We performed a comparison between Rubrik and Veeam Backup & Replication based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Rubrik and Veeam Backup & Replication have a similar user rating regarding ease of deployment, features, service and support, and ROI. In terms of pricing, Rubrik users thought the solution was expensive yet worth the price, while Veeam Backup & Replication users gave its pricing mixed reviews.
"The search functionality is second to none as the speed of the search is fast across the whole system and predictive."
"I would rate the solution's web interface at eight out of ten. It's just fantastic and intuitive. It's so easy to use. I've never done any formal training on Rubrik, but I was able to quickly come to grips with its capabilities."
"Instant recovery of virtual machines allows for the restoration of services in minutes."
"Rubrik has brought all of our backups under a single pane of glass and made recovery extremely simple."
"The Auto-Snapshot SLA feature and recovery time are amazing. It took seven seconds to have a server back up and running in production from a total failure."
"Cut backup remediation to nearly nothing."
"The product's most valuable feature is the immutability of a backup."
"Instant recovery is a good feature."
"It is a rock-solid backup solution. That's all, and that's what we were asking for."
"It has an intuitive interface, and it provides us with successful backups without needing to tweak or do any adjusting. We just set it up and like their ad says, "It Just Works.""
"Very user-friendly and easily recoverable."
"Vendor integration for many of the enterprise features have allowed for us to have greater performance from our storage vendors further improving on our commitments to protect our clients' data."
"Its backup capabilities in general are great."
"The integration with some storage systems like HP or Nutanix and great support are the most valuable features. You get productivity support. You get a response within one hour, even in the evening or night. The functionality of the whole software is good."
"The main feature for Veeam is that it's built primarily for virtualization, such as VMware or Hyper-V."
"It most valuable features are seeding and faster backups over small links."
"Its cost is high."
"It is an expensive product."
"There is room for improvement in pricing. After the licensing, the price tends to go up as time goes by."
"The only thing that can be improved is catering for open source databases because at the moment it doesn't cater for Mongo, MySQL, and Postgres."
"It is a lot more expensive than other solutions, but you get what you pay for."
"There could be better reporting and better filtering."
"It is already very well furnished, but live mounts for Nutanix AHV would be amazing."
"The Polaris piece could use improvement. When you get a report and you have events that are suspicious, you cannot drill down and find out why it's suspicious. You only know it's suspicious, but you don't know the root cause. Other than that, everything works well."
"I would like a solution for SAP systems to be included."
"The initial setup is not always easy, and customers often need a lot of help to get Veeam up and running successfully."
"When you want to restore files, you first need to restore the machine, and then you have to mount it, and then restore the files."
"Unfortunately, the software only runs on Windows."
"The one downside to Veeam is that they don't have a cloud product of their own."
"Even though the speed has improved over the years, I think that there are some instances where it still takes a while."
"There's a lot of room for improvement surrounding the backup process."
"Technical support can be improved."
Rubrik is ranked 4th in Backup and Recovery with 83 reviews while Veeam Backup & Replication is ranked 1st in Backup and Recovery with 329 reviews. Rubrik is rated 9.2, while Veeam Backup & Replication is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Rubrik writes "Easy to use with minimal training required, innovative, good support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veeam Backup & Replication writes "Beneficial pricing model, user friendly interface, and many free features". Rubrik is most compared with Cohesity DataProtect, Commvault Cloud, Zerto, Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and Azure Backup, whereas Veeam Backup & Replication is most compared with Acronis Cyber Protect, Azure Backup, Zerto, Veritas NetBackup and NAKIVO Backup & Replication. See our Rubrik vs. Veeam Backup & Replication report.
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I would choose Untrends all day long as it provides fully automated DR testing so when you need to recover from an incident you select the most recent validated copy in minutes.
The appliances (Physical, or Virtual where you have the storage and compute already) index blocks locally so there is less to pull back down from the cloud reducing data repatriation costs and they are the only single vendor solution that is fully integrated and 100% compatible with single-pane management for backup, DR/BC (replication and archiving), for M365, Google Workspace, AWS/Azure Workloads, DTC for home workers.