We performed a comparison between Arcserve UDP and Cohesity DataProtect based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Backup and Recovery solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The interface is very refined, works fine, and is very intuitive most of the time. Scalability is nice. The multi-tenancy feature is very welcome. The integration with Linux works fine too."
"One of the things that I do like about it is that it has a very good deduplication feature."
"It is easy to configure."
"The ease of use is the best feature of the product."
"It's simple to set up."
"The most valuable feature of Arcserve UDP is live replication."
"We are satisfied with Arcserve UDP. The most important feature that we use and why we choose this product is the RHA feature."
"The ROI is very good because of the speed of the backup."
"The most valuable aspect for me is that I don't have to deal with media in terms of tapes like our existing system does."
"Cohesity is a cost-effective storage designed for secondary or archival data. It also integrates well with a number of other systems, like VMware, Pure Storage, or AWS with its large array of APIs available to the user."
"Converged system. It makes much more sense to have the backup server running on the same hardware as the storage for backup and recovery."
"Cohesity DataProtect is more of a unified solution, which is also trying to expand for ransomware protection."
"With the ability to stage an entire lifecycle through versioning, integrated with AWS, it has made it possible to protect our corporation from end to end."
"I found value in the instant recovery with DataMove. I found value in the protection group model for applying policies to VMs. And in the overall UI navigation and the way that the application is laid out in the web browser."
"Setup was extremely easy from racking to backing up was about one hour."
"The most valuable features are the rapid VM restores and the ability to quickly find files and download them directly to my desktop so that I can put them where I need them to be."
"We are looking at scaling up to the cloud and using immutable copies on the cloud. Arcserve UDP 8.0 does have the immutable feature supporting AWS, but I'm looking for multi-cloud support. So, I'm waiting for Arcserve to release that in the next release."
"The time to backup servers that sit in DMZ must be improved."
"I don't know whether the tool has VMware integrations. It would be good to cover this area if it doesn't have those."
"One of the biggest drawbacks of Arcserve UDP is that it does not have a single console, making it an area that needs to be considered for improvement."
"I had an issue with Arcserve UDP during the failover and the secondary machine didn't get back online, even though it ran automatically. I faced the issue during a crisis situation. However, I haven't faced such a problem again."
"The product is not user-friendly."
"We cannot restore each user's mailbox. Each user's mailbox should be independently restorable. Also, this solution is very slow. If you select all of the servers, it runs for a long time... It needs to be faster. Finally, If anything happens to one server we should be able to switch to another server."
"The technical support of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The solution has a more complex setup than Veritas and Veeam."
"Reporting is one area that isn't as robust as it could be."
"We are waiting on the AIX agent to be released."
"The error handling could be improved."
"The tool could benefit from further improvements in AI features, particularly in areas such as a generative AI chat interface. This feature could help answer queries about the data being protected. One feature that would greatly improve our experience with the product is the ability to identify data redundancies through a central console. This feature would help us reduce storage costs by managing redundant data."
"The support team could do a better job. Sometimes finding the correct person is cumbersome and time consuming."
"Non-cloud services need improvement."
"I'd like to be able to pause a backup while it's running and have it resume when I tell it to resume."
Arcserve UDP is ranked 18th in Backup and Recovery with 42 reviews while Cohesity DataProtect is ranked 8th in Backup and Recovery with 69 reviews. Arcserve UDP is rated 7.6, while Cohesity DataProtect is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Arcserve UDP writes "Global deduplication, stable, and flexible licensing options". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Cohesity DataProtect writes "Easy to use, offers good scalability and responsive support ". Arcserve UDP is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), Acronis Cyber Protect and Veritas NetBackup, whereas Cohesity DataProtect is most compared with Rubrik, Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Cloud, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and Veritas NetBackup. See our Arcserve UDP vs. Cohesity DataProtect report.
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