Arcserve UDP vs Cohesity DataProtect comparison

Arcserve and Cohesity are both solutions in the Backup and Recovery category. Arcserve is ranked #18 with an average rating of 7.5, while Cohesity is ranked #8 with an average rating of 8.3. Arcserve holds a 1.3% mindshare in BRS, compared to Cohesity’s 4.0% mindshare. Additionally, 84% of Arcserve users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 97% of Cohesity users who would recommend it.

Arcserve UDP

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84% willing to recommend

Cohesity DataProtect

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97% willing to recommend

Arcserve UDP

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 11, 2024

Arcserve UDP and Cohesity DataProtect are leading data protection solutions with distinct strengths based on user feedback. Cohesity DataProtect, with its advanced capabilities, appears to be the superior product despite a higher price point, as users deem it worth the investment.

Features: Users value Arcserve UDP's comprehensive backup and recovery options, its simplicity in managing vast data volumes, and its cost-effectiveness. Cohesity DataProtect is praised for its innovative features such as global deduplication, ransomware protection, and multi-cloud capabilities.

Room for Improvement: Arcserve UDP users point out the need for a more intuitive setup process, better scalability options, and improved software compatibility. Cohesity DataProtect users suggest improvements in software compatibility, reducing the complexity of certain advanced features, and optimizing resource utilization.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Arcserve UDP is generally easy to deploy with straightforward installation and reliable customer service, though some users encounter difficulties in more complex environments. Cohesity DataProtect is slightly more complex to deploy due to its advanced features but offers excellent customer support to aid with the process.

Pricing and ROI: Arcserve UDP offers a competitive setup cost and a solid ROI, with users highlighting its cost-effectiveness and reliability. Conversely, Cohesity DataProtect comes at a higher initial cost but delivers significant long-term ROI through its advanced features and comprehensive protection, which users find justifies the premium pricing.

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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)

Cohesity DataProtect

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

8th

Average Rating

9.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Backup (7th)

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Backup and Recovery category, the mindshare of Arcserve UDP is 1.3%, down from 1.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Cohesity DataProtect is 4.0%, down from 4.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Lucas Moura

Full Pre-Sales Analyst at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Mar 21, 2024

Offers multi-tenancy feature and interface is very refined, works fine, and is very intuitive but rocky implementation process

Many features that Arcserve proposes in its documentation and marketing material actually don't work properly in practice. Veeam is the most comparable solution, considering features and capacities. They are very similar, but Veeam works fine most of the time. With Arcserve, we have a lot of problems in implementing and getting compatibility, especially with legacy systems. We also have mysterious problems that no one can solve. The performance is not as planned or as intended. Our experience has been shaky. It's not very reliable as a tool, especially in critical cases like disaster recovery. So we've been working on migrating all our projects to Veeam and other similar solutions that offer comparable features. Reliability is not Arcserve's greatest strength – implementation is rocky, and sizings never work as planned. Plus, their cloud service is very slow and relatively expensive compared to Veeam.

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Giovanni Golinelli.

Hybrid IT Architect at Quanture Spa

Jan 24, 2024

Easy to use, offers good scalability and responsive support

The deployment depends on the environment. Deploying on VMs is relatively simple. But for most of our customers, we implement physical clusters with at least three configured hosts using the existing model. So, it depends on the setup. Implementing DataProtect itself wasn't particularly challenging. One key requirement for successful DataProtect deployment is proper network configuration. If the network setup isn't right, you won't achieve optimal performance. We have developed a service for some of our customers where they implement an appliance or physical cluster of Cohesity at the customer site. Then, we use cloud clustering to replicate, and even in production, a second copy of the protected data. And in some cases, we have developed some disaster recovery procedures using Cohesity.

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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

"The most valuable features are the replication to the cloud and the deduplication."

"It's simple to set up."

"Global deduplication is the best feature of this solution."

"The most valuable feature is the duplication."

"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 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."

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

"The product provides instant and virtual standbys."

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"The dashboard is very rich and provides details needed for a moderator."

"I like that Cohesity offers the chance to have data on-premises and on the cloud. All the data is automatically sent to the cloud."

"It makes our administrators' lives much easier to combine backup, archiving, and services like hosting file shares in one central system with only one user interface."

"The product is easy to put in place. All backups are done very quickly. It's easy to perform restores. What I prefer in the product is its simplicity. There are no useless settings to define, and everything is ready after the initial setup."

"Cohesity is extremely easy to use and intuitive."

"The customer service and support are fast and professional."

"I would rate the stability a ten out of ten."

"The solution's SQL cloning is great, and its Instant Mount restoration of virtual machines is brilliant."

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Cons

"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."

"The speed of restores should be improved. We have found the speed of large restores rather slow."

"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."

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

"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."

"The support could be more knowledgeable and faster."

"The technical support of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."

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

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"The support team sometimes takes a long time to resolve issues, although, in our experience, these have been specific things like SQL blobs."

"Features I would like to see include a more visible data lifecycle monitoring tab, and an easier to read backup status dashboard."

"There is limited support for legacy systems, which is something that could be improved."

"They could always keep up with continuous interface refinements."

"The GUI is in need of improvement."

"If someone were to change an admin account password, I would like an alert raised for that, which is not available at the moment."

"The support team could do a better job. Sometimes finding the correct person is cumbersome and time consuming."

"Cohesity DataProtect takes hours to restore a single file, even a small one."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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

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

"Pricing is most likely comparable."

