We performed a comparison between Arcserve UDP and IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 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."
"The solution has no limitations because it does backup for Linux and Windows."
"The most valuable features of this solution are that I can by just one click, copy and paste anything that I would want. I do not have to restore the whole virtual machine."
"It is a very stable solution...It is a scalable solution."
"We are satisfied with Arcserve UDP. The most important feature that we use and why we choose this product is the RHA feature."
"One of the things that I do like about it is that it has a very good deduplication feature."
"The most valuable features are the replication to the cloud and the deduplication."
"The most valuable features are that it is able to restore quickly and that it is able to virtually restore on Hyper-V."
"The most valuable feature of IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is its ease of use. Additionally, it does backups of all of the things we need, such as OS, files, and databases."
"Using this tool, we can easily backup and restore or recover the data for PCs and mobiles in case of system crashes."
"The support from IBM is very good."
"What I like about IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is its integration, plus it has very good technical support."
"Some of the features we find very valuable and use a lot, are retention sets."
"The tool has enough documentation; you don't need to contact the support team."
"The initial setup of IBM Protect Plus is simple and not complex."
"The solution is scalable and can be fitted for any customer."
"The support could be more knowledgeable and faster."
"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."
"The technical support of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"It takes much time to verify and consolidate images for backups."
"A lot of their new technologies are not very good."
"The product is not user-friendly."
"The solution's reporting could be improved and should provide customized reports."
"Its interface can be improved. I find it unintuitive."
"Instead of using the command prompt for troubleshooting and administering the backup, there should be an easy-to-use graphical user interface."
"I would like more integration with security. We need to show the value of the product in regards to handling security. For example, how it handles current malware or viruses. IBM should be more proactive in this direction."
"The backup support for IBM Power Virtualization needs to be added."
"It still needs to grow and add new features. IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, I believe, requires time to become competitive due to a weakness in the other software products."
"An area that needs improvement is data validation. We currently use another product that gives us immediate validation, information about when the last backup was, and no risk of corruption happening. TSM in IBM Spectrum is not mature so that you can validate on the spot."
"There could be better integration with Spectrum Protect and Spectrum Protect Plus, it should be one solution."
"Not particularly user friendly."
"It requires much more automation features."
Arcserve UDP is ranked 18th in Backup and Recovery with 41 reviews while IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is ranked 19th in Backup and Recovery with 28 reviews. Arcserve UDP is rated 7.6, while IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 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 Plus writes "Has very good integration features and can quickly backup data and optimize storage". 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 Plus is most compared with IBM Spectrum Protect, Veeam Backup & Replication, Cohesity DataProtect, Nutanix Mine Integrated Backup and Veritas NetBackup. See our Arcserve UDP vs. IBM Spectrum Protect Plus report.
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