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What is Druva Phoenix (UNPUBLISHED)?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…

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  • Backup to the cloud (30)
    8.2
    82%
  • Incremental backup identification (28)
    8.1
    81%
  • Management dashboard (29)
    7.4
    74%
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What is Druva Phoenix (UNPUBLISHED)?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…

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Product Details

What is Druva Phoenix (UNPUBLISHED)?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.

Druva Phoenix (UNPUBLISHED) Features

Data Center Backup Features

  • Supported: Incremental backup identification
  • Supported: Backup to the cloud
  • Supported: Deduplication and file compression
  • Supported: Management dashboard
  • Supported: Retention options
  • Supported: Encryption

Druva Phoenix (UNPUBLISHED) Screenshots

Screenshot of Centrally manage data protection for remote offices, with full visibility and fast recovery for physical and virtual environments.Screenshot of 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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Druva Phoenix (UNPUBLISHED) Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsWindows, Linux
Mobile ApplicationNo
Supported CountriesNA, LATAM, EMEA, APJ
Supported LanguagesEnglish

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Nathan Brown | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We have been using Druva through out the organization for virtual machine back-up, file server back up and SQL backup. This is the first cloud backup solution I have implemented, it was easy to deploy and feel that my systems had an added level of protection. I recommend it weekly to vendors and other IT professionals in my network.
  • 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.
  • 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.
I am not just likely to recommend Druva for backup, I do recommend it often while talking to colleagues or other IT professionals in the field.
Pawan Satyawali | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We have used Druva Phoenix for a little over a year now, it is our choice of tool for server backups at factory location which hosts critical data for IOT and factory ops planning. We have been extremely satisfied with the product and functionality. We are able to reduce legacy costs like tapes, backup libraries, etc.
  • Simple to use, hardly had any training issues.
  • Fast backup and recoveries.
  • Cloud repository.
Great tool for anyone who wants to simplify backup infrastructure. You can eliminate all legacy infra. Just a client software is needed in target server. Backup goes to Druva managed SaaS storage.

If sites do not have high speed internet connection, then it may not be recommended as it will slow up backup and restore speed.
September 10, 2020

Reliable and easy to use

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Druva Phoenix across the whole organization, we needed a robust and easy to use server backup solution to protect our on-prem virtual servers.

We started using Druva InSync a few years before using Phoenix and it turned out to be a great solution for endpoint backup, so when we needed a cloud-based backup solution for our servers, we decided to give Phoenix a try and it worked as good as InSync.
  • Easy to deploy, it takes minutes to be up and running.
  • Easy to use and flexible, the web console is intuitive and makes it easy to configure and monitor the status of your backups.
  • Reliable. Once you have set up your policies and servers, it works by itself.
  • Reporting, it can be hard to tell the actual amount of space consumed by a specific recovery point.
  • DRaaS is not easy to deploy since you have to work on AWS and Phoenix.
  • It does not provide a solution for Azure workloads.
Well suited:
  • On-prem or AWS workloads: VMware, Hyper V, Windows, Linux, SQL.

