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Compare Arcserve, Acronis and Veritas BaaS solutions

Research done from February 2022 to June 2022 | Page publised on 13th June 2022

Below is a side-by-side comparison of Arcserve, Acronis and Veritas based on a number of parameters such as Products, Licences, Workloads (Public Cloud, SaaS Applications, and Database & End Points), Vendor Advantages and Disadvantages (as per Gartner and Forrester), and Usecase to assist IT administrators and MSPs in making an informed decision.

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Arcserve

Product

Arcserve offers four products:

UDP Cloud Direct

UDP Cloud Direct is Arcserve's direct-to-cloud backup and disaster recovery as a service (BaaS/DRaaS) solution for SMBs and midmarket. It provides data protection without any hardware requirement on-premises.

UDP Cloud Hybrid

UDP Cloud Hybrid provides hybrid cloud backup, cybersecurity, disaster recovery, and long-term retention for midmarket and enterprises.

UDP Cloud Archiving

UDP Archiving is Arcserve's email archiving solution built for the midmarket and enterprises to protect corporate email records and make them accessible for audits and legal discovery.

Arcserve Backup

Arcserve Backup is a cloud storage management solution meant for midmarket and enterprises, that provides backup for tape, disk, and cloud storage.

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Acronis

Product

Acronis offers three products:

Acronis Cyber Protect

Acronis Cyber Protect provides backup and ransomware protection for endpoints, physical or virtual servers, databases, applications, and cloud workloads. The product integrates backup, disaster recovery, cybersecurity, and endpoint management in one solution.

Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office (previously known as Acronis True Image)

Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office is the personal cyber protection solution by Acronis that provides backup and anti-malware in one solution. Since 2020, Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office includes malware and Zoom protection.

Acronis Disk Director

Acronis Disk Director helps to optimize disk usage and protect data. It also provides disk cloning, volume recovery, and partition management.
Both Cyber Protect Home Office and Disk Director are meant for individual users, whereas Cyber Protect is for businesses.

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Veritas

Product

Veritas offers three products:

Backup Exec

Backup Exec includes connectors for major cloud vendors and supports all AWS cloud storage tiers. It can be deployed on AWS or Azure using marketplace templates. Backup Exec is designed for small-to-mid-size businesses.

NetBackup

NetBackup supports multiple tenants across multiple clouds. It provides bulk data migration and seeding using AWS Snowball and Azure Data Box. NetBackup is designed solely for enterprises and includes several cloud optimization and orchestration tools that are not found in Backup Exec. In terms of security, Netbackup offers storage immutability.

NetBackup SaaS Protection

NetBackup SaaS Protection (previously known as HubStor) provides a unified data management and protection solution, delivering fully managed, cost-effective, and automated backup as a service (BaaS) through a single, intuitive interface.

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Licences

Arcserve provides both subscription-based licensing and perpetual licensing.
There are four types of subscription-based licensing:
1. Instance-based (per OS instance)
2. Socket-based (per CPU socket)
3. Capacity-based (per front-end TB)
4. Appliance-based (per appliance)

Licences

Acronis provides both subscription-based licensing and perpetual licensing.
License units are based on TB or instances based on the edition and the chosen workloads.

Licences

Veritas provides both subscription-based licensing and perpetual licensing.

Backup workloads

SaaS applications backup

Microsoft 365

Public cloud backup

Azure and AWS

Data centers backup

SQL servers, VMWare, HyperV, Nutanix, XEN, and KVM

End points backup

Windows and Lunix

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Backup workloads

SaaS applications backup

Google Workspace and Microsoft 365

Public cloud backup

Azure and AWS

Data centers backup

VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, Citrix XenServer, Red Hat Virtualization, Linux KVM, Oracle, and VM Server.

