We performed a comparison between Arcserve UDP and IBM Tivoli CDP for Files based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Veeam Software, Zerto, Commvault and others in Backup and Recovery."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."
"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."
"It is a very stable solution...It is a scalable solution."
"The product provides instant and virtual standbys."
"It is very stable."
"The standard backup and restore feature is most used."
"The ROI is very good because of the speed of the backup."
"Easy restoration and the solution works quickly."
"The restoration and infrastructure is extremely reliable."
"The solution's reporting could be improved and should provide customized reports."
"The solution can improve by allowing older versions to support the latest version of the OS."
"The support could be more knowledgeable and faster."
"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."
"Based on my experience, whenever we need support, there are difficulties with communication when trying to resolve the issue."
"Every time I change the disc, I have to do a full backup."
"The product is not user-friendly."
"The speed of restores should be improved. We have found the speed of large restores rather slow."
"We would like to have the opportunity to omit data from being backed up. For example, we have three virtual machines, each with three disks. When running the backup, it will automatically take each disk rather than allowing us to select what data we want backed."
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Arcserve UDP is ranked 18th in Backup and Recovery with 41 reviews while IBM Tivoli CDP for Files is ranked 62nd in Backup and Recovery. Arcserve UDP is rated 7.6, while IBM Tivoli CDP for Files is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Arcserve UDP writes "Global deduplication, stable, and flexible licensing options". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Tivoli CDP for Files writes "Restoration and infrastructure are extremely reliable". Arcserve UDP is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Acronis Cyber Protect, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), Veritas Backup Exec and Cohesity DataProtect, whereas IBM Tivoli CDP for Files is most compared with Commvault Cloud, IBM Spectrum Protect and OpenText Data Protector.
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