A low cost Cloud backup solution
What do you like best about the product?
Clumio is designed for Vcenter and makes AWS affordable for smaller data centers.
What do you dislike about the product?
Due to the nature of how it backs up, every time we have an unexpected outage, it takes a while to fix all the connecotrs. Those outages are rare.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Off-site cloud backups!
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you do any migrations or planned downtime, make sure you stop all your backups first.
Review of Clumio
We've been using Clumio for a couple of months now as an evaluation to replace our current backup provider.
We use it to backup EC2 instances (via AMIs), RDS databases, DynamoDB tables and a few selected S3 buckets.
So far it has been working out OK.
We've done various recovery testing and those have been successful.
The web user interface is pretty nice and intuitive.
The feature where you can run direct SQL queries against RDS backups is very nice, once you come up to speed on how to use it.
We also rely on the fact that the backups are outside our AWS account, unreachable in case our AWS account got compromised.
The only drawback for us so far is they only support a few AWS regions so we cannot cover 100% of our resources at this point using Clumio.
Support is very responsive and helpful.
The best backup for AWS
Great Sales and Engineering teams. I was able to completely replace AWS Backup with Clumio and their Sales and Engineering team worked with me through the process. I now have more efficient backups, better protection, reporting and at a lower cost. I have needed help several times and their support team not only resolves my issues but tells me how to do things in the best way possible. No one comes close to matching what Clumio can provide with backing up AWS resources.
The Backup Solution That Comes With a Support Team
What do you like best about the product?
Clumio's native AWS integration makes it an excellent fit for our business. I've never experienced a company with the level of proactive support of Clumio.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is quite a bit of setup on the AWS side, but it is for a benefit in the end.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The "air-gapped" functionality of this backup solution is perfect in a world with major corporate concerns for data security from nefarious actors.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you're looking for a cloud-native backup solution and excellent support, Clumio is a top-shelf choice. I have been impressed with their proactive support at every turn. They are aware of issues before I even have a chance to see them. Leveraging AWS's native tools means excellent performance and stability of backup and restore operations.
Clumio Review
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of deployment. Easy to understand the protal
What do you dislike about the product?
Occasional failures. Sometimes confusing to troubleshoot.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use it for offsite backups. We are replacing a much more complicated system.
Relieved
Hi,
I have been using EC2 AWS instances since a few years now. I am not an expert at data storage and backup. The instant I learned about Clumio I was hooked. It made so much sense to get a reliable backup copies of my AWS instances, and encrypted too! Plus it just happens in the background with no worries and all this at a very reasonable price.
Thanks
Excellent product!
Clumio is truly an outstanding product. The deployment process, management, usability, and insight have been great. I believe it is the best solution on the market right now.
Simple and excellent solution for data protection challenges with fantastic people supporting it!
What do you like best about the product?
The simplicity of implementation along with the support staff around the solution made the rollout quick and easy. Clumio's support staff (Puneet, Kedar, Yash, and Vijish) are proactive and responsive, providing easy solutions to Clumio-identified data protection issues. However, our sales team of Marc Anderson and Luke McCleary were top notch, from first introductions to regular check-ins to ensure our implementation was smooth and provide information on upcoming feature updates.
What do you dislike about the product?
The product is still a bit young and some common UI features, such as dashboard drill-down, are still in the works.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are not having any issues with Clumio. We have seen our backup windows decrease along with the amount of resources required to manage our data protection processes.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you are looking for a simple solution to the complex challenges of data protection, reach out to Clumio.
Forward thinking company with phenomenal software capabilities!
What do you like best about the product?
The elimination of physical and on-prem backup management
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing, no real downsides so far.......
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We wanted to eliminate the need for on-prem backup systems, reduce costs, and allow for rapid recovery of our systems. Clumio checks all of the boxes.
Clumio: The Backup Headache Medicine
What do you like best about the product?
There really is a tie for what I like best about Clumio:
First is the ease of setup. 10 minutes and you are ready to backup vSphere VMs. another 10 and AWS EC2/RDS is covered. No storage arrays to configure and maintain, no tape libraries, no media management, no guest OS agents to update and troubleshoot.
The second is how proactive their support is. Yes, I said proactive. If issues happen in my backup, I get an email from a live person in their support team before I have even had a chance to wrap my head around the automated support email.
What do you dislike about the product?
The permissions in the Clumio console are still a little too broad, without much granularity for who has access to what specific portions.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Since migrating to Clumio, we no longer have to maintain, and life-cycle expensive storage arrays and tape libraries just to maintain our backup infrastructure. This has allowed us to reduce overall cost year over year. In addition, Clumio has enabled us to get true off-site backups for all critical systems, and has reduced our backup window days to hours, allowing for more agility in planning maintenance windows.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Give them a serious consideration for backups. I was able to reclaim a significant amount of time for myself and my team but not having to manage traditional backup infrastructure.
