Arcserve UDP vs Azure Site Recovery comparison

Arcserve and Microsoft are both solutions in the Disaster Recovery (DR) Software category. Additionally, 84% of Arcserve users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 92% of Microsoft users who would recommend it.

Arcserve UDP

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84% willing to recommend

Azure Site Recovery

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92% willing to recommend

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Arcserve UDP and Azure Site Recovery based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Disaster Recovery (DR) Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

To learn more, read our detailed Arcserve UDP vs. Azure Site Recovery Report (Updated: September 2025).

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Categories and Ranking

Arcserve UDP

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Backup and Recovery (24th), Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (16th)

Azure Site Recovery

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Disaster Recovery as a Service (3rd)

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TeresitaSabile

Head of Operation and IT at Elgrade Inc

Cost savings and efficient decompression but needs better cloud integration

Our primary use case for Arcserve UDP is its decompression feature, which helped us save money by reducing storage needs. Despite moving to cloud applications, we have been using Arcserve UDP for backup and disaster recovery Arcserve UDP has helped our organization save considerable amounts of…

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RituparnaBhattacharya

Senior Infrastructure Engineer at MIC Global

The time-saving aspects allow us to write PowerShell scripts to automate failover processes

First of all, we initially faced a challenge as Azure Site Recovery was not supporting shared disk options on SQL clusters with VMs, which are important for a Windows cluster mode. Additionally, the setup is quite easy, only requiring the creation of a vault. Its time-saving aspects allow us to write PowerShell scripts to automate failover processes.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The ROI is very good because of the speed of the backup."

"Our customers are happy with the product’s functionality."

"The ease of use is the best feature of the product."

"The most valuable feature of Arcserve UDP is its decompression capability."

"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 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."

"The product's deployment process was straightforward."

"One of the things that I do like about it is that it has a very good deduplication feature."

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"The solution is very easy to use."

"Azure Site Recovery helps to save costs."

"Azure Site Recovery is obviously a time-saving solution, and I can write PowerShell scripts to automate failover on or off processes."

"We use the tool for business continuity purposes."

"The features I find most valuable in Azure Site Recovery include the test failover, which allows us to test our site recovery without bringing down the primary; disaster recovery provides that feature."

"Azure Site Recovery's automated file synchronization was a game-changer in managing legacy systems."

"Despite the cost concerns and downtime management, I would still recommend Azure Site Recovery."

"Provides generally good performance, from protection to production to failover to data recovery."

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Cons

"The problem is just reliability. If the promises in the marketing material were realized in real life, it would be the perfect solution, but it's just the reliability issues."

"One area for improvement in Arcserve UDP is its capability to interact with other cloud servers."

"I don't know whether the tool has VMware integrations. It would be good to cover this area if it doesn't have those."

"A lot of their new technologies are not very good."

"It should be easier to switch between backup locations. We have multiple data storage locations and sometimes one of those storages need to be replaced. It would be nice if they made it easier to reconfigure the backup configuration."

"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."

"Arcserve UDP is in the middle range of complexity. The interface can be developed a little bit more to be user-friendly."

"Licensing can be quite difficult."

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"The primary area for improvement in Azure Site Recovery is its pricing."

"It is for site-to-site replication. When something goes wrong on your site, you only get 15 minutes before it also goes wrong on your replicated site. There should be some way to be able to say that we want to restore it, but we want to restore it to the version from yesterday. It should support versioning. I would also like to see real-time scanning for advanced threat protection, more straightforward billing, and quicker turnaround on the tech support."

"Could have more integration with other platforms."

"There is room for improvement in the release of patches, such as ensuring they are properly managed to avoid outages."

"The product's performance is an area of concern where improvements are required."

"I would like to see more security features."

"Azure Site Recovery does not support shared disk options."

"Azure Site Recovery's deployment is complex. There are a lot of bugs, and it needs to improve stability."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"There are annual subscription fees and there are licensing costs for three computers. It is an expensive solution."

"I feel that the product is fairly priced."

"The retail fee is $1300 for a year for one server. Other than that, there is just the cost of your hardware."

"Its price seems reasonable. Its price is average as compared to the other products I've looked at. We have a three-year license right now. There are no other costs beyond the standard licensing fee."

"The solution is very expensive."

"The price of StorageCraft ShadowProtect is competitive in the market."

"There is an annual license required for this solution and it is priced well."

"I rate the product price a five on a scale of one to ten, where one is low price and ten is high price."

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"I'm not sure about the Azure Site Recovery pricing, but my organization gets monthly bills from providers."

"Azure Site Recovery is neither very expensive nor very cheap."

"It should have more straightforward billing. The billing was what got funky. It was really cheap. We would pay based on the usage. We paid around $225 a month for site-to-site replication."

"Azure Site Recovery is a very reasonably priced product."

"The tool's licensing is yearly and not expensive."

"Azure Site Recovery is affordable."

"They have a license to pay."

"The tool is expensive. What is expensive to me might not be expensive to you. As I mentioned, we seek ways to reduce our costs. If the price goes down, that would be great. I rate the tool's pricing a six out of ten."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

16%

Non Profit

11%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Computer Software Company

15%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Manufacturing Company

Insurance Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	23
Midsize Enterprise	10
Large Enterprise	9

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	8
Midsize Enterprise	4
Large Enterprise	14

Questions from the Community

Major Differences Between These 4 Backup and Disaster Recovery Solutions?

Comparing the features of the four is not the right approach. You need to develop a list of requirements for backup and DR that are specific to your organization and then compare each of the four ...

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What do you like most about StorageCraft ShadowProtect?

The interface is very refined, works fine, and is very intuitive most of the time. Scalability is nice. The multi-tenancy feature is very welcome. The integration with Linux works fine too.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for StorageCraft ShadowProtect?

Pricing for SPX MRP/MSP is under $400 per server (Single VM) with a 1-year subscription. After discounts, it could decrease by 20%-30%, and opting for a 3/5/10 server pack may offer even better (lo...

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What do you like most about Azure Site Recovery?

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.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Azure Site Recovery?

A major advantage is that you do not want to pay any more for huge costs to build a DR site. It is very flexible and will save your cost.

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What needs improvement with Azure Site Recovery?

The flexibility of Azure Site Recovery regarding integration with different IT environments is limited; it is purely an Azure platform service for business continuity, not meant for integration wit...

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Also Known As

StorageCraft ShadowProtect, StorageCraft Backup Analyzer

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Overview

Arcserve UDP is a comprehensive solution that empowers even a one-person IT department to protect virtual and physical environments with a high degree of simplicity. It allows you to design and manage your entire data protection strategy with a unified management console, and enables you to scale your data backup coverage as your organization grows with the push of a button.

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Help your business to keep doing business - even during major IT outages. Azure Site Recovery offers ease of deployment, cost effectiveness, and dependability. Deploy replication, failover, and recovery processes through Site Recovery to help keep your applications running during planned and unplanned outages. Site Recovery is a native disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS), and Microsoft been recognized as a leader in DRaaS based on completeness of vision and ability to execute by Gartner in the 2018 Magic Quadrant for Disaster Recovery as a Service.

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Sample Customers

ITPS, North Hertfordshire Homes, SEMIKRON, Kajaani University of Applied Sciences, Test Valley Borough Council, EK Services

Russell Reynolds Associates, Union Insurance, Rackspace

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