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    Arcserve Backup

    Score7.3 out of 10
    N/AArcserve 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

    Foglight

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AFoglight is a database performance management suite from Quest, with modules to perform cloud analytics, network performance monitoring and virtualization management, scaling to a broad, cloud / virtualization focused IT infrastructure monitoring solution.N/A
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    Arcserve BackupFoglight
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    Quest Software
    Chose Foglight
    Foglight is a tool that allows productivity to advance quickly and safely, offering data monitoring and optimization, guaranteeing the success of our business. It is a solution that provides relevant data for strategy and data analysis without losing sight of the final …
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    Arcserve BackupFoglight
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    User Ratings
    Arcserve BackupFoglight
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.9
    (7 ratings)
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
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    Support Rating
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    Arcserve BackupFoglight
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Arcserve
    Arcserve UDP is fully suited for small to large size environments that need complete data protection solutions with the ability to run the fastest backups, replications, instant VM and DR.
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    Quest Software
    Strengths [Foglight]
    • Monitoring, Alerting and Management of on-prem virtualization and physical servers
    • Historical trending and baselining are excellent and being able to compare a problem period against the same sets of data for a period when there was no issue is especially helpful as part of troubleshooting.
    • Ease of use for end users is appreciated
    Weaknesses [of Foglight]
    • Creation and management of custom monitors is a developer level activity requiring Groovy skillset
    • Less useful for management of an environment where there is a large amount of custom implementations
    • Commitment to longevity of cartridges/packs for specific subsystems
    • Ability to create custom schedules/alerts/escalations is only available via a 3rd party product (from a former Quest developer) and is not particularly easy to manage/manipulate
    • Lack of API accessibility for external integrations to other analytics (splunk, etc.)
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    Pros
    Arcserve
    • It offers excellent features like dedupe, high availability, DR, and BMR.
    • Arcserve Backup has many offerings to fit many business sizes and needs.
    • Arcserve Backup sales and technical support is good to work with.
    • Very nice reseller program and benefits.
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    Quest Software
    • Database monitoring
    • Database management suite
    • Customization (both monitors and dashboards)
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    Cons
    Arcserve
    • Arcserve Backup can be costly.
    • To utilize Arcserve Backup and all its features may require a layout of dedicated equipment or additional infrastructure.
    • They don't always explain that for Arcserve Backup to work well, and it requires specific system requirements and extensive internet bandwidth.
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    Quest Software
    • There are not many problems with this product
    • Limited ability to use Foglight itself to solve problems it identifies
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Arcserve
    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.
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    Quest Software
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    Usability
    Arcserve
    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.
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    Quest Software
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    Support Rating
    Arcserve
    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.
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    Quest Software
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    Alternatives Considered
    Arcserve
    We use Veeam Backup and Replication at our larger sites where Vmware Virtualization is being used and is our product of choice in this venue. When it comes to our smaller sites, nothing is more affordable and reliable than Arcserve Backup.
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    Quest Software
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    Return on Investment
    Arcserve
    • We were able to roll back up and replication into one product, which reduced the costs without having to go with multiple vendors.
    • As a result of Arcserve UDP, we were able to implement a full DR scenario test, which until that point hadn't been successful.
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    Quest Software
    • Foglight has a positive impact on my company by being a complete monitoring platform that specializes in risk assessment, user diagnosis and management, and server monitoring ensuring a secure business infrastructure through predictive analytics, query analysis, anomaly detection, behavior tracking, troubleshooting, automated discovery, and more.
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