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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…
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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.
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What is Rubrik?
Rubrik is a cybersecurity company offering Zero Trust Data Security to help organizations achieve business resilience against cyberattacks, malicious insiders, and operational disruptions. Rubrik Security Cloud, built with a Zero Trust design and powered by machine learning, aims to deliver complete cyber resilience in a single platform across enterprise, cloud, and SaaS. Rubrik’s platform automates data policy management and enforcement, safeguards sensitive data, delivers data threat analytics and response, and orchestrates rapid cyber and operational recovery.
Key Features:
Key Features:
- Comprehensive Cyber Resilience: Rubrik Security Cloud offers a holistic approach to fortify data against a diverse range of threats, ensuring protection for enterprises, cloud environments, and SaaS applications.
- Automated Data Policy Management: The platform streamlines the management and enforcement of data policies, so that organizations can more efficiently control their data assets.
- Data Threat Analytics and Response: Leveraging internal analytics capabilities, Rubrik Security Cloud detects and responds to data threats swiftly, in order to prevent potential breaches.
- Operational Recovery Orchestration: In the event of a cyber incident or operational disruption, the platform orchestrates recovery processes, minimizing downtime and data loss.
Rubrik Features
Data Center Backup Features
- Supported: Universal recovery
- Supported: Instant recovery
- Supported: Recovery verification
- Supported: Business application protection
- Supported: Multiple backup destinations
- Supported: Incremental backup identification
- Supported: Backup to the cloud
- Supported: Deduplication and file compression
- Supported: Snapshots
- Supported: Flexible deployment
- Supported: Management dashboard
- Supported: Platform support
- Supported: Retention options
- Supported: Encryption
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Rubrik Technical Details
| Deployment Types | On-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Windows, Linux, Mac |
| Mobile Application | No |
| Supported Countries | NA, LATAM, EMEA, APJ |
| Supported Languages | English |
Frequently Asked Questions
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.
Veeam Data Platform, Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI, and Veritas NetBackup are common alternatives for Rubrik.
Reviewers rate Encryption highest, with a score of 9.6.
The most common users of Rubrik are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
Rubrik Customer Size Distribution
| Consumers | 0% |
|---|---|
| Small Businesses (1-50 employees) | 0% |
| Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees) | 60% |
| Enterprises (more than 500 employees) | 40% |
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Users commonly recommend the following about Rubrik:
Consider Rubrik as an option for backup solutions and try a proof of concept (POC) to experience its benefits. Users suggest that Rubrik is a complete and secure data management solution that is highly recommended.
Use Rubrik for customers who require frequent snapshots and a lower recovery point objective (RPO) granularity for restore. Reviewers believe that Rubrik is well-suited for these customers.
Integrate Rubrik as a backup product with existing automation systems due to its full-featured API. This allows for seamless integration and automation of backup processes. Additionally, when considering the cost of Rubrik, users suggest looking at the overall return on investment (ROI).
Overall, users recommend not being afraid to try Rubrik, emphasizing its ease of use and time-saving capabilities. They view it as a great investment that will save headaches in the long run. It is also recommended to use Rubrik as part of a two-system backup strategy for data protection. Before making a decision, it is advised to conduct a true comparison of costs and understand the long-term costs of all solutions.
Attribute Ratings
- 8.8Likelihood to Renew
- 7.7Availability
- 8.2Performance
- 8.7Usability
- 8.5Support Rating
- 7.3Online Training
- 9.1In-Person Training
- 9.1Implementation Rating
- 6.1Configurability
- 8.2Product Scalability
- 8.5Ease of integration
- 8.2Vendor pre-sale
- 8.5Vendor post-sale
- 9.1Professional Services
- 6.8Contract Terms and Pricing Model
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September 25, 2023
Rubrik Review for Mere Mortals
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use Rubrik to backup and replicate between several states using 2 physical clusters and 3 virtual devices. It is our go to solution for recovery and business continuity. It is our secondary solution for disaster recovery. We currently use organizations to allow all our DBAs to backup up SQL to Rubrik. We have one Windows Oracle team using managed volumes for backup.
