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We performed a comparison between Druva Phoenix and Quest Rapid Recovery based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Pros
"Druva Phoenix is easy to use and easy to start with.""I found the cost-effectiveness of Druva Phoenix to be its most valuable feature, especially when compared to on-premises backup solutions.""The most valuable features of Druva Phoenix are the simple portal to log in and flexibility.""Once you set it up and you tell it exactly what needs to be backed up, you literally forget about it. It sends you emails and notifications of the current status of the jobs.""I would definitively say that we have been able to make our people more productive by at least 30%."

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"Built-in encryption helps to secure our data as it travels from our on-site server to our off-site backup server.""Probably the point-in-time recovery is most valuable. The other piece that is really nice is that you can mount a whole server at any point in time. So, you can mount the server with all the drives to a Z drive or something like that. It will just mount it all up, and your data is accessible right there on one drive, which is nice.""The compression and deduplication features have helped to save on storage costs.""It is very easy to use and very easy to manage. The fact that I can easily recover data is valuable. I don't use it much. The only way I have been using it is that sometimes, people ask to recover the data, which is a very easy process. It takes only a few minutes to get in and get the data from the server.""The general backup for replication and virtual standby are the most valuable aspects. It does what it says it does. It's a decent tool for not a big budget.""The local mount utility is most valuable. I do restores fairly regularly. Thankfully, I have not ever lost an entire server that I've had to resurrect, but I certainly have people who erroneously saved over a file or have deleted a file. So, we've done that quite a bit. We still have the DL4000 appliance, and we had, kind of, extrapolated that out over a five-year period. Now, we're in year six, so we had to add storage, which we did as a SAN next to DL4000, but prior to adding in that extra storage, we, here and there, would run into situations where for whatever reason, it would want to be pulling a new base image, and then we would run out of storage. So, we would utilize the archive feature and archive the old data that we want to hang on to, but we don't necessarily need it taking up current data storage. Being able to export out really old data is most valuable to us. Then, we just store that on a NAS that we keep in another building.""The best feature of the solution is the user interface.""The most valuable feature is the disaster recovery process from the data center."

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Cons
"Druva Phoenix should include a few reporting features that it doesn't provide currently.""Druva Phoenix is optimized to work with x86 platforms, making it unsuitable for backing up non-x86 architectures like AIX. The solution is primarily designed for physical Linux and Windows systems based on the x86 architecture, as well as virtualized Windows and Linux environments. However, if you have an AIX system, it cannot be deployed in the cloud, and therefore, backing it up in the cloud is not a concern.""There is room for improvement in the reporting aspect of Druva Phoenix.""They were able to give us a very reasonable price considering we were non-for-profit organizations, however, there is always room for improvement on that cost."

