What Our Customers Say

“When it took our old backup product almost 24 hours to restore the server, we knew it was time for a change. With the help of our consultant Paul Sciacca at CloneMasters, we found a great product that met all our needs for local and virtual backup and quick restores to and from the cloud. We are so confident of the results we’ve seen thus far that we back up our critical systems (Exchange, SQL and File Server) to Amazon S3 via PHD’s CloudHook to ensure adequate protection in the event of an unplanned disaster.”

“PHD Virtual has released a great cloud backup offering. My customers now have a great offsite backup option, as they can backup directly to my cloud. The cost benefit with our cloud is very attractive. It’s very easy to use, just a few clicks. And it’s secure because the data is encrypted both in transmit and at rest. Furthermore data will be stored in a local German datacenter. I’m glad to see PHD has such a robust strategy as it relates to data protection and the cloud.” 

“PHD Virtual has built an excellent, cost effective product that just works. I am sold on the company direction and look forward to CloudHook, their upcoming cloud integration component. I wish I knew about this product in a previous role, where I had a lager environment, and was spending millions of dollars on backups alone!” 

“I’ve used a lot of backup products over the years. PHD is by far the easiest, fastest, and most reliable product I’ve ever used. No more agents on my VM’s. No more long restores. PHD has made my life a lot easier.”

“The biggest issue I had with Zmanda backup was the inability to do quick and clean file and VM restores. And that’s kind of the point of backup software, right? So I found PHD Virtual Backup and they provided and easy to use virtual backup solution that doesn’t cost an arm and a leg. They have multiple different restore options including full VM, file level, instant (where you instantly recover a VM by running it from your backup storage) and rollback (which allows me to just restore changes over the top of an existing VM, without having to restore the whole thing). I love the flexibility I have with PHD Virtual Backup.”

“I looked at all the virtual backup options as part of a project for internal data protection, and I needed something to offer to my clients. I narrowed it down to PHD Virtual and Veeam. PHD just had a much simpler deployment approach; deploying as a virtual appliance instead of having to setup another Windows box to run the software. Their replication is also highly efficient. They replicate directly from backups so you do not have to snapshot the VM again for replication. Lastly, customer support is excellent. I am always able to talk to someone knowledgeable about any questions I have.”

“I was running Veeam but backups would randomly fail and that is obviously not a good thing. Then I found PHD Virtual which was much easier to use, cheaper and gave me reliable backups.”

“Time is always scarce. Once you finish one project there’s five more behind that. I use PHD Virtual Backup for VMware because it’s incredibly simple to setup and configure. That’s what I need in backup and recovery software, simplicity and reliability. PHD Virtual provides both at a price point that is significantly less than competitors offering the same thing.”

"I've been using PHD Virtual products for years.  I currently use PHD Virtual Backup for VMware to protect my own infrastructure.  In addition, I recommend PHD Virtual products to my consulting clients.  The ability to leverage VMware changed block tracking has allowed me to dramatically shorten my backup window.  The dedupe datastore storage of virtual full backups allows me to retain many more backups than I was able to previously.  The ability to do lightning fast file level restores from those deduped backups is simply fantastic.  When there is an issue, PHD Virtual support is great to work with.  However, the real "piece de resistance" for me, is the ability to replicate all of my VMs offsite each night and occasionally boot them up at the DR site for testing with no impact on my production systems.  In summary, PHD Virtual Backup for VMware helps me sleep better at night knowing my data is properly protected."

"I have a lot of experience dealing with vendors. Two of the major players in VMware backup are Veeam and PHD Virtual. We chose to partner with and implement PHD, primarily due to price and agility. There’s no question PHD costs less than Veeam, while providing basically the same functionality. But they are also much more responsive to customer needs and feature requests. It’s nice to know that some companies out there still do listen to their customers, and respond accordingly, instead of just being out for the almighty buck.”

“We’ve been dealing with ever shrinking backup windows for a while now. It got to the point where we almost weren’t hitting them with Backup Exec. That’s when I knew I needed to make a change. I found PHD Virtual which seamlessly deployed in our virtual infrastructure, providing fast, reliable backups, at a price that didn’t break the bank!”

"I was initially attracted to PHD Virtual Backup by the brilliant concept of using a virtual machine to backup our other virtual machines.  As we already have an investment in virtualization, we can leverage that, eliminating the need for additional hardware and software. The use of block based dedupe, and their virtual-full backup mode means I’m able to keep over three months of daily backup data live on backup systems without needing extreme amounts of storage.   We’re currently scaling our virtual infrastructure out to a backup data center, and PHD's replication technology is instrumental in giving us an affordable replication solution.”

"I’m amazed at how PHD has added so many features to the product over the last two years, but kept the price so low. It’s hard to justify buying one of the more expensive alternatives, when PHD Virtual gives you all the same features, if not more!”

“As a large educational institution, we have a  robust data protection strategy, and recovery (RTO) is always a top priority. We tried leveraging a single solution to handle all physical and virtual backup needs, but recovery for virtual environments was too cumbersome and too expensive. We chose PHD Virtual because they offerred great functionality at an affordable price.”

"vRanger was not able to keep up to our needs in our growing environment. After an exhaustive review of virtualization backup vendors I selected PHD Virtual. Their deduplication is remarkable and saves me a ton on storage, and the latest recovery features are so easy to use that I can delegate some of those tasks to others and focus on all the other important things going on in my environment. PHD Virtual saves me time and money and they are staying ahead of the pack.

"PHD Virtual Backup significantly increases performance with Data Domain and provides enhanced Virtual Machine backup options that work effectively across our enterprise Virtual infrastructure. The multiple backup modes, OVF Exporter, and VM replication options fit our backup strategy perfectly."

"I completed a thorough evaluation of both PHD Virtual and Veeam software. PHD just had a much simpler approach with their VBA (Virtual Backup Appliance). It is easy to use, has a small footprint and does not require a Windows proxy server or SQL database." 

"I have so many tasks on my plate that I can’t afford to spend much time managing backups.  PHD Virtual makes the whole process a piece of cake.  Plus, I’m really impressed with the performance and deduplication.  How they put so much power into such an easy to use product, I don’t know, but they did!"

"Being a PHD Virtual customer from the beginning, they never cease to amaze me with new technology.  One virtual appliance that can backup, restore and even replicate with a few mouse clicks. Can't wait to see what they do next." 

"PHD Virtual Backup is a heck of a product. Really easy to get setup - it just makes sense. Feels like something I could pass onto my boss and he’d understand it! Very nice, very clean."