- Support is competent and very responsive.
- Restores very easy and quick. The Briks themselves are robust enough to handle a workload while the live mounts are being migrated to permanent storage.
- Customer feedback and feature implementation.
- Ransomware investigations
- I honestly want Rubrik to focus on what they do best. CDM was introduced and IMO it isn't robust enough for this feature.
- I would like better API documentation.
- I'd like to see more granular control of SLA retentions.
80%
8.0
- The initial cost itself was far below even a renewed license cost of our existing solution.
- We now have the confidence from a DR perspective that we have on nearly all servers a 1 hour or less RPO for our replicated backups.
Rubrik was the simplest, cheapest and most feature-filled.
12
Administrators and DBAs
3
You have to the product well to be able to be the go-between for the end user and support
- Server recovery
- Database recovery and refresh
- file recovery
- tertiary NAS file backup
- Test and dev database refresh from replicated SQL data
- Ransomware protection
Yes
Avamar because it was behind the times and always playing catch up. It required babysitting.
- Price
- Product Features
- Product Usability
If I knew what I know now, I wouldn't have taken so long.
- Implemented in-house
No
Change management was minimal
- Adding too many servers at one time.
- No Training
It was extremely easy to setup, administer and train others.
Configuration is simple enough that there aren't too many best practices to consider.
No - there is no facility to customize the interface
Yes - we have added extensive custom code
We've supplemented Rubrik's functionality with API integration. It would've been easier with better documentation.
I created my own backup validation and integration into vmware.
Yes. A 24/7 shop needs 24/7 support.
Yes
Yes. There has always been a workaround or a patch level release.
They always provide exceptional support.
- Assigning protection policies
- Organizations are the most but not horrible
No
- API integration with VMware
It was easy, but the it would've been easier with better documentaion
We have no plans to integrate other applications at this time.
- API (e.g. SOAP or REST)
no
I would not recommend AWS, but that is not because of Rubrik.
I was not involved in negotiating.
We schedule a monthly call just to keep up and go over any news from Rubrik, contracts or any support tickets.
Yes
Super smooth with much shorter downtimes. We rarely have issue with upgrades.
- MFA met some security goals
- Easier management of SLAs using Rubrik Security Cloud.
No
No
September 25, 2023
Backup is the new cool with Rubrik
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
- Better integration in AHV
92.14285714285714%
9.2
- Over 5 yrs will save us nearly 6 figures in cost
- Ability to actually restore data in a timely manner
- Staff spends time managing rather than swapping tapes
Levels of intelligence can’t compare - one is a legacy thought process; the other modern.
15
Research, corporate applications
1
You don’t need any my junior looks after it
- Vm backups
- Ransomware detection
- Nas backup
- Auto test recovery
- Speed to restore
- Automation of dr
- M365 backup
Yes
Netbackup - was legacy did not have full coverage, slow, ineffective
- Product Features
- Product Reputation
The vision of using cloud data
Base more around automation
- Implemented in-house
No
Change management was a big part of the implementation and was well-handled
Dbas never want to change
- IPv6 to bootstrap
- no training
Could not be simpler
Few slas
No - there is no facility to customize the interface
No - we have not done any custom code
None
Did not need it
Yes
Yes workaround then next release covered it
We had a large nas backup failing they heard the issue, gave us an option and executed
- Add objects to backup
- Find backup data to recover
- Manage SLAs
- Build reports
No
- Active directory
Simple powershell
- Nutanix files api
Planned
- File import/export
- API (e.g. SOAP or REST)
Go small and build
Funding
Be honest
Yes
Simple and straight forward
- Bug fixes
- New features
- Batter Nutanix integration
No
No
December 29, 2022
Excellent product. Excellent sales team. Top notch support and involving customers in the development process.
