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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Arcserve ShadowProtect

    Score6.7 out of 10
    N/AShadowProtect, from Arcserve company StorageCraft (merged in March of 2021), supports business continuity with data backup and system protection; the vendor boasts fast system restore capabilities relative to other similar solutions.N/A

    Veeam Backup for AWS

    Score9.2 out of 10
    N/AVeeam® delivers native, automated AWS backup and disaster recovery to protect and manage Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS, Amazon EFS and Amazon VPC data. Veeam states it is built with simplicity, scalability, savings and security in mind, so users can eliminate the risk of data loss for AWS services.

    $40

    per year instance

    Pricing
    Arcserve ShadowProtectVeeam Backup for AWS
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Arcserve ShadowProtectVeeam Backup for AWS
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Arcserve ShadowProtectVeeam Backup for AWS
    Considered Both Products
    Arcserve
    No answer on this topic
    Veeam Software
    Chose Veeam Backup for AWS
    Other products required multiple programss and vendors to work correctly. To be able to operate everything from one program makes management, training, and recovery so much easier
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    80%
    Would buy again
    4 Answers
    97%
    Would buy again
    112 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    80%
    Delivers good value for the price
    4 Answers
    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
    102 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    5 Answers
    99%
    Happy with the feature set
    114 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    80%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    4 Answers
    94%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    83 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    5 Answers
    93%
    Implementation went as expected
    97 Answers
    Features
    Arcserve ShadowProtectVeeam Backup for AWS
    Data Center Backup
    Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Arcserve ShadowProtect and Veeam Backup for AWS
    Feature
    Arcserve ShadowProtect
    7.4
    1 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Veeam Backup for AWS
    8.3
    79 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Universal recovery8.01 Ratings8.078 Ratings
    Instant recovery8.01 Ratings8.977 Ratings
    Recovery verification7.01 Ratings8.076 Ratings
    Business application protection9.01 Ratings8.169 Ratings
    Multiple backup destinations8.01 Ratings8.276 Ratings
    Incremental backup identification8.01 Ratings8.074 Ratings
    Backup to the cloud5.01 Ratings8.078 Ratings
    Deduplication and file compression6.01 Ratings8.571 Ratings
    Snapshots6.01 Ratings8.371 Ratings
    Flexible deployment7.01 Ratings8.571 Ratings
    Management dashboard7.01 Ratings8.673 Ratings
    Platform support8.01 Ratings8.671 Ratings
    Retention options9.01 Ratings8.170 Ratings
    Encryption8.01 Ratings7.870 Ratings
    Enterprise Backup
    Comparison of Enterprise Backup features of Arcserve ShadowProtect and Veeam Backup for AWS
    Feature
    Arcserve ShadowProtect
    8.0
    1 Ratings
    0% below category average
    Veeam Backup for AWS
    8.2
    82 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Continuous data protection9.01 Ratings8.977 Ratings
    Replication7.01 Ratings9.075 Ratings
    Operational reporting and analytics00 Ratings8.975 Ratings
    Malware protection00 Ratings7.062 Ratings
    Multi-location capabilities00 Ratings7.173 Ratings
    Ransomware Recovery00 Ratings7.938 Ratings
    Disaster Recovery
    Comparison of Disaster Recovery features of Arcserve ShadowProtect and Veeam Backup for AWS
    Feature
    Arcserve ShadowProtect
    7.0
    1 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Veeam Backup for AWS
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    Ratings
    Disaster Recovery Planning7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Hot Sites7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Disaster Recovery Testing7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automated Disaster Recovery7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Score9.8 out of 10
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    Score8.7 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Datto SIRIS
    Score9.8 out of 10
    Carbonite by OpenText
    Score7.1 out of 10
    Enterprises
    HPE Zerto Software
    Score9.4 out of 10
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    Score9.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Arcserve ShadowProtectVeeam Backup for AWS
    Likelihood to Recommend
    5.0
    (7 ratings)
    8.9
    (115 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.2
    (11 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (12 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.9
    (106 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (8 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    8.0
    (11 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.5
    (2 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.2
    (4 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (8 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.9
    (6 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.8
    (6 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.6
    (5 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.7
    (9 ratings)
    Professional Services
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.8
    (5 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.8
    (6 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (6 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Arcserve ShadowProtectVeeam Backup for AWS
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Arcserve
    In situations where business continuity needs are high, ShadowProtect backups provide the ability to keep operations running with very minimal downtime, even in situations like crypto-locked data. If a backup server is set up in an environment to resume a live server from backup, this is even more helpful. In situations where clients don't care as much about quickly recovering their data, they can go without a solution like this.
    Incentivized
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    Veeam Software
    I like the idea of using this product for backups and cold storage. This allows for long retention times and a very low cost. The ability to quickly restore and the efficiency of all the products involved. I haven't come across scenarios where it isn't appropriate. I don't have a lot of experience so for me, it works well in my cases.
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    Pros
    Arcserve
    • You can virtualize your backups using Virtualbox, a free program that works on any PC.
    • Backups are versatile, and you can back up to any location you'd like.
    • Alerting can be set up for failed backups.
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    Veeam Software
    • Veeam Backup for AWS provides a comprehensive backup and disaster recovery solution for AWS workloads.
    • It's very easily integrated with the AWS cloud.
    • The Simple and intuitive user interface of Veeam Backup for AWS makes it easy to set up and manage backups for AWS instances.
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    Cons
    Arcserve
    • The replication offsite can have issues over time. It takes manual involvement to keep it working right.
    • SPX remote management isn't easy out of the box.
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    Veeam Software
