# HYCU R-Cloud Reviews 2026. Verified Reviews, Pros & Cons | Capterra

> Is HYCU R-Cloud the right Backup solution for you? Explore 28 verified user reviews from people in industries like yours to make a confident choice.

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HYCU R-Cloud

4.9 (28)

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Last updated March 13th, 2026

# Reviews of HYCU R-Cloud

Ease of use

4.9

Customer Service

4.9

## Pros and Cons in Reviews

WN

Werner N

VP Cloud ServicesComputer & Network Security, 51 - 200 employeesUsed the software for: More than 2 years.

“Integration with Nutanix AOS filesystem and managementFair pricingBrilliant and responsive supportReliableFastEasy managementVery progressive company that is good at listening to customer demand.“

December 5, 2022

JJ

Jas J

Infrastructure EngineerHospital & Health Care, 1,001 - 5,000 employeesUsed the software for: More than 2 years.

“The support is of a very high standard from the documentation with Nutanix, and also the product knowledge of the support staff, of not HYCU but all of the applications backed up.“

December 13, 2022

RE

Richard E

DirectorInformation Technology and Services, 2 - 10 employeesUsed the software for: More than 2 years.

“The only choice to protect Nutanix! HYCU's support team are second to none and make implementation and support a breeze :-)“

May 9, 2023

AS

Amisha S

FreelanceFinancial Services, 2 - 10 employeesUsed the software for: 6-12 months.

“Integration is quite well with this product.“

December 1, 2023

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Revlon Oliver D.  
Technical Consultant  
Information Technology and Services  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "The simplest and easiest backup software solution available"

December 21, 2022

5.0

Pros

It's simplicity to install, configure, run and start operations on day 1. You don't need to be trained and basic understanding of back-ups works. It's patented solutions with agentless back-ups for Virtual machines and for physical environments makes it sustainable. It supports most known backup storage solutions.

Cons

support for Hyper-V which again isn't a concern as I don't use this hypervisor

Alternatives considered

[Commvault Cloud](https://www.capterra.com/p/196129/Commvault-Cloud/)[Veeam Data Platform](https://www.capterra.com/p/154905/Veeam-Availability-Suite/)

Reason for choosing HYCU R-Cloud

HYCU is the simplest and easiest backup product to work with. Also it's wide range of application/HCI support made it easier. Moreover the pricing is well within budgets.

Switched from

[Veritas NetBackup SaaS Protection](https://www.capterra.com/p/205694/HubStor/)

Quite old in terms of technology and isn't catering to the next gen applications.

Review Source

Response from HYCU

February 2, 2023

Revlon Oliver, thank you for your kind words! We appreciate you taking the time to write this great review, it means a lot! P.S. If you ever need help, please don't hesitate to reach out to our CS team (customer.success@hycu.com).

Wael I.  
IT Director  
Financial Services  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "Best Backup and Data protection software in the market."

December 8, 2022

5.0

Pros

it is super easy to implement and use. has all the features required to protect your data. Also Support is responsive and knowledgeable. Most of the tickets that I have raised are for knowhow. No bugs on the system so far. which means they do an excellent job on the QA.

Cons

I dont like the naming of the products, it is somehow confusing.

Switched from

[Veeam Data Platform](https://www.capterra.com/p/154905/Veeam-Availability-Suite/)[Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365](https://www.capterra.com/p/228906/Veeam-Backup-for-Microsoft-Office-365/)

Veam is resource intensive and require a lot of configuration

Review Source

Response from HYCU

February 2, 2023

Wael, thank you! We appreciate your positive feedback! We'll continue to work hard to provide you with a great experience and service. P.S. If you ever need help, please don't hesitate to reach out to our CS team (customer.success@hycu.com).

Adrian W.  
Owner  
Information Technology and Services  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "HYCU protégé "

December 5, 2022

5.0

Extremely satisfied. Do you want CONFIDENCE back?Then this product is what you are looking for.Exceptional service delivery.

Pros

Simplistic but powerful.Web driven through a standard web browser. Oh,and did I mention it's agentless That's right,no need to install clumsy agents on each server.

Cons

Nothing.What more to ask for than a product that takes 15 minutes to learn.

Review Source

Response from HYCU

December 16, 2022

Adrian, thank you very much for your kind words! We strive to provide the best possible experience so you can be successful. Simple, reliable, and secure - as data protection should be! P.S. If you ever need help, please don't hesitate to reach out to our CS team (customer.success@hycu.com).

RE

Richard E.  
Director  
Information Technology and Services  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Fantastic Protection for Your Nutanix Enviroment(s) and Cluster(s)"

May 9, 2023

5.0

We needed a solution for backing up our Nutanix Cloud as a Service Offering it fit perfectly.

