It has not disappointed at all! We have a recurring meeting set up with a Druva rep to ensure our needs are being met.
We have been using Druva for a full year now. We were looking for a cloud backup solution for our Office 365 environment, and this does everything that we could possibly want it to do. The onboarding team has been fantastic as well.
The onboarding went very smoothly, and the features and capabilities are exactly what was advertised. We have just wrapped up our onboarding of the product, but we've been using it since April. Overall this is a very robust and intergrated suite. My main gripe is that the support team can do I better job of providing holistic support. I like the ability to create group reports in DPA. For client reporting we use DPA and direct notifications thru Networker. We are using Networker to backup systems that do not dedupe well and for systems that we backup straight to the cloud. We were also using Cloud boost to move older protected data off-premise and to the cloud, which worked nicely until we reached our storage licensed limit. No more installing the backup software, just set the tags and let it go. I like the ease of backing up VMs in the VMware environment once it has been setup. It is more cost effective to expand the Data Domain storage versus the previous implementation of expanding the Avamar grid. I like how everything is no consolidated on a Data Domain backend versus the storage being separate for Networker and Avamar. Data protection central can be used as the single pane of glass dashboard to the overall health of your backups using either Networker/Avamar.
The various software components and hardware appliances have worked well together.
UPDATE : Cohesity continues to shine in our organization! Read reviews We are backing up more data now, including our entire PACS imaging system, and have just made another investment in new nodes. UPDATE : We are still extremely pleased with Cohesity. Frankly, we all still have jobs and a functional hospital because we have had so much success with Cohesity. We still have a ways to go as we prioritize what comes up first, but it's been a very successful journey so far. With Cohesity, we've been able to recover machines and file shares, verify they're clean, and bring the applications back online. Our old backup solution would have not only been unsuccessful but would have forced us to rebuild a majority of our systems. We found a few problems with how we had configured some of our backup jobs (not a Cohesity issue, but something we did) but that's been a good learning opportunity for us as well. We have been recovering systems and file shares from known good backups without any real issues. Cohesity has literally saved us hundreds of hours of work and I'd say it prevented us from having to actually pay the ransom note. UPDATE 1-14-2021: Our organization suffered a critical ransomware attack, effectively crippling our entire infrastructure (some 600+ servers and 2500 PCs). We've had a few bugs in releases and other issues and their support staff has always been constant with their communications and provided solutions in a timely manner. On top of everything else this product offers, their support network has been incredible. After the initial setup of the application, creating new backup jobs takes minutes (compared to an hour+ in our previous system). Read reviewsĬohesity has been a true time saver for our organization. We are also performing replication jobs on the application. It is also very helpful for us to make data strategies according to the variation of jobs, storage and DR ratio. We are also using the VAC console to manage all our clients. As we have hybrid cloud infra, It provides cloud-native backup options. Its new cloud computing capabilities are very much appreciable. We have created one section in our ticketing tool for our backup tickets.
We are also using the email system in which the veeam sends data to a particular email. We are also calling the veeam backup and support team when we face any issues. We have more than 300 clients and out of which 200+ clients, Veeam has been installed and we are performing data storage for these clients. It also handles our Disaster recovery, When we have lost 62% of the server and this app has helped us to get through it. It is the best data recovery tool for us. The backup and job creation process is so simple and trustworthy. We are using this application for 4 years.