Arcserve Backup vs. Dell VPLEX

Arcserve
Backup has had a positive impact on ROI, as a reseller we are able to
build in a healthy profit margin by reselling the product and services.
Some
of our company managed services are based upon clients running Arcserve
Backup.
Data
recovery and system recovery times have reduced over product upgrades and
enhancements, causing much less downtime

Incentivized

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.

Incentivized

• Cost - A very affordable solution.
• Support and Sales - Arcserve has been top notch to us with the sales process and support.
• Replication - One of the core reasons we selected the product. We find the replication side of the software fantastic.
• Backup - An excellent backup product that provides just great functionality and restore-ability at a granular level.

Incentivized

• High Availability
• Fail Over
• Business continuity

Incentivized

• Support line just send a link so I have to research by my own.
• Requires you to buy a license for every agent add on.
• VMWare compatibility.

Incentivized

• 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.

Incentivized

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.

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.

Incentivized

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.

Incentivized

We also use Veeam replication and backups for VMWare level data redundancy. It works so far as stable as Arcserve Backup. We use both in our systems as we deploy VMs since Veeam works closely with VCenter. But if we need to backup physical servers, and OS partition level backups, which can only be achieved by Arcserve Backup.

Incentivized

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

Incentivized

• Arcserve Backup is relatively low cost in comparison to some other products. It is full-featured and continues to receive additional updates and added features. This makes it an ideal backup solution for smaller sites and the reliability to restore from backups is excellent.

Incentivized

• Reduced down time.
• Provides business continuity.
• Reduces single point of failure on the SAN.

Incentivized