Systems Administrator
What do you like best about the product?
there are many nice features, the main thing is that it works without much attention.
What do you dislike about the product?
I would like the process of adding new users be changed so that a user would have to explicitly add their Druva account.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Basic backup.
Great Product
What do you like best about the product?
I like that we now do not have to worry about end users losing their data if they suffer from a catastrophic hardware failure.
What do you dislike about the product?
I wish that when migrating users over to a new computer that the first time you open Druva, that it would automatically log in with the logged in user and authenticate against AD instead of having to enter in their email and password manually.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Our two primary purposes for Druva was to secure end user data and to use it for migration purposes when we upgrade or replace their workstations. Albeit a small benefit, Druva migrates over a lot of custom settings that the end user has set.
Satisfied Customer
What do you like best about the product?
I like the ability that users can control some of the settings and the reliabiltiy of the restore process.
What do you dislike about the product?
Occasionally the backup sync process stops working
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Security and critical information is being stored in an secure environment
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Give it a try
Great tool, comes in handy.
What do you like best about the product?
When our users receive new laptops they can easily restore their data from their previous laptop with ease.
What do you dislike about the product?
I don't really have any dislikes about Druva.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
File restoration, Druva helps with Laptop refreshes, Windows refreshes to transfer data.
Very easy top notch company and answered all questions in very great detail.
What do you like best about the product?
Customer service with the product knowledge was superb. The amount of time that it took exceeded our expectations to get setup and into production.
What do you dislike about the product?
I do not see any negative things at this point in our implementation.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Druva Phoenix Cloud Backups
Good File Backup Solution
We switched to Druva Phoenix a few months ago. So far it has met most of our needs. Setup was extremely easy. It only took me a few hours to backup most of our servers. The solution is very fast and reliable while still having a very reasonable cost. Their data deduplication feature not only saves us money but it allowed us to be aware of how much duplicated data we had and was able to clean it up.
I gave the product 4 stars because it currently does only file and MS-SQL backups. I would like to see a system state backup which I am told is coming. If it had that then it would cover all of our needs.
The savings are real and this stuff works!!
We started looking into cloud backups after multiple acquisitions resulted in expensive and diverse backup scheme's across our enterprise. We needed a simple, inexpensive and scalable solution. We found that with Phoenix. Many of the other solutions we evaluated required us to manage our own infrastructure, yet they called themselves “backup solutions”; which really was just servers running on EC2 or supporting cloud storage endpoints. Further, and likely most importantly, the backup strategy they used wasn't as efficient as Druva’s Phoenix. The magic sauce that makes me so confident in this is the incremental forever and deduplication technology that Druva has invented. Where other technologies required taking full backups at set intervals (weekly/monthly) Druva doesn’t, after the initial seeding, it's always an incremental. The result is, lower cloud storage costs over time, shorter backup windows, and less requirements for bandwidth.
Continuous Data Protection for End-Users
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to deploy, use and manage. The software is very low impact on the system and overall bandwidth as a whole - our end users love that.
What do you dislike about the product?
Other than pricing, I have nothing to complaint about
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Continuous Data Protection for End-Users
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Try it before you buy it
Backup, simple and complete
What do you like best about the product?
Druva InSync is extremely simple to use and nearly 100% automated. You can be as selective as you want and choose only which file types or even which folders get backed up.
The interface is nice and clean, and very simple to perform a restore. Great product for the every-day users like me!
What do you dislike about the product?
The backups can get expensive based on their size, and it can be challenging to stay below your size limitations.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are using this products to backup our business users' Laptops while they're traveling and on the road. We've come across many instances where we needed to restore user information remotely, and it works!
The Past 6 Months with Druva Insync
What do you like best about the product?
Its very easy to configure, the learning curve for anyone new to the software is minimal.
The backups are very fast and you never notice a decrease in machine performance when they are running.
The maintenance of the software is very minimal.
The inSync share is a very easy way for users to share data with others, the password requirement is a very nice feature too.
When a user gets a new machine you simply backup the old, restore to the new and it takes less than 10 mins for most users, this is a phenomenal time saver.
Overall we are very impressed with Druva, even the reps are friendly and helpful. It has helped on more than one occasion to avoid data loss or a slow recovery.
What do you dislike about the product?
The only feature that we dislike currently is that the on-premise version of inSync gets updated much later than the cloud based version.
Having to wait so long for the new features can be frustrating but it is a very minimal complaint in the grand scheme of things
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The main benefit for us is the time to setup new machines, Under 10 mins from the time we receive the old machine until the data is restored and fully working.
We also have many traveling users so making sure we always have a backup of their data for when machines get broken saves so many problems down the line.
We have found when data corrupts on a hard drive it is not an issue either, you simple........restore to a new HDD/SSD its that simple and easy.
