Independent lab AV-TEST looked at a number of consumer backup software solutions and concluded that Acronis True Image 2017 New Generation was the leader in backup speed, protection from ransomware, ease of use, and features. This slideshare shows highlights from this independent report and provides a link to the full report.

1. ACRONIS TRUE IMAGE 2017
NEW GENERATION
Independent, third-party lab report overview from:
Topics: Performance, Usability, Ransomware Protection, Features
10 April 2017

2. 2ACRONIS © 2017
“Acronis provided excellent performance, is easy to use
and has a rich feature set. On top of that
it is the only solution in the test to provide
dedicated protection from ransomware attacks.
This earned Acronis the first ever APPROVED
BACKUP & DATA SECURITY certificate of AV-
TEST”
David Walkiewicz, Director Test Research, av-test.org
Another Acronis Industry First!

3. 3ACRONIS © 2017
“The objective of the tests was to assess the products’
completeness as a data protection tool. Indeed,
Acronis’s product delivered
convincing results across the tested
categories either coming in first or
shared first in all categories:
• Usability
• Performance
• Active threat protection
• Available features.”
Independent backup and protection tests
Security, speed, and usability

4. 4ACRONIS © 2017
Amazing backup speed
with solid state drives (SSD)
“We don’t just measure how well the applications perform with sample sets
consisting of large or small files, but also with incrementally changed files.”
Acronis True Image
2017 New Generation
CrashPlan
for Home
IDrive
Backup time
Large files (SSD) 00h:11m:46s 01h:03m:00s 00h:53m:16s
Small files (SSD) 00h:17m:34s 00h:59m:20s 01h:04m:45s
Full System (SSD) 00h:14m:56s 00h:22m:40s 01h:00m:16s
“Acronis True Image is the clear winner
when it comes to performance.”

5. 5ACRONIS © 2017
Up to 10x faster? It can’t be!
And yet it is true...
“Every performance
test was led by
Acronis, which is on
average twice as fast,
in some cases being
10 times as fast as
the competition.”
“No other product reaches
similar speed when backing up
or restoring Data for small,
large, system or changed files
or data stored on HDD or
SSD.”
12:00:00 AM
12:14:24 AM
12:28:48 AM
12:43:12 AM
12:57:36 AM
1:12:00 AM
Performance
Acronis True Image 2017 New Generation Premium
CrashPlan for Home
IDrive

6. 6ACRONIS © 2017
Backup Optimized for modern SSD drives
“Acronis outperformed the
competition in all tested
performance scenarios. It
uses SSD drives to their
fullest potential.”

7. 7ACRONIS © 2017
Protection: Goals for ransomware tests
“Backup software has always been mentioned in
addition to anti-virus products in improving system
security. Lately this has become essential with a spike
of ransomware encrypting vital personal files on a
machine and even attacking system backups.
• The test determines if the data on the system can be
recovered after an infection.
• The suite must be able to keep its recovery capabilities
even after an attack has occurred.
• Any changes to the system should be able to be
reversed with minimal time delay and no data loss.”

8. 8ACRONIS © 2017
Active protection against ransomware
“So far Acronis is the
only product capable of
detecting and stopping
ransomware delivering
close-to-perfect results”
“Files encrypted before the stoppage
of the ransomware were in most cases
recovered, even without having
created a specific backup of these
files before.”
“Neither Carbonite, CrashPlan nor iDrive currently provide
an active protection against encryptor and ransomware.”

9. 9ACRONIS © 2017
Usability
“Although, it takes most clicks during installation,
Acronis achieved the highest score in this category.
The reason for the numerous clicks during setup is the backup wizard following straight after the installation. The display is nice and
modern. Changing settings and interaction in general is easy and self-explanatory.”
“The main issue with the usability of Carbonite is that some file extensions such as mp4 videos or executables are not added
by default to the backup job but need to be selected individually, which a user will not notice when adding a directory to backup.”
“CrashPlan has a feel of an antiquated user interface.”

10. 10ACRONIS © 2017
Feature rich
“Acronis shares the first place with iDrive, both having
33 out of possible 39 features required in this category.”
“Plus, Acronis offers useful features such as:
• Try&Decide which makes it possible to roll back
the system after changes have been made
which turned out to be unwanted.
• System Cleanup security wipes free disk space.
• Mobile device backup of data to local storage.
• Very positive is the option to choose between 9
countries of storage for the cloud data, for
transfer speed and privacy concerns.”

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View the original report
Note: All text in quotation marks in this slideshare comes from the AVTest report. You
can find the original, full report via our blog at http://go.acronis.com/avtestblog1

12. www.acronis.com
New Generation Data Protection
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