Cohesity vs. Rubrik

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Cohesity
Score 8.2 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
Cohesity is a leader in AI-powered data security and management. Cohesity protects the world’s most critical data workloads across on-prem, cloud-native, and SaaS with backup and recovery, threat intelligence, cyber vaulting, files and objects, and recovery orchestration.N/A
Rubrik
Score 8.1 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
CohesityRubrik
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
CohesityRubrik
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
CohesityRubrik
Considered Both Products
Cohesity
Chose Cohesity
IBM is good but it´s old and really big and not easy to manage. And the License fees and so are worth it. Veeam I have a look on and 4 years ago I selected Cohesity because it was easier to manage, dedup was better and it is one hyperconverged infrastructure. Rubrik is or was …
Chose Cohesity
We replaced Barracuda with Cohesity. Barracuda was a nightmare to manage and was not very reliable. Rubrik is highly similar to Cohesity from a features perspective, but the sales and support personnel at Rubrik were unpleasant to deal with compared to Cohesity. With Rubrik
Chose Cohesity
Veeam is the best. Cohesity takes fast backups and provides good deduplication. Rubrik, it's Rubrik—nothing to write home about.
Chose Cohesity
We selected Rubrik for two reasons. The first was an already existing relationship with the 3rd party VAR that recommended Cohesity. The second was the low cost of Cohesity to back up our data center in a short amount of time also. I am not sure they are the strongest product …
Chose Cohesity
Rubrik. We currently use Rubrik for backups and we use Cohesity for NAS. Cohesity has been good for small NAS workloads if you are already using it for backups as well. It seems to be the jack of many trades and they are constantly adding more features and functionality. …
Chose Cohesity
Cohesity provided more features out of the box and not all they extra licensing to enable. The performance that Cohesity was able to provide was the main reason for our decision to change our backup solution to a new product instead of increasing our foot print with our …
Chose Cohesity
Data footprint and ease of use. Manage the data. Deduplication ratio of the outcome.
Rubrik
Chose Rubrik
We selected Rubrik due to the greater support it has for our Hyperconverged platform, Namely, Nutanix AHV. Both the sales pitch and initial support was more rounded than Cohesity and inspired more confidence in the product, Rubrik were able to demo everything we were planning …
Chose Rubrik
There is no comparison, Rubrik worked right out of the box and even has support for IBM DB2 databases. Patches and upgrades have been performed without any issues. Database backups are run using default settings without any noticeable impact on the databases/servers and …
Chose Rubrik
Selected Rubrik due to API driven, modern easy to use interface and appliances in a scale out architecture with a secure file system protecting backup data
Chose Rubrik
Of all the tools Cohesity was the closest to Rubrik but the lack of Nutanix support was the deciding factor for us. HYCU is native to Nutanix but without the Nutanix Objects the deduping rate was limited. Veratas fell in the older school classification of process that did …
Chose Rubrik
Easier deployment integrating with vCenter and backup policy assignments.
Chose Rubrik
We felt the solution provided by Rubrik better aligned with our business needs. Nothing wrong with the other solutions. But we thing we've made the right decision.
Chose Rubrik
The two solutions were very close. Rubrik was best with Oracle protection, company strength, support efficiency, and backup speed.
Chose Rubrik
Based upon company needs Rubrik fit the matrix for our needs the best.
Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
CohesityRubrik
Data Center Backup
Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Product A and Product B
Cohesity
8.9
59 Ratings
6% above category average
Rubrik
9.3
138 Ratings
12% above category average
Universal recovery8.050 Ratings9.1124 Ratings
Instant recovery8.752 Ratings9.7133 Ratings
Recovery verification8.748 Ratings9.2122 Ratings
Business application protection8.748 Ratings9.0122 Ratings
Multiple backup destinations8.751 Ratings9.6131 Ratings
Incremental backup identification8.753 Ratings9.1128 Ratings
Backup to the cloud9.342 Ratings9.6125 Ratings
Deduplication and file compression8.754 Ratings8.2134 Ratings
Snapshots9.351 Ratings9.2137 Ratings
Flexible deployment8.756 Ratings9.4126 Ratings
Management dashboard9.954 Ratings9.2138 Ratings
Platform support9.355 Ratings9.1135 Ratings
Retention options10.055 Ratings9.6138 Ratings
Encryption8.751 Ratings9.8128 Ratings
Enterprise Backup
Comparison of Enterprise Backup features of Product A and Product B
Cohesity
8.8
7 Ratings
7% above category average
Rubrik
-
Ratings
Continuous data protection9.05 Ratings00 Ratings
Replication8.96 Ratings00 Ratings
Operational reporting and analytics8.47 Ratings00 Ratings
Malware protection8.87 Ratings00 Ratings
Multi-location capabilities8.96 Ratings00 Ratings
Ransomware Recovery8.74 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
CohesityRubrik
Likelihood to Recommend
8.5
(69 ratings)
9.3
(138 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.7
(3 ratings)
8.8
(17 ratings)
Usability
7.2
(6 ratings)
8.7
(18 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
7.7
(5 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(6 ratings)
Support Rating
7.8
(27 ratings)
8.4
(22 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Online Training
9.0
(1 ratings)
7.3
(2 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(8 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
6.1
(6 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
-
(0 ratings)
6.6
(8 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
8.5
(6 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(6 ratings)
Professional Services
9.0
(1 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
8.5
(6 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
8.3
(6 ratings)
User Testimonials
CohesityRubrik
Likelihood to Recommend
Cohesity
Cohesity has been awesome. The performance (speed) that it has been able to provide has actually given me back time every month. I have to test my backups monthly, and the Cloning process that Cohesity has available from it's backup has given me days back each month. It just a few minutes I can have VMs restored for testing and documentation. This took a couple days with the previous vendor.
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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
Cohesity
  • Easy to use and setup new backup and restore jobs.
  • Extremely fast recovery time, can spin a VMware backup VM up in well under a minute.
  • Granular recovery search options, easy to find specific files or systems to recover (or SQL DB).
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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
Cohesity
  • Reporting could always be better- executive-style reports have to be generated from data at multiple points.
  • Some tasks that could be brought to the UI that today we have to call support on (for example when an NFS mount is still active but we cannot see it from the UI)
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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
Cohesity
We have been very pleased with this backup solution. It is fast and reliable, and supports our VMware infrastructure. The company's support has been great, including proactively replacing our nodes when the flash memory was reporting high wear. Support is offered on-shore as well. We plan on continuing to use this product for the foreseeable future.
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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
Cohesity
Cohesity Helios is very easy to use and the web up is simple to navigate and the main dashboard presents a very good and clear overview summary of protection status, capacity and other vital metrics. If you have multiple clusters you can get a single pane view of overall status which is awesome.
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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
Cohesity
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
Cohesity
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
Cohesity
Support is quick to respond but lacks that ongoing responsiveness if the issue is not simple. There will be large gaps in replies if they need to resort to escalation and when there are timezone differences between yourself and the person who picked up the ticket.
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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
Cohesity
No answers on this topic
Rubrik, Inc
Very easy to take in and pass on.
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Online Training
Cohesity
content was good and hands on lab to get the live feel of the application
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Rubrik, Inc
The interaction with the teacher is great and usually provides tons of opportunity for questions. The students questions are great to generate discussions and touching base the certification topic.
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Implementation Rating
Cohesity
No answers on this topic
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
Cohesity
We looked at Veeam and although it's a great product when we priced out the licensing of both primary and disaster datacenters it became much too expensive. Rubrik is a great product and very similar to Cohesity. In the end, Cohesity had a secondary storage play as well as a better UI and better compatibility with lower tier cloud storage. We also like the way Cohesity did protection jobs vs Rubrik's virtual machine centric backup. CommVault is a product we still use today due to its massive features and the ability for bare metal backups. Cohesity does a much better job in the area of UI simplicity, virtual backup ease, and ease of management.
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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
Cohesity
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
Cohesity
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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Professional Services
Cohesity
Overall Cohesity professional services like the rest of Cohesity are brilliant. We had some poor advice around how to carve up our Netapp protection jobs which has set us back but it has been acknowledged that a mistake was made by Cohesity and they promise for future engagements with new customers the lessons learnt with us will be integrated into their planning workshop for NAS onboarding.
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Rubrik, Inc
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Return on Investment
Cohesity
  • Several hours a week of admin time no longer needed to deal with tapes.
  • Many hours a year saved in that the admin no longer has to deal with LTO drives, LTO drive firmware, tape libraries, tape library firmware, a physical server connected to tape library, etc. Retired old legacy NAS devices that in some instances no longer had firmware updates. One system to administer and maintain.
  • Piece of mind. We replicate from our onsite cluster to an offsite cluster in the event of a DR event at HQ.
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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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