We performed a comparison between Arcserve UDP and IBM Tivoli CDP for Files based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Veeam Software, Zerto, Commvault and others in Backup and Recovery."The most valuable feature of Arcserve UDP is live replication."
"The product provides instant and virtual standbys."
"It is very stable."
"There are many backup options available in this solution. For example, you are able to do backups of servers, email, OST files, and users. This is a complete backup solution which is very good."
"We are satisfied with Arcserve UDP. The most important feature that we use and why we choose this product is the RHA feature."
"It is easy to configure."
"The most valuable feature of StorageCraft ShadowProtect is the speed and the compression of the backups. The compressed backed-up files do not take up as much storage. Additionally, the incremental backups can be done in one minute and be backed up on a disc very fast."
"The most valuable features are that it is able to restore quickly and that it is able to virtually restore on Hyper-V."
"The restoration and infrastructure is extremely reliable."
"The support could be more knowledgeable and faster."
"The time to backup servers that sit in DMZ must be improved."
"I think that the price could still be a bit cheaper and I do not like that they have been purchased by Arcserve."
"Licensing can be quite difficult."
"They could work on their marketing approach. I don't see many people leveraging it."
"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."
"Arcserve UDP is in the middle range of complexity. The interface can be developed a little bit more to be user-friendly."
"We would like to have the opportunity to omit data from being backed up. For example, we have three virtual machines, each with three disks. When running the backup, it will automatically take each disk rather than allowing us to select what data we want backed."
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Arcserve UDP is ranked 18th in Backup and Recovery with 42 reviews while IBM Tivoli CDP for Files is ranked 64th in Backup and Recovery. Arcserve UDP is rated 7.6, while IBM Tivoli CDP for Files is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Arcserve UDP writes "Global deduplication, stable, and flexible licensing options". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Tivoli CDP for Files writes "Restoration and infrastructure are extremely reliable". Arcserve UDP is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), Acronis Cyber Protect, Veritas NetBackup and Cohesity DataProtect, whereas IBM Tivoli CDP for Files is most compared with Commvault Cloud and IBM Spectrum Protect.
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