We performed a comparison between Arcserve UDP and IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 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 ROI is very good because of the speed of the backup."
"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."
"I like the tool's speed."
"We are satisfied with Arcserve UDP. The most important feature that we use and why we choose this product is the RHA feature."
"The data protection functionality is the most valuable feature of this solution."
"It allows us to back up all the servers and centrally manage them."
"Instant recovery is the most valuable feature of Arcserve UDP."
"The product's deployment process was straightforward."
"What I like about IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is its integration, plus it has very good technical support."
"The most valuable feature of IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is the deduplication functionality. The clients moved to this solution originally because of this feature."
"The solution offers a very straightforward deployment. You click, click, click and it's done. There's not much configuration to do."
"The initial setup of IBM Protect Plus is simple and not complex."
"The solution is scalable and can be fitted for any customer."
"The most valuable features of the solution stem from the fact that the product works and helps with restoration areas whenever there is a need to restore something."
"The most valuable features are the API features because it allows you to integrate with your Microsoft SQL, your Oracle, and your IBM Db2."
"The most valuable features of IBM Spectrum Protect Plus are you have many possibilities on how to use it. We use it for backups and to create secondary and third copies. It is possible to pick up Kubernetes containers and use a different cloud provider if you need to start backups on the cloud."
"The tool doesn't provide cloud integration in India."
"We could not go into granular details of retrieving backup information."
"The solution could improve by being more user-friendly. It can be difficult to assign destinations and choose which files and folders we need to back up. There are some aspects that are unclear."
"Arcserve UDP is in the middle range of complexity. The interface can be developed a little bit more to be user-friendly."
"The product is not user-friendly."
"Licensing can be quite difficult."
"Its interface can be improved. I find it unintuitive."
"The speed of restores should be improved. We have found the speed of large restores rather slow."
"The tool needs to increase the number of threats."
"Not particularly user friendly."
"The administration needs to be improved and made simpler to use."
"I would like more integration with security. We need to show the value of the product in regards to handling security. For example, how it handles current malware or viruses. IBM should be more proactive in this direction."
"Instead of using the command prompt for troubleshooting and administering the backup, there should be an easy-to-use graphical user interface."
"It requires much more automation features."
"An area that needs improvement is data validation. We currently use another product that gives us immediate validation, information about when the last backup was, and no risk of corruption happening. TSM in IBM Spectrum is not mature so that you can validate on the spot."
"There could be better integration with Spectrum Protect and Spectrum Protect Plus, it should be one solution."
Arcserve UDP is ranked 18th in Backup and Recovery with 41 reviews while IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is ranked 19th in Backup and Recovery with 28 reviews. Arcserve UDP is rated 7.6, while IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 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 Plus writes "Has very good integration features and can quickly backup data and optimize storage". Arcserve UDP is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Acronis Cyber Protect, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), Veritas Backup Exec and Rubrik, whereas IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is most compared with IBM Spectrum Protect, Veeam Backup & Replication, Cohesity DataProtect, Nutanix Mine Integrated Backup and Rubrik. See our Arcserve UDP vs. IBM Spectrum Protect Plus report.
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