Item: Rubrik
Rating: 9
Author: Craig Goodspeed

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Rubrik is being used to consolidate the multiple data protection software application that each required a fair amount of interactions to keep things working properly. Putting Rubrik in place has already cut the amount of regular troubleshooting tasks of the previous software platforms in half, and we have only been able to retire one of the platforms that were using.

Pros and Cons

The Rubrik appliance is easy and a joy to setup.
Configuring protection is very intuitive.
Restoring files, VMs, or databases is very simple.

When they added the VLAN functionality the management interface responds on all IPs, we should be able to lock management to specific interfaces.

Return on Investment

The freeing up of time of the personnel responsible for data protection.

Alternatives Considered

Cohesity, Veeam Backup & Replication, Veritas NetBackup and Exagrid EX Series

Only one of the other options evaluated made data protection easier and supported the majority of things running in our environment in that one platform and that was Cohesity. We finally chose Rubrik over Cohesity because of the other customers reviews as well as the company business model.

Other Software Used

Veeam Backup & Replication, Veritas NetBackup, VMware vCenter Server, Oracle Database 12c, Microsoft SQL Server

Likelihood to Recommend

Rubrik is well suited for most serious where the business wants to take data protection seriously. A less appropriate scenario is a business that doesn't have the knowledge or money to properly protect their data and instead rely on personnel to "come up with something".

Rubrik makes data protection easy!

Overall Satisfaction with Rubrik