Rubrik Information Reviews & Insights

Score7.2 out of 10

236 Reviews and Ratings

Community insights

TrustRadius Insights for Rubrik are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Recommendations

Users commonly recommend the following about Rubrik:

Consider Rubrik as an option for backup solutions and try a proof of concept (POC) to experience its benefits. Users suggest that Rubrik is a complete and secure data management solution that is highly recommended.

Use Rubrik for customers who require frequent snapshots and a lower recovery point objective (RPO) granularity for restore. Reviewers believe that Rubrik is well-suited for these customers.

Integrate Rubrik as a backup product with existing automation systems due to its full-featured API. This allows for seamless integration and automation of backup processes. Additionally, when considering the cost of Rubrik, users suggest looking at the overall return on investment (ROI).

Overall, users recommend not being afraid to try Rubrik, emphasizing its ease of use and time-saving capabilities. They view it as a great investment that will save headaches in the long run. It is also recommended to use Rubrik as part of a two-system backup strategy for data protection. Before making a decision, it is advised to conduct a true comparison of costs and understand the long-term costs of all solutions.

Reviews

9 Reviews

Information

Rubrik is the Cadillac of backup solutions

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

March 26, 2024

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Rubrik as our backup solution. The ease of the use and knowing that Rubrik is a solid company gives us great peace of mind about the safety and reliability of our data. It is easily configurable and the immutability of the data gives us a solid handle of our data.

Pros

Backing up the data
allows control over that datda
security

Cons

The cost is high
Their helpdesk is sufficient but sometimes slow to respond
Right sizing may be off always go bigger

Likelihood to Recommend

It is great for backing up and storing data. With a less expensive platform they would attract more smaller companies.

Verified User

Professional in Information Technology (Internet company, 11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

Jus got with it -- you won't regret it!

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

March 30, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Rubrik makes it easy with the daily and OnDemand backups. It allows us to restore files easily to multiple segmented parts of our network. Without the ease of Rubrik, our daily tasks would be much harder. Having multiple briks and multiple locations --- and the ability to connect to a NFS share has made the job so much easier. We love our safety net!

Pros

Daily backups
Segmented Networks
NFS shares

Cons

Nothing at this time.

Likelihood to Recommend

Nothing comes to mind.

Verified User

Employee in Information Technology (Telecommunications company, 201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

All around protection

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

April 21, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Using Rubrik CDM and Polaris. We are also using Radar, Sonar and APPFLOWS. These extra applications come with the Enterprise license. Rubric CDM is an ideal product for protecting your multivendor virtual environment. Radar is great at identifying and preventing ransomware. Sonar addresses the sensitive data classification and security. APPFLOWS addresses the DR orchestration.

Pros

VMs backup
NAS shares backup
ransomeware detection, protection.
Sensitive data classified.
VMware DR orchestration.

Cons

SQL Server high transactions backup.
Rubrik SQL Server backup using Microsoft VSS, which is causing the the database issues and delays for the very high transaction rate.
better file filtering - file sets concept is not very intuitive.

Likelihood to Recommend

Good for the VMs backup.
Improves the CIFS and NFS shares backups, as it’s not relying on NDMP.
Great data protection from ransomware and classified data security.

Mike Zukerman

Sr. Cloud Systems Engineer in Information Technology at Alarm.com (Computer Software, 1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

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New contender redefines how to think about backups

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

March 28, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Rubrik is being used as the underlying hyper-converged backup solution for a large scale service provider grade deployment.

Pros

Scales out linearly and predictably with no limitations.
Management of backups and policies are aligned with service provider requirements.
Support of application-aware backups increases exponentially.
Fantastic API for integrations with Dynamic Documentation (Swagger).
Support team is alert and proactive.
Very low administrative overhead.
Live mount is very fast and consistent.

Cons

Source remote clusters require static IP Addresses (destination pulls data as opposed to push).
Exchange DAG is not supported natively!
AWS integration is limited.

Likelihood to Recommend

Rubrik is very strong in traditional datacenter topologies due to its low rack footprint and very effective deduplication and compression technology. It may be less suited for SMB as there are software-defined solutions that have fewer dependencies and more flexible deployment architectures.

Verified User

Manager in Product Management (Telecommunications company, 10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

Good for larger customers

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

March 27, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We ourselves use it for backup, and have multiple customers that use Rubrik Edges / nodes and we replicate the data from them. Replication is pretty easy to set up.

