#1 most frequent
United States of America
66.4%1,294 installations of 1,950
What is Rubrik?
Rubrik is cloud data management and enterprise backup software provided by Palo Alto-based Rubrik, Inc. It is a software platform that provides backup, instant recovery, archival, search, analytics, compliance, and copy data management in one secure fabric across data centers and clouds.
Categories & Use Cases
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Screenshot of Rubrik Dashboard
Top Performing Features
Retention options
Provision of best-practice and customizable retention policies with reporting
Category average: 9.1
Encryption
Data encryption to ensure that data is safe while being backed-up
Category average: 9.4
Management dashboard
Web-based dashboard allowing configuration and monitoring of all backups
Category average: 8.9
Areas for Improvement
Business application protection
Protection of all applications running in the data center
Category average: 8.5
Flexible deployment
Deployment on any servers with full support for all applications being used
Category average: 8.5
Deduplication and file compression
Integrated deduplication and compression capabilities
Category average: 8.3
Who Buys & Uses Rubrik
#2 most frequent
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
7.0%136 installations of 1,950
#3 most frequent
France
4.3%84 installations of 1,950
Great product and improving with every release.
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Rubrik is the primary backup product we use. It is currently used to backup our virtual infrastructure running on VMWare. Our backup is stored on Rubrik Briks and also archived to S3 Storage. Overall the product is rock solid with great features. Other than our primary backup solution this is also major part of our DR Recovery plan. In case of disaster we can restore our VMs to AWS using Rubrik Cluster on AWS.
Pros
- Direct Live backup of VMs using Native snapshot technology
- Cloud Integration for Archiving of Data
- Instant restore of VM using live mount on Rubrik Flash Storage
Cons
- 0 day local retention of VMs. It keeps atleast one copy of VM on local brik
- No way to assign a specific encryption key for a specific VM
- Some Disk Consolidation and Deduplication issues.
Return on Investment
- Positive ROI as primary DR Product
- Negative Impact as our previous backup solutions supported Granular Backup of AD
Usability
Alternatives Considered
CommVault and Veeam Backup & Replication
Other Software Used
vSphere, Hyper-V, Splunk Enterprise
The ideal backup solution for VMware environments
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Rubrik is used for our backup strategy, enabling DR, and also helps with our ransomware protection. We love how it is a suite that consolidates work to less panes of glass.
Pros
- backups
- ransomware protection
Cons
- VM restoration speed for archived items
- File restoration speed
- Communication with updates
Return on Investment
- It has reliable and easy automated backups
Usability
Alternatives Considered
Commvault Cloud Rewind
Easy 365 Backup service
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use Rubrik seclusively for our 365 backups. We need an archive of current and formal users for OneDrive, Email and SharePoint/Teams.
Pros
- Extremely easy deployment
- Fast restores
- Excellent Sales staff
Cons
- I can't think of anything given our limited scope at this time
Return on Investment
- Peace of mind that my Microsoft 365 data is safe
- Minimizes the amount of time I have to spend thinking about backups
Usability
Alternatives Considered
HYCU
Rubrik is worth the price
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
It help improve data security, improve backup facility We use it as day to day backup operation including delegating access to level 1 support using RBAC access type. We backup vmware, nutanix, sql, oracle, linux, ibm aix, windows, gcp and some NAS. We also like the NAS CD addon product of Rubrik we start using it soon
Pros
- UI simplicity
- Events logging
- Support
- API
Cons
- Reports
- Update
- Add query language
- Give access under the hood
Return on Investment
- Cloud cluster is too expensive
- RSC or CDM interface allow for delegation that help admins to do other stuff
Usability
Alternatives Considered
Cohesity and Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI
Rubrik from a users perspective
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use Rubrik to protect all our virtualization systems, Azure VMs, Azure SQL, and M365 data. We are using Radar and Sonar for data security and ransomware protection through threat hunting and anomaly detection. We hope to soon start working with app flows to assist with our disaster recovery plans too.
Pros
- Simplicity. Sometimes it can be hard to make a system simple to use but Rubrik is.
- Speed of backup and recovery is excellent.
- Engagement from Rubrik with us has been superb.
Cons
- Id like to see Storage Account protection included in Polaris
- A clear indication of files that have been deleted in a time range would be handy when performing file-level restores.
- Automated backup validations would be a nice built-in feature, currently, this is a manual process for us.
Return on Investment
- I would hope it has a positive impact as we are more compliant with our backups than in previous years
Usability
Alternatives Considered
Commvault Complete Data Protection
Other Software Used
Azure Backup, Azure Blob Storage
