We compared Rubrik and N-able Cove Data Protection across several parameters based on our users' reviews. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below:
Comparison Results: Rubrik and N-able Cove Data Protection have similar initial setups, with Rubrik being praised for its quick deployment and seamless integration. Rubrik offers advanced features like ransomware detection, while N-able Cove Data Protection is commended for its efficient backup and restore capabilities and cloud-based data protection. Rubrik needs improvements in pricing and user interface, while N-able Cove Data Protection could benefit from enhancements in image restores and disaster recovery console. Pricing opinions vary, with Rubrik considered expensive by some users, while N-able Cove Data Protection is seen as reasonable and competitive. Both products have resulted in cost savings and positive ROI. Customer service and support are highly regarded for both.
"We use a neat feature called VDR status, Virtual Disaster Recovery status. It only works on servers... It's automated. Once or twice a month it will virtually mount the backup and provide a screenshot and advise whether or not there have been any errors."
"It's extremely important that Cove provides cloud-based data protection with backup, disaster recovery, and archiving. That is a necessity for my insurance. As an IT company, my insurance would cost more if my backups were not offsite and off-network."
"The most valuable aspect is the added protection of having a cloud-based backup service. It provides redundancy in case of data loss."
"It provides a single dashboard for all types of data protection, we monitor everything through a single dashboard. It simplifies everything overall. It allows us to see everything, whether passing or failing any issues, any problems through a single pane of glass that we don't have to click through or adjust as we go forward."
"The most valuables feature is the alerts and monitoring that catches the failed backups."
"The initial setup of N-able Cove Data Protection was very easy."
"The monitoring makes it very easy to check whether a backup has gone bad."
"I know I won't have an issue if the data is there. The reliability and the confidence that we have is amazing. It doesn't matter. We've had customers have ransomware. We've had customers that have had corruption. We've had customers that have had employees destroy their data. As long as it's been backed up, I know that I can get it back and I know I have nothing to worry about. Our confidence level is very high."
"Cut backup remediation to nearly nothing."
"It has the ability to test DR in a controlled, inexpensive way and to restore between environments."
"The solution is extremely stable. They've been phenomenal, especially for a young company."
"The search functionality is second to none as the speed of the search is fast across the whole system and predictive."
"Rubrik is highly scalable and is easy to do."
"The most valuable feature of Rubrik for me is its user-friendliness and efficiency."
"In terms of usage, Rubrik has allowed us to retrieve data 80 to 90 percent faster than our previous technology."
"It has a good interface which is simple to navigate and utilize."
"There could be a possibility to create a local NAS backup for infrastructure."
"I have some issues with the agent failing on workstations. I've had to completely uninstall several of them, delete everything, and start over to get them to work."
"For small amounts of data, recovery is easy, but when it's large amounts of data, it takes forever. So, if they can have a service where they put our data on a hard drive and ship it to us as fast as possible, it would be great. Even if there's a fee associated with it, it's fine."
"A disaster recovery console would be an improvement for the product."
"Having the licensing available for partners to be able to take advantage of testing without paying would make a big difference."
"A better default view on my dashboard would be great. There is a lot of useless information there that it pulls up. They could present the dashboard slightly better, in terms of the extra information after the first five columns. The first five columns are awesome. After that, I don't care about the rest, and there are another seven things after that."
"We would like to have better reporting."
"The recovery side, the restore side, could be a little more optimized."
"There is always room for improvement with some shortcuts for the web interface. They could make it even more beautiful."
"I would like to see more openness for partners to access and assist in system management. Currently, access is limited, often handled by Rubrik personnel, likely due to security concerns."
"The web interface could benefit from some improvement, particularly in terms of alerting and dashboard clarity. The cloud web interface is somewhat confusing and could use more development attention. Additionally, it's essential to ensure that local on-premise management options remain available alongside cloud-based solutions, as internet availability can affect backup management. Regarding features, cross-hypervisor restore functionality would be a valuable addition, allowing for greater flexibility in restoring VMs across different environments."
"I have a personal want which might not necessarily make sense with Rubrik as a company or Rubrik as a software, but it'd be really nice if they could also handle things like item-level backups and restores of Active Directory objects and DNS and DCP objects."
"Troubleshooting failed backups is difficult, and deciphering the logs without the help of support is usually almost impossible."
"It does not offer image-level backups for Hyper-V 2012."
"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."
"I would like to see more information on encryption with the next release."
N-able Cove Data Protection is ranked 7th in Backup and Recovery with 20 reviews while Rubrik is ranked 4th in Backup and Recovery with 82 reviews. N-able Cove Data Protection is rated 9.2, while Rubrik is rated 9.2. The top reviewer of N-able Cove Data Protection writes "Provides feature flexibility and modularity for our customers". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Rubrik writes "Easy to use with minimal training required, innovative, good support". N-able Cove Data Protection is most compared with Acronis Cyber Protect, Veeam Backup & Replication, Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365, Azure Backup and AWS Backup, whereas Rubrik is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Cohesity DataProtect, Commvault Cloud, Zerto and Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain). See our N-able Cove Data Protection vs. Rubrik report.
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