Rubrik vs. Spanning Backup for Office 365

The speed of restoring data and simplicity to kick that off is hands down the best. The intuitive nature of the system to recognize a missing VM and to auto flag it as a relic to reduce log clutter and distractions. I honestly don't look at it often due to the stability of the system.

Where its less suited would be the full feature set is only for VMware, with the recent approval from Nutanix as a partner there have been a lot of growth adding function for AHV VMs. Custom reporting doesn't seem to be as feature rich as other processes along with the YARA rules coding for threat hunting.

Spanning Backup is perfect for us smaller organizations that have fewer users we're not forced to buy a set amount of licenses to use the service. I can buy one license to however many I need. Other solutions do not offer this kind of flexibility. The other feature I like about Spanning Backup there is no need for me to run an on-premises server to store my backups other solutions will require running an on-premises server. Spanning backups are stored offsite managed by the Spanning team.

• Validates all backups against ransomware during and after backups are performed.
• Is seamless in backing up data whether on prem or in the Cloud.
• Support engineers are extremely knowledgeable and useful in providing guidance.
• Integrates will with native Oracle and SQL backup processes.

• Offsite backups
• Reliable
• Affordable
• Easy to manage

• 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.

• It would be nice to have the ability to restore multiple emails using a date range
• Add an option to backup Microsoft Teams
• Add an option to backup 3rd party cloud apps already connected to my Office 365 tenant.

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.

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.

The web console is easy to use.

Never goes down

I did not find any performance issues.

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.

Very easy to take in and pass on.

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

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.

Rubrik has smaller footprint of hardware compared to the competition and ease of operations. The software is a bit more stable and allows the scaling of the infra in a much easier way and manage. The polaris tool / reporting module is very easy for management to look at the statistics and get the meat of the information from the overall operations

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

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

• 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.

• Cost effective solution it will not break the bank to implement