Not appropriate:
  • Microsoft Exchange on-prem (Druva does not have a specific agent for Exchange as it does for SQL)
  • Azure workloads
  • If you need your backups to be stored on a cloud different from AWS
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Druva Phoenix to backup our server environment, which includes physical machines, virtual machines, and SQL databases across the whole organization. Below is what Druva addresses for us:
  1. Offsite backups so we didn't have to use other means to get our backups offsite. Plus our data is available if something physically happens to our location.
  2. We love Druva Phoenix for its ease of use. It was very easy to set up and monitor the status of all of our backups. The console is great!
  3. Compression and de-duplication is phenomenal. We usually are sitting at 12.6x space savings. This is incredible.
  4. No onsite equipment to worry about. No more tapes, tape drives, and external hard drives are needed since it is all in the cloud. Also, no need for a separate backup server. You can use the server that would have been needed for backing up for something else.
  5. The security. The fact that Druva encrypts everything and they cannot even access the data without being part of our organization provides comfort on the protection of our data.
  6. No more upgrading/updating of software. Druva takes care of all of that. When new features are added, you have instant access to them.
  • Deduplication
  • Fast backups
  • Growing features
  • Easy to use
  • Great Console
  • Auto detection of database when backing up machine so database jobs can be auto-created
Druva Phoenix is well-suited for the following scenarios:
  • The need for an offsite backup location when your location is highly volatile.
  • The need for secure offsite storage of your data.
  • The need to set and forget it. The fact that you can monitor the console or use the emailed reports to get status on your backups.
  • The need for minimizing your hardware footprint.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Druva Phoenix is used in our virtual environment to back up all critical infrastructure. It allows us to easily take backups and move them off-site into the cloud, which kills two birds with one stone. It's also used to quickly test our restoration efforts by pulling down recent backups directly into our environment alongside the production systems.
  • Integrates well with VMware vSphere.
  • Annual health checks.
  • Detailed reporting on credit consumption.
  • Interface could use a revamp to be more intuitive.
  • Appliances could do more snapshots at a time.
  • Appliances could upload faster if allowed to utilize more than 1023mbps.
It works really seamlessly in a vSphere environment, just a one-time setup of a new appliance and you're up and running.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Druva Phoenix across our entire companies data centers to provide secure and easy to access cloud backups for our sensitive systems. We especially like how easy it is to manage backups for all virtual machine types and their ability to recognize software types across the various systems.
  • Backup of different Virtual Machine environments
  • Fast restore on both file level and machine level
  • Reporting on what is going on and when
  • Supporting their product with excellent service staff who are knowledgeable and relatable
  • Improve visibility into how much each system costs to backup
  • Clean up the web UI
Druva Phoenix is suited to any scenario where an offsite backup is needed to prevent against ransomware attacks on local systems and backups. With multiple backups stored in reliable high-speed offsite backups, any local backups compromised can easily be compensated for.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are in the healthcare industry and we have in-house servers that have HIPAA information that needs to be backed up off location. We use Druva Phoenix as our daily backup solution. It is HIPAA compliant, and they signed a BAA with us, so that gave us good peace of mind that our information would be in good hands. On top of that, the system is pretty easy and intuitive to use. The pricing structure for being a business solution beats other vendors such as Barracuda. We have had a couple of scenarios already where we need to recover some pieces of information, and the recovery process has been fast and easy. There is also an account manager that reaches out to you every now and then to know if things are working properly. The only thing that you should be aware of is which product are you hiring from their line of products. Phoenix is oriented to servers only, and it requires a server operative system, if you need to backup endpoints, you will need a different product.
  • It is easy to use.
  • It is cost-efficient in comparison to competitors.
  • It is HIPAA compliant.
  • They sign a Business Associate Agreement with your organization if necessary.
  • Depending on the size of your business, it can be cost-prohibitive since the minimum purchase is a year's worth of service.
  • You do need someone who knows what they are doing to set up the backups and make sure you don't over-consume your credits with crazy retention policies.
Druva Phoenix is a good backup solution in case you have servers in-house and you particularly need HIPAA compliance. I had to do plenty of research about this when I was looking for solutions, and this is by far the best option price-wise. Implementation is also easy, and you will have an engineer with you throughout the process to set up your backups.

Druva, however, is a company oriented more towards medium-enterprise rather than small businesses. Depending on your income, it can be expensive relative to the income of the company.
Keith Richard, MBA | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Druva Phoenix to backup critical data on both Linux and Windows Servers for our organization. These servers provide a variety of uses from web servers, databases, financial packages, business analysis, and reporting. The issue we brought Druva Phoenix on to solve was we had local backups at our office and colocation, but they are only a five-minute walk from one another. If anything happened catastrophic in this location we would not have usable backups for business continuity. The ease of use with the Druva inSync product on the desktop side led us to give Druva Phoenix a try, and we're happy to be a customer of both products.
  • 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
  • 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.
Durva Phoenix is well suited for the VMware platform and has great restore functionality during disaster recovery. We use a different VM platform so our disaster recovery has a longer timeline if there is a critical failure as we need to get a base OS loaded before we can restore the VM data to it. This is the tradeoff between an expensive VM platform and a near free VM platform.

Druva Phoenix is well suited to file version recovery if a previous data state is required by your employees or customers. Very quick to restore.
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Druva Phoenix is a tool which aims to simplify backup and recovery. Essentially a DRaaS service running on the cloud, this improves ROI by reducing the costs associated with a cold DR on premise site. With cloud scale, there is also no need to worry about right sizing your backup infrastructure as it is all taken care of in the cloud.

Currently we are using it to back up virtual machines in a VMware environment. Primarily the role of Phoenix within the institution is a DRaaS solution which allows us to quickly get the service up and running should there be an outage within the institute, e.g. DC power failure, network disconnection.
  • DRaaS.
  • Backup and Restore to on-premise hardware.
  • Deduplication.
  • Better client support especially in the DRaaS functionality.
  • Improving ease of use with AWS.
  • Support for other public cloud.
DRaaS, tape backup replacements are common use cases for Phoenix.

