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Score 9.1 out of 10

Based on 12 reviews and ratings

Score 9.4 out of 10

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Feature Rating Comparison

NetApp SnapMirror

Rubrik

Universal recovery

Live recovery

Recovery verification

Business application protection

Multiple backup destinations

Incremental backup identification

Backup to the cloud

Deduplication and file compression

Snapshots

Flexible deployment

Management dashboard

Platform support

Retention options

Encryption

Pros

Ease of use.
Reliable.
Efficient.

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Administrator in Information Technology

Education Management Company, 51-200 employees

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Extremely fast restores of both file data and entire VMs via snapshots
Incredible user-friendly interface that has what I found to be a low learning curve
Easy to set up replication between sites for DR purposes
Fantastic support when I have issues - time to initial contact is very low and resolution is almost always very quick
Global search feature makes finding things very quick

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Engineer in Information Technology

Higher Education Company, 5001-10,000 employees

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Cons

Cascade SnapMirror.
Broader bandwidth.
High resiliency.

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Sarthak Panchal

Consultant, Storage Operations - Shell, G.E.G

T-Systems ICT India Pvt. Ltd.Information Technology & Services, 5001-10,000 employees

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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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System Network Administrator

Sabra Dipping CompanyFood Production, 201-500 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

NetApp SnapMirror 9.0

Based on 1 answer

Very well versed and a good product to deal with downtime to recover from the failure is pretty good. Also, NetApp's engagement on Incident calls is very professional and humble. I would give a 100% rating to this product as I have been working on this for the past 5 years. It is stable, fast and highly reliable

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Sarthak Panchal

Consultant, Storage Operations - Shell, G.E.G

T-Systems ICT India Pvt. Ltd.Information Technology & Services, 5001-10,000 employees

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Rubrik 8.9

Based on 11 answers

We have been very satisficed with Rubrik over the years that we have been using the product. We have seen a few minor issues with some of the upgrades that have been applied, but overall the product works and is easy to use. Our SQL DBA's love the product to manage their SQL server backups because the restores are fast and can be done at the database level.

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Manager, Infrastructure

Vizient, IncHospital & Health Care, 1001-5000 employees

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Usability

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Rubrik 8.8

Based on 9 answers

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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Administrator in Engineering

Information Technology and Services Company, 10,001+ employees

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Reliability and Availability

No score

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Rubrik 9.1

Based on 3 answers

Never goes down

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Infrastructure Services Manager

University of ReadingHigher Education, 1001-5000 employees

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Performance

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Rubrik 9.1

Based on 3 answers

I did not find any performance issues.

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Administrator in Information Technology

Education Management Company, 201-500 employees

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Support Rating

NetApp SnapMirror 10.0

Based on 2 answers

NetApp support has always been great. With the NetApp Auto-support system/web portal, the visibility into your NetApp storage is incredible. There have been times when I've been contacted by them for an issue that I haven't even discovered yet. For example, I received a call 20 minutes after a drive failed in our filer. I hadn't checked my email at that time and therefore didn't see the alert.

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Coordinator of Network and Technical Services

Hudson Falls Central School DistrictEducation Management, 201-500 employees

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Rubrik 8.8

Based on 22 answers

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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Administrator in Information Technology

Printing Company, 51-200 employees

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In-Person Training

No score

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Rubrik 9.1

Based on 1 answer

Very easy to take in and pass on.

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George Pickersgill

IT Infrastructure Engineer

Shakespeare MartineauLegal Services, 501-1000 employees

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Online Training

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Rubrik 4.5

Based on 1 answer

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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George Pickersgill

IT Infrastructure Engineer

Shakespeare MartineauLegal Services, 501-1000 employees

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Implementation Rating

No score

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Rubrik 9.0

Based on 7 answers

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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Jewemars Christian Riano

System Administrator

UnionBank of the PhilippinesBanking, 1001-5000 employees

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Alternatives Considered

Over the years we have transitioned to NetApp SnapMirror for all our storage needs. However, due to the short life cycle of support, it is cost prohibitive to maintain after support is ended. The main reason we have liked NetApp SnapMirror due to the many options and standardized management capabilities and flexible options for provisioning and setup of storage.

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Director in Information Technology

Hospital & Health Care Company, 11-50 employees

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Rubrik was the easiest to install and configure for our environment. The all in one solution has built in safeguards, so if part of the system fails you are not left without a backup solution. The system is robust and easy to upgrade or increase in size. The system requires very little day to day attention and integrates with ServiceNow.

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Professional in Information Technology

Biotechnology Company, 5001-10,000 employees

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Scalability

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Rubrik 8.8

Based on 3 answers

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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George Pickersgill

IT Infrastructure Engineer

Shakespeare MartineauLegal Services, 501-1000 employees

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Return on Investment

NetApp SnapMirror has allowed us to recover critical data in a timely manner on multiple occasions.
We have been able to decrease our RPO objectives.
We have been able to decrease our DR costs as well.

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Administrator in Information Technology

Education Management Company, 51-200 employees

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The ability to deliver strong business continuity has been worth FAR more than we paid for the solution. Our previous backup system was undersized and underperforming, and RTO for a full outage was measured in weeks. Currently we can bring up core production within a few hours, and that is with a series of huge file servers - we expect to see that time drop as we break the servers out
Having 365 and Azure backed up through Polaris has saved us from what would have been embarrassing client-facing issues when emails were lost or deleted.
We are so much more confident in our systems that we are able to make system changes rapidly to keep pace with the company, knowing that we can always just take a quick backup and revert if needed. We are even using the Rubrik cluster to transition workloads between otherwise incompatible vCenter deployments, allowing us to seamlessly replace whole clusters with no downtime.

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Information Technology System Architect

BRPHArchitecture & Planning, 201-500 employees

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Pricing Details

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Free Trial

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

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Free Trial

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