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."The most valuable feature is the duplication."
"It allows us to back up all the servers and centrally manage them."
"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."
"One of the things that I do like about it is that it has a very good deduplication feature."
"I would recommend it if there is a general case."
"I like the tool's speed."
"It's simple to set up."
"Easy restoration and the solution works quickly."
"It offers seamless integration."
"We are happy with this product and have not found any issues while using it."
"This solution allows me to restore either the VM or the data, depending on what is needed."
"It is easy to schedule backups."
"The tool has a lot of features."
"The initial setup was very easy."
"First of all, you can schedule a backup for the client. You can schedule it as you like. You can also control the bandwidth, so the backup will not utilize. The internet will depend on the bandwidth."
"One of the most valuable features is security and connectivity to the data."
"In the most recent version of premium plus the replication has been removed, and it should re-added to the solution."
"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 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 initial setup was complex."
"The technical support of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"I had an issue with Arcserve UDP during the failover and the secondary machine didn't get back online, even though it ran automatically. I faced the issue during a crisis situation. However, I haven't faced such a problem again."
"Licensing can be quite difficult."
"Backups are very slow and time consuming."
"The tool's backup should be faster. Azure Backup's support should be faster."
"In the next release, I would like to see the ability to back up to different cloud providers."
"To make it a ten, it should have the ability to extend the retention and to perform a copy of the data outside of the subscription - with no additional costs."
"The solution’s user interface could be improved."
"It would be beneficial to receive alert messages if something isn't configured correctly, for instance, if service principal names are missing, a message could prompt you to set them up."
"The monitoring and tagging features could be improved."
"Ransomware protection is missing in Azure Backup."
"I once tried restoring a Linux environment, and the size of the Linux VM or the data disk was really huge. It took a really long time to restore the environment and send the data from the storage to the disk. It took around 25 to 30 minutes, which was much longer than I anticipated. They can improve the duration of such restore operations. In the next release, it would also be good if they could reduce the duration for transferring the data from their storage to the actual storage while creating a virtual machine. They can reduce the duration or increase the data transfer rate."
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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