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March 07, 2021
We’re using Rubrik to eradicate tapes from our environment backing up NAS, VMware, HyperV, and Nutanix. It’s a central IT service for all infrastructure provided to our business. It brings a rapid restore capability compared to tape which took days to get back and that’s just the tape let alone the restore process.
- Instant recovery
- Cloud out technology
- Backs up everything we have needed to!
- Ransomware detection
- Immutable backups
- Hyper scale
- Some of the policy could be more fine grained
- RBAC is not advanced
- Better integration in AHV
- no training
Yes - Simple and straight forward
February 24, 2021
Rubrik is the primary backup product we use. It is currently used to backup our virtual infrastructure running on VMWare. Our backup is stored on Rubrik Briks and also archived to S3 Storage. Overall the product is rock solid with great features. Other than our primary backup solution this is also major part of our DR Recovery plan. In case of disaster we can restore our VMs to AWS using Rubrik Cluster on AWS.
- Direct Live backup of VMs using Native snapshot technology
- Cloud Integration for Archiving of Data
- Instant restore of VM using live mount on Rubrik Flash Storage
- Application Aware backups for Active Directory
- 0 day local retention of data when archived to S3
- Role based access control for specific Backups.
- Better Reporting options for Disk Usage
- Alerts for unmanaged objects
February 23, 2021
Rubrik is being used organization-wide. It helps us with backup deliverables for our critical and major systems. It is also used for disaster recovery for our virtual machine servers. Knowing that we are secure, and have a backup, makes us sleep better at night.
The company is going through a digital transformation. We are transitioning from the typical tape method to doing backups with Rubrik and archiving it to the cloud thru AWS.
The company is going through a digital transformation. We are transitioning from the typical tape method to doing backups with Rubrik and archiving it to the cloud thru AWS.
- Fast recovery.
- Compression algorithms.
- Backup recovery.
- Fast mount point for virtual machines.
- Quick integration with AWS.
- Monitoring.
- GUI design and functionality.
- Solaris backup.
- Longer SLA retention rather than just 999 days.
February 09, 2021
Rubrik is used as our Enterprise Data Protection platform to backup and recovery all of our servers at two primary data centers. We have Rubrik "briks" at each site and they replicate Tier 1 servers backups cross-site. Older backup data is archived to the cloud via Rubrik as well.
- Easy to administer.
- Easy to install and configure.
- Great support!
- Software upgrades occasionally overwrite existing settings.
- It is a relatively expensive solution.
- Backing up millions of small files on CIFS shares is not as efficient as other backup products.
March 11, 2021
We use Rubrik to back up VMware virtual machines via snapshots.
- Ease of backup
- Ease of Restore
- We had to restore 20 + VM's due to a storage malfunction. Very fast!
Rubrik is used as the primary data protection solution.
- Rubrik simplifies protection of assets and data across the estate, making it easy to protect VMs, SAN, database and OS/file level information.
- The search function from the very front page makes it very easy to identify data for restore. That ease of use becomes the standard across the entirety of the restoration process - quick and pain free.
- RBAC access is industry standard in data protection application and it's not different here - again very easy to set up with depth and granularity for those that require it.
- Automation of restores should be available from the GUI - at present one must configure scripts to interface with the APIs
- in-person training
Yes - Rubrik support handled it all for us
February 25, 2021
Used for backup all on-prem environment[s] like Oracle databases or VM workloads based on vmware. The [main] thing while introducing this product is to reduce time to administer backup jobs the whole week. The best thing is that Rubrik is able to rerun backups on itself to fulfill the assigned service level agreement. After one year, we introduced O365 Backup for all our exchange online users. Next step will be to introduce one drive backup and hopefully teams and sharepoint Backups too.
- Self learning mechanism.
- Integration with itsm tools.
- Automate everything with REST.
- No special configuration is needed.
- Backup SAP instances through sap brtools.
- See polaris results in cdm gui.
- Easy integrate azure ad with polaris and cdm system.
