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Iron Cloud Data Protection

Score8.6 out of 10

4 Reviews and Ratings

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What is Iron Cloud Data Protection?

Iron Cloud Data Protection, powered by Carbonite backup solutions, aims to help businesses deploy the right form of protection for each type of data across an organization's information ecosystem, enabling users to meet a wide range of recovery objectives.

Categories & Use Cases

Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features Iron Cloud Data Protection has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
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Top Performing Features

  • Universal recovery

    Universal recovery is the ability to restore backups to any machine regardless of the platform

    Category average: 8.4

  • Backup to the cloud

    Ability to store and back up data to the cloud

    Category average: 8.3

  • Instant recovery

    Instant recovery is the ability to restore operations very rapidly

    Category average: 8.7

Areas for Improvement

  • Business application protection

    Protection of all applications running in the data center

    Category average: 8

  • Multiple backup destinations

    Multiple backup destinations is the ability to backup data to more than one location

    Category average: 8.5

  • Encryption

    Data encryption to ensure that data is safe while being backed-up

    Category average: 9.2

Reviews

What users are saying about Iron Cloud Data Protection.
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Iron Cloud Data Protection Is our choice.

Incentivized
Verified User
Manager in Professional Services (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We needed secure data protection. We needed offsite storage and management. This was critical for our business and for our compliance with security standards and regulations. Iron Mountain solved our issues with an easy-to-use solution. It met our needs and the regulatory requirements. The solution is simple to implement and would seem to be quite secure.

Pros

  • Management of data.
  • Protection of data assets.
  • Audit trail.

Cons

  • Can’t think of anything.

Most Important Features

  • Safe secure storage.
  • Easy access.
  • Simple management tools.

Return on Investment

  • Well known backup solution.
  • Shows conscientious management.
  • Protection against data issues.

Other Software Used

IBM SPSS, IBM SPSS Modeler

Combined Backup Solution.

Incentivized
Verified User
Consultant in Information Technology (201-500 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

A solution was required to back up both physical and virtual systems all from one product. Due to bandwidth issues seeding and incremental were needed. Cloud failover was required in case of a total loss to the on-premise hardware. The ability to perform a bare metal restore was a requirement.

Pros

  • Bare Metal Restore.
  • Cloud Failover.
  • Backup Seeding.

Cons

  • GUI could be made more user friendly.
  • Increase the compression.
  • Where bandwidth issues occuring.

Most Important Features

  • Support of legacy hardware platforms.
  • Cloud failover.
  • VM and physical.

Return on Investment

  • Cloud failover to reduce outages.
  • Only one product required.
  • Ability to use incremental.

Alternatives Considered

Veeam Backup & Replication