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    Rubrik

    Score8.3 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

    VMware SRM

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AVMware's Site Recovery Manager (VMware SRM) is a disaster recovery option, used to automate orchestration of failover and failback to minimize downtime and improve availability with VMware Site Recovery Manager.N/A
    Pricing
    RubrikVMware SRM
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    RubrikVMware SRM
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    RubrikVMware SRM
    Considered Both Products
    Rubrik, Inc
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    VMware by Broadcom
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    99%
    Would buy again
    99 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    93 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    99%
    Happy with the feature set
    99 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    97%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    86 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    94%
    Implementation went as expected
    88 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    RubrikVMware SRM
    Data Center Backup
    Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Rubrik and VMware Site Recovery Manager
    Feature
    Rubrik
    8.7
    142 Ratings
    1% above category average
    VMware Site Recovery Manager
    -
    Ratings
    Universal recovery8.7127 Ratings00 Ratings
    Instant recovery8.8136 Ratings00 Ratings
    Recovery verification8.8125 Ratings00 Ratings
    Business application protection8.0125 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multiple backup destinations8.0134 Ratings00 Ratings
    Incremental backup identification8.4131 Ratings00 Ratings
    Backup to the cloud8.9129 Ratings00 Ratings
    Deduplication and file compression6.7137 Ratings00 Ratings
    Snapshots8.9141 Ratings00 Ratings
    Flexible deployment8.1130 Ratings00 Ratings
    Management dashboard9.9142 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform support9.0139 Ratings00 Ratings
    Retention options9.8142 Ratings00 Ratings
    Encryption9.9132 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    RubrikVMware SRM
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.6
    (142 ratings)
    7.3
    (7 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (17 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    8.3
    (26 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Availability
    7.7
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    8.2
    (6 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.1
    (23 ratings)
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    7.3
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.1
    (9 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    6.1
    (6 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    6.5
    (8 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    8.9
    (6 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.2
    (6 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Professional Services
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    8.9
    (6 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    8.8
    (6 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    RubrikVMware SRM
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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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    VMware by Broadcom
    It's quite well suited for a medium to large size VMWare virtualization infrastructure where your production infrastructure can be failed over to a disaster recovery site. There are other cheaper options for a smaller budget business. Also, for a non mission critical virtual infrastructure, you can simply use VM backups such as Veeam backups for restoring failed VMs
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    Pros
    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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    VMware by Broadcom
    • Easy configuration and setup.
    • Testing of a particular VM or datastore with several VMs is easy.
    • Auto configuration of IPs makes the process even easier.
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    Cons
    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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    VMware by Broadcom
    • It’s unfortunate, but more and more, the quality of VMware’s products and the technical support teams behind them has degraded significantly. We have opened several support requests within the last few months and ended up resolving a large majority ourselves due to the poor performance of their remote teams.
    • VMware is suffering from the same illness that’s affecting multiple U.S. technology firms, in that their focus has shifted completely away from their customers and moved to pleasing investors. In doing so, clients suffer because they do not get properly tested products and the support teams behind them are very weak and overwhelmed.
    • We worked close to a month trying to get SRM V6.5 to work. We have worked with many previous versions of SRM in the past while using HP EVAs, NetApps and Hitachi arrays, and we can honestly say that we are greatly disappointed with this release and the company.
    • We escalated right up to engineering, but their response times were brutally slow; the technicians were juniors at best.
    • As a technology leader, the last thing you want during a DR is to be dealing with a company that just can't deliver. SRM is not cheap, and you would expect much better products and support from VMware.
    • If you are comparing products, try other companies like Veeam... We ended up using them instead, the setup and execution was easy and seamless, and they answered all our questions quickly and efficiently. They actually do care about their clients.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    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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    VMware by Broadcom
    - easy to set up - easy to protect critical servers in case of disaster
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    Usability
    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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    VMware by Broadcom
    VMWare SRM is very easy to use and configure. You don't have to be a virtualization expert to learn SRM configuration and execution.
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    Reliability and Availability
    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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    VMware by Broadcom
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    Performance
    Rubrik, Inc
    Yes. Even on VPN and poor occasional poor internet speeds we've had no issues.
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    VMware by Broadcom
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    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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    VMware by Broadcom
    Sometimes we have to struggle explaining the problem and getting it resolved on priority. The overall quality of support team is not as good as it used to be in past.
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    In-Person Training
    Rubrik, Inc
    Very easy to take in and pass on.
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    VMware by Broadcom
    No answers on this topic
    Online Training
    Rubrik, Inc
    Easy to follow and very thorough. Trainer was knowledgeable and helpful answering any questions and providing detailed answers where possible. It's also nice to gain another badge :) There is also the Rubrik University online tutorials to refer back to and keep updated with new innovations. I would say the exam was very hard.
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    VMware by Broadcom
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    Implementation Rating
    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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    VMware by Broadcom
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    Alternatives Considered
    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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    VMware by Broadcom
    Entertained Veeam, however with SRM's tight integration and "brand" it was an easy decision. The cost for a 25 server license also weighed in the decision for using a VMware product. Plus I am a VMware fan and feel this option to go with SRM will transcend jobs.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    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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    VMware by Broadcom
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    Scalability
    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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    VMware by Broadcom
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    Return on Investment
    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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    VMware by Broadcom
    • The biggest positive is that we have a data recovery solution that we can test and verify in a live condition. Prior to this we were only hoping we could recover from a disaster.
    • We've been only running for 4 months and haven't had to use SRM.
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