Pros

The only choice to protect Nutanix! HYCU's support team are second to none and make implementation and support a breeze :-)

Cons

The only issues we have had are when updating and updating alongside Nutanix platform updates; it can take time to get it fully working again after Nutanix updates.

Alternatives considered

[Commvault Cloud](https://www.capterra.com/p/196129/Commvault-Cloud/)

Reason for choosing HYCU R-Cloud

A much better offering and really felt like it was designed with and for Nutanix.

Review Source

WN

Werner N.  
VP Cloud Services  
Computer & Network Security  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Backup and DR management in an all Nutanix environment"

December 5, 2022

5.0

Very good balance of functionality, ease of management and pricing. Very pleased with both solution and company.

Pros

Integration with Nutanix AOS filesystem and managementFair pricingBrilliant and responsive supportReliableFastEasy managementVery progressive company that is good at listening to customer demand. Always helpful and very responsive

Cons

Moderate options for footprint reduction on target. Best used with deduplicating back-end

Alternatives considered

[Veem](https://www.capterra.com/p/234815/Veem/)

Reason for choosing HYCU R-Cloud

Reduced management, almost Zero impact of workload, better pricing, perfect integration, superb support

Review Source

Response from HYCU

December 16, 2022

Werner, thank you! We appreciate your positive feedback! We'll continue working hard to provide you with an excellent experience. P.S. If you ever need help, please don't hesitate to reach out to our CS team (customer.success@hycu.com).

JJ

Jas J.  
Infrastructure Engineer  
Hospital & Health Care  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Hycu Backup and Recovry"

December 13, 2022

5.0

We have had a very good experience with product implementation and design from HYCU, and have extended our clusters with WORM and Azure with significant support from HYCU.

Pros

The feature is simple to use and manage, the updates are straightforward with minimum downtime, and is integrated very well with Nutanix AHV. The support is of a very high standard from the documentation with Nutanix, and also the product knowledge of the support staff, of not HYCU but all of the applications backed up.

Cons

We have asked for a few more features on the Validity testing, and forever incremental backups.

Alternatives considered

[Veeam Data Platform](https://www.capterra.com/p/154905/Veeam-Availability-Suite/)

Reason for choosing HYCU R-Cloud

HYCU integrates very smartly with Nutanix, and in this case proved a perfect fit to our requirements.

Review Source

Response from HYCU

February 2, 2023

Jas, thank you for your feedback! It's great to see our solution has been helpful for your business and that it has simplified your day-to-day activities. P.S. If you ever need help, please don't hesitate to reach out to our CS team (customer.success@hycu.com).

DO

Dan O.  
Systems Administrator  
Construction  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "HYCU Works Great and Requires Very Little Maintenance"

March 1, 2023

5.0

We back up many virtual machines and are easily able to send backups to our local data infrastructure as well as copies out to the cloud for off-site backups. We have many different policies set with different backup frequencies and retention levels. It has been a great asset to our server infrastructure.

Pros

The thing I like the most about this product is the ease of use and dependability it provides.

Cons

The only thing I have felt it is missing is SAML SSO authentication.

Reason for choosing HYCU R-Cloud

Price and look and feel of the console.

Switched from

[Unitrends Backup](https://www.capterra.com/p/149362/Unitrends-Enterprise-Backup/)

Unitrends was clunky and not easy to use or maintain.

Review Source

RJ

Ron J.  
Senior Systems Administrator  
Government Administration  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "HYCU is a trusted partner"

July 21, 2022

5.0

It has been a set it and let it run tool for us, of course we verify backups daily but unless we change something, it just works.

Pros

Easy to use and great support and documentation.

Cons

There is a learning curve with HYCU. Moving from traditional backup software to HYCU backup anytime and figuring out policy setup took a little bit but I had a backup running within 3 hours of starting the setup process.

Switched from

[vRanger](https://www.capterra.com/p/254315/vRanger/)

Moved to Nutanix and vRanger did not support Nutanix at the time.

Review Source

Response from HYCU

December 16, 2022

Ron, thank you for your positive feedback! We're happy to see you are enjoying HYCU's simplicity - our product is designed from the need for a better and simpler way to protect business-critical data. P.S. If you ever need help, please don't hesitate to reach out to our CS team (customer.success@hycu.com).

Will F.  
Chief Operating Officer  
Information Technology and Services  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "Vendor Agnostic, Space Efficient, and Secure Backups! All under a single pane of glass!"