Rubrik is a backup and data security product. We use it for exactly those purposes. servers, databases, local and remote resources. we wanted something that's intuitive, just works, and has excellent support. We backup SQL databases, SAP HANA, VMware and Hyper-V VMs and Active Directory.
- Backs up hypervisor VMs such as VMware as well as live mount backups without having to do full restores
- Backs up SQL databases at very fine granularity including tlog backups. it also handles SQL DAGs very well.
- Backs up SAP HANA using centralized management and integrates with BackInt
- Ransomware detection such as detecting large numbers of file changes or deletions in folders, finding malware based on hashes and rules, and giving you point in time recovery
- Sensitive data discovery such as HIPAA, PII, banking info, etc so we know what folders and files need permissions changes
- Rubrik's support model is the best. you can call or email or open a ticket in the portal. they are fast to respond, patient and very knowledable. their product and support portal provide lots of pertinent tips and detailed explanations.
- Reporting is good but could be better, particularly real time in the UI. They need more ability to sort and filter beyond what they already have.
- SQL restores have lots of options but not restoring as a .bak file
- they have Active Directory restore procedures but I'd like to see that functionality built into the UI instead of partially using an outside tool.
85.71428571428571%
8.6
- We spend less time on backups now than before. Less FTEs for managing backups.
- Rubrik has helped us recover everything after a cyber attack.
rubrik is much easier to deploy and manage. in so many ways. support is much better. sales is much better. customer involvement and response for features is much better. commvault is more granular but that hasn't hurt us. it takes less time to add new instances and less time on support tickets.
7
There are three infrastructure engineers who handle configuration and can do any restore types. There is one DBA who can do restores of our databases as desired. There is one working manager who can help handle roles and responsibilities in Rubrik. And there are 2 IT security people who can handle TPR requests, ransomware responses, and sensitive data discovery.
3
There are three of us who can support Rubrik regularly but one person is the primary that does the majority of the work. The rest are for when he is unavailable or if they are doing their own work. No one had formal training as the product was intuitive and there is ample documentation and videos to watch on their education portal.
- VMware and Hyper-V backup and replication
- SQL Database backups including DAGs
- SAP HANA backups
- Sensitive Data Discovery
- We have other primary ransomware detection applications on our systems but rubrik can also detect unusual amounts of changes on systems. This has helped in the past.
- Rubrik can search all backups for a particular file name or hash for both restores and detection of malware and very easily.
- Rubrik has both a cloud management portal and local instances so in the event internet access is off we can still manage things locally.
- We are looking to expand our sensitive data discovery process and Rubrik is adding features here. It's a lot of work to investigate the number of servers we have.
- Rubrik will give us the ability to recovery environment copies into an isolated network for testing full recovery scenarios.
Yes
We replaced Commvault for many reasons. One was complexity. It was far too complex and required too much time to troubleshoot issues. We also moved off of disk to cloud based archivals. The Commvault team was changing frequently and Rubrik's sales and support teams stood out above everyone else. Rubrik was also very easy to setup in remote offices.
- Product Features
- Product Usability
We wear many hats in IT and Rubrik was a very simple to deploy solution that had an excellent support and upgrade model allowing us to not spend nearly as much time troubleshooting and maintaining the product as before. Rubrik was web based and had lots of easy to use features.
There's not much that we would change in our selection and evaluation process. We looked at multiple vendors, submitted many dozens of questions to get feedback, did many demos and spoke with other customers to see their experience. We felt like we did a very thorough job. It was a different model by purchasing their storage and software but we felt that would help resolve issues by having one vendor for both.
yes. can't afford data loss and lots of great features
Yes
resolved or kept up to date when it will be
literally every support ticket is great. but we had data loss once (not Rubrik's fault) and their backend engineers helped undo the loss of backups
- html interface
- api based
- managing lots of VMs
- sorting and filtering built in pages with reports (different than actual report building)
No
Yes
excellent process now that we can do it easily in the UI
- tons of new features every upgrade which are frequent
- forced mfa
- better reporting
Yes
No
March 01, 2021
Data Integrity Simplified
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
100%
10.0
- This is the least amount of time I have spent managing backups. The efficiency and reliability mean I spend my time looking at other things.
