Arcserve Backup vs. Unitrends

Arcserve Backup

54 Reviews and Ratings

Unitrends

634 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Arcserve Backup	Score7.3 out of 10	N/A	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
Unitrends	Score7.9 out of 10	N/A	The Unitrends Recovery Series Backup Appliances are hardware developed for data backup and management. They cover enterprise backup, ransomware detection, recovery assurance, proactive monitoring, and cloud continuity into a single platform for organizations of all sizes.	N/A

Pricing

Arcserve Backup

Unitrends

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Pricing Offerings
Arcserve Backup	Unitrends
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

No setup fee

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Key User Insights
	Arcserve Backup	Unitrends
Considered Both Products	Arcserve Robert Guy IT Analyst II in Information Technology at Diversified Computer Resources, Inc (Computer Networking, 11-50 employees) Chose Arcserve Backup Both have similar feature sets. Unitrends seems to have a set number of configuration options for each environment and lays those templates down, whereas Arcserve Backup is more hands off with the initial backup configuration and do not have a basic SQL Template, for example. … Incentivized Helpful? Sorin Pascu Sys Admin in Information Technology at ICHP (Higher Education, 501-1000 employees) Chose Arcserve Backup Both have similar feature sets. Unitrends seems to have a set number of configuration options for each environment and lays those templates down, whereas Arcserve Backup is more hands off with the initial backup configuration and do not have Incentivized Helpful?	Kaseya Verified User Chose Unitrends We selected Unitrends over the competitors due to a culmination of factors in the aggregate we determined was important. The balance of pricing, features, options, support and reviews from peers all worked to help us decide to go with Unitrends. In the end of our search we … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Unitrends Unitrends just works. Of all the other backup solutions we have used, had less features, cost more, and were not as reliable. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Unitrends I think the biggest thing is stability and recovering from failed incremental backups. Unitrends Data Center Backup and Recovery's process is simple and does not require modifying the original job except adding a custom field in the job calendar. A simple drag and drop and … Incentivized Helpful? Ernesto Garcia Network Services Manager in Information Technology at EGCS (Computer & Network Security, 11-50 employees) Chose Unitrends Most companies have been using tape backups for along time and Unitrends allows to completely move away from tapes. Once the Unitrends solution is in place, I don't really have to worry about it. I get notifications to my email about every job and that's how this is monitored. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Unitrends Unitrends is the market leader for a reason, you can tell they put a lot of thought and R&D into designing the software and making it work the way you want it to. I no longer have to guess whether or not a restore will work or what incremental the file I am looking for is on. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Unitrends Looked at products like Rubrik which seemed to do more than we needed and also came at a significant cost. Also looked at more similar alternatives such as Arcserve, but felt that Unitrends solution was better suited to our needs especially with their recovery appliance. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Unitrends We did not compare Unitrends to another vendor. We found this and went through multiple discussions, and webinars and felt this was the unit for us. We just had to convince management to allow the money to be spent. It was pricey but worth it. I highly recommend purchasing this … Incentivized Helpful? Cooper, Jeff Network/Systems Analyst in Information Technology at Fillmore County (Government Administration, 51-200 employees) Chose Unitrends We did our homework and boy are we happy. We looked at Backup Exec, Veeam, Arcserve, and AppAssure. Veeam was probably the top competitor and when I looked at it while visiting another institution it looked and sounded very stable. The techs who worked with it swore by it, but … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Unitrends The Unitrends appliance let us move to a single backup system that is reliable and pain free. It has an easy to use interface and quality hardware. They stay on top of bugs and issues and let you easily apply updates to the system when needed. One of the biggest challenges … Incentivized Helpful? Dave Cork IT Analyst in Information Technology at Genova Technologies (Computer Software, 51-200 employees) Chose Unitrends By now, I'm probably starting to sound like a broken record... Unitrends Backup is bulletproof, and their support is awesome. Incentivized Helpful? Mehdi Sadri IT Director in Information Technology at City of Renton (Government Administration, 501-1000 employees) Chose Unitrends Unfortunately Unitrends did not solve the problems we had, it just added to our problems by having to deal with the Unitrends issues. We made a significant investment in Unitrends and it is difficult to abandon that in such a short time to reinvest in something else, but we … Incentivized Helpful? Gary Halbedel Network Administrator in Legal at Bethlehem Central School District (Primary/Secondary Education, 501-1000 employees) Chose Unitrends The competitors were both tape backup but were awkward to use and didn't always work. Unitrends is disk based and is very easy to use and reliable. I have confidence in it. Incentivized Helpful?
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	Delivers good value for the price
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	Happy with the feature set
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	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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Features

Arcserve Backup

Unitrends

Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Arcserve Backup and Unitrends
Feature	Arcserve Backup - Ratings	Unitrends 8.4 360 Ratings
Universal recovery	00 Ratings	9.0302 Ratings
Instant recovery	00 Ratings	8.0290 Ratings
Recovery verification	00 Ratings	8.0288 Ratings
Business application protection	00 Ratings	8.0262 Ratings
Multiple backup destinations	00 Ratings	8.0268 Ratings
Incremental backup identification	00 Ratings	9.0338 Ratings
Backup to the cloud	00 Ratings	8.0213 Ratings
Deduplication and file compression	00 Ratings	8.0326 Ratings
Snapshots	00 Ratings	8.0243 Ratings
Flexible deployment	00 Ratings	8.06 Ratings
Management dashboard	00 Ratings	9.06 Ratings
Platform support	00 Ratings	9.06 Ratings
Retention options	00 Ratings	9.06 Ratings
Encryption	00 Ratings	9.05 Ratings

User Ratings
	Arcserve Backup	Unitrends
Likelihood to Recommend	8.9 (7 ratings)	8.0 (372 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	10.0 (2 ratings)	8.9 (25 ratings)
Usability	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (15 ratings)
Availability	- (0 ratings)	6.2 (2 ratings)
Performance	- (0 ratings)	5.6 (2 ratings)
Support Rating	9.0 (1 ratings)	7.9 (23 ratings)
Online Training	- (0 ratings)	7.1 (2 ratings)
Implementation Rating	- (0 ratings)	8.7 (12 ratings)
Configurability	- (0 ratings)	7.1 (2 ratings)
Ease of integration	- (0 ratings)	5.0 (1 ratings)
Product Scalability	- (0 ratings)	3.8 (2 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	- (0 ratings)	8.2 (2 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	- (0 ratings)	8.2 (2 ratings)