BDRSuite Backup & Replication vs Druva Phoenix comparison

Vembu Technologies and Druva are both solutions in the Disaster Recovery (DR) Software category. Vembu Technologies is ranked #7 with an average rating of 8.3, while Druva is ranked #11 with an average rating of 8.6. Vembu Technologies holds a 1.6% mindshare in DRS, compared to Druva’s 0.9% mindshare. Additionally, 91% of Vembu Technologies users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 87% of Druva users who would recommend it.

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87% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 15, 2024

BDRSuite Backup & Replication and Druva Phoenix are competing in the backup and replication software market. Druva Phoenix generally has the upper hand due to its advanced cloud-native features and seamless integration capabilities.

Features: BDRSuite offers diverse backup options with instant restore, cross-platform support, and flexible deployment across environments. Druva Phoenix is recognized for its cloud-native capabilities, excellent scalability, and robust data recovery, offering seamless integration with cloud services.

Room for Improvement: BDRSuite could improve its cloud integration and scalability. Enhancements in user interface design and more automation in backup processes could also be beneficial. Druva Phoenix might benefit from extending its ransomware protection to more platforms, improving AI features for better analytics, and reducing its complexity to enhance user experience.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: BDRSuite can be easily deployed with traditional software installation, offering personalized customer support that addresses setup concerns efficiently. Druva Phoenix's SaaS-based model allows rapid cloud deployment with comprehensive documentation and support, appealing to enterprises aiming to minimize deployment time.

Pricing and ROI: BDRSuite provides a cost-effective solution, maximizing returns with a minimal investment, suitable for budget-conscious organizations. Druva Phoenix, although bearing higher initial costs for its advanced cloud solutions, offers significant long-term ROI through enhanced efficiencies and potential cost savings.

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Categories and Ranking

BDRSuite Backup & Replication

Ranking in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software

7th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Backup and Recovery (7th), MSP Backup (1st)

Druva Phoenix

Ranking in Disaster Recovery (DR) Software

11th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Backup (16th), Disaster Recovery as a Service (5th), SaaS Backup (7th)

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the Disaster Recovery (DR) Software category, the mindshare of BDRSuite Backup & Replication is 1.6%, up from 1.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Druva Phoenix is 0.9%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Redha Benlaksira

Technical Sales Director (Owner) at HSR IT Services SARL

The ability to maintain multiple restore points is critical because it lets customers choose to restore their data to an hour or a day ago

BDRSuite is better than competing solutions because it can protect, back up, and recover data. A feature called live migration allows you to recover the same data in different environments. For example, I can back up the data from a VMware machine and restore it to a Hyper-V. You can also create repositories and back up environments to a cloud platform like GCP and AWS S3 buckets. BDRSuite allows you to back up virtual machines hosted on an EC3 instance or Microsoft 365 mailboxes, SharePoint, etc. The solution allows us to recover data instantly. We can recover all our data in under 15 minutes. In a virtual environment, we can recover a virtual machine and all its data in under 15 minutes. It's the same for a NAS, SAN, or DAS disk. The ability to boot instantly enables customers to maintain their business operations without interruption. BDRSuite's ability to maintain multiple restore points is critical because it gives customers the option to restore their data to an hour or a day ago. They can choose a full, incremental, or synthetic backup. Incremental backup makes sense if you are backing up the same data daily and you want to save space and network resources. It only backs up the differences or updates in every block. I've worked with lots of backup solutions, and BDRSuite is the easiest to use. It's simple to install and create backup jobs. It doesn't require many tasks to install the solution. You can easily back up and restore from one console

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Ratnodeep Roy

Lead Consultant at Stratogent

Patch-based system, offers network flexibility but Logs are not very informative for regular users