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"There could be better space management for incremental data. When you use incremental data, the space in the appliance keeps on going up. There should be a better way to manage the space. You have to manage the incremental data to reduce the time.""When you do a full backup, all of the memory resources on the server are used, which is something that should be improved.""Sometimes, when we have certain batches for Windows, it needs to be restarted. When it's restarted, the service is configured as a delayed start. Sometimes, you need to wait too long until it rights itself, or you have to do it manually.""I think the self-paced learning and knowledge base can always be improved so that users can self-service without having to contact either a reseller or Quest. I know there are things that I would have been looking for to try and solve. And the only way I could get there was to actually open a ticket rather than go through self-service through the portal.""It's buggy. That's a big problem. We're arranging to get rid of it. We're going to switch to Veeam.""It is quite surprising to me that the configuration cannot be backed up automatically, and I think that Rapid Recovery should have an option for scheduled configuration backup.""The on-premises deployment model shouldn't have a maintenance fee. If there's going to be technical support, they need it to be free or it should be paid on upon adopting the solution.""Rapid Recovery can only backup the machine or disc, but it can't back up from folders, and files, and things like that."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "We’ve had experience with the data center for a while and we have had solutions that were able to support older versions of the operating systems that we needed. I would like for Druva to support it as well."
  • "Druva Phoenix's pricing is based on the service provided, and it's reasonable. The cost of the service will depend on the size of your data and the number of virtual machines being backed up. However, the pricing structure is straightforward and easy to understand."
  • "I assume clients use Druva Phoenix because it is cheaper than other products."
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  • "It's very expensive which is why I want to drop it. They charge us per core and we have a six-core server. It's expensive to pay for maintenance charges. I want to switch to something cheaper."
  • "It is a little expensive. However, I haven't compared it to other solutions. Being a nonprofit, it is always good to have nonprofit discounts on products."
  • "I don't think the licensing for the product is very expensive."
  • "Licensing fees are based on the amount of data that you want to store, which is related to how many customers you want to cover."
  • "I believe the basic license comes with six terabytes, whereas a lot of the other ones are four terabytes. From the price point, it seemed a lot better than the comparative models, such as Datto, Barracuda, and some of the others. I believe Barracuda was about $15,000 for four terabytes, and Quest was around $12,000 for six terabytes. Pricing is based on the period. There is just the maintenance fee that you have to pay annually, or you can pay for a three-year or four-year contract. This includes Premier Support."
  • "When I purchased the change to the license, it was $1,600. I think that was for changing the license. I don't believe that I had to purchase technical support in a while, so I must've bought maybe for five years, but I don't feel there was a huge cost involved in technical support. Its cost was definitely worth it because we've had a fantastic experience with them."
  • "Its price is okay. It is reasonable in terms of the way it works."
  • "I'm not aware of the exact cost of Quest Rapid Recovery because I'm from the technical team, but in general, the solution is quite competitive cost-wise."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:Druva Phoenix is easy to use and easy to start with.
    Top Answer:Druva Phoenix should include a few reporting features that it doesn't provide currently. Druva Phoenix provides very few preconfigured reports. We do not have the option to get ad hoc reports.
    Top Answer:We use Druva Phoenix for backing up virtual environments, physical servers, and a few SQL workloads.
    Top Answer:The most valuable feature of Quest Rapid Recovery for our organization is the VM recovery functionality.
    Top Answer:I'm not aware of the exact cost of Quest Rapid Recovery because I'm from the technical team, but in general, the solution is quite competitive cost-wise.
    Top Answer:One area where Quest Rapid Recovery has room for improvement is in the handling of snapshots on Hyper-V. After the retention period, the snapshots on Hyper-V are automatically deleted, even though the… more »
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    Overview

    Druva Phoenix is a comprehensive cloud-based data protection and management solution that enables organizations to securely backup, recover, and manage their data across endpoints, physical servers, virtual machines, and cloud applications. With its scalable and flexible architecture, Druva Phoenix simplifies data protection and eliminates the need for traditional backup infrastructure.

    By leveraging the power of the cloud, Druva Phoenix offers organizations a cost-effective and efficient way to protect their critical data. It provides automated backup and recovery capabilities, ensuring that data is always protected and easily recoverable in the event of a disaster or data loss. With its global deduplication and compression technology, Druva Phoenix minimizes storage requirements and reduces costs.

    Druva Phoenix also offers advanced features such as point-in-time recovery, allowing organizations to restore data to a specific point in time, and granular file-level recovery, enabling users to recover individual files or folders. Its intuitive web-based console provides a centralized view of all protected data, making it easy to manage and monitor backups across the entire organization.

    In addition to data protection, Druva Phoenix offers comprehensive data management capabilities. It enables organizations to gain insights into their data through advanced analytics and reporting, helping them make informed decisions and optimize their storage resources. Druva Phoenix also supports legal and compliance requirements by providing eDiscovery capabilities and ensuring data is retained and disposed of according to regulatory guidelines.

    With its cloud-native architecture, Druva Phoenix offers organizations the flexibility to protect and manage their data across a wide range of environments, including on-premises, remote offices, and cloud applications such as Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace. It seamlessly integrates with popular cloud platforms like AWS and Azure, allowing organizations to leverage their existing cloud investments.

    Quest Rapid Recovery is a software solution that helps you recover your lost or deleted data quickly and easily. It works by scanning your hard drive for any traces of lost or deleted files, and then recovering them for you. You can use Quest Rapid Recovery to recover files from any type of storage device, including your computer's hard drive, an external hard drive, a USB flash drive, or even a memory card.

