Druva Phoenix (UNPUBLISHED)

Score10 out of 10

63 Reviews and Ratings

What is Druva Phoenix (UNPUBLISHED)?

As businesses adopt a cloud-first strategy, reducing on-premises infrastructure and moving IT and business applications to the cloud, the limitations and costs of traditional data protection and disaster recovery become more apparent. Druva Phoenix™ provides a cloud-native approach that helps businesses accelerate their journey to the cloud by reducing infrastructure management and improving business resilience. Delivered as-a-service, Druva Phoenix boasts high-performance, scalable all-in-one backup, disaster recovery (DR), archival and analytics to simplify data protection, reduces costs and improves data visibility for today’s complex information environments. The vendor states that with it, organizations can achieve aggressive SLAs and reduce the total cost of ownership (TCO) by up to 50% with Druva.

Categories & Use Cases

Media

Centrally manage data protection for remote offices, with full visibility and fast recovery for physical and virtual environments.

Long-term retention and data archival One-click enables long term retention, with intelligent tiering to long-term cold storage, with federated search across storage tiers to align with compliance requirements.

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Snapshots
Ability to take regular snapshots to ensure that Recovery Point Objective (RPO) is met
Category average: 8.4
Business application protection
Protection of all applications running in the data center
Category average: 8.1
Universal recovery
Universal recovery is the ability to restore backups to any machine regardless of the platform
Category average: 8.4

Retention options
Provision of best-practice and customizable retention policies with reporting
Category average: 9.1
Platform support
Product supports multiple operating systems and applications
Category average: 8.7
Management dashboard
Web-based dashboard allowing configuration and monitoring of all backups
Category average: 8.6

Nathan Brown View profile

Systems Engineer in Information Technology at SG360°, a Segerdahl company (1001-5000 employees employees)

Pros

The best part about Druva is that you deploy, which is fairly easy especially with your technical rep being available for the whole process, and then you let the system do your work. If a backup fails I get a report, there is no need to check it every day or even weekly.
The file server backup is great. Searching is easy and the capability to pull back a full folder or individual file makes life a lot easier to support my end users.

Cons

One piece of functionality that I would like to see enhanced is the file server back up search to include folder search. File search is available to restore, but folder recovery requires you to drill down into the location of the folder to restore.

Return on Investment

As I earlier stated Druva is a product that does not require much maintenance. I do not have to go in and check my backups often. This has saved myself and the company a lot of time.
Unlike other products that we looked in to, Druva is a credit based system, meaning you pa for what you use and not a high priced license fee where your data is capped or if you do not use its potential you feel like you paid for something you did not fully use.

Usability

Other Software Used

GoToAssist Remote Support, The Okta Identity Cloud

Pawan Satyawali View profile

Vice President - Infrastructure, Security and QSR Technology in Information Technology at Tata Consumer Products (1001-5000 employees employees)

Pros

Simple to use, hardly had any training issues.
Fast backup and recoveries.
Cloud repository.

Return on Investment

Was able to reduce overall backup infra cost.

Usability

Keith Richard, MBA View profile

Director of Operations in Information Technology at GreaterGood.com (51-200 employees employees)

Pros

The global deduplication of data technology helps our data storage go 10x further than other solutions.
Easy to install and get your first backups going
Easy to restore previous versions of files

Cons

We haven't had trouble running the client on unsupported versions of CentOS, but we would like them to keep up as we won't sacrifice VM security because of the backup solution.

Return on Investment

The cost of Druva Phoenix is negligible compared to the security of knowing if you're down. You have a way to recover quickly.

Usability

Other Software Used

Cloudflare, Zoom Phone, Pulse Connect Secure (SSL-VPN)

Tomasz Lipinski View profile

Director of New Technologies and Development in Information Technology at Lemon Pro (11-50 employees employees)

Pros

Data safety.
Critical failures do not paralyze the company.
"Restful sleep."

Cons

A clearer description of how it works.
Lower price.
Simple price list.

Return on Investment

It is like insurance, better if you don't have to use it, but if you have to, you have a place to retrieve your data. Priceless.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Veeam Backup & Replication

Other Software Used

Veeam Backup & Replication, Veritas Backup Exec, NAKIVO Backup & Replication

Rob Butterworth View profile

Head of IT in Information Technology at Amadeus Capital Partners (11-50 employees employees)

Pros

Easy to deploy - Druva are a great company to deal with, and will help get things running, but like their other products, Phoenix is not difficult to implement if you know your stuff.
Great de-duplication - backups are deduped across the entire estate, leading to very efficient storage usage.
Phoenix is fast - backups complete quickly, even initial full backups are quick, relative to their size.

Cons

The UI is good, but a bit inconsistent. Some types of backups are shown differently to others. It never gets in the way, but a bit more consistency would be good.
The system is usage based, which is understandable, but a shock after using inSync, their other backup product, which is not. Careful planning and thought is needed if you are on a tight budget