Do bear in mind that as this is a SaaS, there is a need to right size the internet bandwidth from your DC to Phoenix. The more workloads and the larger the workloads, especially in environment with large amount of changes daily > leads to higher traffic to cloud, thus proper planning of your backup window and internet bandwidth is a key consideration.
Aaron Matatov | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Druva Phoenix to simply back up our all of our VMs, which includes domain controllers, application servers, SQL server, file servers, etc. Since we are not-for-profit and are in the social services industry we are required to have a long retention policy and with the dedup technology that Druva offers it has proven to be a cost effective solution that solves our business needs.
  • All in one dashboard/ingle pane of glass.
  • Deduplication.
  • Many alerting options.
  • Easy to use and navigate.
  • Powerful reporting tools.
  • There are none that I can think of.
The product solves a lot of issues that the competitors lack in. It is user friendly and easy to navigate. The customer service is amazing and they help you manage your dashboard to help you use your credits wisely where you end up saving money in the end. They are the Amazon of cloud backup!
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We back up several hundred production servers with Phoenix. It is our primary backup system.
  • Fast backups.
  • Fast restores.
  • Excellent deduplication.
  • Application aware backups.
  • Cannot backup a GPT vmdk.
  • Proxy deployment is not always successful.
  • User interface could be more intuitive.
Perfect backup solution for entire VMware virtual machines if the VM has MBR disks.
Excellent dedupe/compression ratios.
Fast single file restores from VMDK backup.
Fast agent based backups for physical machines.
September 28, 2019

Druva

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use it for backing up users' info, desktops, and documents for safekeeping. The issue that we have seen come up in a few instances is that some of the computers with a lot of information constantly freezes and causes the computer to not back up. This program fixes that issue for us, and it makes the customers happy.
  • Backups.
  • Restore.
  • Refresh.
  • They could make the program run a bit faster.
  • Make the program a bit easier for customers to use.
  • Work better with smartphones.
Druva works well when you are in a large company and have a fear of computers crashing. Using it has saved a lot of people at my place of employment whenever they run into a blue screen issue or something has been deleted. It has saved all of the work and documentation needed.
September 27, 2019

Druva Phoenix POC

Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
During a proof of concept (POC) evaluation, we found Druva Phoenix to possibly be a usable candidate for backing up the guests in our VMware infrastructure that uses a stretched vSAN cluster as storage over 2+1 data centers and segregate multiple departments by VM folders (multi-tenancy with daily automatic detection of new guests).
  • Cloud-based solution for off-site storage with possible local (cloud) cache to increase performance.
  • Easy to use interface, Active Directory Single Sign-On (AD SSO) for authentication and relatively simple deployment of virtual proxy servers.
  • Good support structure. We had an issue where our third data center with just vSAN witness hosts that have no storage attached prevented automatic discovery. After increasing the logging level with support, engineering was quick to find the problem and provide a patch that could be installed on the proxy servers.
  • The reports and analytics are rather primitive and bare, and cannot sort columns. New data/duration (throughput) would be nice for instance. CSV exports combine date and time (harder to use in a spreadsheet).
  • Cannot create an API token within just the Druva Phoenix (as Phoenix Cloud Administrator, let alone multi-tenancy scope).
Possibly good for a relatively small environment with a large backup window. More is needed in a larger environment. Especially the reporting is very basic, and better insight is needed in performance metrics and potential bottlenecks. Multi-tenancy can probably be improved (though we did not explore this completely during the POC).
September 26, 2019

Druva Phoenix Rising

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
[It's being used for] backing up VMs and NetApp shares.
  • Easy to use
  • Easy to set up
  • Logs need to be more transparent
  • There should be an option to see ALL backup jobs
It's well suited for almost everything you want to backup. I wish it could do bare metal backups.
Willard Stark | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Druva Phoenix is currently being used to back-up all of our company's servers and important information. I work for a holdings company that shares IT assets between 5 affiliated companies. All of the companies are able to benefit from our server back-ups. It solves our need to constantly maintain an off-site backup as well as gives us additional options and peace of mine in case of a disaster. Having Druva Phoenix means I know our data is backed up and safe, and we no longer have to worry about data loss.
  • Back-up policies with complete clarity of what is being backed up and how often.
  • File-level restores.
  • Deduplication of data to provide fair and effective usage of Druva's credit-based billing system.
  • Support. Once when I had an open case during set-up, I heard more from the support team than I did their salesmen which really shows their dedication to solving issues.
  • Their pricing and credit usage structure can use some refinement. We had a hard time knowing and learning how much space our data was going to take up which made billing/pricing a hard question.
  • More Hyper-V support, particularly with their Disaster Recovery options which is still currently VMWare only.
  • There error self-help page. Some times a back-up for a day will fail. Most of the time they will have an error attached explaining why. I have noticed sometimes not only will it not show an error at all, but not all of their errors are also documented.
Druva Phoenix is a well-suited cloud back-up application that provides a lot of mental security knowing that back-ups are not an issue. Their solution is easy to set-up and use. I would say they are a great solution for a medium-large company that needs a large scale back-up solution. Just make sure to check on your back-ups status every day.
September 23, 2019

