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."The ease of use is the best feature of the product."
"It is very stable."
"Arcserve has a feature called virtual standby (VSB), which has been very helpful because I already have a hot standby copy of my critical infrastructure. If something breaks, I can spin up that virtual standby copy in less than five minutes and ensure that my data is available to everyone and that business continuity is maintained."
"The most valuable feature of Arcserve UDP is the initiative UI and the logs are clear and detailed that are generated when there has been an issue or failure on the user's system. We only have to log onto the client's system to retrieve the information. It is possible to precisely identify the problem's location. The system categorizes and logs every step in a structured manner, selectively displaying only the essential logs. However, to view a comprehensive log, one must access the line machine log and examine the actual client for detailed logging."
"The most valuable feature is the duplication."
"The product's deployment process was straightforward."
"The ability to switch between different hardware platforms and utilization tools are some of this solution's most valuable features."
"The backup is the most valuable feature. It also makes storage very easy."
"All other products contain the same features, but when I'm backing up an IBM Power server I feel more comfortable with IBM Spectrum Protect because it's the same vendor."
"Regarding technical support, if one has the entire enterprise support, I would rate it a nine out of ten...Stability-wise, I rate the solution an eight out of ten."
"High availability (HA): It is one of the best features."
"The solution is really scalable."
"It helps our customers protect their data, keep it long-term, and feel pretty secure about it, basically sleeping well at night."
"Incremental forever: This feature helps us reduce backup time and backup storage space."
"The software-defined ability to do data reduction through deduplication and compression, as well as being able to replicate data to a cloud container."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the centralized enterprise backup."
"They could work on their marketing approach. I don't see many people leveraging it."
"The tool doesn't provide cloud integration in India."
"Its interface can be improved. I find it unintuitive."
"The technical support of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"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."
"A lot of their new technologies are not very good."
"The solution's reporting could be improved and should provide customized reports."
"I don't know whether the tool has VMware integrations. It would be good to cover this area if it doesn't have those."
"The solution must protect against ransomware attacks better."
"For the database side, it does not have object level recovery."
"It could use single store. The ability to mark an archive from my backup for long-term retention."
"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."
"They took some of the funding off of it for a while. Therefore, instead of being a market leader, they took their position for granted. Then some competitors developed new bells and whistles that they advertise, and due to that lag a few years ago, there are not the resources to explain the differences."
"I should be able to backup Linux. I would like SUSE for Linux on POWER. Right now, we have to use Storex, which is a pain to use."
"There have been some sizing issues now, and we are dealing with those."
"Perhaps some better documentation, which I believe was better in the past."
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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