We performed a comparison between Arcserve UDP and IBM Spectrum Protect 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."Global deduplication is the best feature of this solution."
"It allows us to back up all the servers and centrally manage them."
"This product is extremely user-friendly and it is capable of performing large-scale archive/backup (five+ years worth). It is easy to store, maintain, and check backups."
"The solution has no limitations because it does backup for Linux and Windows."
"The ease of use is the best feature of the product."
"Arcserve UDP has a good configuration and user interface. It makes the job of an administrator easy."
"Our customers are happy with the product’s functionality."
"The most valuable feature is the duplication."
"Every time customers make a change or we have made a change, then they use the product to do a cloning and refreshing. They are happy that they get good performance something changes."
"The software-defined ability to do data reduction through deduplication and compression, as well as being able to replicate data to a cloud container."
"Everyone wants a full backup. It gives them safety and peace of mind, like an insurance policy for that rainy day when they may need to restore a system."
"SPIR is Instant Recovery for Spectrum Protect. It sends snapshots using space efficiently and blocking backups to the Spectrum Protect server. It provisions the snapshot from the backup server to the same or new server near instantly."
"Good deduplication and compression features."
"The technical support for Spectrum Protect is very mature. It is very committed to giving a top-notch support experience."
"One of the features which is most interesting in Spectrum Protect is the ability to scale out to great environments. This is something that not many vendors have on the market."
"We cannot live without it, since it gives us the confidence to move forward."
"The problem is just reliability. If the promises in the marketing material were realized in real life, it would be the perfect solution, but it's just the reliability issues."
"The support could be more knowledgeable and faster."
"A lot of their new technologies are not very good."
"The tool doesn't provide cloud integration in India."
"The solution could improve by being more user-friendly. It can be difficult to assign destinations and choose which files and folders we need to back up. There are some aspects that are unclear."
"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 solution can improve by allowing older versions to support the latest version of the OS."
"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."
"They need to do a better job on Windows, because if you are running Windows, the scalability is more limited than AIX and Linux."
"The reporting could be better."
"It does what we need it to do, but it could be better with VM backups. It could be better integrated with virtual machines or VM backups, but that's why they have their Plus out now. Plus version is more geared toward VM backups. The regular version is more for endpoint clients."
"The administration tools for GI need improvement, as the current assessment suggests shortcomings in the back-end system."
"Their support is lacking. I've talked to their developers and stuff in the last couple of weeks and they reassure me that some people have retired, and they're working on getting that bumped back up. But the support lacks a lot to be desired at this point."
"Its price can be better. It is very expensive. Its interface is very old and not user friendly. They can improve its interface. Their support can also be better. My clients are not very satisfied with the support because they are not really quick."
"I would like to advance reporting and analytics for the platform to see how much data is coming into the platform. how much data is expiring everyday, and what tape savings we are getting through reclamation."
"We have had some problems about using storage agents on the X6 environment. It is not quite stable, but it is also not supported in a virtualized environment."
Arcserve UDP is ranked 18th in Backup and Recovery with 42 reviews while IBM Spectrum Protect is ranked 17th in Backup and Recovery with 146 reviews. Arcserve UDP is rated 7.6, while IBM Spectrum Protect is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Arcserve UDP writes "Global deduplication, stable, and flexible licensing options". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Spectrum Protect writes "Performance and recoveries are better, and customers are happier with performance". Arcserve UDP is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), Acronis Cyber Protect, Veritas NetBackup and Veritas Backup Exec, whereas IBM Spectrum Protect is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, Commvault Cloud, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and Cohesity DataProtect. See our Arcserve UDP vs. IBM Spectrum Protect report.
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