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 7.3, while Cohesity is ranked #9 with an average rating of 8.3. Arcserve holds a 1.3% mindshare in BRS, compared to Cohesity’s 3.8% 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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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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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Arcserve UDP

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

18th

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (10th)

Cohesity DataProtect

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

9th

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Backup (7th)

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2025, 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 3.8%, down from 4.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Featured Reviews

MukundKambli

Senior Solutions Architect at Team Computers

Global deduplication, stable, and flexible licensing options

I give the solution ten out of ten. This solution offers one dashboard to manage the BC con, disaster recovery plan, DR solution, and backup as well as different licensing options, unlike other OEM products. We are the system integrators for our clients, so we design the solution as per the customer's requirements. We provide several solutions options to our clients such as Druva inSync, Druva Phoenix, and Arcserve UDP with the specifications and the client makes a decision based on their requirements. I would advise potential users to first be clear on whether they are going to use it as a backup solution for compliance purposes, just wanting to take the backups of files and servers, or for instant recovery. The IQ and RPO discussion with our customers usually takes 30 minutes. I recommend this solution.

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Giovanni Golinelli.

Hybrid IT Architect at Quanture Spa

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

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

"It's simple to set up."

"I like the tool's speed."

"The recovery part of the product is very good."

"The most valuable feature of Arcserve UDP is its decompression capability."

"It allows us to back up all the servers and centrally manage them."

"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."

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"Cohesity DataProtect is more of a unified solution, which is also trying to expand for ransomware protection."

"It's completely reliable and easy to restore."

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

"The most valuable features of Cohesity DataProtect are SpanFS and the handling of hybrid workloads."

"The restores are easy to do and have made it so that we can incorporate restores into our troubleshooting processes."

"The recovery process is effective, especially when it comes to other types of data, such as VMs, and overall, the performance is commendable."

"We are happy with the support provided by Cohesity for the issues we've come across."

"Instead of four different solutions for protecting VMs, physical servers, SQL, and NAS, we now have one solution with Cohesity that is lightning fast and has amazing features."

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Cons

"The time to backup servers that sit in DMZ must be improved."

"Backups are very slow and time consuming."

"Arcserve UDP is in the middle range of complexity. The interface can be developed a little bit more to be user-friendly."

"The solution can improve by allowing older versions to support the latest version of the OS."

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

"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."

"The tool doesn't provide cloud integration in India."

"One area for improvement in Arcserve UDP is its capability to interact with other cloud servers."

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"We aren't missing any features. In terms of the solution overall, it's so far so good."

"Reporting is one area that isn't as robust as it could be."

"The error handling could be improved."

"I would like to see the management of multiple nodes inside a tenant. If you want to manage a Cohesity environment, you either go on a per-node base, and you can hop from one node to the other, or you need to implement their SaaS capability but it always needs an internet connection. We would really like to have some kind of local management entity so that we can see all the Cohesity nodes in a customer environment and manage those nodes centrally. That's something that we would really like, and they are really working on it."

"Better documentation is needed because the lack of information has necessitated having our team depend more heavily on Cohesity support."

"Quality testing of upgrades should be somewhat improved."

"You need to put the full name instead of a few letters while searching for backup. It should also improve customization."

"The rack mounting instructions did not appear to be correct, but we were able to overcome it."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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

"Pricing is most likely comparable."

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

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

"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."

"As an MSP partner, I believe that the prices are fair."

"I feel that the product is fairly priced."

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

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"The solution's pricing is in the mid-range, where it's neither costly nor cheap."

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

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

"My advice is to always negotiate for better pricing."

"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."

"Sizing is important and it is easy to overestimate."

"Cohesity came in at the best price."

"If SQL is in heavy use at your location, I would highly recommend narrowing your PoC testing to Cohesity and Rubrik. They will be competitive on pricing with each other, so really put them through the paces."

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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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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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