Happy 2017 and Happy UDP 6.5! As you can see, we’re starting the year with a bang and a new version of UDP. It’s fun to see how much this great solution has progressed since we launched it in May of 2014. It is by far the most complete offering in the market with enterprise-class features that uniquely combine ease of use and simplicity.
As is customary in every launch, we review and update our competitive information. It’s par for the course. This time around, I was pleasantly surprised to see that even with recent updates from our competition, we’re still way ahead. There has been talk of “compressed” differentiation in the market. I feel that we are turning this statement on its head with our UDP portfolio. The thousands of customers joining the Arcserve family every month demonstrate it better than any blog post from a guy with marketing in his title!
In this latest version, we are continuing on our journey to deliver the best solution for mid-market and decentralized enterprise organizations. In this release, we have placed the focus on public cloud support with great capabilities for Amazon Web Services. In addition, we keep adding features to further extend our data protection scope and depth. We do this in a unified fashion, so unlike other vendors who sell a standalone solution for Office 365, and have to give it away for a year to trick you into a deal, our support is built into UDP, just like any other platform we support.
Disaster Recovery is really about business, not just about IT or backup. In this release, we’re introducing new ways to automate and test for DR non-disruptively. We’re also adding great RPO and RTO reports that will help our partners and customers highlight the actual level of protection achieved vs. objectives, answering the simple question any business person would ask: what is my exposure? What can I expect? What can we do to improve?
You can find more information about Arcserve UDP 6.5 here.
What’s new in UDP 6.5 – a quick look: