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HYCU

Score8.8 out of 10

18 Reviews and Ratings

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What is HYCU?

HYCU is a SaaS Data Protection platform that delivers SaaS-based data backup, recovery, and ransomware protection for on-prem, cloud, and SaaS environments serving vendors globally.

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Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features HYCU has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
Based on 18 ratings of HYCU's features
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Top Performing Features

  • Backup to the cloud

    Ability to store and back up data to the cloud

    Category average: 8.3

  • Deduplication and file compression

    Integrated deduplication and compression capabilities

    Category average: 8.5

  • Retention options

    Provision of best-practice and customizable retention policies with reporting

    Category average: 9.1

Areas for Improvement

  • Instant recovery

    Instant recovery is the ability to restore operations very rapidly

    Category average: 8.6

  • Business application protection

    Protection of all applications running in the data center

    Category average: 8

  • Management dashboard

    Web-based dashboard allowing configuration and monitoring of all backups

    Category average: 8.6

Reviews

What users are saying about HYCU.
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Great Nutanix Solution

Incentivized
Verified User
Manager in Information Technology (501-1000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use HYCU for on-Prem, cloud backups, and DR. The solution backs up our data and VMs to an on-Prem storage target, then copies the backup data to Azure. We’re able to restore data and spin up VMs in Azure even if our on-prem site is offline. We’re able to spin up VMs in case of DR within an hour or two.

Pros

  • Tiered backup policies
  • On-Prem backups
  • Cloud storage target backups

Cons

  • Better DR support guidance/best practices
  • Reporting isn’t straightforward and as customizable as I’d like
  • Including M365 backups without additional cost would be a big value add for us

Return on Investment

  • Reduced administrative overhead
  • Support is typically responsive
  • Enabled low RPO/RTO

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows, Azure Backup and Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM)

Other Software Used

Microsoft 365, Nutanix AHV, Azure Site Recovery

Top Level Support and Easy Interface

Incentivized
Verified User
C-Level Executive in Information Technology (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use HYCU for both on prem VM backups as well as Azure. This also backs up Oracle, SQL & AD applications. We back up to local disk targets as well as Azure Blob & Wasabi. I have found that the simpler the backup strategy and system, the less chance of overlooking something and more apt to test regularly.

Pros

  • Very easy product to use.
  • Support staff is very quick and responsive. Generally same day. And has phone support.
  • My customer success point of contact is extremely knowledgeable and friendly.
  • They develop friendships with their customers.

Cons

  • I'd like to see lower annual costs.
  • The setup for Azure backups required a lot of assistance from Support.

Return on Investment

  • I trust this product to protect our organization if things go badly.
  • I am able to not lose sleep thinking about backups.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Veritas Backup Exec and Rubrik

HYCU Backup & Recovery for Nutaniz - The Pros and Cons

Incentivized
John Carver
Computer and Information Systems Manager in Information Technology at Core Computing Solutions (11-50 employees employees)

Pros

  • Backup of virtual machines.
  • Upload to Cloud backups.
  • Recovery of databases backed up through HYCU.

Cons

  • The rollout of the file level backup is still not there.
  • The Restore from the Cloud function is not ideal and needs lots of work.
  • Backups being in native format would be nice for certain files.

Return on Investment

  • We have saved a few SQL issues and recovered data that could have been corrupted.
  • Applications and files have a place in the cloud in case the need is there for other depts.
  • Restoring across datacenters is possible with HYCU saving us time and money to do so.

Alternatives Considered

Veeam Availability Suite and Bacula Enterprise

Other Software Used

Nutanix AOS, VMware ESXi, 1Password

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