Rubrik CDM = powerful backup in an easy-to-digest package.
March 23, 2021
Rubrik CDM = powerful backup in an easy-to-digest package.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Modules Used
- Rubrik Cloud Data Management
Overall Satisfaction with Rubrik
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.
- Management time saved - Allowed almost a whole FTE to be moved from backup-only tasks to move strategic tasks.
- End-user access - Select users (and help desk) have access to restore selected objects which eliminates technical personnel from having to do file-restores.
- Veeam Backup & Replication, Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery and IBM Spectrum Protect
We moved from a previous version of IBM Spectrum Protect. While Spectrum Protect was immensely powerful and configurable (think Chernobyl) it required a similarly immense amount of babysitting. One wrong knob turn and catastrophic results could occur. This level of complexity required a highly-trained individual to dedicate much time to the maintenance of the backup system.
Rubrik is much easier to understand which allows us to train multiple employees.
Rubrik is much easier to understand which allows us to train multiple employees.
Do you think Rubrik delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Rubrik's feature set?
Yes
Did Rubrik live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of Rubrik go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Rubrik again?
Yes