Cohesity DataProtect vs. Rubrik

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's suite of solutions extends far beyond what we use it for, which is focused on backing up our Microsoft 365 data. In terms of just M365, this is an excellent solution that is easy to configure, easy to use, and almost easy to forget about.

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• Ease of use - the platform is simple to manage and does not require a lot of daily care and feeding by my administrators
• Reliable - the platform is able to protect my workloads reliably without a lot of backup failures
• Great support - the Cohesity team has been a partner to us throughout our use of the solution, taking our feedback and implementing it as improvements to the platform.
• Innovative - the Cohesity team is consistently working to improve the product and add new capabilities.

• Simplification of the backup process
• Clutter free interfaces which makes
• Security features requiring MFA for logins and two person immutability features
• Full integration with Nutanix AHV storage to allow Live Mounting
• M365 Integration to allow for separate SLAs for each component

• 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)

• Anything Rubrik is missing can be developed with their open API.
• It would be nicer if Rubrik had better networking options out of the box for machines being restored to a location other than their normal location.
• Better node reporting or performance, we have had a few nodes need to be rebooted.

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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.

I gave rating do to the following: The product works great with little time needed to manage to be sure that backups work. Customer is very helpful and respond quickly to resolve errors or answer product questions. The continued education that Rubrik continue to offer such as training, webinars, and blogs.

Product was a one afternoon initial setup.

Rubrik has a simple to use interface and day to day management is very simple yet it doesn't sacrifice flexibility. Expanding capacity as data grows is very easy and does not require downtime. Upgrading is simple and efficient. Setup and configuration are straight forward.

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Never goes down

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I did not find any performance issues.

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.

Rubrik support is hands down some of the best product support we have. They know their product and are quick to assist. Submitting support cases is easier and they are very responsive. You don't have to use Rubrik support often but when you do they have your back.

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Very easy to take in and pass on.

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I've given 5 here as i have not done the Rubrik university stuff - just read their KB which is decent.

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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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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 similar to Cohesity. But they are not so good in Data management on the boxes

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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the only downside with a hardware+software all in one solution is having to pay for more licensing if you need more disk space instead of just adding space. other than that it's great

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Very easy to add new 'briks' (or nodes as everyone else calls them :P) as long as the network is plugged in and configured, the briks will discuss among themselves and welcome the new comer into the cluster

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• It has freed up 40 hours a month of our service desk staff since they were able to stop focusing so intently on tape management.
• We have gained time back on the engineers since they are not working tickets 10 hours a week just on backup issues.

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• This solution was comparable in price to other solutions we examined and offered features not available from some other leading backup providers.
• This has increased the speed with which I can restore files and especially entire virtual machines (literally seconds to spin up a restore instead of often over an hour with Avamar) so less downtime for customers who need help.
• While (thankfully) we haven't had to use it, this also offers ransomware detection and protection.
• Single Sign-On integration allows us to use our existing 2FA to increase security.

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