Druva Phoenix - great cloud based backup
September 25, 2020
Druva Phoenix - great cloud based backup
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Druva Phoenix
We use Druva Phoenix to backup all our virtual machines and files. Our tape backups were increasingly challenging to administer, particularly during the pandemic when we are not in the office, and moving to Phoenix has resolved this for us.
- Easy to deploy - Druva are a great company to deal with, and will help get things running, but like their other products, Phoenix is not difficult to implement if you know your stuff.
- Great de-duplication - backups are deduped across the entire estate, leading to very efficient storage usage.
- Phoenix is fast - backups complete quickly, even initial full backups are quick, relative to their size.
- The UI is good, but a bit inconsistent. Some types of backups are shown differently to others. It never gets in the way, but a bit more consistency would be good.
- The system is usage based, which is understandable, but a shock after using inSync, their other backup product, which is not. Careful planning and thought is needed if you are on a tight budget
- Removed the need to upgrade our on-prem storage for Veeam.
- Provided cloud-native backup and restore, removing the reliance on our own backup hardware.
- Veeam Backup & Replication
Druva has a much faster UI and is much quicker to work with. Significantly lower hardware and software requirements, but lacking site-site replication (in the base licensing tier, at least).