BDRShield vs. Rubrik

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
BDRShield
Score 7.6 out of 10
N/A
Vembu BDR Suite is a universal backup solution catering to the backup, recovery, and disaster recovery needs of diverse IT environments. It is also optimized for service providers who deliver BaaS and DRaaS to their customers.
$12
per year per endpoint
Rubrik
Score 7.9 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
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.N/A
Pricing
BDRShieldRubrik
Editions & Modules
Endpoint / Workstation Backup
$12
per year per endpoint
SaaS Backup
$12
per year per user
VMs, Servers & Cloud Backup
$48
per year per VM
Apps & DB Backup
$72
per year Apps
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
BDRShieldRubrik
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
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Features
BDRShieldRubrik
Data Center Backup
Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Product A and Product B
BDRShield
9.1
61 Ratings
7% above category average
Rubrik
9.2
142 Ratings
8% above category average
Universal recovery9.650 Ratings9.5127 Ratings
Instant recovery8.851 Ratings9.7136 Ratings
Recovery verification9.752 Ratings9.1125 Ratings
Business application protection8.443 Ratings8.9125 Ratings
Multiple backup destinations8.943 Ratings9.6134 Ratings
Incremental backup identification9.058 Ratings9.5131 Ratings
Backup to the cloud8.536 Ratings9.2129 Ratings
Deduplication and file compression9.548 Ratings6.8137 Ratings
Snapshots9.145 Ratings8.8141 Ratings
Flexible deployment9.254 Ratings8.6130 Ratings
Management dashboard8.659 Ratings9.8142 Ratings
Platform support9.359 Ratings9.2139 Ratings
Retention options9.457 Ratings9.9142 Ratings
Encryption9.351 Ratings9.9132 Ratings
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Medium-sized Companies
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Score 9.6 out of 10
Enterprises
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Score 9.6 out of 10
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User Ratings
BDRShieldRubrik
Likelihood to Recommend
7.6
(64 ratings)
7.6
(142 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.0
(4 ratings)
8.9
(17 ratings)
Usability
7.4
(62 ratings)
8.4
(26 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
7.7
(5 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(6 ratings)
Support Rating
9.0
(6 ratings)
8.8
(23 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
7.3
(3 ratings)
Implementation Rating
8.0
(3 ratings)
9.1
(9 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
6.1
(6 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
-
(0 ratings)
6.5
(8 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
8.8
(6 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(6 ratings)
Professional Services
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
8.8
(6 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
8.7
(6 ratings)
User Testimonials
BDRShieldRubrik
Likelihood to Recommend
Vembu Technologies
It provides reliable daily backup tasks and it is important for us to have no worries of system crush. BDRSuite is full featured, I had been using BDRSuite to replicate servers from Hyper-v to ESXi, it's quite useful and easily to process than other VM migration tools between different platform. BDRSuite costs less than other backup product because I can decrease/increase/allocate license between VMs easily. The license charge two ways, server or VM. We choose VM license.
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Rubrik, Inc
Rubrik is still a relatively new product when compared to other solutions which tackle total data protection. The feature set is quite broad but still needs some refinements. Most of the User Interface is quite straightforward and easy, but some areas are a bit lacking in a description of what the option is used for, or the option is missing. While making the user experience easy, many tunables aren’t present and require a Support Tunnel to be open for a Support person to make a change in the customer’s environment. Seems the first question Support always asks is if you can open a tunnel for them to remote in. Then you’re not able to monitor exactly what they’re doing.
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Pros
Vembu Technologies
  • Seed an offsite backup. A simple checkbox to seed a large backup prior to backing it up to our datacenter. Previously with another well knows backup provider this was convoluted and time-consuming.
  • Backup Speed. Vembu BDR is fast and allows me to schedule multiple jobs within time constraints that prohibit some backup products from working.
  • DR - Vembu BDR provides an option to mirror your backups to an offsite datacenter without taxing production servers with a secondary backup job.
  • Bare Metal Recovery: the ability to create a custom bootable ISO that you can quickly recover a failed physical server or workstation.
  • Ease of use: The console is consistent and very easy to use. From initial install to being fully configured takes just a few minutes.
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Rubrik, Inc
  • It just works right out of the box. No customizations were needed to start using.
  • It protects several types of databases such as IBM DB2 that are not protected by competing products.
  • The Rubrik Support team is very knowledgeable and responsive to our issues.
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Cons
Vembu Technologies
  • User interface on the servers do not have enough tools to better monitor the systems and finding information is difficult.
  • User interface at portal is difficult to navigate and confusing
  • Support documentation is too generic and rarely answers my questions.
  • Licensing and acquisition. As a reseller and partner the licensing model is confusing and the portal interface to manage licensing should be scrapped and rebuilt. It is difficult to navigate and the available information is too vague.
  • Recently, communication with new channel contact. My previous contact was articulate and answered my questions.
  • Did I mention licensing? This is the most confusing and difficult process I've dealt with in 25 years. Makes Microsoft look simple.
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Rubrik, Inc
  • Automated test restores. I would love to setup automated and random test restores on a regular basis where Rubrik's system will restore a random file or directory to a test SharePoint folder, send a full report, and provide a path to the folder for review and confirmation.