The ransomware features are limited in Druva. There's a lot of improvement needed. It should extend to Nutanix and Hyper-V. It should extend to Azure as well. A lot of people are looking for ransomware scans, but Druva doesn't support them. Veeam barely supports them over Azure Virtual Machines. It doesn't support Linux Virtual Machines. NetApp and Commvault don't have such features. Acronis is also limited. In Azure, you have Azure Defender, but that works extensively on cloud storage, not on the servers. So, backup companies like Druva need to work a lot on ransomware protection and detection. These companies need to work a lot on ransomware detection, protection and more. Ransomware protection doesn't work in this hash-based transfer mirroring. If I only have to find this hash and feed it to the Druva end. It's sometimes not possible. It will struggle when the workloads are more than a hundred machines. It's not possible to find the hash of each file and provide it to Druva. So, this needs to be fully automated. If I were scanning with some technology, maybe signature-based scanning, behavioral-based, or keyword-based scanning. I can put this FHA, maybe SIEMs as well. But Druva is very limited. It's already in an active stage. I don't like that they don't extend all the features to all the workloads. These features are minimal compared to those of its competitors. For instance, I have one customer who was looking for Druva, but since they have Azure machines, they couldn't find a way to restore a particular file. Druva doesn't provide Azure virtual machine single file restore. It doesn't make sense to build a product and then it doesn't support it. Customers really struggle. Some customers tried Druva so that they don't have to think about setting up a separate network, but Druva is making things critical by not providing all the things at once and gradually releasing them. It's been more than six months or one year since they started their virtual machines, but there is no single file restore. Every time you have to restore the VM, and then from there, you can get the file. Why would people go with Druva if they have to manage backup machines? Nowadays, backup product companies need to be aggressive and adopt themselves in this highly changing world of AI and ML.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"We are now using it 24/7 because it is serving as an online backup, and very soon, the DR will activated on the product."

"I get my backups done."

"Adding and removing backup jobs using BDRSuite is easy and also includes great documentation."

"The smooth implementation is the most valuable aspect of BDRSuite."

"The most valuable features for me are that I can back up the entire virtual machine, but when restoring I can restore at the file level."

"Their support is great. I think they work 24 hours a day. I get a very quick turnaround time from them no matter the day or time that I send them an email."

"When you're looking at your dashboard, you can see all your active jobs. You can see exactly if they're successful or failed and you can actually drill down and see what caused the problem. The fact you can see that right away is nice."

"The scalability is good. It can scale. Adding a new server to a foreign location is easy."

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"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."

"It's patch-based, so you don't have to bother about the backup server or the repository."

"I would definitively say that we have been able to make our people more productive by at least 30%."

"I found the cost-effectiveness of Druva Phoenix to be its most valuable feature, especially when compared to on-premises backup solutions."

"Druva Phoenix is easy to use and easy to start with."

"The initial setup was very straightforward."

Cons

"Maybe they can add some features regarding working with the vCenter cluster to be able to have more power over the cluster overall, not just over a single or specific host. Also, I would like some enhancements in technology for the web interface, e.g., some interactive technologies to advance the interface of Vembu. Although the current interface is very good, maybe they can use more advanced technologies for its web development."

"It's not that stable yet. Every two weeks, my backup will stop and I have to check it."

"One thing that I reported with the backups: When there are accentuated characters in a path, then we can't restore documents into a folder. There is a bug with the restoration and restoring files with accentuated characters in the path. Hopefully, they have repaired this because otherwise we will restore files and find out that they are not there."

"It would be good to have a volume licensing discount. We're a managed IT service provider, so we're backing up not just our own systems but all our clients'. In that regard, as we grow, we're putting business through Vembu. There is not any specific partner incentive at all. So that would be nice to see."

"There were issues with the implementation because of incompatibilities between the tool implementation and our current VMware installation. So, it was an implementation issue that doesn't allow me to use it for VMware backup in the manner in which we would want to use it. That wasn't clear from the evaluation stage nor was it clear from the first utilization of it because it worked in the environment that it was being evaluated in. Based on that, we went ahead and made the purchase of the full implementation. At that point, it became clear that there would be limitations in that implementation that could not be overcome without doing upgrades to the production environment."

"I don't know if it exists, but it would be helpful to get email notifications when there are issues with the backup. I'm sure it probably exists, but I just don't know how to do it. They also have an Azure proxy feature where you can restore to Azure. It's not really well documented. I think they should document how to do that a little better."

