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Azure Site Recovery vs Druva Phoenix comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 14, 2024

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

Categories and Ranking

Azure Site Recovery
Ranking in Disaster Recovery as a Service
1st
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
26
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Druva Phoenix
Ranking in Disaster Recovery as a Service
9th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.3
Number of Reviews
10
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Backup (24th), Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (17th), SaaS Backup (14th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the Disaster Recovery as a Service category, the mindshare of Azure Site Recovery is 7.9%, down from 18.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Druva Phoenix is 5.5%, up from 3.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Disaster Recovery as a Service Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Azure Site Recovery7.9%
Druva Phoenix5.5%
Other86.6%
Disaster Recovery as a Service
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer2142519 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Long-term user praises cost savings and reliability of disaster recovery solutions
There is only one thing to note: the agent has to be up-to-date when SCCM or any third-party tools are doing patching activities. If their agent version is mismatched and the health status is critical, you will not be able to perform your Azure Site Recovery. Recently, I worked with a mass issue related to Recovery Services Vault, and the VM support engineers are taking a lot of time to extend support to the customer. When you raise a call, they wait too long, and even if you request an engineer to set up a call for severity B cases, they are not ready to communicate over the phone, preferring email instead.
ZubeenAhmad - PeerSpot reviewer
Sales Support Associate at Murdoch Webster
Cloud backup has reduced storage costs and now delivers fast, reliable data recovery
My overall experience in this field is seven years. The deployment model I have chosen for Druva Phoenix is mostly cloud-based backup. Government authorities and government customers majorly opt for on-premises deployment, but we have a very limited customer segment from that area. Druva Phoenix primarily operates on a private cloud, with some customers utilizing hybrid cloud solutions. If I assess the effectiveness of backup features in Druva Phoenix, particularly in minimizing operational disruptions, I would rate it as a very strong 9 or 9.5 on a scale of 10. I am not using Druva Data Security Cloud. My overall review rating for Druva Phoenix is 9.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Provides generally good performance, from protection to production to failover to data recovery."
"The solution is very easy to use."
"The most valuable feature is the visibility of what is happening with our business as well as the good reporting and dashboards."
"The solution is secure, reliable, and scalable."
"Azure Site Recovery is obviously a time-saving solution, and I can write PowerShell scripts to automate failover on or off processes."
"Azure Site Recovery helps to save costs."
"The most valuable features of Azure Site Recovery are its ease of use and speed of recovery."
"Azure Site Recovery's automated file synchronization was a game-changer in managing legacy systems."
"I would definitively say that we have been able to make our people more productive by at least 30%."
"The most valuable features of Druva Phoenix are the simple portal to log in and flexibility."
"We chose the best one that works for us which was Druva Phoenix."
"Druva Phoenix provides a return on investment and operational cost reductions after implementation."
"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."
"Druva Phoenix is easy to use and easy to start with."
"It's patch-based, so you don't have to bother about the backup server or the repository."
"The solution is great for companies that need backup capabilities."
 

Cons

"Currently, Azure Site Recovery does not support shared disk options. Moreover, it does not support services like AppConfig or App Services."
"The support team took a lot of time to respond and was not very professional."
"The pricing predictability and clarity around the final cost of the plan of this solution could be improved."
"I would like to see more security features."
"It could include more of a backup and recovery."
"In the newest version of Azure Site Recovery, the configuration was a little more complex, so this is an area for improvement."
"The product's performance is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The tool should improve synchronization."
"Druva Phoenix should include a few reporting features that it doesn't provide currently."
"Deploying it in a hybrid cloud model involves some minor complexities, though nothing represents a significant challenge."
"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."
"Druva Phoenix could be improved if they provided bare metal recovery for physical servers, which would be beneficial for server deployment."
"Although, sometimes there is a restriction with the number of OS platforms that this solution supports."
"The product's pricing needs to be improved."
"The price is always one of those things that you always look to just improve if you're a not-for-profit organization."
"There is room for improvement in the reporting aspect of Druva Phoenix."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Azure Site Recovery is affordable."
"I'm not sure about the Azure Site Recovery pricing, but my organization gets monthly bills from providers."
"Azure Site Recovery is a very reasonably priced product."
"The tool's licensing is yearly and not expensive."
"The tool is expensive. What is expensive to me might not be expensive to you. As I mentioned, we seek ways to reduce our costs. If the price goes down, that would be great. I rate the tool's pricing a six out of ten."
"Azure Site Recovery is neither very expensive nor very cheap."
"They have a license to pay."
"It should have more straightforward billing. The billing was what got funky. It was really cheap. We would pay based on the usage. We paid around $225 a month for site-to-site replication."
"I assume clients use Druva Phoenix because it is cheaper than other products."
"It's very costly. Normal people wouldn't understand how their credits are calculated. It's pretty complex."
"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."
"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
Financial Services Firm
10%
Outsourcing Company
10%
Construction Company
9%
Comms Service Provider
9%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Comms Service Provider
9%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Computer Software Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business9
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise14
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business6
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise2
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Azure Site Recovery?
A major advantage is that you do not want to pay any more for huge costs to build a DR site. It is very flexible and will save your cost.
What needs improvement with Azure Site Recovery?
The flexibility of Azure Site Recovery regarding integration with different IT environments is limited; it is purely an Azure platform service for business continuity, not meant for integration wit...
What is your primary use case for Azure Site Recovery?
My main use case for Azure Site Recovery is that we are doing cross-region disaster recovery and processing.
What needs improvement with Druva Phoenix?
While Druva Phoenix is a good solution for a cloud-to-cloud environment, such as moving from AWS to another AWS, I see complexity when a customer wants to move from a physical environment or a phys...
What is your primary use case for Druva Phoenix?
Druva Phoenix is for server backups on cloud, which is the deployment model chosen by my customers. While Druva Phoenix is a good solution for a cloud-to-cloud environment, such as moving from AWS ...
What advice do you have for others considering Druva Phoenix?
Many customers use Druva Phoenix's continuous data protection feature, but not for Phoenix. Not for Phoenix because Phoenix is server backups, and you generally do not keep continuous backup for se...
 

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Sample Customers

Russell Reynolds Associates, Union Insurance, Rackspace
TRC Companies, Family Health Network, GulfMark Offshore, Pall Corporation
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