End points backup

Lunix, Mac, and Windows

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Backup workloads

SaaS applications backup

Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Box, and Slack

Public cloud backup

Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud

Data centers backup

SAP HANA, Oracle, MySQL, and Red Hat

End points backup

Windows, Lunix, and Mac

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Usecases

  • Ransomware protection
  • Minimize downtime
  • Prevent data loss
  • Protect Microsoft 365 data
  • Manage and protect cloud workloads
  • Reduce IT complexity
  • Reduce data protection costs
  • Compliance management

Usecases

  • Ransomware protection
  • Patch management for businesses
  • Anti-Malware
  • IT disaster recovery
  • File backup and recovery
  • Data loss prevention

Usecases

  • Ransomware resilience
  • Hybrid multi-cloud
  • Data protection
  • SaaS data protection
  • High availability

Arcserve offers four products:

UDP Cloud Direct

UDP Cloud Direct is Arcserve's direct-to-cloud backup and disaster recovery as a service (BaaS/DRaaS) solution for SMBs and midmarket. It provides data protection without any hardware requirement on-premises.

UDP Cloud Hybrid

UDP Cloud Hybrid provides hybrid cloud backup, cybersecurity, disaster recovery, and long-term retention for midmarket and enterprises.

UDP Cloud Archiving

UDP Archiving is Arcserve's email archiving solution built for the midmarket and enterprises to protect corporate email records and make them accessible for audits and legal discovery.

Arcserve Backup

Arcserve Backup is a cloud storage management solution meant for midmarket and enterprises, that provides backup for tape, disk, and cloud storage.

Acronis offers three products:

Acronis Cyber Protect

Acronis Cyber Protect provides backup and ransomware protection for endpoints, physical or virtual servers, databases, applications, and cloud workloads. The product integrates backup, disaster recovery, cybersecurity, and endpoint management in one solution.

Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office (previously known as Acronis True Image)

Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office is the personal cyber protection solution by Acronis that provides backup and anti-malware in one solution. Since 2020, Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office includes malware and Zoom protection.

Acronis Disk Director

Acronis Disk Director helps to optimize disk usage and protect data. It also provides disk cloning, volume recovery, and partition management.
Both Cyber Protect Home Office and Disk Director are meant for individual users, whereas Cyber Protect is for businesses.

Veritas offers three products:

Backup Exec

Backup Exec includes connectors for major cloud vendors and supports all AWS cloud storage tiers. It can be deployed on AWS or Azure using marketplace templates. Backup Exec is designed for small-to-mid-size businesses.

NetBackup

NetBackup supports multiple tenants across multiple clouds. It provides bulk data migration and seeding using AWS Snowball and Azure Data Box. NetBackup is designed solely for enterprises and includes several cloud optimization and orchestration tools that are not found in Backup Exec. In terms of security, Netbackup offers storage immutability.

NetBackup SaaS Protection

NetBackup SaaS Protection (previously known as HubStor) provides a unified data management and protection solution, delivering fully managed, cost-effective, and automated backup as a service (BaaS) through a single, intuitive interface.

Arcserve provides both subscription-based licensing and perpetual licensing.
There are four types of subscription-based licensing:
1. Instance-based (per OS instance)
2. Socket-based (per CPU socket)
3. Capacity-based (per front-end TB)
4. Appliance-based (per appliance)

Acronis provides both subscription-based licensing and perpetual licensing.
License units are based on TB or instances based on the edition and the chosen workloads.

Veritas provides both subscription-based licensing and perpetual licensing.

SaaS applications backup

Microsoft 365

Public cloud backup

Azure and AWS

Data centers backup

SQL servers, VMWare, HyperV, Nutanix, XEN, and KVM

End points backup

Windows and Lunix

SaaS applications backup

Google Workspace and Microsoft 365

Public cloud backup

Azure and AWS

Data centers backup

VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, Citrix XenServer, Red Hat Virtualization, Linux KVM, Oracle, and VM Server.

End points backup

Lunix, Mac, and Windows

SaaS applications backup

Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Box, and Slack

Public cloud backup

Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud

Data centers backup

SAP HANA, Oracle, MySQL, and Red Hat

End points backup

Windows, Lunix, and Mac

  • Ransomware protection
  • Minimize downtime
  • Prevent data loss
  • Protect Microsoft 365 data
  • Manage and protect cloud workloads
  • Reduce IT complexity
  • Reduce data protection costs
  • Compliance management

  • Ransomware protection
  • Patch management for businesses
  • Anti-Malware
  • IT disaster recovery
  • File backup and recovery
  • Data loss prevention

  • Ransomware resilience
  • Hybrid multi-cloud
  • Data protection
  • SaaS data protection
  • High availability