"The reporting can use some improvement. I still use the old StoreGrid Cloud while I'm migrating the rest of my clients over. I am able to export all of my clients' usage for the month, which I then import into my billing program. It helps me speed up the billing process. Also, I can generate a report that gives me statuses of everyone's backup, which I don't get from Vembu Backup Online either. I would like to have something similar where I can export everyone's usage at any time for all their backups, so I can use that to import them to my billing program."

"I saw that it's not possible to have the last full backup duplicated on our site. Therefore, if I have a lot of information on the main site, I would not want to copy any information to those site servers. It would be nice to be able to make a copy of the last full backup."

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"Druva Phoenix should include a few reporting features that it doesn't provide currently."

"The ransomware features are limited in Druva. There's a lot of improvement needed. It should extend to Nutanix and Hyper-V. It should extend to Azure as well."

"There is room for improvement in the reporting aspect of Druva Phoenix."

"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."

"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."

"The product's pricing needs to be improved."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"BDRSuite is competitively priced."

"It's just the license per host with one CPU, but if I did choose offsite cloud replication, they do charge for the data. They charge per gigabyte, or something like that. They have plans."

"The subscription model that we're signed up for is very good. The only thing that is something of a sticking point is the fact that you can't do PO-based licensing. It's all just credit card."

"The pricing is very good."

"For our needs, the price of the backup system is not too much... We checked out Veeam and Acronis but both were very expensive compared to Vembu."

"The license is per unit and is expensive."

"I've purchased and been licensed for one aspect of it, which is my preferred method, but the pricing and licensing will not work for the short-term and I can't draw back."

"I think it is a good value for the price."

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"I assume clients use Druva Phoenix because it is cheaper than other products."

"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."

"It's very costly. Normal people wouldn't understand how their credits are calculated. It's pretty complex."

"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."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

87%

Retailer

Educational Organization

Financial Services Firm

Computer Software Company

22%

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

Comms Service Provider

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about BDRSuite?

The best part of BDRSuite is how user-friendly it is and how it does not require any maintenance after the initial setup.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for BDRSuite?

BDRSuite is cost-effective because you can purchase a perpetual license that covers multiple environments. You only renew the support costs annually. It offers advanced features at roughly 75 perce...

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What needs improvement with BDRSuite?

I had a small problem integrating VMware and Hyper-V when customers used a free VMware license to create VMs. This is a problem because many customers use the free version of VMware. There are also...

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What do you like most about Druva Phoenix?

Druva Phoenix is easy to use and easy to start with.

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What needs improvement with Druva Phoenix?

The product's pricing needs to be improved. Including more flexible feature sets such as options for sending secondary backups to different locations would be beneficial.

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What is your primary use case for Druva Phoenix?

We utilized the product to modernize backup as a service, eliminating the need for extensive hardware and ensuring data is securely backed off-site.

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Vembu BDRSuite

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Overview

BDRSuite by Vembu offers comprehensive and cost-effective Backup and Disaster Recovery software tailored to meet the diverse data protection requirements of Businesses and Service Providers. BDRSuite provides robust backup solutions for a wide range of IT workloads, including virtual machines, servers, endpoints, SaaS applications, cloud VMs, NAS/File Shares, and databases & applications. It offers the flexibility to store backups anywhere and centrally manage the entire backup infrastructure.

BDRSuite is designed to help businesses keep their data secure and ensure it is easily recoverable in the event of data loss or ransomware attacks. With BDRSuite, businesses can achieve reliable data protection and ensure business continuity – all at an affordable price.

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PRICING DETAILS

VMs, Servers & Cloud Backup at $48 per workload/year (VMware, Hyper-V, KVM, oVirt, Proxmox, Windows, Linux, AWS, Azure, File Share-500 GB)

Endpoint/Workstation Backup at $12 per endpoint/year (Windows, Linux, Mac)

SaaS Backup at $12 per user/year (Microsoft 365, Google Workspace)

DBs & Applications Backup at $72 per application/year (SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Microsoft Exchange Server, SharePoint Server)

Vembu Technologies

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.

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Sample Customers

NASA, Intel, CISCO, PHILIPS, Atos, HEXAWARE, Motorola

TRC Companies, Family Health Network, GulfMark Offshore, Pall Corporation

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