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."It's simple to set up."
"The most valuable features are the replication to the cloud and the deduplication."
"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 ability to switch between different hardware platforms and utilization tools are some of this solution's most valuable features."
"We are satisfied with Arcserve UDP. The most important feature that we use and why we choose this product is the RHA feature."
"Arcserve UDP has a good configuration and user interface. It makes the job of an administrator easy."
"The most valuable feature of Arcserve UDP is live replication."
"It is a very stable solution...It is a scalable solution."
"It's easy to deploy."
"The deployment process is quite easy in Azure."
"The scalability has been good."
"When it comes to Azure Backup, the advantage is that it's native and it's very easy to configure. We don't require a separate tool or manage something on a separate server. At the backend, it's managed by Microsoft itself, and we don't need to manage it."
"The feature that I have found the most valuable is that it is easy to create a backup by using Azure Backup. It also has a good user interface and nice features for sending notifications when any backup fails or there is a change in the status of virtual machines."
"All of the core features are valuable to us."
"The initial setup was very easy."
"There is only one feature, and that is the backup."
"We are looking at scaling up to the cloud and using immutable copies on the cloud. Arcserve UDP 8.0 does have the immutable feature supporting AWS, but I'm looking for multi-cloud support. So, I'm waiting for Arcserve to release that in the next release."
"The support could be more knowledgeable and faster."
"Every time I change the disc, I have to do a full backup."
"Arcserve UDP is in the middle range of complexity. The interface can be developed a little bit more to be user-friendly."
"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."
"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."
"Its interface can be improved. I find it unintuitive."
"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."
"While Azure Backup allows ingress data, the egress data is chargeable, which should be excluded."
"The Azure Backup support for on-premises service is limited."
"Azure Backup is limited to certain workloads. It would be helpful if Microsoft focused on enabling backups for Oracle and other unsupported databases."
"In Avamar, the file-based restores are very quick and fast, whereas, in Azure Backup, VM restore is super easy, but if I have to do a file or a folder restore, I have to mount the entire VM image. I have to wait for some time for it to be mounted, and then I have to go inside and then check the file and copy it somewhere. It's a bit of a manual process, whereas in Avamar, you can directly select a file and folder, and it'll recover with whatever permissions you want."
"It can be further improved by continuously meeting its compliance requirements."
"The solution is still in its infancy; it's not a mature product yet."
"Technical support is in need of improvement."
"My company faces a lot of difficulties in restoring any encrypted VM backup."
Arcserve UDP is ranked 18th in Backup and Recovery with 41 reviews while Azure Backup is ranked 9th 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, Acronis Cyber Protect, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), Veritas Backup Exec and Commvault Cloud, whereas Azure Backup is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Rubrik, Commvault Cloud, Acronis Cyber Protect and Quest Rapid Recovery. See our Arcserve UDP vs. Azure Backup report.
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