We performed a comparison between Arcserve UDP and Azure Backup 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."Instant recovery is the most valuable feature of Arcserve UDP."
"I like the tool's speed."
"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 recovery part of the product is very good."
"It is easy to configure."
"It is a very stable solution...It is a scalable solution."
"There are many backup options available in this solution. For example, you are able to do backups of servers, email, OST files, and users. This is a complete backup solution which is very good."
"It allows us to back up all the servers and centrally manage them."
"First of all, you can schedule a backup for the client. You can schedule it as you like. You can also control the bandwidth, so the backup will not utilize. The internet will depend on the bandwidth."
"The best aspect of the solution is its backup functionality."
"Azure Backup is good because it is entirely cloud-based, which means that you can be 99.9% sure that your backup is safe."
"The scalability has been good."
"I like the product's restoration cases."
"The deployment process is quite easy in Azure."
"It offers seamless integration."
"It's useful, it works, and it's fairly reliable."
"Licensing can be quite difficult."
"In the most recent version of premium plus the replication has been removed, and it should re-added to the solution."
"They could work on their marketing approach. I don't see many people leveraging it."
"It should be easier to switch between backup locations. We have multiple data storage locations and sometimes one of those storages need to be replaced. It would be nice if they made it easier to reconfigure the backup configuration."
"Its interface can be improved. I find it unintuitive."
"StorageCraft ShadowProtect can improve by making one console that can control backups of all desktops and servers in one place. Additionally, the recovery process of the backups is very slow and could improve. It's very slow when we went to recover a complete disc but to recover one file is very fast."
"The solution's reporting could be improved and should provide customized reports."
"Every time I change the disc, I have to do a full backup."
"It still does not have a lot of customization, especially if your workloads are not in Azure."
"We have a concern with the backup when were are working with VMs that are running in Barracuda Firewall because it usually fails."
"It can be further improved by continuously meeting its compliance requirements."
"To make it a ten, it should have the ability to extend the retention and to perform a copy of the data outside of the subscription - with no additional costs."
"The solution’s user interface could be improved."
"The compression ratio of the backup data should be improved."
"Azure Backup is limited to certain workloads. It would be helpful if Microsoft focused on enabling backups for Oracle and other unsupported databases."
"Azure Backup must include features similar to enterprise solutions."
Arcserve UDP is ranked 18th in Backup and Recovery with 42 reviews while Azure Backup is ranked 7th in Backup and Recovery with 51 reviews. Arcserve UDP is rated 7.6, while Azure Backup is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Arcserve UDP writes "Global deduplication, stable, and flexible licensing options". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Azure Backup writes "Straightforward to set up and manage and allows us to monitor all backups in one place". Arcserve UDP is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), Acronis Cyber Protect, Veritas NetBackup and Commvault Cloud, whereas Azure Backup is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Rubrik, Commvault Cloud, Veritas NetBackup and Veritas Backup Exec. See our Arcserve UDP vs. Azure Backup report.
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