Pros

Comprehensive and easy to use
New customer setup. It's easy to set up backups and replication.

Cons

The v1 API should have more options
Reporting by SLA for remote sites

Likelihood to Recommend

It's great when setting up a virtualized server backup; unfortunately physical backup is lacking.

Arminas Vrubliauskas

Data protection specialist in Information Technology at Core DataCloud (Information Services, 1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

Reseller

1 year of experience

A Breath of Fresh Air for Enterprise Backups

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

October 19, 2018

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Rubrik is used for our enterprise systems providing protection for all of our internal systems. It provides protection and the ability to recover our systems in a DR scenario. It protects all of our VMWare, physical windows/Linux, AIX, and NAS shares. The product provides us the ability to instantly recover VMS reducing impact in scenarios when recovery is needed.

Pros

Easy to use and manage
Fast VM recovery times
Great technical support when issues arise

Cons

Pricing. Instead of sticking with an "all in one bundle", they recently have started putting prices on new features in the product. While some are understandable to add additional charges, expansion of the base functionality is not one of those that should require an additional cost
Global Pane of Glass for Management. Its available but does not yet give provide full multisite management (plus this is an additional cost)
Supportability of applications are limited but are growing. Its new so its understood but they seem to be pumping out new functionality with every release

Likelihood to Recommend

For most smaller to medium environments, it fits perfectly and provides a great solution for backup/recovery. It is easy to use/manage and reduces man-hours while improving protection. For larger environments, it will possibly be a hit or miss for a complete solution and provide closer to 80% coverage so two products would have to be run for backups and recovery.

Sean Wolfe

Manager Open Systems and Storage in Information Technology at C Spire (Telecommunications, 1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

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Amazing simplicity

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

March 9, 2018

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Rubrik is helping us to drastically improve our backup strategy. The best feature of Rubrik is making the backup window invisible. This is great because in an international context like our, we do not see any maintenance window when operating around the clock. So Rubrik will decide when this is best to do start backup jobs based on its own analysis and the SLA that we impose on the system.

Another great advantage of using Rubrik is the massive savings in terms of storage. The file system is so advanced that savings are huge.

Pros

Storage savings using dedupe, compression and erasure coding
Define SLA to have backup jobs started, no time need to be defined
Scale out capabilities

Cons

10 GE is mandatory, I think in some environment 1 Gbps could be used
Entry ticket is high, but once you growth, it is reduced
Lack of end user laptop support (officially)

Likelihood to Recommend

Rubrik works very well in virtualized environments. They are starting to hit the physical world too. I have tested their connector on physical hosts and this is very promising. I'm actually looking forward to deploying such connectors on a larger laptop park. It would be nice to have the ability to backup endusers machine on-prem and get rid of Druva.

Verified User

Advisor in Information Technology (Telecommunications company, 1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

Great next gen of backup platform

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

March 7, 2018

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using Rubrik for R&D backup/archive and as a data management platform.

Pros

Simplicity [of] managment
Ease of configuration
API friendly

Cons

Real time details
Integration with more vendors (not only nutanix/pure storage)

Likelihood to Recommend

VR/all virtual environment and no tape solution is a must!

Verified User

Manager in Information Technology (Computer Software company, 5001-10,000 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

The rackable Backup solution

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

January 30, 2018

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The bricks are used all across our 2 DCs, either for customers' environments and for internal purposes. Rubrik gave us a touchable advantage over competitors offering backup services to our customers, mainly because of fast restore. Furthermore, the high automation freed up human resources from building policies per single VM.

Pros

Restore. It mounts directly HD
Management: automates all the process
Boarding: once racked, the system scans the whole environment listing all the available VMs to back up

Cons

It's a valuable service, so it's not cheap. I can't say that it's a weak point, but it could retain many users from adopting it directly

Likelihood to Recommend

The best scenario is a 3-points back up, where a customer backs up on premises with his own brick, paired to a provider's brick where it's replicated, and from here, archived on an S3 bucket. Less appropriate is a small business, due to the costs involved. But for these cases, providers come in help, and Rubrik created a specific program with a pay per use plan.

Raffaello Poltronieri

Cloud Solutions Architect in Professional Services at Clouditalia Telecomunicazioni (Telecommunications, 201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

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