The luxury automobile of cloud backups
September 03, 2020

The luxury automobile of cloud backups

Russell Corrao | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Druva Phoenix

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
  • Our ROI has increased due to the combination of having fewer backup solutions and cheaper storage per TB than previously relied upon vendors.
  • Peace of mind that it works well and can be relied on when needed
We use Druva Phoenix for both Windows Hyper-V and VMware vCenter vSphere and physical environments. These machines are a mix of databases and file storage servers. We rely on Phoenix to backup remote physical servers without needing expensive onsite hardware that cannot be easily managed due to distance from available onsite staffing due to work from home restrictions.
In the past we used multiple vendors to accomplish our backup requirements. This was costly and time-consuming to manage. Staff had to know how to use different software and hardware platforms, which posed challenges with experience levels. Managing support contracts also for those platforms was a burden.

When we switched to Druva Phoenix, we were able to consolidate our backups into one platform with one support contract that was apart of the yearly backup costs. We didn't need all of the onsite hardware we had and were able to save money for future projects.
It works well, it is easy to use, and it's flexible in accomplishing its missions.
Every support request I had was completed in a timely fashion with satisfactory results. Every scenario posed to support was met with experienced staff that assisted and helps us accomplish our goals and provide protection to a host of different technologies.
Druva stacks up well against its competitors. I do not remember it being at a disadvantage in any category. Phoenix couldn't provide message-level restore on an on-premise Exchange server but after we moved to the cloud that requirement went away.
Veeam Backup & Replication, Barracuda Backup
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.

Druva Phoenix Feature Ratings

Incremental backup identification
10
Backup to the cloud
10
Deduplication and file compression
10
Management dashboard
7
Retention options
10
Encryption
10