    • We have never managed to use Veeam for Azure or GCP. It works well with AWS.
    • A client needed a multi-cloud DR solution management but we had a security issue and could find a solution from Veeam Backup for AWS.
    • Usually, you need a dedicated resource to monitor when the number of workloads is high. That adds to the cost.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Arcserve
    No answers on this topic
    Veeam Software
    We have been using Veeam Backup for AWS for our cloud hosted solutions for the last several years and will continue to do so. The ease of use and available support staff make the learning curve for use nearly flat in our case and having Veeam Backup for on-premise workloads makes the decision easy.
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    Usability
    Arcserve
    No answers on this topic
    Veeam Software
    The UI and the integration is good with the product. so far
    has not encountered any major challenges while using the UI. of course, this is
    user perspective. Few users suggested some different view that it should be
    change father should have some different options but overall the feedback about
    UI is positive and no major issues encountered by using the UI or forsake of
    this usability.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Arcserve
    No answers on this topic
    Veeam Software
    Veeam Backup has never failed me, whenever we have needed to recover data it has worked flawlessly. It is highly available and I do not know of of a situation where our business has needed Veeam Backup fo AWS and has not been able to access or use it in some way.
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    Performance
    Arcserve
    No answers on this topic
    Veeam Software
    We have not really noticed much difference and only notice it when doing work afterhours with our veeam being backed up. However, this is not the case as we do not do this often and hence we don't really have any real challenges for performance issues. Overall, we find that the performance is pretty good
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    Support Rating
    Arcserve
    We don’t need support often, but when we do, the support has been strong. Sometimes it is hard to determine how to access support for the exact issue we are having. There are a decent forum and online ticketing system. Support for the cloud center seems to be provided only by phone, though.
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    Veeam Software
    One of the best and leading backup solution with central management for all Virtual Servers, Physical servers and Application level backup. Migrated from distributed backup solution running at each site to central VEEAM solution which has reduced overhead of backup administrator and improves the backup performance. Veeam team is very supportive in solution design, taken care of all our requirements and provided the cost effective solution.
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    In-Person Training
    Arcserve
    No answers on this topic
    Veeam Software
    We had only one due to the pandemic, but we remember really enjoying the help. Someone came to our site and walked us through the process and we had lots of time to ask questions and got really helpful solutions and tips and tricks to make sure that staff would understand and learn how to use it
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    Online Training
    Arcserve
    No answers on this topic
    Veeam Software
    The training provided online was good. The training was restrictive to users but was content was good and informative. The information provided was relevent and flow was maintained well. The Question and answers were good and supported well. Need to have more material provided with the training and will support users to adopt train the trainer approach.
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    Implementation Rating
    Arcserve
    No answers on this topic
    Veeam Software
    We were pretty happy with our implementation as it was simple to deploy and we followed the technical guide online with out much technical assistance from vendor support. We had also tested and streamlined a process based on our own documentation for our own company which was simple to follow overall for deploying into AWS for future instances
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    Alternatives Considered
    Arcserve
    Speed, we rely on Shadowprotect to provide us with fast backups and also backups that are smaller in size compared to the other products.
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    Veeam Software
    I had looked at N2WS Backup & Recovery backup and disaster recovery solution for AWS environments. But while it provides similar backup and recovery capabilities as Veeam Backup for AWS, it lacks some of the advanced features such as instant VM recovery, file-level recovery, and integration with Veeam Backup & Replication.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Arcserve
    No answers on this topic
    Veeam Software
    Overall, we pretty happy with the way it is contracted and the pricing structure. However, as stated we got it on promotion so we wont know until what it is after the 3 years but at this stage we are pretty happy with the product and the pricing from the commercial aspect
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    Scalability
    Arcserve
    No answers on this topic
    Veeam Software
    We have using this solution since 2020. In that moment we had four Host Linux and today we have forty vm Linux and Windows. The solution work fine as with few vm as multiples vm. The backup operators lovely this feacture, because keep simple his duties. Finally, we use the same solution for AWS, Azure or onpremise. This is great characteristic for skill transfer over backup team!
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    Professional Services
    Arcserve
    No answers on this topic
    Veeam Software
    Generally satisfied
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    Return on Investment
    Arcserve
    • We have been with Shadowprotect for 5 years and are now only moving off of them due to limited functionality and Shadowprotect doubling our billing.
    • The product now requires a lot more babysitting so I have one person just stuck managing backups, which is not a fulfilling job and hard to keep someone in that seat.
    • While Shadowprotect has been fantastic for years, it is time for us to move on to something that makes financial sense and requires less labour.
    • Storagecraft Cloud is fairly expensive compared to competitors.
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    Veeam Software
    • The only thing is that you have to make sure you understand your AWS costs if your retention periods are not kept under control.
    • ROI is hard to prove until the moment you need to restore your workload.
    • Time-saving is something that comes to mind. Before Veeam, we used to spend/waste a lot of time verifying and testing our backup and restore. Veeam makes it easy with its SureBackup technology.
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    ScreenShots

    Veeam Backup for AWS Screenshots

    Screenshot of Overview page detailing high-level information like alarms, protected instances, policies, and session information.Screenshot of Policies page detailing available policies, status and sessions log.Screenshot of Estimated monthly costs in policy wizard for snapshots, replicas, backups, traffic and transactions for machines in a policy.Screenshot of File Level Recovery, where individual files and folders can be searched and browsed for granular recovery.