December 1, 2022

5.0

HYCU Protégé DPaaS has been extremely easy to implement and then even EASIER to maintain. We can rely on reporting to tell us if something has gone wrong or action is required. Otherwise, HYCU does it job...so we can do ours. HYCU is reliable, robust, efficient, and secure!

Pros

HYCU, with the vendor agnostic storage capabilities, allows for backup across On-Prem and Cloud environments. Whether systems and applications are in-house (Nutanix, VMware Dell PowerScaler (Isilon), SaaS solutions such as Microsoft 365 or others, or machines living in the hyperscalers (Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud), HYCU can do it all. HYCU is also - SIMPLE! A few clicks and storage is configured, backup policies are set, and virtual machines and workloads are being backed up. No more Windows Server OSes to maintain for the backup controller. Easy as advertised and secure!

Cons

HYCU is one of the younger vendors out there on the market, so there are a bit of growing pains. But...their team is responsive and reactive and operates with great care and efficiency. Be patient!

Alternatives considered

[Zerto Virtual Replication](https://www.capterra.com/p/157032/Zerto-Virtual-Replication/)[Azure Backup](https://www.capterra.com/p/169885/Azure-Backup/)[Veeam Data Platform](https://www.capterra.com/p/154905/Veeam-Availability-Suite/)[Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365](https://www.capterra.com/p/228906/Veeam-Backup-for-Microsoft-Office-365/)

Review Source

Response from HYCU

December 16, 2022

Thank you so much for your positive feedback, Will. And thanks for being such a great advocate for our service. We really appreciate it! We'll continue to strive to provide the best possible experience so you can be successful. P.S. If you ever need help, please don't hesitate to reach out to our CS team (customer.success@hycu.com).

VR

Verified Reviewer  
New Business Development  
Retail  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "HYCU DPaaS"

December 5, 2022

5.0

Really great product, great company and staff, always willing to help if or when required. A professional team.

Pros

Agentless, intuitive management screens, Ease of use

Cons

Nothing to dislike, product works as promised and real easy to use.

Reason for choosing HYCU R-Cloud

Better more features

Review Source

Response from HYCU

December 16, 2022

Dear valued customer, thank you for your feedback! We're happy to see you are satisfied with both, our solution and our amazing support team! P.S. If you ever need help, please don't hesitate to reach out to our CS team (customer.success@hycu.com).

RC

Rhys C.  
Solutions Architect Team Manager  
Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing  
Used the software for: Less than 6 months

### "Hycu is an innovator. "

November 29, 2022

5.0

Pros

It just works. It really is that simple. Hycu was rolled out and successfully installed in less than 2 hours per site globally. We cut our backup times in half and in some cases even more so giving direct value add to the business. It also gave time back to our engineers on patch weekends. The support has been second to none. This has been one of the easiest implementations we've had and that's credit to Hycu and its team.

Cons

There is not much to dislike in all honesty and anything we have wanted to add is in for consideration with future releases. A once touch upgrade would be nice.

Alternatives considered

[Veeam Data Platform](https://www.capterra.com/p/154905/Veeam-Availability-Suite/)

Review Source

Response from HYCU

December 16, 2022

Rhys - thank you! We're glad to have you as our customer and to see that you and your team of engineers are enjoying HYCU Protégé, which was designed to make moving, protecting, and recovering data no matter where it sits. P.S. If you ever need help, please don't hesitate to reach out to our CS team (customer.success@hycu.com).

CD

Craig D.  
IT Technician  
Logistics and Supply Chain  
Used the software for: Less than 6 months

### "Hycu - A cost effective feature rich backup solution."

December 13, 2022

5.0

Overall, we have had a great experience deploying and using HYCU. The Sales and Support team were always in communication. Our account manager has been great, following via email and Teams call with how the project was going and if we needed support on anything. The trial was a very big thing for us as it allowed us to get a feel for the product before making the decision to purchase. Great experience overall!

Pros

Ease of deployment and policy management. Software was deployed and backing up in a short time. Policy creation and reporting of compliance of each policy is a great feature. Performance is also excellent, and many options for different types of targets. Cost is very competitive compared to some of the other solutions out there (Especially the main player in the DR space).

Cons

For our use case, there wasn't much to dislike. It ticked all the boxes for our purpose.

Review Source

Response from HYCU

February 2, 2023

Thank you for your kind words, Craig! We're happy to see you are enjoying HYCU's simplicity and that it has been helpful for your business. P.S. If you ever need help, please don't hesitate to reach out to our CS team (customer.success@hycu.com).

