Arcserve UDP vs Druva inSync vs IBM Spectrum Protect comparison

"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."

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

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

"The ROI is very good because of the speed of the backup."

"The most valuable features are that it is able to restore quickly and that it is able to virtually restore on Hyper-V."

"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 product provides instant and virtual standbys."

"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 do not need to purchase third party storage or a separate server for data backup."

"It has a straightforward installation."

"Druva inSync is very easy to use."

"The main benefit of this solution is that it automatically scans the files for ransomware after the backup is complete."

"The recovery aspect of the solution is its most valuable feature."

"The way they handle the backups is pretty good."

"You don't need a certified administrator to manage this product."

"All the data is well encrypted. In addition, the data is split into pieces so that if an endpoint is attacked or compromised with any kind of ransomware, the compromised machine can be relocated or restored. All the data that was previously backed up can be restored from the cloud. It has a lot of security features. Druva currently offers only the cloud version on AWS. Being a cloud solution, Druva goes by a lot of security compliances and provides a security portfolio. People are very skeptical of the data security in cloud solutions, and Druva has given consideration to that. It has some good geo-location features. If a machine is lost, when the machine is switched on and connected to the internet, that machine can be geo-located and tracked. It also has got the geo-wipeout feature. If someone tries to take out the data from a lost machine, they won't be able to do that. The moment an IT admin comes to know that the machine is no longer with a user, he or she can auto-run the geo-wipeout feature so that the data cannot be read by any third party. Duality replication is a unique thing about this solution. Everybody's data is not backed up if the data is common. Similar data is not backed up from other machines. The data backup also happens very smoothly. The bandwidth choking is very less. When the data is getting backed up, the users do not even get to know. There is no impact even when the users are not using high-speed bandwidth."

"It is very stable after deployment and will perform in a steady state."

"We can freeze and start databases for consistent backups."

"The backup of Sybase databases is the most valuable feature in the existing environment. They have got the most documentation out there on the internet for its software protection. The documentation is excellent, and there are a lot of blogs, websites. Because it's still one of the oldest products out there for data protection, there are also lots of people who have a lot of experience in using this solution."

"The file-restoring feature is the most valuable."

"The way it covers backup and archive needs. The flexibility of backup copy group always allows me to cover the customer's requests."

"I've had no problems with the stability of this solution."

"The product helps us do data protection and restoration for disaster recovery (DR)."

"The best part of this solution is that it just works."

"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."

"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."

"We could not go into granular details of retrieving backup information."

"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."

"I don't know whether the tool has VMware integrations. It would be good to cover this area if it doesn't have those."

"Licensing is an area that needs improvement."

"Backups are very slow and time consuming."

"Every time I change the disc, I have to do a full backup."

"Druva inSync is very high in price. A general customer cannot afford this solution. Even if the product is good, people cannot afford such a high cost just for taking the backup. This is a recurring investment, and the customers have to pay for it every year. Druva is also yet to develop the channel and the channel or partner commitment."

"The one area that needs to improve is the pricing."

"It would be good if bare metal backups were possible."

"The support of other cloud services needs to be improved. It has very good cloud support for AWS but not with others."

"If I could have an accelerator or something to back up the solution on the cloud, that would be helpful. Also, it would be helpful if the accelerator could give me a buffer of a couple of days for any kind of immediate recovery on an offsite."

"I would like to see security improved in the next release."

"The user quota is an area that needs to be improved."

"One functionality I would like is the ability to manage multiple Office 365 tenants from a single console."

"Our customers would like to see metadata replication, tearing to tape, and more cloud capabilities."

"I would like to see monitoring within the platform: monitoring for storage pools and monitoring for the server's health (e.g., CPU and memory)."

"Our new leadership has pushed us to go more toward the cloud, so we are definitely going to leverage anything we can in that direction."

"In the next version of the solution, I would like to see cloud support."

"The software is very complicated. You have to do a lot of configurations to build a server, and you would need to backup and restore."

"The main admin console from the UI cannot do anything in the product. It just allows us to maintain, maybe, 30% to 40%. For the rest, we have to use the command line."

"The version that we had when I first started made it look really bad. We are talking about commands that should have run in two seconds, but instead took four to eight hours. Other components were sluggish."

"We would like to see capabilities of long-term archiving and more support for hardware platforms."

"We only have the maintenance of three standard UDP licenses. Each license is 50 Euro. There are some additional costs for the storage and software but it has nothing to do with the UDP."

"Normally our customers purchase the premium plus license, rather than the standard one, which provides more options."

"There is an annual license required for this solution and it is priced well."

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

"There are annual subscription fees and there are licensing costs for three computers. It is an expensive solution."

"The price of StorageCraft ShadowProtect is competitive in the market."

"The solution is very expensive."

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

"I would rate the pricing a seven out of ten, with one being very cheap and ten being very expensive."

"The price is quite good, It's approximately $4000.00 per user for one year."

"The pricing is thirty-five dollars per year or three dollars per month per user."

"Once you decide to go with this product the cost can be worked out with the vendor."

"It is an expensive product for the middle class or SMB customers in India. A lot of top-level big companies also cannot afford this solution. During the license period, one can download the entire data from the cloud without paying any additional cost. This way the data can be easily recreated from the stored data when a machine is lost or the data is compromised."

"The pricing of Druva inSync is very high as compared to other cloud backup solutions."

"It's approximately $4000.00 per user for one year."

"The product is fairly priced, I would rate its pricing five out of ten."

"License-wise regarding IBM, it's licensed per terabyte. And that is after compression and deduplication."

"The price of IBM Spectrum Protect is expensive and there is only a standard licensing fee."

"IBM Spectrum Protect can be considered an averagely-priced product."

"That's a hard estimate. It depends on the licensing, the hardware, and other stuff, but it is fairly expensive. It is generally more expensive than other solutions."

"IBM Spectrum Protect, cost-wise, has way higher pricing than Veeam. By switching over to Veeam, my company saved over $600,000 in USD. The IBM Spectrum Protect pricing is a two on a scale of one to ten. My company paid additional fees for maintenance, apart from the standard licensing fees."

"IBM provides an open license policy, which is more like a gentlemen's agreement."

"We worked our licensing into a capacity model, which is nice. Now, everything is much simpler to manage from a licensing perspective.​"

"Its licensing is complicated. It goes by CPUs, and it is pretty expensive as well."