Arcserve UDP vs StorageCraft ShadowXafe [EOL] comparison

"It is easy to configure."

"It is very stable."

"The standard backup and restore feature is most used."

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

"I like the tool's speed."

"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."

"The product provides instant and virtual standbys."

"This product is extremely user-friendly and it is capable of performing large-scale archive/backup (five+ years worth). It is easy to store, maintain, and check backups."

"The most valuable feature is the backups."

"I like that they have some new devices that are simpler to use because they kind of tie right into the cloud."

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

"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 solution could improve by being more user-friendly. It can be difficult to assign destinations and choose which files and folders we need to back up. There are some aspects that are unclear."

"They could work on their marketing approach. I don't see many people leveraging it."

"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."

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

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

"StorageCraft ShadowXafe should improve the on-premises console management controls and protection and recovery."

"Their restoration protocols could be better. I pulled all my clients out of their cloud mostly because I wasn't confident that they could restore out of the cloud. This was backed up by friends who had been burned by stuff like that. We moved away because of the lack of resources to restore from a potential catastrophic failure. It's challenging, and in some cases, they couldn't do it because they didn't have enough resources. For example, if there was a major disaster, and everybody needed their images out of the cloud, they couldn't give them to everybody."

"Pricing is most likely comparable."

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

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

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

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

"The price of this product is high and it should be lower."

"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."

"They are more expensive than some of the others out there. We have gone away from their cloud due to pricing."