SH

Simon H.  
Head of IT  
Architecture & Planning  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "Fantastic - It Just works! "

November 25, 2022

5.0

Pros

This is best backup solution I have used in the last 20 years. Once setup it just works and is fast and easy to use. Excellent integration with Nutanix AHV as well as working easily with Vmware vSphere, Microsoft

Cons

Separation of interfaces for office 365 backups

Alternatives considered

[Arcserve UDP](https://www.capterra.com/p/200167/Arcserve-UDP/)[Veeam Data Platform](https://www.capterra.com/p/154905/Veeam-Availability-Suite/)

Review Source

Response from HYCU

December 16, 2022

Thank you for your kind words, Simon! We appreciate you taking the time to write this great review, it means a lot! P.S. If you ever need help, please don't hesitate to reach out to our CS team (customer.success@hycu.com).

VR

Verified Reviewer  
Cloud Solutions Manager  
Information Technology and Services  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "Hycu Protege - the unsung hero "

December 6, 2022

5.0

Pros

From onboarding the product to deploying it in our own environment, the HYCU team was with us all the way.They assist with knowledge transfer and customer enablement for on-sell every time. The software is easy to understand and it addresses pain points of legacy backup software in their environments. It is agentless and deploys in minutes - backing up is also not a weekend job but happens when you need it in the hour (or much less).

Cons

Hyper-V compatibility would be a great next for HYCU.

Review Source

Response from HYCU

December 16, 2022

Dear valued customer, thank you for taking the time to write this review; it means a lot to us! P.S. If you ever need help, please don't hesitate to reach out to our CS team (customer.success@hycu.com).

JC

Jonathan C.  
Infrastructure Supervisor Engineer  
Insurance  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "Simple, Easy and Effective"

December 13, 2022

5.0

Pros

We currently use Protege for our O365 backups. The software was simple to set up and has a great interface to work with. It gave my team the ability to recover emails/documents faster when mistakes are made for a fraction of the cost of other industry-leading solutions.

Cons

We have no complaints about the Software.

Alternatives considered

[Druva](https://www.capterra.com/p/130078/inSync/)[Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365](https://www.capterra.com/p/228906/Veeam-Backup-for-Microsoft-Office-365/)

Reason for choosing HYCU R-Cloud

The software gave us a better administrator experience than Veeam and Druva. It also allowed us to backup MS Teams channels and private chats in a legible way.

Review Source

Response from HYCU

February 2, 2023

Jonathan, thank you for your kind words! We're happy to see you are enjoying HYCU Protégé simplicity and that it has been helpful for your business. P.S. If you ever need help, please don't hesitate to reach out to our CS team (customer.success@hycu.com).

VR

Verified Reviewer  
System & Cloud Senior Engineer  
Information Technology and Services  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "HYCU Protégé Data Protection as a Service"

December 2, 2022

5.0

Extremely happy with the Product and its was of use.

Pros

Extremely Easy to setup and Use Data Protection for M365 Users

Cons

Sometimes Feature Changes are Made without Consolation or Notification

Reason for choosing HYCU R-Cloud

Availability. Microsofts Product , although announced years ago , is still not yet available.

Review Source

Response from HYCU

December 16, 2022

Dear valued customer, thank you for your feedback! It's great to see HYCU Protégé has been helpful for your business. P.S. If you ever need help, please don't hesitate to reach out to our CS team (customer.success@hycu.com).

GG

Gerhard G.  
Enterprise Director  
Information Technology and Services  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "The Future of Cloud Backup as a service"

December 6, 2022

4.0

Powerful lightweight easy to use comprehensive backup platform

Pros

Easy DeploymentNot resource intensiveSingle administration consol

Cons

Limited application support and no tape backup support

Reason for choosing HYCU R-Cloud

Ease of deployment and intigration with Nutanix

Review Source

Response from HYCU

December 16, 2022

Thank you for your kind words, Gerhard! We're happy to see you are enjoying HYCU's simplicity and that it has been helpful for your business. P.S. If you ever need help, please don't hesitate to reach out to our CS team (customer.success@hycu.com).

NM

Neal M.  
Network Admin  
Government Administration  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "HYCU Meets and Exceeds Our Expectations"

December 20, 2022

4.0

Pros

Easy to deploy, easy to configure, easy to keep upgraded. Nice dashboard for daily checks. Excellent detail in the jobs report for troubleshooting. Support is excellent.

Cons

Upgrades can lag behind Nutanix so that I have to wait for HYCU to sign off before I can upgrade Nutanix Files for example. Not a showstopper, just a minor annoyance at times.

Review Source

Response from HYCU

February 2, 2023

Neal, thank you for your positive feedback! We're happy to see you enjoy HYCU's simplicity, and ease of use! P.S. If you ever need help, please don't hesitate to contact our CS team (customer.success@hycu.com).

