Arcserve Appliances vs. HPE StoreOnce

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Arcserve Appliances
Score 3.0 out of 10
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Arcserve backup appliances are presented by the vendor as combining enterprise-ready software and industrial-grade hardware united, to create turnkey backup appliances for disaster recovery (DR) and application availability – now with Sophos Intercept X Advanced for defense against malware, exploits, and ransomware.N/A
HPE StoreOnce
Score 7.3 out of 10
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HPE StoreOnce is a backup and recovery hardware solution from Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, providing disk-based backup, deduplication, and long-term storage. StoreOnce offerings can support virtual and cloud environments for small business, mid-size organizations, and enterprises.
$1,061.46
Pricing
Arcserve AppliancesHPE StoreOnce
Editions & Modules
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Gen10 Server
$1,061.46
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Arcserve AppliancesHPE StoreOnce
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Features
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Data Center Backup
Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Product A and Product B
Arcserve Appliances
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Ratings
HPE StoreOnce
8.7
Ratings
2% above category average
Universal recovery00 Ratings9.10 Ratings
Instant recovery00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Recovery verification00 Ratings8.10 Ratings
Business application protection00 Ratings8.30 Ratings
Multiple backup destinations00 Ratings8.30 Ratings
Incremental backup identification00 Ratings8.30 Ratings
Backup to the cloud00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Deduplication and file compression00 Ratings9.60 Ratings
Snapshots00 Ratings9.90 Ratings
Flexible deployment00 Ratings8.50 Ratings
Management dashboard00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Platform support00 Ratings8.30 Ratings
Retention options00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Encryption00 Ratings7.90 Ratings
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User Ratings
Arcserve AppliancesHPE StoreOnce
Likelihood to Recommend
7.3
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9.1
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Likelihood to Renew
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10.0
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Usability
8.0
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10.0
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Support Rating
8.0
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10.0
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Implementation Rating
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10.0
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User Testimonials
Arcserve AppliancesHPE StoreOnce
Likelihood to Recommend
We use Cisco and Commvault at our main site for backup and security, but we needed a solution for a remote site with none of those options available. We have put it as an all in one solution and it has worked out perfectly. If a colleague in a similar situation needed a solution like us, I would highly recommend this.
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Vm backups are the fastest I've ever had with this unit for any backup software system. Agent backups are the fastest ever to this device too. Veeam supported HPE StoreOnce for file backups way back. However, we discovered you cannot do this for large network drive scenarios. So, we have to have a separate backup system for file based share backups. it would be great to resolve this at some point in the future. Also, replication of a primary SO to a DR SO works amazing now based on the 52x0 series HPE StoreOnce units. The older 5100 series just could not cut it to copy to another backup target fast enough for large data backup consumers.
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Pros
  • All in one spot for backup, restore, and security for off site locations.
  • Well priced for the large swathe of features it provides.
  • Low learning curve for administrators.
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  • We really like the deduplication feature of HPE StoreOnce. It helps reduce storage footprint by 1:3 to 1:10 depending on type of files being stored.
  • It's easy to manage files on HPE StoreOnce servers using command line options.
  • We use Veeam Backup Server software to manage our backups on HPE StoreOnce.
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Cons
  • Scalability. Main issue is each appliance has a finite space for backups, and can't be increased on the box itself without replacing it with another appliance completely.
  • Onboard interface. Doesn't have an interface that's accessible via the web natively. While that's great for security, it is a little awkward if you need to access it from offsite.
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  • For fastest performance and best dedupe, ISV software supporting Catalyst required
  • VTL capability requires more overhead and space due to aging policies, etc.
  • Use of CIFS/SMB for backups is significantly slower than Catalyst.
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Likelihood to Renew
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It just works and the support contract we have is good enough for the company needs
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Usability
It's very easy to use. Plug it in, run through the wizard and you're pretty much set. Hardly ever have to go back in and check on it. Everything can be scheduled fairly granularly. The console is simple and laid out well. While doing a restore takes a number of steps, it is not hard to follow what you're doing. A few things couple be displayed better, but the built in help options do explain things well enough.
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My team who are currently administering HPE StoreOnce do not come from a storage background. We still didn't had to struggle much configuring and using HPE StoreOnce. Of course, HPE team was very helpful in smooth technology transition. For critical errors, we already have phone home feature enabled and HPE support team has been excellent and their response time in dealing with technical errors/incidents.
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Support Rating
[I] have only used it a couple of times, but they've always been responsive and solved the issues I've had. Time to get to a person was fairly low, under 10 minutes each time.
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We had couple of incidents so far and HPE support team was very proactive through the process until the incident was closed satisfactorily.
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Implementation Rating
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It was pretty smooth, at least smother that a Dell EMC Unity we set it up last week
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Alternatives Considered
Barracuda had the best console of the three we evaluated. Cloud hosted it was the easiest to access. However, it took forever to do the initial seeding backup, and then the nightly backups ran over into the next day. It was just so slow to do the backups - we never even tried a restore. The resulting backups also seemed to take up a significant amount of the appliances space, it was almost 3/4 full from the get go. Unitrends did not have natively a granular email restore option, it had a third-party option, but that was not something we were interested in. It also took a long time to run the backups. Arcserve was the fastest by far, [as] it did not fill up as much (way better deduplication) and it had a built-in granular email restore. While I wish it had a cloud console, overall it had the most important features we were looking for.
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NetApp is a great product and very well established in market. But HPE StoreOnce features like scalability using disk based duplication that lowers the backup footprint. It is very well coupled with HPE Recovery Manager Central provides backup protection and backup efficiency. We were also offered a nice discount while choosing HPE StoreOnce.
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Return on Investment
  • Restored a SQL database for our CRM system very quickly. Without which, we would have been floundering and unable to contact our donors, and as a charity this would essentially have cut off much of our revenue. So it pretty much paid for itself in this one incident!
  • Reduced downtime restoring files when users delete them. We had tapes before and they take so long to do a restore from. The local disk based appliance made restoring a quick and simple task.
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  • HPE StoreOnce doesn't require a lot of technical knowledge for day to day administration and management. This helps reducing IT support staff cost.
  • It provides an amazing compaction ratio and saves you a lot on the storage side.
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