Druva is worth having

Carlos Eduardo Barbosa | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Druva is actually being used for key associates such as managers and directors.
  • Fast backup data.
  • Daily backup data.
  • Fast and easy restores based on domain user accounts.
  • None that I can think of.
Druva substantially improves end-user data backup and allows the IT team to be involved with other decisions and tasks. With Druva PC Backup, restoring and backing up data is made easy!
September 23, 2019

Druva Phoenix Review

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We started using the product at the beginning of 2019 when we migrated from a different company. We use the product to back up many of our Virtual machines and some data folders from our user home folder. We do not have to worry about storing tape backup on-site or have to worry about securing them.
  • Easy user interface.
  • All in one dashboard.
  • Cloud-based.
  • Dashboard app.
  • Still figuring this out!
We start using Druva Phonix less than a year ago when we migrated from a competitor and we really like how easy is to use Druva in comparison to the old software. We are a school with 7 sites, 3500 students, and 400 staff members. Our server farm is in all the buildings, so this cloud-based system helps us a lot. We also like the price option where you only pay for you need. if you are a smaller school that is great. Pay as you go!
September 20, 2019

Druva Phoenix Rocks!

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We back up our infrastructure with Druva Phoenix throughout the entire organization.
  • Backup to Gov Cloud.
  • Lightweight agent.
  • Backing up of NAS devices could be improved.
  • Faster file scanning could be improved.
We like Druva Phoenix because the VM backup is extremely well made and easy to implement.
September 20, 2019

Druva Phoenix Review

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
Druva is used across our organisation extensively, through EMEA, the Americas and APAC. I personally use it on a subset of our servers in one country that needs online backup.
  • Ease of use.
  • Ease of installation.
  • Excellent de-duping.
  • Credits system can be confusing.
Druva Phoenix is excellent for any server that gets a lot of use.
September 20, 2019

Best product on the market.

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Druva Phoenix to backup our entire VMWare environment, NAS, some physical servers and SQL DBs.
  • VMware backups - no client needed, just needs to be able to take a snapshot
  • NAS backups, ease of configuring files/folder to exclude.
  • Full system restores take just seconds to set up
  • Cloud cache is not the easiest to set up
  • Does not dedup SQL data very well
  • Random failures when Druva is doing maintenance
Any production environment where you want to trust your data is safe
September 18, 2019

Awesome

Amin Ansari | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Phoenix agents are installed on servers, and backup server data according to the schedule defined in the backup policy. At the scheduled time, Phoenix Cloud initiates backups from servers on which Phoenix agents are installed.
  • If you or another administrator initiates the first backup, Phoenix performs a full backup. All subsequent backups triggered by administrators are incremental backups.
  • Druva Cloud Platform Console is the starting point from where you administer data backed up from the configured data sources. It is the first page you see when you log in.
The Druva Cloud Platform Console displays the services, summary, and utilization only applicable to the product which you selected at the time of login.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are using Druva Phoenix as our backup solution for our entire company in the VM environment and any On-Prem servers.
  • User interface is very simple yet detailed to use
  • Install is very easy
  • Agent install in the VM environment is VERY easy
  • Installing the agent into Windows servers should be able to be pushed out from the interface, instead of running the exe locally.
  • Very well suited for a VM environment. Simple to push an agent to other virtual servers.
  • Windows on-prem servers still need to run an exe file locally to install agent.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We utilize Druva Phoenix as our Disaster Recovery vendor, as well as our off-site backup provider. Their tools allows us to safely recover any file we need for immediate recovery. Their Disaster Recovery service will allow us to bring up our environment in AWS within an hour or two.
  • It just works well. After the setup and configuration, the backups work as they are intended to work.
  • We run DR tests once or twice a quarter and the test has always been successful.
  • Their support has been very helpful with any issue we have encounter.
  • Not much to report for needed improvement. We have been very happy with their current offering.
It met the criteria we were looking for in a DR/Backup vendor. It does backups of our VMWare VMs and allows us to use them in AWS in a Disaster Recovery scenario. Those two main points were what we were looking for in our new vendor.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are currently using Druva Phoenix as our on prem backup solution. The IT Infrastructure team is the primary users of this software. We use this as our file level and VM Level backup and recovery tool.
  • Cloud Storage On Prem Backups
  • Recovery
  • Ease of use
  • Limited in some advanced features like pre and post scripting
Druva is an awesome product for your on prem backups. We currently backup 250 systems with a mix of physical (less than 15) and virtual. We've used this in both VMware and HyperV environments. We're able to acquire new companies and add them into our backup environment without needing to purchase new hardware. Some locations we can simple install the backup agent on the Windows hosts and get file level backups. Other companies if they have a virtualized environment we're able to deploy a new backup proxy and have backups running in less than a day.
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