Dell Avamar is a hardware and software data backup and deduplication product. It provides protection and recovery through a complete software and hardware solution when paired with Dell Data Domain for virtual environments, remote offices, enterprise apps, NAS servers, and desktops/laptops.
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Rubrik
Score 8.6 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.
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 …
Rubrik is a more straightforward product to implement and manage. We mainly went with Rubrik for security reasons like ransomware protection and immutable database.
Rubrik crushed Avamar in a side-by-side comparison. Out of the box, Rubrik was up and running quicker, absorbing backups faster and integrating with VMware much better than Avamar. We had faults with Avamar backing up SQL servers that did not happen with Rubrik. Overall, …
Verified User
Administrator
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 …
Verified User
Executive
Chose Rubrik
Easier deployment integrating with vCenter and backup policy assignments.
Well, the software is the same in all. But what Rubrik offers is way better and different from these products. There are a lot of options and capability features which are offered by Rubrik such as Live recovery which we have implemented recently on a NAS share and it has …
Networker never did work right for us, but Rubrik was a quick deployment. Avamar was both complex and unreliable. Often backups were corrupt, and would take hours to restore. Everyone on our team knows how to use Rubrik with little training, and the backups usually complete …
Setup and upgrades are very quickly compared to multiple day and weeks getting items on a schedule to do. With only one box with Rubrik to setup compared to multiple boxes with Avamar the ability to troubleshoot is easier. Support is better and easier to get too. More …
Verified User
Administrator
Chose Rubrik
It's like day and night. Rubrik is super user friendly and very fast. Avamar has a learning curve and it is quite confusing sometimes. There is no more guessing on when backups should occur or when it occurs. It is all in a single glance with Rubrik GUI.
Verified User
Administrator
Chose Rubrik
Both offer highly flexible solutions. Rubrik offers simplicity and stability. No solution is a set and forget but Rubrik is as close as you can ask for.
Rubrik has the simplest and the most scalable solution to large scale backups with provable linear performance. Software-defined solutions increase dependencies and older technologies do not use true incremental backups. The ability to stack Rubrik appliances up, at 2 RU each, …
Rubrik was by far the easiest solution to manage and use. This and the fact that it was so extremely simple to configure and use cloud archive is the main reason we went with Rubrik. However, support has to be the biggest surprise. They are very knowledgeable and fast to …
While it doesn't provide all of the platform support as some of the legacy products, Rubrik has taken something typically complex and sometimes painful to manage and simplified it. Most of the products we have used lack in agility and bringing newer features to market.
Rubrik and Cohesity seem to be on-par with their product line. Rubrik seems to be ahead of the curve with the new features and the simple management. For our needs, Rubrik was a great fit.