- Veritas Backup Exec, CommVault, AppAssure and Veeam Backup & Replication
With the exception of Backup Exec's GRT I rate all features of Rubrik above the competitors i have used. To restore single mail items one must mount the volume/DB into a Kroll server (License provided on request from Rubrik)
6
IT Architects and Infrastructure Engineers
4
A general knowledge of backup and recovery and a decent knowledge of the products in the estate being supported and protected
- Data protection
- Fast RTO
- East of maintenance
- We've used it recently to spin up copies of both VMs and databases to run alongside the original and prove the safety/concept of a particular change.
- I used the replication and live mount to bring a VM to a different datacenter with about 10 minutes downtime for that service.
- Category/Folder level backup for AHV
- Live mount for AHV
Yes
Veeam, Backup Exec.
Both end of life and from different mergers - we needed to consolidate.
Both end of life and from different mergers - we needed to consolidate.
- Price
- Product Features
- Product Usability
- Product Reputation
Ease of use, reputation of the support teams
We wouldn't
- Third-party professional services
Rubrik came and helped us plug it in.
Further 'Brik' installs will just need network config and will then integrate themselves into the cluster.
Further 'Brik' installs will just need network config and will then integrate themselves into the cluster.
No
Change management was minimal
- We had no significant issues.
- in-person training
Very easy to pick up. Decent online KB to compliment the learning.
None
No - we have not done any customization to the interface
No - we have not done any custom code
None
No
Yes
Yes - an issue with SMB backups that has since been resolved in 5.3
A guy called Josh Steinhouse wrote a PS function and report specifically to help me with my Exchange backup monitoring.
Very good.
Very good.
- VMWare VM Restores
- Exchange database restores
- VMWare
- AHV
No, Rubrik already had the code in place to facilitate the integration.
- No
- API (e.g. SOAP or REST)
None - we don;t use it enough to properly comment
NA
None
Yes
Rubrik support handled it all for us
- Improved SMB backup performance
- NA
No
No
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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.
98.57142857142858%
9.9
- It's positive because we no longer have to worry about if backups are working in intervals or if there's snapshots throughout the day. Rubrik does it all.
- A third party vendor messed up on a business application and we were able to quickly revert back so operations is not hindered.
- The SLA is easy to manage and saved us a full time employee dedicated to backups only.
- Avamar
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.
2
IT and Network Support.
2
Network Specialist and Network Admin.
- Backup DR
- Live mount SQL Test development
- We live mount and test developed with Rubrik's Live mount feature.
- Run test lab on Rubrik
Yes
Avamar because it was too complicated to work and it has not worked very well in our environment.
- Product Features
- Product Usability
- Product Reputation
Support and blazing fast backups that is immutable to ransomware sold it to us.
We would have considered to have a Rubrik brik on each campus instead of having one. Evaluation requirements were simple management, upgrade-able, and simply works.
- Third-party professional services
Rubrik
No
Change management was minimal
We needed a bigger upload pipe to Azure.
- none
- no training
yes
no
No - there is no facility to customize the interface
No - we have not done any custom code
no
Yes, for the peace of mind.
Yes
yes, they gave resolution in a patch.
It was a Sunday night and a few backups were failing and Rubrik support was contacted. They worked on the issue right away.
- SLA and API calls were easy enough to use
- none I can think of
No
- Nutanix
- EMC Isilon
It was plug and play with the right credentials.
- no
- Single Signon
Give support a call and they will make it work.
Give us the best support.
It doesn't hurt to ask what else they can do for you.
Yes
yes it was smooth and minimal node downtime.
- Backups are faster and more secured.
- faster performance.
No
No