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Likelihood to Renew
Vembu Technologies
Because of the product functions and possibilities: - it's easy to use through WEB browser - installation process is not complicated - Vembu BDR solution is reliable, and works properly. It does the job. This product could get extra points for the appliance that could be imported to virtual environment (no need for windows server license or some linux knowledge).
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Rubrik, Inc
The support has been incredible. Any time we have had a question, it has always been answered within 24hrs. Also, the team is always will to hop on a Zoom call to help walk us through the dashboard and troubleshoot any issues we are having. Also, having the peace of mind that our data is protected should anything happen in our system.
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Usability
Vembu Technologies
Friendly web interface very clear, nicely and professionally designed. Usability, setup and forget. It has all features you need for hybrid environments even if you don't use it. You know the features are there when you needed. Email report is so informative. You get all the details about completed backup without logging in the system
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Rubrik, Inc
The support is top notch both tech and sales team, the tools are simple
to use and yet still is feature rich. Security is top of the list, the
product is sold and reliable, easy to configure and intuitive to use.
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Reliability and Availability
Vembu Technologies
No answers on this topic
Rubrik, Inc
Rubrik's brik is designed with redundancy in mind, ensuring that if one node experiences issues, others can continue to provide backup and recovery services.
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Performance
Vembu Technologies
No answers on this topic
Rubrik, Inc
Yes. Even on VPN and poor occasional poor internet speeds we've had no issues.
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Support Rating
Vembu Technologies
It often takes a very long time to get an issue fixed. the support folks seem committed to getting it fixed but they often seem to be trying different things and hoping something works. I did not get the sense that they had a clear idea what was wrong.
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Rubrik, Inc
Rubrik support has been pretty good. There have been a few issues with new releases we have experienced and are still considering if we want to make the jump to version nine. There are a few things we are concerned about which are giving us pause. That being said, support is working hard to answer our questions.
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In-Person Training
Vembu Technologies
No answers on this topic
Rubrik, Inc
Very easy to take in and pass on.
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Online Training
Vembu Technologies
No answers on this topic
Rubrik, Inc
Easy to follow and very thorough. Trainer was knowledgeable and helpful answering any questions and providing detailed answers where possible. It's also nice to gain another badge :) There is also the Rubrik University online tutorials to refer back to and keep updated with new innovations. I would say the exam was very hard.
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Implementation Rating
Vembu Technologies
It wasn't difficult at all, it fact, it was mostly simple, implementation doesn't require much skills and knowledge, but the configuration part does require some skills to create the jobs and configure certain settings, overall, its an easy implementation, especially for experienced IT People
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Rubrik, Inc
From experience the implementation was smooth and easy, like a simple plug and play format but would need coordination from your network team to be able to see the entire IT infrastructure.
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Alternatives Considered
Vembu Technologies
I tested Vembu against Veeam and for the price, Vembu was the better option. I also had a great support experience as I had to contact Vembu twice after mistakes I made. While using Veeam the software was not as intuitive and support responses were not as swift and accurate.
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Rubrik, Inc
Having all our backups under one umbrella made product management easier, with not need to manage myltip contracts.
The additional analysis of the data after the fact gave insights into our user data, without the need for an addition product, or the impact on live data sets.
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
Vembu Technologies
No answers on this topic
Rubrik, Inc
We are fine with the 1 year or 3 year support options that Rubrik has had. The support for the on-prem hardware has been great too. We've had them for quite a while (4+ years) and no end of support yet.
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Scalability
Vembu Technologies
No answers on this topic
Rubrik, Inc
Rubrik allows multi-site deployment and cloud integration. But we are currently only using Rubrik in one location with Archives in Cloud
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Return on Investment
Vembu Technologies
  • For organizations that use different tools for Backup and recovery, this could be the single tool for Storage and Backup Administrators to automate and work effectively.
  • Software cost is lesser thus the money can be invested for other tools/software procurement
  • I don't think there is any negative impact as of now
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Rubrik, Inc
  • Rubrik has eliminated all our other backup tools that we were trying to accomplish what they offer.
  • Rubrik has made management of backups a non-issue.
  • Recovery of systems and files takes seconds or minutes.
  • We have a better strategy against ransomware.
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ScreenShots

BDRShield Screenshots

Screenshot of EncryptionScreenshot of Multiple recovery optionsScreenshot of ReportsScreenshot of RetentionScreenshot of SchedulingScreenshot of VM Selection

Rubrik Screenshots

Screenshot of Rubrik DashboardScreenshot of Data Threat AnalyticsScreenshot of Data Security PostureScreenshot of SLA Domain