Rubrik is a great partner to help with your Cybersecurity resilience planning.
What do you like best about the product?
Rubrik is very easy to implement as the software just works right out of the box without the need for any custom tuning, and is able to backup servers and databases without any noticeable impact to the applications. Rubrik is constantly looking at including new protection sources, and actively engage with customers for feedback. Rubrik has an informative dashboard and robust reporting engine to simplify daily management tasks. The Rubrik Security Cloud (RSC) integrates all data protection/recovery tasks and system management into a single pane of glass. The Rubrik support team is very knowledgeable and responsive.
What do you dislike about the product?
There are some lacking features, but Rubrik is constantly making improvements and adding new features.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Rubrik provides us a single product to backup/recover ALL of our database sources (MSSQL, Oracle, and IBM DB2), as well as servers file systems, VMware, and even Exchange. The previous products we used were not able to provide protection of all data sources (at least not without significant performance impact) to the end user applications.
Backup simplicity, ransomware protection with a side of data discovery
What do you like best about the product?
Rubrik has made backups simply with one an easy to deploy appliance, and user interface that allows our junior staff to perform tasks that previously required a certified backup technician. We have always been able to recover data when needed and have never had to pay ransomware.The support team associated with Rubrik is to be commended for their expertise and responsiveness.
What do you dislike about the product?
Price negotiation with sales team and fixed size appliances, with fixed size appliances less of an issue now that virtual appliances can now scale to larger sizes.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Rubrik is making backups cool again! They are an organization that listens to their customers and inovates to achieve the best outcome for their customers. During hafnium exploits we were able to scan all our exchange servers offline without impacting production by leveraging their api first design.
Rubrik
What do you like best about the product?
Rubrik is a great partner and shows us the benefits of what we can do to protect ourselves from cyber attacks.
What do you dislike about the product?
I really have not come across something I do not like.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Helping us protect our business.
Rubrik - does what it says on the tin!
What do you like best about the product?
Rubrik makes the management of backups and recovery easy. Long gone are the days of teams watering a feeding data protection and recovery solutions.
What do you dislike about the product?
New features that are trialled tend to come in new product skus.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Data protection made easy
Offsetting and air gapping
Recovery
Compliance and reporting
Threat detection
Provided us with peace of mind by offering immutable snapshots and backups, reducing concerns about data encryption
What is our primary use case?
We conducted a thorough evaluation of various vendors through an RFP process, comparing Rubrik with other solutions like Commvault. Ultimately, we chose Rubrik due to its cost-effectiveness and its strong capabilities in backing up our predominantly virtualized environment, particularly within VMware.
Integrating Rubrik into our existing data protection strategy was straightforward. We deployed the Rubrik cluster and connected it to vCenter. We set up local service accounts for Rubrik to initiate snapshots and used VMware tags to align backup schedules and retention policies with Rubrik's SLAs. Different tags were used for production, dev/test, and database servers, triggering specific backup processes accordingly.
How has it helped my organization?
Rubrik has provided us with peace of mind by offering immutable snapshots and backups, reducing concerns about data encryption. We've successfully restored various systems without issues, even older versions. It allows us to temporarily restore systems in parallel with production, facilitating interaction or file transfer between them, which is particularly useful for setting up test environments.
Regarding disaster recovery, Rubrik, coupled with cloud storage from Wasabi, enhances our capabilities by enabling us to restore to another data center in a different state. While Rubrik may not be ideal for immediate environment restoration, we leverage other technologies like VMware and Nutanix AHV for faster recovery with minimal data loss, ensuring critical systems are up and running within minutes.
What is most valuable?
Rubrik's immutability feature ensures the security of our backups by preventing unauthorized alterations. The most effective feature for simplifying our data backup processes is the ability to perform on-demand or scheduled backups and restores, which greatly enhances manageability.
The security and compliance features have had a positive impact on our data management practices. We utilize Rubrik not only for virtual machine backups but also for backing up approximately twenty terabytes of unstructured data, including file shares and documents. This allows users to easily restore deleted documents using the Soft Delete feature, depending on the backup frequency.
What needs improvement?
The web interface could benefit from some improvement, particularly in terms of alerting and dashboard clarity. The cloud web interface is somewhat confusing and could use more development attention. Additionally, it's essential to ensure that local on-premise management options remain available alongside cloud-based solutions, as internet availability can affect backup management. Regarding features, cross-hypervisor restore functionality would be a valuable addition, allowing for greater flexibility in restoring VMs across different environments.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Rubrik for the past five years.
How was the initial setup?
Rubrik's initial deployment was straightforward.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
Rubrik's competitive pricing and strong return on investment make it a compelling choice, especially compared to alternatives like Data Domain and Avamar. Commvault was considered but deemed too expensive.
What other advice do I have?
I highly recommend requesting an on-site demo to fully evaluate Rubrik's capabilities before making a decision. Overall, I rate Rubrik as a ten for its effectiveness as a backup solution.
Easy to use
What do you like best about the product?
We like how easy things are to integrate with our current setup. There are plenty of features and we use it often.
What do you dislike about the product?
We have yet to find anything we dislike.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have a quality backup.
Solid flexible DR/ransomware solution with growing security features
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to use, secure, I like the design, and very flexible with endless options for DR and ransomware recovery
What do you dislike about the product?
Probably the only thing is they are in the process of moving from the original management portal running on the on-prem device to a cloud-based management portal. Those migrations are always a pain.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The solution is easy to use, while still offering a wide variety of options
Rock Solid Product. Super simple to use
What do you like best about the product?
First off, it's user-friendly. You don't need a tech wizard degree to navigate it. Also, it's pretty versatile – handles backups, recovery, and even cloud stuff smoothly. Saves time too, with automation doing its thing.
What do you dislike about the product?
One downside can be the price tag; With new product acquisitions and licensing it can get a big confusing on which features are included with your purchase.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Direct backups of all our servers and archiving them to the cloud storage.
Rubrik Modern Backup and Recovery Solution
What do you like best about the product?
Very easy to use. You don't need to learn more CLI. Everything is userfriendly.
Customer support is very friendly and knowledgable, ther are available 24/7 to walk you through any kind of tasks.
Very easy to Implement, upgrade, Integrate with Vcenter, AHV.
HAve multiple features and keep on adding more and more
What do you dislike about the product?
Still developing in many areas. But very fast in development.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Supporting multiple backups under one single roof.
The best and easiest backup and ransomware solution!
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of backup and peace of mind on ransomware detection and remediation.
What do you dislike about the product?
I have not yet discovered a downside to using Rubrik.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Backup and ransomware detection.
