Arcserve UDP vs Veeam Data Platform comparison

Arcserve and Veeam Software are both solutions in the Backup and Recovery category. Arcserve is ranked #18 with an average rating of 7.5, while Veeam Software is ranked #1 with an average rating of 8.3. Arcserve holds a 1.3% mindshare in BRS, compared to Veeam Software’s 18.4% mindshare. Additionally, 84% of Arcserve users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 94% of Veeam Software users who would recommend it.

Arcserve UDP

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84% willing to recommend

Veeam Data Platform

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94% willing to recommend

Arcserve UDP

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 15, 2024

Arcserve UDP and Veeam Data Platform both compete in the data protection solutions category. Veeam Data Platform has the upper hand due to its comprehensive features and superior disaster recovery options, despite higher costs.

Features: Arcserve UDP provides comprehensive data protection, efficient replication, and user-friendly management. Veeam Data Platform offers advanced backup capabilities, extensive cloud integration, and superior disaster recovery options.

Room for Improvement: Arcserve UDP needs better scalability, more intuitive management, and enhanced cloud support. Veeam Data Platform requires improved customer support, faster updates, and better licensing options.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Arcserve UDP has a straightforward deployment process but mixed reviews on customer service. Veeam Data Platform has a slightly more complex setup but better customer service experiences.

Pricing and ROI: Arcserve UDP is noted for competitive pricing and satisfactory ROI. Veeam Data Platform is more expensive but seen as delivering excellent value due to its advanced features, ensuring a strong ROI.

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Categories and Ranking

Arcserve UDP

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

18th

Ranking in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software

9th

Average Rating

7.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Veeam Data Platform

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

1st

Ranking in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software

1st

Average Rating

8.6

Number of Reviews

421

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Backup (1st), Virtualization Management Tools (5th), Cloud Monitoring Software (12th)

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 Veeam Data Platform is 18.4%, down from 20.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Mar 21, 2020

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 products to those requirements. All the products you have listed do very well in specific niche markets, all of them also have cons as well, without a clear understanding of what your requirements are a product comparison doesn't mean a great deal.

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Featured Reviews

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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Tommy Myo Min Aung

Senior System Engineer at Vantage Drilling

Dec 24, 2021

Beneficial pricing model, user friendly interface, and many free features

We use Veeam Backup Replication for the data center, desktop recovery, daily backups, and for storage offline The solution is a user-friendly interface. The solution could improve by having a version to be compatible with the Linux system. They have improved the storage depository using the…

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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

"It is very stable."

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

"Instant recovery is the most valuable feature of Arcserve UDP."

"The backup is the most valuable feature. It also makes storage very easy."

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

"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."

"The solution has no limitations because it does backup for Linux and Windows."

"The data protection functionality is the most valuable feature of this solution."

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"Veeam replication gives migration tools/options for VMware."

"It's not complex to replicate and back up the system."

"I can't think of any improvements yet for Veeam because they are very good. It integrates very well with Microsoft applications. It is very easy to integrate. Micro Focus can also integrate but it's more complex. You have to know the product very well to be able to integrate. While Veeam, it's very user-friendly. You don't need to have certifications or anything to work on Veeam."

"The most valuable feature is the continuous backup."

"The initial setup was straightforward."

"The features that I have found most valuable are its back up and recovery. It is a simplified backup because you can do both databases - VM and HyperV. It's a faster backup than the conventional methods because it takes up the bare metal."

"Instant Backup is an useful feature."

"The tool provides an easy-to-navigate feature of all the functionalities it has for its users."

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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 product is not user-friendly."

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

"Licensing is an area that needs improvement."

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

"It takes much time to verify and consolidate images for backups."

"The solution's reporting could be improved and should provide customized reports."

"The initial setup was complex."

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"The implementation was straightforward. However, we used an integrator, the process could be easier for us to do it ourselves."

"The solution could improve by allowing the ability to do monitoring and traffic aggregation in the whole virtual network environment."

"The product’s stability has certain issues and needs to be improved. The solution’s pricing could be also cheaper."

"There is a lot of room for improvement, but the primary issue we have is that it's not built for the cloud."

"The solution’s scalability could be improved."

"When you have some small issues, you should be able to go through it by yourself and solve the issue instead of opening the ticket and waiting for the engineers to troubleshoot."

"The initial setup is not always easy, and customers often need a lot of help to get Veeam up and running successfully."

"The price can be better."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."

"I rate the product price a five on a scale of one to ten, where one is low price and ten is high price."

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

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

"The solution is expensive."

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

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

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

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"The price is affordable."

"When it comes to pricing for a backup solution for data centers, you do not care about the price. We just care about the service and want it to be reliable. In terms of subscription, it really makes sense. When you want to use all the functionalities it is good that Veeam did the subscription-based model, this is what gives it the most strength on the price."

