint security management and enables secure data exchange with remote users, which reduces complexity while improving productivity and lowering operational costs.
Data Protection. Acronis delivers a complete range of security and management tools that protect users’ digital assets from ransomware, malware, and cyber-attacks. It ensures that company data stays safe in the event of a disaster recovery situation.
Business continuity. Acronis’ cloud-based disaster recovery solution ensures users can always access all of its data, regardless of where it is stored. With Acronis Full availability, the enterprise won’t be down if a physical or virtual server fails; data is continuously replicated to a second site and automatically recovered in case of failure. It enables easy testing and failover.
Fast backup. With fast backup, if files are added or changed, Acronis updates only the block that has changed. This allows for non-stop backups, so users don’t have to take their system down for backups. If disaster strikes, Acronis can quickly recover lost data, replacing all users’ files with their versions from the latest backup.
Acronis Cyber Protect prices vary. Pricing depends on the user’s plan/edition. Acronis cyber protect essentials starts from $59.00, Acronis cyber protect standards start from $79.00, Acronis cyber protect advanced starts from $119.00, Acronis cyber backup standards starts from $69.00, and Acronis cyber backup advanced starts from $99.00.
Disaster recovery and backup and recovery solutions are some of the most important pieces of any business’s IT strategy. As such, it’s important to choose the right backup and recovery solution with care.
When it comes to data backup, having solutions that can cover your RPO and RTO is of utmost importance. Both Veeam and Acronis offer enterprises good backup solutions to protect their data.
They serve customers in different ways, so to make an informed decision on which product to use (or if using both is right for your business), you should evaluate their unique features, and how well they fit into your IT infrastructure and meet your business’s objectives and needs.
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