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."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."
"Global deduplication is the best feature of this solution."
"The most valuable features are the replication to the cloud and the deduplication."
"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."
"The ability to switch between different hardware platforms and utilization tools are some of this solution's most valuable features."
"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 backup is the most valuable feature. It also makes storage very easy."
"The platform’s most valuable feature is its ability to verify the recoverability of backups."
"We apply the new dedupe and compression technology, using maintenance and time to give more time for the backup window and less time for the overhead related to the daily housekeeping."
"The product is very stable."
"We cannot live without it, since it gives us the confidence to move forward."
"It scales well. We have grown here in the last year or two, and it has been relatively easy."
"The amount of data that it protects with very little storage by doing incremental forever is one of its most valuable features."
"Once setup, you do not need to touch it again. You just need to do a formal check on possibly batch updates."
"The software-defined ability to do data reduction through deduplication and compression, as well as being able to replicate data to a cloud container."
"Its interface can be improved. I find it unintuitive."
"It takes much time to verify and consolidate images for backups."
"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."
"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 solution can improve by allowing older versions to support the latest version of the OS."
"One of the biggest drawbacks of Arcserve UDP is that it does not have a single console, making it an area that needs to be considered for improvement."
"The initial setup was complex."
"I need to have more than two instances working together. I need a worldwide grid able to have replication between three, four, or five instances."
"It should have the ability to break down the data that's being backed up. It should have better reporting."
"Our customers would like to see metadata replication, tearing to tape, and more cloud capabilities."
"This product comes up against other products available that are marketed better but the other products that it's in competition with are a single product and this is one of IBM products. If it could be marketed as more for competitors I think that's where it comes short."
"Any feature that is compliant with virtualizing the application should be improved."
"Although I am not a technical user, I would say the cloud integration features could be improved."
"Their support is lacking. I've talked to their developers and stuff in the last couple of weeks and they reassure me that some people have retired, and they're working on getting that bumped back up. But the support lacks a lot to be desired at this point."
"Anytime you are not very current and call in with an issue, it is hard to get it resolved. It will depend on how far back you go though."
Arcserve UDP is ranked 15th in Backup and Recovery with 40 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, Cohesity DataProtect and Rubrik. See our Arcserve UDP vs. IBM Spectrum Protect report.
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