We compared Nakivo and Rubrik based on user reviews in five categories. We reviewed all of the data and you can find the conclusion below.
Features: Nakivo is praised for its offsite backup to Synology NAS and seamless cloud integration. Rubrik is praised for its automated policy enforcement and efficient ransomware detection. Nakivo could benefit from improvements in its remote upgrade capabilities, SNMP features, and application backup. Rubrik could expand compatibility with open-source databases, improve documentation, and strengthen its ability to back up remote sites.
Service and Support: Nakivo's support is praised for being quick, considerate, and attentive. Rubrik customers appreciate the support team's expertise and fast response.
Ease of Deployment: Nakivo's setup was described as straightforward. A few users said the deployment was somewhat complex but not excessively difficult. Rubrik's setup is simple, and users say the support team was available to assist as needed.
Pricing: Nakivo offers lower licensing costs and a flexible pricing structure. Nakivo provides cost-efficient backups at a competitive price and even offers a free license for one year for up to five VMs. Some users find Rubrik's pricing expensive, but many say it’s justified by its encryption and security features. Rubrik's license includes both software and hardware without any additional costs.
ROI: Nakivo ensures a favorable return on investment with a reasonable total cost of ownership and reduced testing expenditures. Rubrik provides peace of mind and some cost savings, but users say that quantifying the ROI is difficult.
Comparison Results: Nakivo is a powerful, cost-effective solution that seamlessly integrates with the cloud, but it could use some enhancements in its SNMP features and remote upgrading functionality. Users like Rubrik’s advanced ransomware features, excellent support, and automated policy enforcement. However, some had issues with its remote backup abilities and high price tag.
"It is easy to set up using the included virtual appliance and also includes agents for most NAS systems."
"NAKIVO is easy to use and pretty easy to set up."
"Creating a backup task in NAKIVO is fast and easy."
"The solution is stable; there is no need to retry any sort of jobs in daily operations."
"Nakivo offers direct support through the graphical interface and this is great to have if you need quick help."
"Perfect for someone who doesn't want to waste time."
"Nakivo has been instrumental in strengthening our data security infrastructure."
"The upgrade process is manual but very simple to do."
"Drives the back-end through a powerful, well-documented API."
"Automation functions, image based backup, and the ability to instantly recover anything from files to databases."
"It has the ability to test DR in a controlled, inexpensive way and to restore between environments."
"One platform for instant recovery."
"They have a great PowerShell module and easy mediums to speak to the people who create and enhance them."
"The feature that I have found most valuable from Rubrik is its protection against ransomware attacks. Rubrik is a very nice, very good solution because it is able to protect your data and you have the possibility from the backup to detect any abnormal behavior, like a ransomware attack. You are able to detect and restore very easily with this solution. This is a major differentiator in comparison to the other competitors."
"We have a great success rate for backups with Rubrik and because of the ease of automating tasks, we also run periodical restores to check the quality of the backups."
"Rubrik is cheap, and you get good performance."
"There is a familiar error that pops up and that is a VM error as much as it is a Nakivo error. It says that the job couldn't calm the VM and restores might be impacted. That error is, to say the least, a bit scary. I have seen this type of error on other backup systems also."
"I think it is important to work not only in replicating the virtual machines in Amazon AWS, but in other cloud systems."
"The only thing we have encountered that we would like to see improved in the future are error messages. They could be more detailed and helpful, without the need to send logs to support. Failing that, the part of the log related to the error could be displayed alongside the error message, so I can investigate the error without looking through all of those logs that I'm able to download."
"From our experience, the main factor that could be improved is adding more cloud services that are supported as a backup repository."
"Updating VM Tools on a replicated VM could be better."
"The interface might be improved, but the interface of every product might be improved."
"In the future, it would be nice to have support for Zimbra email, Collabora Office, and the NextCloud content collaboration platform."
"One of the things I liked least about this software is when an update was pushed to one of the servers we had, somehow we didn't receive the update and needed some quick troubleshooting."
"They need to find a solution for SMBs. It is currently only suitable for enterprises or big customers. They need to find a solution that suits SMBs."
"It is already very well furnished, but live mounts for Nutanix AHV would be amazing."
"We would like to be able to do granular restores directly from Exchange. Also, more granular management of VM backups would help."
"Looking at how the data is broken down, we can see the total story, but sometimes it's difficult to see how big a particular snapshot is. Across 90 days of snapshots, which one is a particularly large one? Looking at the data holistically could be a lot easier."
"They should give more access to the backend capabilities. From a customer point of view, you do not have access to all the features on the system. You have to engage their support to perform some of the tasks. It would be helpful for an experienced engineer to be able to go and do some of those tasks prior to contacting the support."
"Two areas I would like to see improvement in Rubrik are pricing and localization."
"With Windows, it is difficult to configure Oracle Database."
"The integrated reporting is not really that nicely built. The reporting functionality could definitely be a little bit more customizable from an administration perspective, with an easier to understand interface."
NAKIVO Backup & Replication is ranked 6th in Backup and Recovery with 85 reviews while Rubrik is ranked 4th in Backup and Recovery with 86 reviews. NAKIVO Backup & Replication is rated 9.4, while Rubrik is rated 9.2. The top reviewer of NAKIVO Backup & Replication writes "Good deduplication, easy to configure, and offers a free version". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Rubrik writes "Automates the backup and recovery process, reducing manual human errors and global search allows for granular recoveries". NAKIVO Backup & Replication is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup, Acronis Cyber Protect, Zerto and Commvault Cloud, whereas Rubrik is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Cohesity DataProtect, Commvault Cloud, Azure Backup and Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain). See our NAKIVO Backup & Replication vs. Rubrik report.
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