Acronis vs Druva

Acronis is a Swiss-headquartered cyber protection company founded in 2003, known for its True Image disk imaging software and, today, mainly for a multitenant platform that managed service providers use to back up, secure and manage their clients' systems. EQT agreed in 2024 to take a majority stake, and Acronis says more than 20,000 service providers and 750,000 businesses use its platform.

The business offering, marketed as the Acronis Cyber Platform and sold to service providers as Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud, combines backup of servers, PCs, VMs and Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace with disaster recovery, EDR and MDR, email security, data loss prevention, patching, RMM and PSA-style billing and service desk tools. MSPs pay per workload for actual usage; IT departments buy one to three year terms. The consumer line, Acronis True Image, is sold per year: Essentials for local backup and cloning, Advanced with cloud storage and anti-malware, and Premium with 1 TB or more of cloud storage.

Acronis fits MSPs that want one console for backup, security and RMM, and home or small-office users who need full-disk images and cloning. Backblaze is simpler and cheaper for plain cloud backup, Afi.ai focuses on SaaS backup for Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace, and Veeam is the usual choice for large virtualized data centers.

Buying tip: True Image prices rise with each extra computer and terabyte, so a 3 or 5 computer pack is better value for households. MSPs should check which security modules they already license elsewhere.

Druva is a cloud data protection company founded in 2008 in Pune, India, by former Veritas engineers Jaspreet Singh, Milind Borate and Ramani Kothandaraman, and now headquartered in Santa Clara, California. Its Resilience Cloud is delivered as a fully managed SaaS service, so customers back up laptops, SaaS apps, servers and cloud workloads without buying or running backup hardware.

Coverage spans Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Salesforce and Dynamics 365, endpoints, VMware, Hyper-V and Nutanix VMs, SQL and Oracle databases, NAS, AWS and Azure workloads, plus identity data in Entra ID, Active Directory and Okta. Security features include anomaly detection, a quarantine bay, curated recovery after ransomware and managed data detection and response. Plans are per user (Enterprise and Elite) or bundled for SMBs, and prices are quoted rather than published.

Druva fits IT teams that want one console for endpoint and SaaS backup with eDiscovery and legal hold, and mid-size companies that prefer no backup infrastructure at all. It is overkill if you only need to protect a small Google Workspace domain; Spanning and Afi.ai are lighter for SaaS-only backup, and Backblaze is cheaper for simple file and server backup.

Recent development: in early 2026 Druva launched Threat Watch for continuous threat detection, added DruAI agents that compress forensic reporting from days to minutes, and extended protection to Azure Government. Its plan pages now also list AI data such as Microsoft 365 Copilot and Claude as protected workloads.