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."We are satisfied with Arcserve UDP. The most important feature that we use and why we choose this product is the RHA feature."
"There are many backup options available in this solution. For example, you are able to do backups of servers, email, OST files, and users. This is a complete backup solution which is very good."
"Arcserve UDP has a good configuration and user interface. It makes the job of an administrator easy."
"Instant recovery is the most valuable feature of Arcserve UDP."
"The most valuable feature of Arcserve UDP is the initiative UI and the logs are clear and detailed that are generated when there has been an issue or failure on the user's system. We only have to log onto the client's system to retrieve the information. It is possible to precisely identify the problem's location. The system categorizes and logs every step in a structured manner, selectively displaying only the essential logs. However, to view a comprehensive log, one must access the line machine log and examine the actual client for detailed logging."
"The ROI is very good because of the speed of the backup."
"The product provides instant and virtual standbys."
"The data protection functionality is the most valuable feature of this solution."
"It allows us to have one interface."
"When I have to do disaster recoveries, I can do it with this tool."
"The product is very stable."
"It has increased our security, scalability, and high availability."
"Support of the IBM X platform and the backup data replication to DR are the most valuable features."
"Reliability: It has never had a problem with backups or restores. If you store something, it is there."
"Their GUI has improved quite a bit. It's made the solution a lot simpler and less complex."
"High availability (HA): It is one of the best features."
"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."
"I don't know whether the tool has VMware integrations. It would be good to cover this area if it doesn't have those."
"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 takes much time to verify and consolidate images for backups."
"In the most recent version of premium plus the replication has been removed, and it should re-added to the solution."
"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."
"The time to backup servers that sit in DMZ must be improved."
"Every time I change the disc, I have to do a full backup."
"We did not see any drawbacks to IBM Spectrum Protect before assisting a customer using Windows that wanted to migrate to using UNIX. IBM Spectrum Protect does not offer an option to migrate from other operating systems."
"The licensing isn't very clear. They should work to simply or clarify the cost structure."
"It needs BMR (bare machine recovery) solutions for both Windows and Linux systems."
"Our new leadership has pushed us to go more toward the cloud, so we are definitely going to leverage anything we can in that direction."
"They can include more cloud-enriching features. I would like IBM Spectrum Protect to have the functionality for backing up a VM directly in Azure. I would like to be able to back up a VM directly in Azure without spinning up a Hyper-V cluster and backing up the virtual server."
"We would like to see bare-metal restorers."
"Needs more support for non-mainstream databases, in particular PostgreSQL, SQL, and MySQL."
"The only thing that I would like to have a little more of is insight in reporting. I find that Spectrum Protect needs a lot of monitoring, and I have to actually log into the servers."
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, Cohesity DataProtect and Rubrik. See our Arcserve UDP vs. IBM Spectrum Protect report.
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