Druva Backup - A Life Saver for Data Loss
December 03, 2015
Druva Backup - A Life Saver for Data Loss
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Druva
Druva has used by our organization more than five years. We have been using it for our backup purposes for laptop and mobile devices. It is being used across the whole organization. It address one of our prolonging business issues of data loss due to theft or hard disk failure.
- The first and foremost thing about Druva is user friendliness for both administrators and users.
- Easy deployment and upgrades of clients.
- User is able to recover the data by themselves by using web or client.
- No performance lagging issues when Druva is installed.
- Only thing I am expecting are slight security improvements.
- While doing .pst files backup, it should compress at much as possible. Since these days users have more data in mail than [the] system.
- After upgrading to new version, the ability to roll back to the older version in case of any issues.
- Better consumer cervice
- ROI for data recovery on hard disk failures. We are saving INR 50000 per month. We are able to get all the data from Druva.
- Best compression ratio which leads to minimum storage uUtilization. since we are using the on-premise setup.
- Vaultize and Open Source
Best in class features like data deduplication, compression, user friendliness and easy client deployment - these are the features which stacks up Druva against others.
Druva Data Resiliency Cloud Feature Ratings
Using Druva
400 - All Functions Like HR,R&D,Operation,IT, Sales and Service
10 - They know basic administration skills on a laptop.
Knowledge of Druva inSync
Knowledge of Druva inSync
- Regular backup, in case a user has mistakenly deleted data we can recover and provide it within seconds without any delay.
- Whole data recovery if hard disk crash or laptop loss.
- Recovery from mobile devices apart from laptop.
- Data recovery from Ipad if device is lost
- Inclusion of .pst files with compression ratio
- Exclusion of program files
- We are planning to expand it across our group companies
- Taking backup of data from our area office users
- Increasing the storage of the current one with latest storage technologies
Evaluating Druva and Competitors
- Price
- Product Features
- Product Usability
- Product Reputation
- Vendor Reputation
- Analyst Reports
- Third-party Reviews
Product Features - They should support all my requirements.
I would follow my same evaluation process - trying out, reading the reviews, preparing reports etc.
Druva Implementation
- Implemented in-house
Change management was a big part of the implementation and was well-handled -
- Took the scenarios first
- Identified Issues and Users
- Implemented Druva phase by phase
- Availability of users
- Storage for data backup
- Resources to deploy the software
Druva Training
Configuring Druva
Yes - we have customized the interface extensively - Based on our requirements we have configured our UI.
No - we have not done any custom code
Druva Support
| Pros | Cons |
|---|---|
Quick Resolution Good followup Knowledgeable team Problems get solved Kept well informed No escalation required Immediate help available Support understands my problem Support cares about my success Quick Initial Response | None |
Yes - We need support in case critical issues happened that our in house support team wasn't able to solve.
One time, during a server migration from physical to VM, my server hard disk went to non operational mode where my Druva storage is located. Due to this, the user's backup didn't happen. When I made a request, Druva support people took the remote session and collected the logs and analyzed them. Within hours they came back with a solution and we did the recovery successfully.
Using Druva
| Pros | Cons |
|---|---|
Like to use Relatively simple Easy to use Technical support not required Well integrated Consistent Quick to learn Convenient Feel confident using Familiar | None |
- My first choice is user based recovery at any time
- Easy client deployment and upgrade
- Policy configurations are very user friendly
- Roll up to old version in case the new version is having issues
Yes - It is working very good and is very user friendly.