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

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

"I do not work with the pricing or licensing issues of the solution for our organization."

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

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

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"I expect the system to probably pay off within the first two years."

"With respect to pricing, make sure that you look at both Rubrik and Cohesity as they are very similar and are quite competitive."

"We purchased support from Cohesity to ensure that should we face an issue, we don't have to deal with different service providers."

"On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive, I rate the solution's pricing a seven out of ten."

"Cohesity came in at the best price."

"It has reasonable pricing, and we know they can give discounts. If you look at the primary pricing or the list pricing, it conforms to the market pricing, but you have to have a discount on it. Otherwise, it is way too expensive."

"The tool's licensing costs are yearly. It is cheaper than other backup solutions."

"Cohesity came in at the best price. Setup was included and done in half a day."

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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company

18%

Government

Non Profit

Manufacturing Company

Educational Organization

41%

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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 do you like most about Cohesity DataProtect?

Several features enable us to perform fast recovery, such as instant fast recovery. All our virtual machines protected with the product can be quickly restored to another healthy environment with m...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Cohesity DataProtect?

Typically on-premises nodes/clusters are deployed for primary backup (to enable instant mass restore) so price will be dependent on chosen OEM and capacity required. MSPs like us utilise PPU licens...

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What needs improvement with Cohesity DataProtect?

Cohesity DataProtect needs to improve its reporting capabilities.

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Comparisons

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Compared 47% of the time

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Compared 9% of the time

Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) vs Arcserve UDP

Compared 7% of the time

Rubrik vs Arcserve UDP

Compared 6% of the time

HPE StoreOnce vs Arcserve UDP

Compared 6% of the time

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Rubrik vs Cohesity DataProtect

Compared 26% of the time

Veeam Data Platform vs Cohesity DataProtect

Compared 14% of the time

Commvault Cloud vs Cohesity DataProtect

Compared 10% of the time

Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) vs Cohesity DataProtect

Compared 7% of the time

Veritas NetBackup vs Cohesity DataProtect

Compared 6% of the time

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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.

What is Cohesity DataProtect?

Cohesity DataProtect is a top-level, sophisticated, software-defined backup and recovery solution created for cloud environments. Cohesity DataProtect is made to hyperscale and is one the most thorough policy-based protection solutions available on the market today.

Cohesity DataProtect melds multiple-point products into a single software that is able to be deployed as on-premise or consumed as a service.

Top Features:

Hyperscale made easy: Cohesity DataProtect improves data protection by doing away with the need for backup silos and administers backup and recovery with a single user-friendly, easy-to-understand interface. Cohesity DataProtect provides extensive 24/7 enterprise-class protection for a large, varying set of sources, including virtual and physical servers, NAS and SaaS workloads, relational and distributed databases, and traditional and containerized applications.

Super fast recovery: Cohesity DataProtect offers near-zero recovery point objectives (RPOs) and near-instant recovery time objectives (RTOs) to satisfy your business service-level agreements (SLAs). Using Cohesity Helios’ unified data plane and control plane you can immediately search and recover data on any Cohesity cluster, located anywhere. DataProtect distinctively minimizes downtime by immediately mass restoring any amount of virtual machines (VMs) to any point in time, and lowers data protection costs by as much as 70% or more.

Backup as a Service: Feel free to take advantage of the elasticity of the public cloud and the cost-effective value of Cohesity DataProtect when delivered as a service. When you choose an OPEX option, you can eliminate the need for on-premises hardware. There is a SaaS option that will allow you to very simply configure your backup workloads and immediately begin protecting your vital all-important data and applications.

It’s as easy as: sign-up, connect, and protect!

Ransomware protection: Cohesity DataProtect offers stellar recovery at scale. The solution is so intuitive, it has machine learning-based anomaly detection to stop incidents before they happen. Cohesity DataProtection can provide immutable backups, Datalock write once, read many (WORM), encryption, and role-based access control (RBAC).

Cohesity DataProtect integrates well with many of today’s top solutions, including, but not limited to:

Hypervisors: VMware vSphere (5.5 and later), Microsoft Hyper-V (2019, 2016, 2012 R2), Nutanix AHV and RHeV

Kubernetes-based data and application state

Cloud: AWS EC2, Amazon RDS, Azure VM, and Google Compute

Physical: Windows, Linux(RHEL, CentOS, OEL, Debian, Ubuntu), AIX (7.x), and Solaris

Databases: Oracle (11g R2, 12c), Oracle RAC and SQL (2008 or later)

Distributed Databases (NoSQL and Hadoop): MongoDB, CouchbaseDB, Apache, Cassandra, Cloudera, and Hortonworks.

Bare Machine Recovery: Windows and Linux

Applications: MS Exchange (2010 SP3 or later), MSFT Active Directory, Microsoft 365 (Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, OneDrive, Teams, Groups), SalesForce (SFDC), and SAP HANA

Primary storage: Pure FlashArray, HPE Nimble, and Cisco Hyperflex

NAS: Pure FlashBlade, NetApp, Isilon, IBM GPFS, Google EFS, Elastifile, and generic solutions*

Reviews from Real Users

One reviewer, who is head of IT infrastructure at Kampmann says, “Cohesity really is a Next-Gen Data Management Software,” and goes on to indicate that Cohesity “works flawlessly with easy replication of backups and numerous supported backup sources.”

Another user, who is a senior network engineer at a legal firm, relates that "Cohesity is a robust and feature-rich solution"

Sample Customers

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

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