Deeper Dive into UDP 10: Enhanced Data Security, Simplified Backup and Recovery, and Lower Costs

Now that we have officially launched Arcserve Unified Data Protection (UDP) 10 last week, let’s take a closer look at all its robust new features and improvements that can help your business achieve maximum data resilience and protection against ever-increasing cyber threats. 

UDP 10 continues Arcserve’s long-standing tradition of delivering world-class data protection while introducing new capabilities designed to address the most pressing concerns of today’s IT professionals. These capabilities include enhanced malware protection, flexible disaster recovery, improved data resiliency, and versatile cloud support. Let’s take a closer look at each one. 

Responding to Market Demands

Our State of Data Resilience in the Enterprise survey of senior IT professionals found that 80 percent of responding organizations have been a victim of a ransomware attack, and a staggering 25 percent say they struggle to garner the attention and support for necessary resources from their leadership teams. As cybersecurity attacks become ever more sophisticated and pervasive, it’s not a matter of if your business will face an attack but when, underscoring the need for advanced data protection solutions.

The launch of Arcserve UDP 10 is a direct response to these market demands.

Enhanced Malware Detection with Assured Security

One of the standout features of Arcserve UDP 10 is Assured Security, powered by Microsoft Defender. This integrated feature scans your backups both at the time of backup and before restoration to detect any known malware with 99 percent accuracy. 

By identifying and quarantining malware before your data is restored, Arcserve UDP 10 protects your systems from reinfection and ensures recovery operations don’t introduce new threats into your environment. Assured Security also leverages the latest anti-virus signatures when scanning your backup data to ensure newly discovered threats are visible. This additional layer of data protection—built into your backup solution—is crucial for minimizing disruptions and ensuring business continuity.

Flexible Disaster Recovery with Ad-hoc Virtual Standby

When disaster strikes, fast, efficient recovery is your top priority. Ad-hoc Virtual Standby, introduced in UDP 10, enables you to restore critical systems on-demand, significantly reducing downtime. Unlike traditional recovery processes that require pre-configured environments, Ad-hoc Virtual Standby lets you spin up a virtual machine (VM) automatically following a disaster. This flexibility enables you to recover seamlessly while avoiding complex pre-configuration, reducing the cost and effort typically associated with disaster recovery planning. 

Improved Data Resiliency with One-to-Many Replication Support

The bottom line in achieving data resiliency is ensuring your backups are secure and easily recoverable, regardless of the cause. Arcserve UDP 10 takes a significant leap ahead by delivering One-to-Many Replication Support, which allows you to replicate your data to multiple targets simultaneously. This feature eliminates the risk of a single point of failure by ensuring your data can be recovered from various locations if a site-level disaster strikes, strengthening your defenses against data loss, reducing disaster recovery times, and ensuring your backups are available when needed.

Versatile Cloud Support Across Major Platforms

The cloud continues to grow as a core component of modern IT strategies. Arcserve UDP 10 strengthens cloud-based disaster recovery capabilities by extending Ad-hoc Virtual Standby support to major platforms, including Google Cloud Platform, AWS, Azure, and Wasabi. This expanded cloud support lets you configure, manage, and recover your systems directly within the Arcserve interface, leveraging these cloud providers’ robust infrastructure for improved data protection and recovery strategies. Whether you’re running a hybrid or multi-cloud environment, Arcserve UDP 10 makes managing disaster recovery from the cloud easier.

Increased Efficiency, Simplified Management

In addition to these significant feature upgrades, Arcserve UDP 10 introduces several other enhancements designed to improve operational efficiency and simplify backup management. Automated software updates ensure your systems remain compliant with the latest operating system versions and vendor patches, reducing the need for manual maintenance. This automation lets your IT team focus on more strategic tasks while ensuring your data protection environments remain up-to-date and secure.

Arcserve UDP 10 also features an enhanced Cloud Console, so you can centrally manage your backup environments, streamlining control over multi-site and multi-cloud environments from a single interface. This simplifies management, making it easier than ever to monitor, configure, and control backups and delivering a truly unified experience that reduces the complexity of protecting critical data assets.

Cost Efficiency Plus Tailored Solutions

One of the most valuable features of Arcserve UDP 10 is its ability to deliver high-end features without high costs. UDP’s flexible licensing model ensures you only pay for the features and capacity you need, making top-tier data protection and disaster recovery accessible to organizations of any size without breaking the bank.

Arcserve offers solutions tailored to meet your organization’s specific needs. Our experienced team works closely with you to engineer a data protection strategy that eliminates complexity and suits your environment and requirements. Whether your organization is large or small, Arcserve can help you optimize your data protection efforts without adding complexity to your IT environment. 

Arcserve UDP 10: A Unified Data Protection Solution

Here’s what Jerome Wendt from DCIG had to say in his review of Arcserve UDP 10: “Arcserve UDP 10 does more than help keep organizations ahead of the hybrid cloud and ransomware challenges they face. It positions them to fully and affordably capitalize on hybrid cloud functionality while better-mitigating ransomware threats. In so doing, Arcserve UDP 10 provides a reliable last line of defense in the face of ransomware challenges that budget-conscious organizations face in their complex hybrid and multi-cloud environments.”

Genuinely effective data protection and fast recovery are vital in today's threat landscape. The launch of Arcserve UDP 10 delivers on that promise with innovative features that enhance security, disaster recovery, data resiliency, and cloud flexibility. Regardless of your organization’s size, Arcserve UDP 10 delivers the comprehensive data protection you need to safeguard your critical assets and minimize downtime.

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Read the complete DCIG product review.