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

Read 43 Arcserve UDP reviews

1,580 Views
115 Comparison Views

84% willing to recommend

Azure Site Recovery

Read 25 Azure Site Recovery reviews

955 Views
194 Comparison Views

92% willing to recommend

Arcserve UDP

Azure Site Recovery

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Download the report

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: June 2025).

Buyer's Guide

Arcserve UDP vs. Azure Site Recovery

June 2025

Download the complete report

Helped 857,162 peers since 2012

Review summaries and opinions

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 (19th), Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (11th)

Azure Site Recovery

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Disaster Recovery as a Service (3rd)

Featured Reviews

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…

Read full review

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.

Read full review

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"It is a very stable solution...It is a scalable solution."

"The recovery part of the product is very good."

"I like the tool's speed."

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

"It is very stable."

"The most valuable features are that it is able to restore quickly and that it is able to virtually restore on Hyper-V."

"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."

"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."

More Arcserve UDP pros

"It’s native to Azure and does exactly what it’s designed to do—recover one site to another without creating all the VMs on that site. This helps reduce costs on the secondary site."

"The solution is very easy to use."

"The most valuable feature is the visibility of what is happening with our business as well as the good reporting and dashboards."

"What I love about Azure Site Recovery is its simplicity for basic configurations."

"You can create automation to move workloads and redirect traffic to another region."

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

"The solution is secure, reliable, and scalable."

"It is a very stable product and very scalable."

More Azure Site Recovery pros

Cons

"The solution can improve by allowing older versions to support the latest version of the OS."

"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 of the biggest drawbacks of Arcserve UDP is that it does not have a single console, making it an area that needs to be considered for improvement."

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

"Backups are very slow and time consuming."

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

"The support could be more knowledgeable and faster."

"The solution's reporting could be improved and should provide customized reports."

More Arcserve UDP cons

"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."

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

"Currently, Azure Site Recovery does not support shared disk options. Moreover, it does not support services like AppConfig or App Services."

"The solution needs to improve replication and failover processes. We are still looking for improvements in the cost baseline."

"One area for improvement with Azure is helping customers predict usage more accurately."

"In the newest version of Azure Site Recovery, the configuration was a little more complex, so this is an area for improvement."

"The tool should improve synchronization."

"I conveyed the feedback to the agent, suggesting an increase in the agent count in our VNS in the USA. I also addressed notification concerns, as some issues didn't trigger alerts during a recent call."

More Azure Site Recovery cons

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The licensing cost is for one year. There are not any hidden costs involved in the pricing model of the solution."

"The solution is priced well compared to other solutions."

"I feel that the product is fairly priced."

"The pricing of the product can be considered to be reasonable enough for the Asian region."

"The price of this product is high and it should be lower."

"I do not work with the pricing or licensing issues of the solution for our organization."

"It is a bit pricey, considering the reliability problems. If the tool worked flawlessly, the price would be fair, even cheap."

"Normally our customers purchase the premium plus license, rather than the standard one, which provides more options."

More Arcserve UDP pricing and cost advice

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

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

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

"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."

"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."

See which vendors are best for you

Use our free recommendation engine to learn which Disaster Recovery (DR) Software solutions are best for your needs.

See recommendations

857,162 professionals have used our research since 2012.

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

18%

Non Profit

10%

Financial Services Firm

Government

Computer Software Company

17%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Manufacturing Company

Insurance Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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 ...

See all answers

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.

See all answers

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...

See all answers

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.

See all answers

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

The price of Azure Site Recovery was reasonable compared to other data costs. It was not the expensive part of our costs, but, as always, there is room to make it cheaper.

See all answers

What needs improvement with Azure Site Recovery?

To be honest, I didn't use it directly. As far as I know, there weren't any significant problems with Azure Site Recovery. Although pricing for data solutions can always be cheaper, site recovery w...

See all answers

Comparisons

Veeam Data Platform vs Arcserve UDP

Compared 37% of the time

Acronis Cyber Protect vs Arcserve UDP

Compared 11% of the time

Rubrik vs Arcserve UDP

Compared 9% of the time

Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) vs Arcserve UDP

Compared 5% of the time

Veritas Backup Exec vs Arcserve UDP

Compared 5% of the time

More Arcserve UDP Competitors

HPE Zerto Software vs Azure Site Recovery

Compared 17% of the time

AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery vs Azure Site Recovery

Compared 16% of the time

Veeam Data Platform vs Azure Site Recovery

Compared 16% of the time

VMware Live Recovery vs Azure Site Recovery

Compared 15% of the time

Rubrik vs Azure Site Recovery

Compared 8% of the time

More Azure Site Recovery Competitors

Product Reports

Buyer's Guide

Arcserve UDP

June 2025

Download Arcserve UDP product report

Buyer's Guide

Azure Site Recovery

June 2025

Download Azure Site Recovery product report

Also Known As

StorageCraft ShadowProtect, StorageCraft Backup Analyzer

No data available

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.

Arcserve

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.

Microsoft

Sample Customers

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

Russell Reynolds Associates, Union Insurance, Rackspace

Buyer's Guide

Arcserve UDP vs. Azure Site Recovery

June 2025

Free Report: Arcserve UDP vs. Azure Site Recovery

Find out what your peers are saying about Arcserve UDP vs. Azure Site Recovery and other solutions. Updated: June 2025.

DOWNLOAD NOW

857,162 professionals have used our research since 2012.

See our Arcserve UDP vs. Azure Site Recovery report.

See our list of best Disaster Recovery (DR) Software vendors.

We monitor all Disaster Recovery (DR) Software reviews to prevent fraudulent reviews and keep review quality high. We do not post reviews by company employees or direct competitors. We validate each review for authenticity via cross-reference with LinkedIn, and personal follow-up with the reviewer when necessary.