March 23, 2021
We use Rubrik for backup, archive, and retention of our entire VMware (Windows and Linux) environment, AIX environment, and limited physical environment. Additionally, we use Rubrik CDM for a few physical devices. We use Rubrik to protect the entire organization and have found it to be powerful and easy to use. Our previous backup solution was powerful but cumbersome and time-consuming to manage. Moving to Rubrik saved us close to a whole FTE's time allowing the IT Operations team to focus more on strategic initiatives that impact end user experiences.
- Simple - Rubrik CDM centralizes backups around SLA. Objects, like VMs, are assigned to SLAs and the backups happen according to the SLA schedule.
- Powerful - Rubrik CDM gives us the option to adjust backup frequency, retention, archival location (co-lo or cloud), and allows for legal-hold. Additionally, it supports all the platforms we need to backup.
- Flexible - The GUI interface gives us access to almost everything we would ever need and their API, and API-first design, allows scripting. Scripting opens up additional use-cases and meets unique requirements.
- Excellent Support - Rubrik's support is knowledgeable and has been easy to contact and get help from whenever we've need it.
- Cost - Rubrik is not the cheapest offering in the field. However, we've seen time-savings that more than cover the additional cost.
- Lack of AD-integration - At least as of yet, Rubrik doesn't support object-level Active Directory restores. Rubrik CMD does integrate with AD for authentication via LDAP, but does not tie-in for granular AD object restores.
- Some of the reports in Rubrik are difficult to consume. As such, it's cumbersome to see how much space is being consumed by some objects after dedup and compression.
March 12, 2021
We brought in Rubrik to solve our backup and DR challenges. We had outgrown our previous solution and could no longer depend on it for backup or DR. We deployed Rubrik across the entire organization for backup and DR and immediately were able to see the benefits. Rubrik [is] being used for all backup services and replicating to the cloud for DR.
- Immutable backups.
- Instant recoveries.
- Easy to deploy and manage.
- Cloud out technology for cloud DR.
- World class support!
- Relatively expensive compared to other solutions, but it's no questions asked worth it!
- Hyper-V support comes after VMware usually.
April 01, 2021
This is being used across all of our organization. This addresses the need that we had for a scalable backup product that sits in our data center. We also wanted it to be able to tier to cloud. We appreciate the API’s and will be using that further in the future.
- Scale out.
- Modern.
- Integration through API.
- Young company.
- The UI could use a bit more work.
- Terminology needs to be simplified for end users.
We're using Rubrik across the entire company. Every VM and database is automatically protected and archived into Azure.
- Simplicity in protection
- Cloud coverage
- Expandability
- GUI upgrades
- Active Directory specific features
- Native vCSA protection
Rubrik is widely being used throughout the City as the primary backup solution for our server fleet. Rubrik helps us feel confident in the fact that we can restore our servers from a backup quickly and efficiently in case of failure, while also helping balance the load between our systems. The data dashboard that accompanies Rubrik's systems has a great display of information, ranging from the number of virtual servers, to any issues in our environment that may prevent services from restoring properly. One of the best features is being able to monitor our system performance to keep our environment running smoothly.
- Server restoring is an essential feature.
- Self scheduling server backups is essential.
- Integration with AWS cloud.
- Speed of NAS backups could be quicker.
- Changing the backup schedule is difficult if one is already in place.
- AWS integration is limited.
We use Rubrik for server and 365 backup across the whole organization. It helped us save time as it doesn't need to be constantly micromanaged.
- Easy to find your way around the GUI
- Reliable
- Easy to implement
- Can't really fault it
Rubrik has helped us a lot in managing our backups. Coming from an old legacy system with a lot of administration and a very consultant-friendly system, Rubrik is a fresh breath of air in the backup space. Administration is easy and intuitive. Backups are fun again (backups were never fun with the old system).
