Arcserve UDP vs Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup comparison

Arcserve and Hornetsecurity are both solutions in the Backup and Recovery category. Arcserve is ranked #19 with an average rating of 7.0, while Hornetsecurity is ranked #33 with an average rating of 9.0. Arcserve holds a 1.3% mindshare in BRS, compared to Hornetsecurity’s 0.8% mindshare. Additionally, 84% of Arcserve users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 96% of Hornetsecurity users who would recommend it.

Arcserve UDP

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84% willing to recommend

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96% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 11, 2024

Arcserve UDP and Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup are competitors in the data backup and disaster recovery sector. Users find Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup superior due to its features and perceived worth.

Features: Arcserve UDP offers robust backup options, comprehensive data protection, and multiple recovery points. Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup is noted for its ease of use, efficient VM backups, and sandbox restore verification.

Room for Improvement: Arcserve UDP needs enhancements in reporting capabilities, performance speed during large backups, and user interface. Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup could improve scalability, scheduling flexibility, and support for more diverse environments.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Arcserve UDP is complex to deploy, requiring significant time and resources. Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup is straightforward to set up. Arcserve UDP support can be slow, while Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup offers responsive and helpful customer service.

Pricing and ROI: Arcserve UDP is cost-effective with a good return on investment due to its comprehensive features. Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup is often perceived as pricier but justified by its efficient performance and specialized VM backup capabilities.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Arcserve UDP

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

19th

Ranking in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software

10th

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Ba...

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

33rd

Ranking in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software

16th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Backup (28th)

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the Backup and Recovery category, the mindshare of Arcserve UDP is 1.3%, down from 1.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup is 0.8%, down from 0.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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MukundKambli

Senior Solutions Architect at Team Computers

Global deduplication, stable, and flexible licensing options

I give the solution ten out of ten. This solution offers one dashboard to manage the BC con, disaster recovery plan, DR solution, and backup as well as different licensing options, unlike other OEM products. We are the system integrators for our clients, so we design the solution as per the customer's requirements. We provide several solutions options to our clients such as Druva inSync, Druva Phoenix, and Arcserve UDP with the specifications and the client makes a decision based on their requirements. I would advise potential users to first be clear on whether they are going to use it as a backup solution for compliance purposes, just wanting to take the backups of files and servers, or for instant recovery. The IQ and RPO discussion with our customers usually takes 30 minutes. I recommend this solution.

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Asif Usmani

Regional Sales Manager at S2

Lacks multi-platform support and physical infrastructure but excels in storage optimization

We use it for VM backup and Office 365 backup I find the solution to be user-friendly and easy to manage and deploy. It provides storage for Office 365, which is beneficial, and the deduplication technology is excellent, especially in optimizing storage capacity compared to others. In terms of…

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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 recovery part of the product is very good."

"I like the tool's speed."

"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."

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

"The most valuable feature of Arcserve UDP is live replication."

"Instant recovery is the most valuable feature of Arcserve UDP."

"It allows us to back up all the servers and centrally manage them."

"The solution has no limitations because it does backup for Linux and Windows."

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"Excellent compression and deduplication with off-site WAN backup included."

"Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup's most valuable features include its user-friendly interface and the ability to perform data compression updates, which enhance overall efficiency and effectiveness."

"All of the features are fantastic and also the management from Microsoft dealing with multiple machines is great. The whole package is excellent for me."

"The ease of use of the solution is its most valuable feature. The interface is also excellent."

"It is an excellent product. It is easy to deploy, stable, and fast. Their support is excellent."

"The ability to test the backups without having to manually mount the VHDs after restore allows us to check the integrity of the backups."

"VM backup and the item level recovery are the most valuable features."

"The initial setup was simple and easy. Anyone without prior experience can install, configure, and use it."

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Cons

"Its interface can be improved. I find it unintuitive."

"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 is an area that needs improvement."

"The technical support of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."

"The initial setup was complex."

"The only problem with the solution is that when I change the drive capacity, it has to do a full backup. It's a problem when I have five servers to backup. When I only want to change the size of the drive, I have to do a full backup that can take one week."

"They could work on their marketing approach. I don't see many people leveraging it."

"We cannot restore each user's mailbox. Each user's mailbox should be independently restorable. Also, this solution is very slow. If you select all of the servers, it runs for a long time... It needs to be faster. Finally, If anything happens to one server we should be able to switch to another server."

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"Basically, how it works is that you have a single local drive, and then you have a cloud backup. It'd be nice if you could rotate the single local backup drive. As of now, you can't."

"If you look into the performance of a virtual machine and you look to the performance of the physical machine, the correlation between these is totally unclear."

"To improve Altaro, I would like to see the ability to choose more than one backup location at a time."

"Improvement areas for Altaro VM Backup include enhancing backup and deduplication solutions for continuous operation and offering an all-in-one solution for hardware backup."

"The initial set up was complex, and I was not able to do the set up myself."

"It would be nice to see a feature that backs up the host so that, in case of a server failure, an entire server could be restored all at once."

"It would be nice to be able to recover the items to their original location."

"Backup speed and comparisons between versions used to be slow on big VMs but that was improved greatly later on."

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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 expensive."

"The solution is very expensive."

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

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

"On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive, I rate the solution's pricing a four or five out of ten."

"It is approximately $400 to purchase a virtual service outright."

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

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"The pricing is okay,"

"No other product offers these features for this price. The ROI is great."

"VMware is a little pricey, but it is a good solution and priced similar to other products."

"By implementing the solution at multiple locations, significant cost savings were achieved."

"Its yearly maintenance fee is fairly high for me to renew for upgrades and support."

"Altaro had the best prices and ROI in the whole bunch that we evaluated."

"Altaro VM Backup is affordably priced. It is a best value for its price and has almost every feature that an expensive, popular product offers."

"There is a free version for two VMs. I would advise to study the deployment environment well, prior to committing to order a license per host."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

18%

Non Profit

10%

Government

Financial Services Firm

Computer Software Company

13%

Government

10%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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What do you like most about Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup?

The most valuable feature of Altaro VM Backup is its ability to backup and restore various types of data, including Active Directory, application servers, and SQL Server databases.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup?

The pricing and licensing cost is challenging since most competitors offer cheaper pricing, making it difficult to penetrate the market with the current pricing strategy.

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What needs improvement with Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup?

The solution needs multi-platform support as it is currently only available for VMware and Hyper-V. It also lacks support for physical servers and workstations. Additionally, they should add more p...

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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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Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup is a powerful, reliable and easy-to-use backup and replication solution for Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware virtual machines (VMs) and physical Windows servers, to protect against enterprise data loss. The award-winning solution provides robust, streamlined and enterprise-level functionality.

Reduce downtime and data loss: Thanks to Continous Data Protection (CDP) and WAN-optimized replication, your backup files are available in just minutes in the event of a data loss scenario and you can continue working as usual. The solution’s unique Augmented Inline Deduplication also gives you massive savings on your backup storage and dramatically reduces costs.

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Sample Customers

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

Thomson Reuters, Microsoft, Amazon, Harvard University, MIT, Peugeot, Xerox

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