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."The product provides instant and virtual standbys."
"The most valuable features of this solution are that I can by just one click, copy and paste anything that I would want. I do not have to restore the whole virtual machine."
"It is easy to configure."
"It is a very stable solution...It is a scalable solution."
"It allows us to back up all the servers and centrally manage them."
"We are satisfied with Arcserve UDP. The most important feature that we use and why we choose this product is the RHA feature."
"The ROI is very good because of the speed of the backup."
"The backup is the most valuable feature. It also makes storage very easy."
"Instead of taking three different backups of your systems, you're taking only one. You're able to crack that open and get what you need. The incident recovery, where it creates the VM and then you're running it, technically you're running it on Spectrum Protect. But then in the background, it's doing the storage motion and moving it off the Spectrum Protect back to your VMware environment. The users don't know the difference."
"Its incremental forever approach is valuable, so we don't have to load tapes to do a restore."
"IBM Spectrum Protect is stable."
"It is very stable. A plus is to use POWERAge for the SNR copy of the Spectrum Protect, then it is more reliable."
"by backing up only the changed data, we average around 75TB per night. If we had to do full backups, even occasionally, we would not be able to complete the backup within 12 hours, or we would have to make a large investment to fit a full backup within the 12 hour window."
"Support of the IBM X platform and the backup data replication to DR are the most valuable features."
"Every time customers make a change or we have made a change, then they use the product to do a cloning and refreshing. They are happy that they get good performance something changes."
"Once setup, you do not need to touch it again. You just need to do a formal check on possibly batch updates."
"Its interface can be improved. I find it unintuitive."
"A lot of their new technologies are not very good."
"The tool doesn't provide cloud integration in India."
"The support could be more knowledgeable and faster."
"We could not go into granular details of retrieving backup information."
"Arcserve UDP is in the middle range of complexity. The interface can be developed a little bit more to be user-friendly."
"In the most recent version of premium plus the replication has been removed, and it should re-added to the solution."
"Based on my experience, whenever we need support, there are difficulties with communication when trying to resolve the issue."
"There have been scalability issues. The core product does not support scale out. We needed to create a new system and manage resources separate from the existing one."
"The software is complex; setup is complex."
"The deduplication must be perfect, and thus should be improved."
"The software is very complicated. You have to do a lot of configurations to build a server, and you would need to backup and restore."
"The licensing isn't very clear. They should work to simply or clarify the cost structure."
"I need two separate solutions for virtual and physical systems. I need IBM Spectrum Protect Plus for virtual systems and Spectrum Protect for physical systems and that's a pain. It would be an improvement if they were combined."
"Probably educating the virtual group who are not as used to the product. Most of our expertise is with AIX servers and virtual server backups."
"IBM's support hasn't been so good in the last few years."
Arcserve UDP is ranked 18th in Backup and Recovery with 42 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, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), Acronis Cyber Protect, Veritas NetBackup and Veritas Backup Exec, whereas IBM Spectrum Protect is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, Commvault Cloud, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and Cohesity DataProtect. See our Arcserve UDP vs. IBM Spectrum Protect report.
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