"It is not expensive and I would rate it five out of ten."

"Veeam's pricing is good. But compared to the past five years, it's constantly increasing."

"The price of Veeam Backup Replication could be reduced. The customers are looking at other products because the price is higher than some of the competition."

"The changes in pricing have been an interesting aspect. It seems to have become pricier, resulting in a reduction in affordability. There are extra expenses involved, including hardware requirements and the procurement of operating system licenses, which must also be taken into account. I would rate the price seven out of ten."

"I consider that the product's price falls under the middle range category."

"It is highly cost-effective when compared to other solutions."

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Comparison Review

it_user159711

Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Nov 9, 2014

VMware SRM vs. Veeam vs. Zerto

Disaster recovery planning is something that seems challenging for all businesses. Virtualization in addition to its operational flexibility, and cost reduction benefits, has helped companies improve their DR posture. Virtualization has made it easier to move machines from production to…

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Answers from the Community

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Works

Mar 21, 2020

Major Differences Between These 4 Backup and Disaster Recovery Solutions?

2 out of 21 answers

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Solution Architect with 1,001-5,000 employees

Dec 19, 2016

Stop sending me anything –please

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President and Chief Consultant with 51-200 employees

Dec 19, 2016

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

18%

Government

Non Profit

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

16%

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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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How do the backup solutions of Veeam and Veritas compare?

Technically, Veeam is best for hyper-v & VMWare replications, snapshots, HA failover, also support for file system backups inside VMs., support for tape library & FC too. But Veritas Netbac...

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How does Nakivo compare with Veeam Backup & Replication?

Nakivo is my favorite backup software. Below are the main benefits of Nakivo compared to Veeam 1. Low cost. 2. Backup storage with global deduplication (this is the main requirement of a backup sol...

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Which would you choose - Rubrik or Veeam Backup & Replication?

Veeam Backup & Replication provides an easy-to-set-up solution to the issue of data storage and recovery. Setting it up is a relatively simple affair. For the most part it prompts you from scre...

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Compared 4% of the time

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Compared 2% of the time

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Also Known As

StorageCraft ShadowProtect, StorageCraft Backup Analyzer

Veeam Backup & Replication, Veeam ONE

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Arcserve

Veeam Software

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.

Veeam Data Platform backs up and replicates virtual machines, protects server farms, provides database backup, and delivers disaster recovery solutions. Users utilize it for protecting Office 365 data, ensuring business continuity, monitoring environments, migrating snapshots, and securing data in offsite locations or the cloud.

Veeam Data Platform is recognized for its ease of setup, reliability, and ability to handle diverse IT infrastructures. It is popular among users for its data replication efficiency, fast virtual machine restoration, and robust reporting. With strong integration with cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, it ensures scalability and adaptability across environments. The platform supports incremental backups, a comprehensive dashboard for monitoring and reporting, and a smooth recovery process. New features such as malware detection and an immutable Linux repository enhance its security offerings. However, there's room for improvement in full cloud integration, user interface, and support for more storage systems, as well as better documentation, additional automation, detailed reporting, and enhanced technical support. Users also ask for improved data recovery features, reduced pricing, and greater compatibility with non-Windows systems, Oracle, and SAP systems.

What are the most valued features?

Data replication efficiency: Ensures quick and reliable data replication.
Fast VM restoration: Enables quick recovery of virtual machines.
Easy user interface: Simplifies the backup and recovery process.
Robust reporting: Provides comprehensive reporting and monitoring capabilities.
Scalability: Adapts to growing infrastructure needs with ease.
Backup verification: Ensures the integrity of backups.
Adaptability: Works across different environments seamlessly.
Cloud integration: Integrates with cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.
Incremental backup: Supports reliable incremental backups.
Malware detection: Enhances security with new malware detection features.
Immutable Linux repository: Offers an extra layer of security for backups.

What benefits and ROI should users look for?

Ease of setup: Reduces deployment time and effort.
Reliability: Ensures consistent backup and recovery performance.
Scalable solution: Grows with the business without hassle.
Comprehensive monitoring: Provides full visibility into backup operations.
Cost-effectiveness: Optimizes backup and recovery costs.
Data security: Enhances protection with features like malware detection and immutable repositories.
User-friendly: Removes complexity from backup management.

In industries such as finance, healthcare, and education, Veeam Data Platform provides critical data backup and disaster recovery solutions. Organizations in these sectors use Veeam for protecting sensitive data, ensuring compliance, and maintaining business continuity. By leveraging Veeam's robust features and integrations, companies can safeguard their IT infrastructures against data loss and cyber threats.

Sample Customers

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

Business & Legal Resources Inc., Ohio Department of Developmental Disabilities, Alliance Healthcare, Poulin Grain Inc., Linear Technology, Northwestern University, ARKEMA, Sogegross, City of Lynchburg

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