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Arcserve UDP vs HPE StoreOnce vs Rubrik comparison

 

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TeresitaSabile - PeerSpot reviewer
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…
Andrew Mcbeath - PeerSpot reviewer
Maximized storage capacity and minimized costs and an easy setup
Most of our client base is between fifty to five hundred end users. We occasionally recommend high-end HPE products for larger clients needing performance and reliability. Our clients predominantly use HPE StoreOnce for small business purposes in industries like dairy and finance Our clients have…
AmarpreetSingh - PeerSpot reviewer
Optimal data security and management achieved with smooth deployment and strong support
I plan to expand the number of users for Rubrik in the future. Currently, I have approximately 10 to 12 customers on Rubrik, as we are partners to Rubrik and a service provider, SIS. I am working with large to medium organizations, not small ones. Regarding Artificial Intelligence, Rubrik is in the initial phase, and I am expecting more from them. I can give them seven out of ten for their improvements in that area. I would recommend Rubrik to other organizations because it is easy to install, easy to manage, and very compact in terms of a solution, with good support from Rubrik. These features allow it to match from small scale to large scale customers very easily. The number of people who usually take part in maintenance from my side depends on the customer size. For large customers, we involve four to five people, but for small customers, one person is enough. I rate Rubrik eight out of ten.

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

Pros

"Our customers are happy with the product’s functionality."
"Global deduplication is the best feature of this solution."
"It is a very stable solution...It is a scalable solution."
"The solution has no limitations because it does backup for Linux and Windows."
"The ROI is very good because of the speed of the backup."
"I would recommend it if there is a general case."
"The product provides instant and virtual standbys."
"Instant recovery is the most valuable feature of Arcserve UDP."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its catalyst mode, along with better performance, backup, and recovery."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is its UI. The product's UI makes it easy for users to configure the tool."
"The most valuable features are the deduplication and compression capabilities."
"The solution saves a lot of storage capacity."
"Has very good deduplication and encryption features."
"From a centralized system, I can manage the interface, the backup policies, and the status of the database."
"Based on customer feedback, I rate it highly as one of the most stable products in the backup and archiving line compared to offerings like Data Domain or from Huawei and Lenovo."
"I think the most valuable feature is the catalyst technology, which is in the StoreOnce appliance."
"Since switching to Rubrik, our backup times have decreased significantly, going from two and a half days to one and a half hours for certain systems."
"Rubrik, when compared to Cohesity, Dell, and Veritas, was the best of the four."
"The most valuable feature has been the Live Mount feature."
"The web-based approach is the most valuable feature."
"Features we have requested are typically added to the next product release."
"Disk mount that lets a restore happen immediately, no need to re-hydrate."
"The file search feature across all backups has been helpful."
"The security and the ransomware protection are most valuable."
 