    Quest Rapid Recovery is easy to use and comes with a user-friendly interface. It also has a wide range of features that make it one of the most powerful data recovery tools available on the market today. Whether you need to recover a single file or your entire system, Quest Rapid Recovery is flexible enough to get the job done.

    The software offers simple solutions for backup and restoration. You can monitor and manage backup and recovery environments across multiple sites from one cloud-based management console. The software also tracks changed blocks to speed up backups and reduce storage usage. In addition, Quest Rapid Recovery deploys application-consistent backup with fast recovery for file servers and applications on both Microsoft Windows and Linux systems.

    Quest Rapid Recovery Features

    • Cloud archive: Stores your static data in Microsoft Azure, Amazon S3, Rackspace, or any OpenStack provider. This gives you more options for recovering your data. You can directly mount the archives to do a bare metal restore or a file-level restore.
    • Rapid snap for applications: Incremental-forever snapshots can be used to capture an entire application and its relevant state every 5 minutes, so that the application can be recovered quickly with near-zero downtime and minimal data loss.
    • Rapid snap for virtual: Protect your growing virtual environment by protecting VMware and Hyper-V VMs without disrupting applications and users.
    • Live recovery: Restores operations rapidly with an RTO of minutes.
    • Virtual standby: If the primary machine has any problems, the virtual machine will be activated to take its place.

    Quest Rapid Recovery Benefits

    • Offers the ability to easily back up data in the data center and in the cloud.

    • Allows users to return to work quickly and without any impact on their business.

    • Ensures you set recovery point objectives that are specific in order to reduce the risk of data loss.

    • Reduces the amount of storage space you need to back up your files and save money on backup costs.

    • Uses the cloud to back up, archive, and store your data in case of a disaster.

    • Functions as a single solution for both physical and virtual environments.

    Reviews from Real Users

    Quest Rapid Recovery stands out among its competitors for a number of reasons. Two major ones are its ability to greatly reduce backup and recovery time and its ability to mount an entire server.

    PeerSpot users take note of the advantages of these features in their reviews. Glenn R., an ICT network manager at St Christopher's School Hove, writes, “We have reduced our backup and recovery time by between 80% and 90%. Built-in encryption helps to secure our data as it travels from our on-site server to our off-site backup server.”

    Bill V., a systems and network administrator at a tech services company, notes, “Probably the point-in-time recovery is most valuable. The other piece that is really nice is that you can mount a whole server at any point in time. So, you can mount the server with all the drives to a Z drive or something like that. It will just mount it all up, and your data is accessible right there on one drive, which is nice."




    Sample Customers
    TRC Companies, Family Health Network, GulfMark Offshore, Pall Corporation
    PRIME aerostructures GmbH, Tamworth Regional Council, Rhondda Housing Association, Stadtwerke Pforzheim GmbH & Co., Guangdong Aiyingdao Childrens Department Store, Nspyre, Tarrant Technology Partners, CloudRunner
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company20%
    Comms Service Provider6%
    Healthcare Company6%
    Manufacturing Company6%
    REVIEWERS
    Government30%
    Energy/Utilities Company20%
    Performing Arts10%
    Educational Organization10%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company17%
    Government9%
    Financial Services Firm7%
    Manufacturing Company6%
    Company Size
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business31%
    Midsize Enterprise18%
    Large Enterprise51%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business67%
    Midsize Enterprise24%
    Large Enterprise10%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business39%
    Midsize Enterprise15%
    Large Enterprise46%
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    Druva Phoenix is ranked 13th in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software with 5 reviews while Quest Rapid Recovery is ranked 24th in Backup and Recovery with 18 reviews. Druva Phoenix is rated 8.8, while Quest Rapid Recovery is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Druva Phoenix writes "Cost-effective and has excellent technical support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Quest Rapid Recovery writes "Allows us to do point-in-time recovery and mount the whole server and saves quite a bit of time". Druva Phoenix is most compared with Azure Backup, Druva inSync, Veeam Backup & Replication, AWS Backup and Zerto, whereas Quest Rapid Recovery is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Quest NetVault, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), Azure Backup and Rubrik.

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