- SLAs are super easy to set up
- Cloud replication of backups--easy to set up and just works
- Administration--easy to use
- Volume backups where we need to exclude file types
Rubrik is used as the single backup platform within the business, ingesting data from virtual (VMware) and physical hosts alike. Applications protected include Exchange, SQL and Oracle and Office 365
- Replication to cloud
- SLA based backups
- Data immutability
- Single platform
- Out of the box reporting could be better - However the API interface allows the generation of custom reports and the ability to retrieve any detail from the system
February 24, 2021
Rubrik is being used to backup more than 50TB of information used by our organization. We utilize the cloud out option and retired tape and the results for backup recovery has been easier than ever. We backup multiple file types and use a NAS. It address the problem of backing up with ease and having multiple restore options and google like searches.
- Backing up VMs and Nutanix is easy to setup and process is just about the same across the board.
- Google like searches on NAS data which make searching for a file easy and painless.
- For SQL the option of just grabbing information you need and exporting out is useful.
- NAS backup speed would like to be faster.
- The ability to stop a backup schedule easier
- Need the abilty to change backups to occur on a specific date
Rubrik is helping us to drastically improve our backup strategy. The best feature of Rubrik is making the backup window invisible. This is great because in an international context like our, we do not see any maintenance window when operating around the clock. So Rubrik will decide when this is best to do start backup jobs based on its own analysis and the SLA that we impose on the system.
Another great advantage of using Rubrik is the massive savings in terms of storage. The file system is so advanced that savings are huge.
Another great advantage of using Rubrik is the massive savings in terms of storage. The file system is so advanced that savings are huge.
- Storage savings using dedupe, compression and erasure coding
- Define SLA to have backup jobs started, no time need to be defined
- Scale out capabilities
- 10 GE is mandatory, I think in some environment 1 Gbps could be used
- Entry ticket is high, but once you growth, it is reduced
- Lack of end user laptop support (officially)
February 09, 2021
We use Rubrik to backup all our VMs, Datacenters, SPs, and etc. It is used throughout the institution. We wanted Disaster Recovery solutions and instant access to snapshots/files. This product does it all. Rubrik addresses DR across our two campuses with fantastic speed and when you need to live mount or export the data, it is there for you.
- The UI is beautiful and super easy to use. Very straight forward.
- Downloading a backup on-prem was super fast.
- Restoring a server was quick and efficient. Again, the downtime was very minimal.
- Works Well with Azure.
- Format support is great.
- Easy to learn and it's like an Apple Time Machine backup where you can browse for files and mount pretty much instantly.
- EMC Isilon support is great.
- Works well with Nutanix.
- If you have a single Brik, you won't be able to upgrade without downtime to a node.
- no training
Yes - yes it was smooth and minimal node downtime.
November 22, 2019
We use Rubrik as our primary backup solution for physical, virtual and database backups at both our corporate headquarters and remote offices. We are a multi-industry company and use it across our organization. It gives us fast and reliable backups with easy integration into our VMware environment and archive capabilities to the cloud.
- Virtual machine backups are extremely easy to setup. The recovery (instant mount) process is a better option than doing a traditional restore of a server.
- SQL database backups and recovery are very nice. Our DBA's love the SQL DB mount option to quickly recover data.
- The ability to change the retention on a pre-existing backup that is different than the current SLA is a feature that has not yet made it to Rubrik. This is one option I would like to see sooner than later.
- Having to utilize Fileset backups in order to restore to an alternate server is a hassle. Basically you have to make two backups of the server if you want full protection. It will be nice with this function is built into VM level backups so you only need one backup.
October 25, 2019
Our previous disk to disk backups had become so slow that we could no longer rely on the. Use needed something that was cost-effective, worked with our virtual environment and had DR options. Rubrik had the answers we needed for all of those and my team loves it.
- Speedy disk to disk backups.
- Excellent disaster recovery options.
- User-friendly.
- Quicker UI.
August 22, 2019
We have been using Rubrik for a few years now and it has been a very positive experience. Primarily it has helped us move away from our aging tape backup system and allowed us much more visibility and clarity on our backup strategy here at the university. We use it to capture the following workloads that cover data from all over the university and managed by central IT: Vmware virtual machines, NAS file shares, HyperV virtual machines, Nutanix virtual machines and huge quantities of Microsoft SQL.
