Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Arcserve Backup
Score 7.4 out of 10
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Arcserve Backup is a storage management solution from Arcserve, formerly of CA Technologies before Arcserve's divestiture (July 2014). It utilizes magnetic tape storage backup as part of its storage management offering.N/A
Dell VMAX
Score 9.7 out of 10
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Dell VMAX All Flash is the latest iteration in the former Symmetrix series of enterprise flash array storage, available in the Dell VMAX 250F edition, or the Dell EMC VMAX 950F edition.N/A
Dell VPLEX
Score 9.0 out of 10
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Dell VPLEX aims to maximize the returns on investments in all-flash infrastructure or hybrid arrays by providing continuous availability to business-critical workloads. VPLEX also creates a flexible storage architecture designed to gives IT teams the agility they need to respond to rapid business and technology changes while maximizing asset utilization across active-active datacenters.N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Features
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Enterprise Flash Array Storage
Comparison of Enterprise Flash Array Storage features of Product A and Product B
Arcserve Backup
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Ratings
Dell VMAX
9.8
9 Ratings
9% above category average
Dell VPLEX
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Ratings
Flash Array Performance00 Ratings9.89 Ratings00 Ratings
Flash Array Integration00 Ratings9.69 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Compression00 Ratings9.89 Ratings00 Ratings
Non-Intrusive Upgrades00 Ratings9.98 Ratings00 Ratings
Simplicity00 Ratings9.98 Ratings00 Ratings
Power Savings00 Ratings9.98 Ratings00 Ratings
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Small Businesses
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Score 9.7 out of 10

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Cyberduck
Cyberduck
Score 9.7 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Cisco UCS Manager
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Score 9.3 out of 10
Everpure FlashArray
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Score 8.2 out of 10
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Score 9.3 out of 10
Enterprises
Cisco UCS Manager
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Score 9.3 out of 10
Everpure FlashArray
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Score 8.2 out of 10
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Score 9.3 out of 10
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User Ratings
Arcserve BackupDell VMAXDell VPLEX
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(9 ratings)
9.7
(9 ratings)
8.0
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Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(2 ratings)
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Usability
10.0
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Support Rating
9.0
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7.0
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User Testimonials
Arcserve BackupDell VMAXDell VPLEX
Likelihood to Recommend
Arcserve
Arcserve UDP is fully suited for small to large size environments that need complete data protection solutions with the ability to run the fastest backups, replications, instant VM and DR.
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Dell Technologies
Dell EMC VMAX All-Flash Storage is a very powerful storage that easily manages huge data transactions with high IO processing speed. This Storage is well suited for critical production environments because response times are much better. This storage enables direct data backup. It's always up and running during updates because it creates a redundant connection from the controller.
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Dell Technologies
This works in two fold. First it creates a copy of the data in two locations, protecting the data from a SAN or a NAS failure. Second, it provides a data point in a second location that can be used as storage for a stretched virtual cluster, giving a virtual stack a means to continue operation.
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Pros
Arcserve
  • It offers excellent features like dedupe, high availability, DR, and BMR.
  • Arcserve Backup has many offerings to fit many business sizes and needs.
  • Arcserve Backup sales and technical support is good to work with.
  • Very nice reseller program and benefits.
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Dell Technologies
  • It creates a fully redundant connection from multiple controllers that are always up even during updates.
  • Once setup there is little to no adjustments that need to be made to the storage array. All that's needed is volume updates.
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Dell Technologies
  • High Availability
  • Fail Over
  • Business continuity
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Cons
Arcserve
  • Arcserve Backup can be costly.
  • To utilize Arcserve Backup and all its features may require a layout of dedicated equipment or additional infrastructure.
  • They don't always explain that for Arcserve Backup to work well, and it requires specific system requirements and extensive internet bandwidth.
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Dell Technologies
  • Initial configuration are bit difficult need some experience resource to manage it.
  • We faced issue with vendor support during major impact.
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Dell Technologies
  • Requires high bandwidth low latency connectivity between sites.
  • Cost wise it is expensive because you have to purchase with a mirror in mind.
  • Configuration can be difficult.
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Likelihood to Renew
Arcserve
Arcserve UDP provides our organization lots of benefits and it is much more than a simple backup and restore solution. We use it for cross platform DR, storage agnostic replications, DR solution instead of VMware SRM and more.
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Dell Technologies
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Usability
Arcserve
It basically covers all our required scenarios, including VMs, partitions, files or any other objects through NAS, SAN or DAS connections. It's easy to set up and utilize the features and functions. There are a few times that we needed to switch over for the RHA replications and UDP backups. For the RHN replication, there was a roughly 10 minutes downtime during the switchover. For the UDP, it works pretty well.
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Dell Technologies
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Dell Technologies
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Support Rating
Arcserve
Arcserve Backup support is usually very good. Their chat is usually able to fix most general issues, but will escalate more in depth issues to technical engineers that call you back. Their product knowledge is really good and usually resolve issues promptly.
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Dell Technologies
The best part about this array is that once you have it configured it is pretty much done. There is little to no other configurations to be done other than normal volume adjustments. Support is great as they understand this array very well. The updates are very hands-off and are done solely by support. You contact them and then there are no other changes done on the end-user's side.
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Dell Technologies
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Alternatives Considered
Arcserve
We use Veeam Backup and Replication at our larger sites where Vmware Virtualization is being used and is our product of choice in this venue. When it comes to our smaller sites, nothing is more affordable and reliable than Arcserve Backup.
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Dell Technologies
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Dell Technologies
When this was purchased there was no other product that could achieve what we were looking for, now this feature is pretty standard with storage platforms. It is a costly solution not just the hardware but the infrastructure to support it. It requires a connection between sites with at least 3 gigabytes per second and sub 5 millisecond latency and a network infrastructure capable of handling that
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Return on Investment
Arcserve
  • We were able to roll back up and replication into one product, which reduced the costs without having to go with multiple vendors.
  • As a result of Arcserve UDP, we were able to implement a full DR scenario test, which until that point hadn't been successful.
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Dell Technologies
  • Dell EMC VMAX All Flash Storage provides the hybrid cloud solution
  • Dell EMC VMAX All Flash Storage provides the great storage capacity with data security
  • Data Migration from other storage, data compression, stability
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Dell Technologies
  • Reduced down time.
  • Provides business continuity.
  • Reduces single point of failure on the SAN.
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