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 backup is the most valuable feature. It also makes storage very easy."
"It's simple to set up."
"One of the things that I do like about it is that it has a very good deduplication feature."
"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 product's deployment process was straightforward."
"The most valuable feature of StorageCraft ShadowProtect is the speed and the compression of the backups. The compressed backed-up files do not take up as much storage. Additionally, the incremental backups can be done in one minute and be backed up on a disc very fast."
"The data protection functionality is the most valuable feature of this solution."
"The recovery part of the product is very good."
"The addition of the retention set feature provides a reduction in storage costs. It also reduces RTO and RPO so that you can respond quickly to your clients and services in case of data loss."
"Its incremental forever approach is valuable, so we don't have to load tapes to do a restore."
"The best part of this solution is that it just works."
"It is pretty scalable. It will scale to anything."
"Performance and recoveries are better. Our clients and customers are happier with the performance of it."
"We can use it with any storage for the back-end to save data."
"IBM Spectrum Protect is a scalable solution."
"The ability to use S3 Data Store as a repository."
"The solution can use a lot of bandwidth when the scheduling is not done, it should auto-schedule itself. For example, if there are 50 users connected in the network at 12 o'clock and the backup is not scheduled. At this time the network offices are going to have performance issues when it is doing a backup. Having a feature to auto-schedule a time when the network is not being used often would be beneficial."
"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."
"I don't know whether the tool has VMware integrations. It would be good to cover this area if it doesn't have those."
"Licensing can be quite difficult."
"The speed of restores should be improved. We have found the speed of large restores rather slow."
"The product is not user-friendly."
"In the most recent version of premium plus the replication has been removed, and it should re-added to the solution."
"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."
"They need to reduce the complexity and make the learning curve easier."
"It needs better connectivity with other non-IBM application hardware and non-IBM platforms."
"Generally, the implementation of virtualization could be improved. The workflow service and so on are not working properly."
"Easier configuration of some of the products, e.g., VE comes to mind."
"We have run into some periods where we have found some tape issues which were causing us problems, but we resolved them. For some reason, we had a bunch of drives go offline on our disk storage (our virtual library)."
"Integration with Windows environments needs improvement. It should be more "assisted", both at the application and database level. It remains a product that fits better in Unix/Linux environments than in Windows environments, given its configuration procedures."
"I would like to see integration with Copy Data Management, which is an IBM product. Right now, these two products are siloed, so if these two become integrated, the product would become a bit of a powerhouse."
"Ease of use."
Arcserve UDP is ranked 18th in Backup and Recovery with 41 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, Acronis Cyber Protect, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), Veritas Backup Exec and Rubrik, whereas IBM Spectrum Protect is most compared with IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Cloud, Rubrik and Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain). See our Arcserve UDP vs. IBM Spectrum Protect report.
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