- Live Mounting SQL for OBDC checks and for restores of tables.
- The single pane of glass and a single point of management and visibility was a huge win for us - as we moved away from a legacy tape backup solution. Rubrik modernized the whole approach and bought the simplicity to the backup model that we certainly needed!
- There is now a vast selection of objects that Rubrik can backup - it fitted our needs perfectly for all our workloads.
- Error reporting can be hard to interpret and chase out.
May 15, 2019
I've been using Rubrik for 2 years and the development of Rubrik is fast. I've witnessed the progress of Rubrik from backing up only VMs up to now where they can backup many operating systems and hosts. Rubrik is a user-friendly backup appliance that is easy to install and manage. I've done many implementations of Rubrik on different clients here in the Philippines and they are very happy with their purchase of Rubrik. The usual feedback that I got from the clients is that Rubrik is so easy to manage and the automation, deduplication and compression on their backups were excellent.
- Automation of Backups
- Support for Different Platforms and Operating System
- Easy to Manage
- Real Time Generation of Reports
April 22, 2019
This product is used across our entire enterprise. We were able to consolidate down to this one product and remove a handful of others to deal with just the one vendor. Being able to standardize on Rubrik allowed us to successfully manage a large, geographically diverse company from one location and with less personnel overall.
- VMware backups are done really well and super efficiently.
- The general ease of installation of the entire product.
- The APIs could be a little easier to exploit.
- The interface could use a little work.
We are using the Rubrik fabric to backup and restore as needed enterprise-wide and into the cloud. There are limits to the cloud integration but overall nothing works like Rubrik. I set up the product and pretty much do not touch it again until I need to.
- Database Backup and Restoration on the Rubik Box
- Google-like searching no matter where your targets are
- Calling support is better than calling 911. Help comes much faster and everyone is a native English speaker
- Bare Metal Restoration
- Work within OpenStack Cloud
August 14, 2019
We use Rubrik in our labs for our support team to learn with. We also have customers that we manage that run Rubrik as well as we support Rubrik with customers we resell to. Our teams are constantly growing and additional members are being trained on it. We currently protect our labs and some production resources and leverage the cloud features and replication.
- It is very easy to manage and just does its job well. Very little break-fix.
- Stable and trustworthy - It just runs and we can feel confident our backups happen.
- Alerting and reporting with email as well as Polaris are excellent.
- Increased support for agent level items such as SharePoint, active directory, and exchange.
- Simpler recovery of exchange data.
- Managing multiple clusters through Polaris would be great to have.
Rubrik Scorecard Summary
Feature Scorecard Summary
What is Rubrik?
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.
Its software is also designed to be vendor-agnostic, and supports the most commonly used operating systems, databases, hypervisors, clouds, and SaaS applications. And while you can utilize Rubrik’s software completely on the cloud, Rubrik also integrates with on-premises hardware, and even provides their own proprietary Rubrik appliances.
Key Features
Policy-driven
Rubrik functions through a single policy engine that orchestrates service level
agreements (SLAs) across the data lifecycle. Management is automated across
hybrid and multi-cloud environments with one programmatic interface.
Analytics & Reporting
Rubrik’s software creates customized reports and data visualizations for user’s
platforms on operational efficiency, compliance, and capacity utilization.
Security & Compliance
Data stored and backed up through Rubrik is secured in-transit and at-rest
throughout its lifecycle, regardless of location. Rubrik delivers granular
role-based access control while automating compliance reporting to complete
various industry and internal audits. Users can quickly recover from ransomware
through immutable backups native to the platform.
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| Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees) | 60% | |
| Enterprises (> 500 employees) | 40% |
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Rubrik Technical Details
| Deployment Types: | On-premise, SaaS |
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| Operating Systems: | Windows, Linux, Mac |
| Mobile Application: | No |
| Supported Countries: | NA, LATAM, EMEA, APJ |
| Supported Languages: | English |