We performed a comparison between Arcserve Cloud Services and Azure Site Recovery based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Commvault, Nutanix and others in Disaster Recovery as a Service."The backup retention was pretty good. Being able to archive users who had been backed up, is a good functionality. Even if they've been deactivated it'll keep the backups and keep them protected."
"The most useful thing is that it provides a snapshot of your environment in about 15 minutes. It is stable, and it always works. It is also scalable and easy to set up."
"We use the solution across hospitality and healthcare domains. We use it for custom development. It helps us develop a seamless omnichannel for the healthcare industry."
"The most valuable feature is the visibility of what is happening with our business as well as the good reporting and dashboards."
"It is a very stable product and very scalable."
"Azure Site Recovery's automated file synchronization was a game-changer in managing legacy systems."
"Azure Site Recovery helps to save costs."
"Azure Site Recovery allows my company to save around 30 percent of the time on every VM that we need to back up and restore."
"The documentation is good, and it can be integrated with other products."
"StorageCraft wasn't getting full backup coverage. It was backing up around one to 2% of the points. It was not a reliable platform and it wasn't giving any sort of alerts that things were not working."
"Azure Site Recovery's deployment is complex. There are a lot of bugs, and it needs to improve stability."
"When it runs, it runs well but when it doesn't run, the solution needs to make it clearer as to why and what the troubleshooting process is. All this would be possible if the error logging was streamlined a bit."
"One area for improvement with Azure is helping customers predict usage more accurately."
"We need to be able to move the virtual servers and not build and then port them across. They need to improve the hypervisor."
"Could have more integration with other platforms."
"The solution needs to improve replication and failover processes. We are still looking for improvements in the cost baseline."
"The immutable backup could be better."
"The pricing predictability and clarity around the final cost of the plan of this solution could be improved."
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Arcserve Cloud Services is ranked 17th in Disaster Recovery as a Service while Azure Site Recovery is ranked 1st in Disaster Recovery as a Service with 19 reviews. Arcserve Cloud Services is rated 5.0, while Azure Site Recovery is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Arcserve Cloud Services writes "Good backup retention but it is not a reliable platform and it doesn't giving any sort of alerts that things are not working". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Azure Site Recovery writes "Useful for restoration purposes that ensures that the users get to save a lot of time". Arcserve Cloud Services is most compared with Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 and Veeam Backup & Replication, whereas Azure Site Recovery is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Zerto, VMware SRM, AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery and Commvault Cloud.
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