Acronis Cyber Infrastructure vs. HPE SimpliVity

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Acronis Cyber Infrastructure
Score 10.0 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
Acronis Cyber Infrastructure is a software-defined infrastructure solution that can be deployed on industry-standard hardware or comes in an easy-to-deploy, plug-and-play appliance. It is used to store and manage more than 200 PB of data backed up from more than 125,000 servers, PCs and mobile devices that rely on Acronis Cyber Protection products. Acronis provides a modern, multi-purpose solution that is already deployed at hundreds of data centers worldwide. It has five…N/A
HPE SimpliVity
Score 9.0 out of 10
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HPE SimpliVity is a hyper-converged infrastructure solution. HPE acquired SimpliVity for its Omnicube line of products in January 2017.N/A
Pricing
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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User Ratings
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User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
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SimpliVity Omnicube is well suited in any environment. Especially if you are not currently using any VMware or Hyper-V products. It is a great gateway into the virtualization of your data center. For environments where VMware is currently being used, SimpliVity will be a great addition. Less cabling is required. Better performance is guaranteed. Two boxes are required as they work as a high availability pair. As the years go by you can simply just add a box or two to grow your environment. You can also get them configured with NVidia Grid cards to bring graphical performance to the VDI environment.
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Pros
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  • HPE SimpliVity has built in incremental backups, and the restores are incredibly fast. I have seen 2TB VMs restored in 20 seconds.
  • HPE SimpliVity has also made DR/BC a possibility. We have purchased and off-site DR box at a fraction of what tradition DR would cost.
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Cons
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  • Upgrades are better than they used to be, but still complex.
  • Make existing RapidDR product integral, versus a separate licensed component.
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Usability
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It sits nicely ontop of VMWare and is easy enough to use. Some improvements to the UI could be done, such as placing buttons where it is expected to have them not in unusual places, so you have to hunt for them. The backup and restore is intuitive and makes things super easy if you need to do a quick rollback. Space savings on multiple VMs and backups means we are backing up more than we need which gives us confidence in what we do. Updating the system is also fairly easy and their support has always been fantastic. They will contact us if they detect any issues, usually before we notice them!
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Support Rating
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Support is very good. With proactive support, you are supported by an engineer in North America who answers the phone and immediately begins assisting with your issue. The folks I have dealt with in the last several years have been very skilled and it is rare to have a ticket open for more than a day or two. Issues affecting production are dealt with appropriately and are escalated within the support organization.
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Alternatives Considered
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There were not many others > 4 years ago that stacked up. Nutanix at the time just was too pricey compared to what HPE SimpliVity offered.
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Return on Investment
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  • We have been able to go from spending 53L per annum on backups to 23K with the HPE SimpliVity Solution
  • When not needing Servers, Storage, and networking and combining it all into the one we have saved a considerable amount of space and money.
  • The DR and backup confidence we have has meant we have been able to reduce risk and meet our cyber objectives and RPO / RTO times.
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