Arcserve UDP vs Oracle Data Guard comparison

Arcserve and Oracle are both solutions in the Backup and Recovery category. Arcserve is ranked #18 with an average rating of 7.5, while Oracle is ranked #10 with an average rating of 9.3. Arcserve holds a 1.4% mindshare in BRS, compared to Oracle’s 0.8% mindshare. Additionally, 84% of Arcserve users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 94% of Oracle users who would recommend it.

Arcserve UDP

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84% willing to recommend

Oracle Data Guard

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94% willing to recommend

Arcserve UDP

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 11, 2024

Arcserve UDP and Oracle Data Guard compete in the data protection and disaster recovery category. Oracle Data Guard appears to have the upper hand due to its advanced features and reliability, although Arcserve UDP offers more competitive pricing.

Features: Arcserve UDP users find it comprehensive for data protection with features like ease of use, flexible recovery options, and integration with various platforms. Oracle Data Guard users value its high availability, automated failover capabilities, and data integrity. The advanced disaster recovery features of Oracle Data Guard make it stand out.

Room for Improvement: Arcserve UDP could improve its reporting tools, offer a more intuitive setup process, and provide enhanced UI/UX. Oracle Data Guard needs better compatibility with non-Oracle environments, more streamlined patching procedures, and additional user-friendly documentation.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Arcserve UDP offers straightforward deployment and responsive customer support. Oracle Data Guard has a more complex deployment process but provides excellent technical support and comprehensive documentation.

Pricing and ROI: Arcserve UDP is cost-effective with flexible licensing, leading to a good ROI. Oracle Data Guard is more expensive, but its advanced functionalities and reliability justify the cost and offer a high ROI.

To learn more, read our detailed Arcserve UDP vs. Oracle Data Guard Report (Updated: September 2024).

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Categories and Ranking

Arcserve UDP

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

18th

Average Rating

7.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (9th)

Oracle Data Guard

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

10th

Average Rating

8.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2024, in the Backup and Recovery category, the mindshare of Arcserve UDP is 1.4%, down from 1.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Oracle Data Guard is 0.8%, down from 1.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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TeresitaSabile

Head of Operation and IT at Elgrade Inc

Sep 13, 2024

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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Federico Bonifazi

CEO & Technical DBA Oracle at Geko s.r.l.

Jan 31, 2024

Enables robust data protection while ensuring high availability, disaster recovery and data integrity

For Italian medium-sized companies, the main challenge lies in the cost associated with licenses. In certain situations, we cannot utilize Data Guard swiftly for executing specific queries or statements that require temporary data manipulation. This is because opening the Data Guard system involves serving the changes and rolling back, even though snapshot features are available. In such scenarios, when customers need to test new application features or in the event of system vulnerabilities, it might be preferable to operate Data Guard without resorting to snapshot or flashback functionalities, thereby avoiding the need to recreate the system or start from a backup. These challenges were encountered within a high-traffic environment.

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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

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

"We are satisfied with Arcserve UDP. The most important feature that we use and why we choose this product is the RHA feature."

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

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

"It's simple to set up."

"I would recommend it if there is a general case."

"Arcserve UDP has a good configuration and user interface. It makes the job of an administrator easy."

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"Oracle Data Guard is a free solution. When you apply for Enterprise Manager, it comes for free with the solution."

"It's a very good solution if you want to protect your data across two data centers, or you have a middle man or many administrators who use these solutions for protecting their data. It's very reliable compared to other solutions that are most often not storage-based."

"Backup and application continuity are most valuable."

"The most valuable aspect for me is undoubtedly the failover capability and the assurance of data safety provided by Oracle Data Guard."

"The most valuable features are the backup and restore. With this in place along with the clustering, the database is safe from hacking, hardware failure, power failures, and system crashes."

"We use Data Guard for online replication from data center, to data center for high availability. This is the most important feature."

"Snapshot and Data Guard Manager are awesome features."

"We chose this solution for the availability of the databases. We can't afford Oracle Grid, this is the best solution if you want something similar that's less expensive."

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Cons

"Licensing is an area that needs improvement."

"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."

"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."

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

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

"Backups are very slow and time consuming."

"In the most recent version of premium plus the replication has been removed, and it should re-added to the solution."

"The product is not user-friendly."

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"Overall, there are some operational issues that need to be dealt with."

"One thing that can be improved is the GUI. It would be good to have a very nice GUI to easily configure and administer, providing different presentations to the database administrator. The feature that can be included is the integration with third-party monitoring systems, that is, monitoring systems from other vendors, not only from Oracle."

"It is a very useful administrative IT tool. It saves on costs."

"Oracle Data Guard is stable, but you need to keep monitoring the system all the time. You need to keep monitoring the archives."

"The usage of block storage devices in the cloud or migration of a type of storage from one site to another site can be improved. Currently, we have to use multi-node to single node because of the lack of storage support on the Azure side. It did not really work. Our DBA had to spend a lot of time tweaking the Data Guard tools, or the underlying Oracle VMs, to make sure that Data Guard would run on top of different types of storage. So, if it can support transporting or getting from one type of storage to another type of storage in a different site or a different technology, it would be very helpful."

"The database administration needs improvement. With Oracle, we have a lot of features for administrating data, but it might be too many. It needs to be simplified. It should be automated. Looking at Enterprise Manager, there are too many KPIs in place."

"We would like to be able to see the date time stamp when you execute DGMGRL commands."

"Sometimes, the technical support team takes time to respond."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"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 price is based on the number of sockets. We use a four-socket price that includes two servers and the cost is $4,375."

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

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

"In comparison to other vendors, it is a low-cost solution."

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

"The solution is very expensive."

"The solution is not very expensive, but it is not cheap."

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"This is the best solution if you want something similar that's less expensive than Oracle Grid."

"It's a cost-effective solution."

"It is not a cheap product, but if you look at the price, features, availability, scalability, and maturity, it is a very good product."

"The pricing is on the higher side."

"If you want to have everything automated and done smoothly, you have to add additional licenses."

"The cost is expensive."

"The licensing cost is significantly high."

"The cost of the Oracle license will depend on the negotiations with Oracle."

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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company

18%

Government

Non Profit

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

19%

Computer Software Company

14%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Government

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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 Arcserve UDP?

The most valuable feature of Arcserve UDP is the initiative UI and the logs are clear and detailed that are generated when there has been an issue or failure on the user's system. We only have to l...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Arcserve UDP?

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

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What advice do you have for others considering Oracle Data Guard?

Ik fluister:VM Host Oracle en DataGuard hebben we per toeval vervangen door Zerto :-) tijdens de Zerto implementatie en VPG werden de Host Data in write-ack Block-Level gerepliceerd. Qua licentie 1...

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What advice do you have for others considering Oracle Data Guard?

It is a very useful administrative IT tool. It saves on costs. I strongly recommend Data Guard. I've been using it for eight years and I would strongly recommend it. I'd rate Oracle Data Guard a se...

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What advice do you have for others considering Oracle Data Guard?

We're Oracle partners. We've worked with databases 11G and 12C. If a company is planning to implement Oracle solutions, I would suggest they also implement Data Guard. I'd rate the solution nine ou...

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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.

Oracle Data Guard ensures high availability, data protection, and disaster recovery for enterprise data. Data Guard provides a comprehensive set of services that create, maintain, manage, and monitor one or more standby databases to enable production Oracle databases to survive disasters and data corruptions. Data Guard can be used with traditional backup, restoration, and cluster techniques to provide a high level of data protection and data availability.

Sample Customers

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