Cons

"The tool doesn't provide cloud integration in India."
"StorageCraft ShadowProtect can improve by making one console that can control backups of all desktops and servers in one place. Additionally, the recovery process of the backups is very slow and could improve. It's very slow when we went to recover a complete disc but to recover one file is very fast."
"Every time I change the disc, I have to do a full backup."
"The solution can improve by allowing older versions to support the latest version of the OS."
"Backups are very slow and time consuming."
"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 solution's reporting could be improved and should provide customized reports."
"Its interface can be improved. I find it unintuitive."
"The GUI and its user-friendliness have some room for improvement."
"The solution could always be less expensive."
"The latency is a bit high."
"The appliance doesn't have the global deduplication, it has StoreOnce deduplication. It does not deduplicate across the appliance, it will deduplicate in one particular store. With the global deduplication, I could store more data."
"We would like to see some improvements in the Veeam Backup & Replication integration. It's good, but it has a lot of room to improve. In particular around the inability to easily move data between StoreOnce appliances."
"improvement? HPE StoreOnce has a limitation with respect to controllers. Other tools offer more than one controller. I feel that the high availability of the view controller should be redundant. The tool’s control and UI part should be improved and made more advanced. The feature that helps with the manual movement of tapes should also be improved."
"We do not foresee the need to have an artificial intelligence app. It is not mature enough."
"HPE StoreOnce could improve the capacity support."
"The Polaris piece could use improvement. When you get a report and you have events that are suspicious, you cannot drill down and find out why it's suspicious. You only know it's suspicious, but you don't know the root cause. Other than that, everything works well."
"They have what's called an organization which means different groups of access to Rubrik, but the alerting only goes to the admins. My suggestion to Rubrik is to make sure that the separate organizations or groups of users get the appropriate alerting."
"The functionality is missing, but they are very receptive to our thoughts and ideas."
"Rubrik needs to continue to listen to their customers and what they want/need, not just care about money and the bottom line."
"It is an expensive product."
"Better integration for complex NAS structures having to mount at root adds time and workload to the process of NDMP."
"It needs to support more applications natively, like MySQL/MariaDB."
"With Windows, it is difficult to configure Oracle Database."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I do not work with the pricing or licensing issues of the solution for our organization."
"The solution is not very expensive, but it is not cheap."
"It is approximately $400 to purchase a virtual service outright."
"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."
"The price of StorageCraft ShadowProtect is competitive in the market."
"I rate the product price a five on a scale of one to ten, where one is low price and ten is high price."
"The solution is priced well compared to other solutions."
"In comparison to other vendors, it is a low-cost solution."
"The solution's cost is above average."
"The product's pricing is medium."
"There are costs for additional storage and space."
"I think the product is competitive in terms of pricing. Other products like the one from Dell are costlier compared to the tool."
"HPE StoreOnce is cheaper compared to other solutions in the market."
"I would rate it around two or three because, compared to others, it tends to be higher priced."
"We have got a perpetual license, and we have access to all the features. If you are using cloud banks, you can store the internal data in HPE Cloud if needed. You can offload the data to the HPE Cloud. It is a licensed product. We have got around 10 TB of cloud bank storage with a one-time payment. We specifically took 10 TB for very critical offsite backups. We can also increase it in blocks if needed."
"The price puts me off. It's definitely on the high side."
"It is a great value, but its cost is still a bit high."
"There is a license requirement for the solution. If you expand or if the maintenance period expires, there's a license renewal as well."
"There are additional costs like maintenance, and there are some features on their central management piece that don't come with our licensing."
"I rate the pricing an eight on a scale of one to ten, where one is low, and ten is high."
"Rubrik is priced high, but it was the solution that was providing us encryption and was secure. The solution price is high, but you get what you pay for."
"I don't remember the cost, but I know that for Veeam, we were spending almost $250,000 a year for 205 licenses. It was an enterprise version. When we purchased Rubrik, it was just a little bit more. It was not a terribly huge amount, and if I recall, that was for three years of support as well. So, Veeam priced itself out of the market at a certain point in time."
"You need to understand what you're getting for the price. You are getting a backup solution, which is state of the art and works absolutely flawlessly. You are getting the storage needed to store your backups. You have all the sexy features that a modern backup solution can provide you, like deduplication, erasure coding, compression, fast execution time, secured data, and top-notch customer support. So, it might be expensive on paper. It's not free, but when you analyze what you are getting and the time you can spend on other stuff, then Rubrik is very cost-efficient."
"The solution is expensive for small businesses."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
17%
Non Profit
10%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
7%
Computer Software Company
16%
Government
8%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Computer Software Company
12%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Government
8%
 

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 ...
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-ten...
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 de...
What do you like most about HPE StoreOnce?
I think StoreOnce's deduplication technology is crucial for cost efficiency and faster recovery, especially for backu...
What needs improvement with HPE StoreOnce?
To improve HPE StoreOnce, I think if HPE generates new models with lower capacities than 80 terabytes, it would be be...
Which would you choose - Rubrik or Veeam Backup & Replication?
Veeam Backup & Replication provides an easy-to-set-up solution to the issue of data storage and recovery. Setting...
What do you like most about Rubrik?
It's easy to manage and has an innovated solution.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Rubrik?
Regarding pricing, Rubrik is a costly solution, and I would rate it an eight.
 

Also Known As

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