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BDRShield

Composite Score

8.3 /10

CX Score

8.5 /10

44 Reviews Write a Review

What is BDRShield?

BDRShield delivers Cloud-Managed Hybrid Backup with built-in Cyber-Resilience, enabling MSPs and IT teams to protect critical workloads with confidence. From a centralized cloud console, you can manage all backups across endpoints, servers, VMs, Cloud & SaaS apps — backed by the flexibility of local + cloud storage. With immutable backups and ransomware protection built-in, BDRShield ensures fast recovery, compliance readiness, and long-term data security against evolving threats.

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BDRShield Ratings

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
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Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

89 Likeliness to Recommend

98 Plan to Renew

81 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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Emotional Footprint Overview

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

+86 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love BDRShield?

4% Negative

9% Neutral

87% Positive

Pros

Respectful
Transparent
Fair
Continually Improving Product

Feature Ratings

Average 82

Virtual Machine Backup

Backup Automation

Integration With Storage Arrays

File Explorer Granular Restore

Application Awareness

Physical Backup for Multiple Platforms

Replication for Long Term Storage and Disaster Recovery

Automated Backup Testing and Verification

Replication for High Availability

Backup of Cloud Based Data

Deduplication Implementation

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 78

Ease of Implementation

Business Value Created

Ease of IT Administration

Vendor Support

Ease of Data Integration

Usability and Intuitiveness

Breadth of Features

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Ease of Customization

Quality of Features

Availability and Quality of Training

BDRShield Reviews

Obert M.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Agriculture
Involvement: IT Leader or Manager

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jun 2023

Easy to use, affordable, intuitive

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates BDRShield from other similar products?

It's intutiveness even for non I.T experts

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

File and Folder Explorer, Backup Restore, Reports on Backup status

What do you dislike most about this product?

Backups that are huge e.g over a 1000MB and above take too much time to upload to cloud

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

This is a good product for anyone who values business continuity, especially when a disaster happens

Pros

Performance Enhancing
Enables Productivity
Unique Features
Efficient Service

Chris B.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Engineering
Involvement: IT Leader or Manager

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jun 2023

Great product, in theory.

Likeliness to Recommend

5 /10

What differentiates BDRShield from other similar products?

Offers features like object storage backup for a much lower cost compared to other products (Veeam etc)

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Value for money

What do you dislike most about this product?

BDRSuite is a great product overall, however in my experience, it has not been the most reliable. At the time of writing this review, we have had to move to another Vendor due to a key feature of BDR not functioning correctly, therefore affecting the reliability of the backups.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Fully test everything before moving it into production. Be prepared for the system to be out of action when you run into issues.

Pros

Respectful
Caring
Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product

Cons

Less Efficient Service
Less Effective Service

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Technology
Involvement: Business Leader or Manager

Validated Review

Anonymous Reviewer

Submitted Jun 2023

Product ok, reliability weak, support slow.

Likeliness to Recommend

6 /10

Pros

Transparent
Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Performance Enhancing

Cons

Less Effective Service
Wastes Time
Less Efficient Service

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BDRShield Ratings

89 Likeliness to Recommend

98 Plan to Renew

81 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

1 Since last award

Emotional Footprint Overview

+86 Net Emotional Footprint

How much do users love BDRShield?

Pros

Feature Ratings Average rating of all product features, some of which may not be shown below

Virtual Machine Backup Automatically discovers and protects VMs as they come online, move, and change. Production VMs are replicated to a secondary data store.

Backup Automation Solution automates backup, recovery and remediation tasks using RestAPI and CLI to integrate with 3rd party solutions, reduce cost and enforce standards.

Integration With Storage Arrays Integrates with APIs from major storage vendors (NetApp, HP, Dell EMC) to leverage capabilities in these arrays such as data snapshots and replication.

File Explorer Granular Restore Individual files can be located and restored from backup media without the need for full system mounting and restore.

Application Awareness Application consistent backup and granular restore for application data from core applications such as MS SQL, Oracle, MS Exchange, MS SharePoint.

Physical Backup for Multiple Platforms Backs up data and system info for non-virtualized systems. Primarily Windows and Linux servers but also, potentially, AIX, Unix and others.

Replication for Long Term Storage and Disaster Recovery Onsite backup data is replicated and stored to a public cloud (AWS, Azure). Can also include restore-to-cloud capabilities for Disaster Recovery as a Service.

Automated Backup Testing and Verification Goes beyond monitoring whether backup jobs completed by verifying the integrity of data restoration.

Replication for High Availability Beyond secondary copy backup, the solution also manages replication of primary data host-to-host and site-to-site for live failover and high availability.

Backup of Cloud Based Data In addition to targeting backups to the cloud, the solution also has the capability to back up primary data and services already in the cloud.

Deduplication Implementation Deduplication of redundant data blocks is implemented by the solution. Deduplication can be at source, target, or globally (source and target).

Vendor Capability Ratings Average rating of all vendor capabilities, some of which may not be shown below

Ease of Implementation Successfully implementing new software is necessary to realize its full value and promote end user adoption. This data indicates whether or not the product is easy to implement.

Business Value Created Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

Ease of IT Administration This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

Vendor Support The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.

Ease of Data Integration Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.

Usability and Intuitiveness End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

Breadth of Features Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement Vendors who don't stay on top of emerging needs and trends won't enable you to meet your business goals. Use this data to separate innovators from imposters.

Ease of Customization Don't get bogged down in a difficult customization; use this data to make sure you can easily achieve the functionality you need for your particular situation.

Quality of Features Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

Availability and Quality of Training Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

BDRShield Reviews

Obert M.

Easy to use, affordable, intuitive

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Chris B.

Great product, in theory.

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Cons

Product ok, reliability weak, support slow.

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Cons

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Feature Ratings

Virtual Machine Backup

Backup Automation

Integration With Storage Arrays

File Explorer Granular Restore

Application Awareness

Physical Backup for Multiple Platforms

Replication for Long Term Storage and Disaster Recovery

Automated Backup Testing and Verification

Replication for High Availability

Backup of Cloud Based Data

Deduplication Implementation

Vendor Capability Ratings

Ease of Implementation

Business Value Created

Ease of IT Administration

Vendor Support

Ease of Data Integration

Usability and Intuitiveness

Breadth of Features

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Ease of Customization

Quality of Features

Availability and Quality of Training