Godspower I.  
Cyber Security  
Information Technology and Services  
Used the software for: Less than 6 months

### "Hycu importance"

December 5, 2022

5.0

Pros

The backuping up files and backing up virtual machines. Also trying to restore files, virtual machines.Lastly Disaster recovery.HYCU really simplified everything and it works perfectly fine and does it's job very well.With HYCU, your virtual machines and files are safe. And can be gotten back anytime you are experiencing downtime.And also you can edit the policy you want, which is very important Generating reports and scheduling which email should receive the report and and what time.

Cons

I should be able to backup a virtual machine that is not on Azure, and also able to restore the same virtual machine that is not on Azure.

Review Source

Response from HYCU

December 16, 2022

Thank you for your feedback! We're glad you are happy with our HYCU Protégé and that it's been helpful for your business. P.S. If you ever need help, please don't hesitate to reach out to our CS team (customer.success@hycu.com).

VR

Verified Reviewer  
CEO  
Computer Software  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "HYCU is the product if you seek Simplicity and high performance"

December 5, 2022

5.0

great for backup and replication to DR

Pros

The most important aspect of this software is its simplicity, and ease of use.

Cons

The only thing missing in this product is the support for HyperV, although it could backup HyperV Virtual machines indirectly using other Hypervisors, but not directly if you only have HyperV

Review Source

Response from HYCU

December 16, 2022

Dear valued customer, thank you for your feedback! It's great to see HYCU Protégé has been helpful for your business and that it has simplified your day-to-day activities. P.S. If you ever need help, please don't hesitate to reach out to our CS team (customer.success@hycu.com).

AS

Amisha S.  
Freelance  
Financial Services  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "HYCU - Best backup manager tool "

December 1, 2023

4.0

Integration is quite well with this product. I just take a weekly review of our daily backups and I can live stress free.

Pros

It is very easy to install and perform backup of our local machines. Very easy to manage and price is quite good. No bugs found till now. Also helpful for virtual machine backups as well.

Cons

Not much I can get to complain for this product. AS it is a complete package.

Review Source

AO

Abayomi O.  
Consultant  
Financial Services  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "HYCU Usability and Cost"

December 5, 2022

4.0

Pros

The solution has the advantage of the ease of deployment and cost-friendly

Cons

The solution has the advantage of the ease of deployment and cost-friendly. While additional functionality might be required for other functionalities.

Reason for choosing HYCU R-Cloud

Yes

Review Source

Response from HYCU

December 16, 2022

Thank you for your feedback, Abayomi! We appreciate it and we'll make sure to continue working hard to provide you with an excellent experience. P.S. If you ever need help, please don't hesitate to reach out to our CS team (customer.success@hycu.com).

YS

Yash S.  
Software Developer Engineer  
Information Technology and Services  
Used the software for: I used a free trial

### "Best backup service provider"

December 3, 2023

5.0

It is good tool as compared to other tool.

Pros

HYCU Protégé Data Protection as a Service helped me a lot by providing incremental backup feature. With the help of this tool we can maintain our various cloud services easily .It is very easy to use and its interface is very easy to understand.

Cons

As of now there is no cons as compared to other tool

Review Source

KL

Kieran L.  
Sales manager  
Information Technology and Services  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "HYCU survey "

December 2, 2022

5.0

Actually for the first one, the service was amazing from start to finish

Pros

the service was amazing from start to finish

Cons

The training and experience level wasn't great ,

Review Source

Response from HYCU

December 16, 2022

Kieran, thank you for your feedback! Happy to hear you are enjoying our HYCU Protégé, Data Protection as a Service! P.S. If you ever need help, please don't hesitate to reach out to our CS team (customer.success@hycu.com).

KD

Kevin D.  
Infrastructure Solutions Engineer  
Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing  
Used the software for: Less than 6 months

### "Backups done the right way!!"

December 2, 2022

5.0

Superb. Greatly reduced backup times, and the ability to see a better and more granular view of the servers being backed up. Gained new features such as being able to back up from replica, and not to mention the cost savings made for the business.

Pros

The ease and speed of being able to back up and restore. Backup from replica. And how easy it was to use the graphical interface on the HYCU controllers.

Cons

Only con would be backup to tape is through a third party.

Review Source

Response from HYCU

December 16, 2022

Thank you for your kind words, Kevin! It makes us very happy to see HYCU Protégé has been helpful for your business by reducing backup times AND increasing cost savings at the same time! That's amazing! P.S. If you ever need help, please don't hesitate to reach out to our CS team (customer.success@hycu.com).

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