# Arcserve

> Arcserve is a privately held data-protection company based in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, with roots in Cheyenne Software and the original ARCserve backup product. It sells backup, recovery, replication, SaaS protection, cloud storage, and immutable-storage tools primarily to small and midsize organizations through managed service providers, resellers, distributors, and other channel partners. Its pitch is practical breadth: one management environment for physical, virtual, SaaS, cloud, and hybrid workloads, with ransomware scanning, recovery validation, deduplication, high availability, and disaster-recovery orchestration built around the flagship Arcserve Unified Data Protection platform.

- **Founded:** 1983
- **Headquarters:** Eden Prairie, United States
- **Founders:** Barry Rubenstein (Founder and original chairman of Cheyenne Software)
- **Team size:** Approximately 630 employees; LinkedIn lists 501-1,000 employees
- **Products:** Arcserve Unified Data Protection 11, Arcserve Cyber Resilient Storage 2.0, Arcserve SaaS Backup, Arcserve ShadowProtect 8, Arcserve Replication and High Availability
- **Notable:** Built on a product lineage that reaches back to Cheyenne Software in 1983 and the first ARCserve Backup release in 1990., Became an independent company in 2014 after Marlin Equity Partners acquired the Arcserve business from CA Technologies., Merged with StorageCraft in 2021, adding ShadowProtect, ShadowXafe, OneXafe, and MSP-focused data-protection capabilities.

## Products & services

- **Arcserve Unified Data Protection 11** — Flagship backup and recovery platform with a modernized console, ArcGenie AI assistance, anomaly detection, disaster-recovery runbooks, and agentless protection for VMware, Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV, and Proxmox.
- **Arcserve Cyber Resilient Storage 2.0** — Immutable backup storage deployable in physical, virtual, or cloud-oriented configurations and managed with Arcserve UDP.
- **Arcserve SaaS Backup** — Cloud-to-cloud backup and granular recovery for Microsoft 365, Entra ID, Salesforce, Google Workspace, Dynamics, Jira, Confluence, Azure DevOps, Power BI, and other SaaS data.
- **Arcserve ShadowProtect 8** — Image-based backup and disaster recovery for MSP-managed Windows and Linux environments, including host-based Hyper-V protection and verified recovery workflows.
- **Arcserve Replication and High Availability** — File-system-level, real-time replication and high availability for Windows and Linux systems across physical, virtual, remote, and cloud environments.
- **Arcserve Backup** — Traditional multi-platform tape backup that can provide an offline layer and integrates with Arcserve UDP.
- **Arcserve Cloud Storage and Cloud Hybrid** — Offsite cloud storage plus hybrid backup and disaster recovery options managed alongside Arcserve UDP.

## Achievements

- Built on a product lineage that reaches back to Cheyenne Software in 1983 and the first ARCserve Backup release in 1990.
- Became an independent company in 2014 after Marlin Equity Partners acquired the Arcserve business from CA Technologies.
- Merged with StorageCraft in 2021, adding ShadowProtect, ShadowXafe, OneXafe, and MSP-focused data-protection capabilities.
- Reported more than 50,000 customers, almost 10,000 channel partners, and operations across 150 countries in 2025.
- Named to CRN's 2026 Storage 100 and Cloud 100 lists and the 2026 MES Midmarket 100 list.
- Added AI-driven anomaly detection and immutable storage integration to the UDP platform, followed by ArcGenie and Proxmox support in UDP 11.

## Latest updates

- **2026-07** — Arcserve was named to the 2026 MES Midmarket 100 list and announced August availability of UDP 11 and CRS 2 in Japan.
- **2026-06** — Arcserve unveiled UDP 11 with ArcGenie, disaster-recovery runbooks, a modernized console, agentless Proxmox protection, and Cyber Resilient Storage 2.0.
- **2026-06** — ShadowProtect 8 expanded MSP-oriented Hyper-V protection, verified recovery, and operational tooling.
- **2026-06** — Arcserve published research saying 65% of organizations overestimate their ransomware recovery readiness.
- **2026-04** — Arcserve appeared on CRN's 2026 Storage 100 list after being named to the Cloud 100 in January.
- **2025-12** — UDP 10.3 added AI anomaly detection for suspicious names, encryption patterns, mass deletions, and renames in recovery points.

## Links

- Website: https://www.arcserve.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/arcserve/
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/arcserve
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/arcserve
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ArcserveDBP/

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Last updated: 2026-08-10