Item: Iron Cloud Data Protection
Rating: 8
Author: Verified User

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 and Cons

Bare Metal Restore.
Cloud Failover.
Backup Seeding.

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

Iron Cloud is suited to physical and virtual, not just one platform. Having the ability to run backups within the cloud significantly reduces outage times as you don't have to replace equipment and then download the backups to on-premise. One product for all your backups reduces the admin overhead of maintaining multiple systems.

Key Insights

Do you think Iron Cloud Data Protection delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Iron Cloud Data Protection's feature set?

Yes

Did Iron Cloud Data Protection live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Iron Cloud Data Protection go as expected?

I wasn't involved with the implementation phase

Would you buy Iron Cloud Data Protection again?

Yes

Likelihood to Recommend

Allows us to have one product that backs up both virtual and physical, rather than having to support and maintain multiple products. Suited to environments that have no physical failover, you can fail into cloud services to maintain uptime. Large support of systems supported, such as Solaris and AIX.

Combined Backup Solution.

Overall Satisfaction with Iron Cloud Data Protection