We compared Rubrik and Varonis Platform based on our users reviews in six parameters. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below:
Based on the feedback, both Rubrik and Varonis Platform offer simple and hassle-free setup experiences. Rubrik requires physical installation and configuration, with the support team readily available for assistance. On the other hand, Varonis Platform stands out for its intuitive interface and clear instructions, complemented by helpful support.
Rubrik offers easy integration and setup, seamless integration with other systems, a user-friendly interface, SLA-based policy automation, archival feature, Live Mount tool, ransomware detection, cloud backup, and file server functionality. Varonis Platform provides data classification and protection, data access governance, threat detection and response, and data visibility and analytics features. However, users find Varonis' classification process time-consuming, access control setup challenging, and reporting capabilities less customizable.
Rubrik can enhance Polaris for better identification of root causes, address pricing concerns, improve support for open source databases, and make the user interface more user-friendly. Meanwhile, Varonis Platform requires improvement in terms of complexity, performance, documentation, integration, and support.
The cost of setting up Rubrik and Varonis Platform products can differ. Some users perceive Rubrik as costly, while others believe it offers reasonable pricing considering its features. Varonis Platform's setup cost is contingent upon complexity and specific requirements. Rubrik users have found value in terms of data protection and quick recovery, leading to potential cost savings.
Rubrik's customer service is highly regarded for its expertise, responsiveness, and effectiveness in resolving issues. Users appreciate Varonis Platform's customer service for their quick response and technical problem-solving skills.
Comparison Results
To summarize the reviews, Rubrik is highly regarded for its simple setup, seamless integration, extensive backup options, and excellent customer assistance. However, it requires enhancements in analytics capabilities, pricing, documentation, and support for open source databases. Conversely, the Varonis Platform is praised for its effortless deployment, data classification and protection abilities, data access governance functionality, threat detection and response capabilities, and data visibility and analytics features. Nonetheless, users have identified areas that need improvement, such as complexity, performance, documentation, integration, and support.
"The most valuable features of Rubrik are the restoration and ease of use."
"The solution’s ransomware recovery, from a security perspective, is one of the biggest features of the product. We don't have to worry about the operational complexity of air-gapped backups and can rely more on the immutability approach. It is a highly valued feature in this solution."
"The most valuable feature is the Instant Recovery, where we can restore a VM or SQL database or any server or application, and have it up and running on their appliance within a few seconds."
"The file search feature across all backups has been helpful."
"Rubrik has made the process to manage backup and recovery painless. This frees up more time to work on other projects."
"Time dedicated to backup was drastically reduced."
"Instant recovery is a good feature."
"The user interface (UI) is great. It is very lightweight and intuitive."
"There's also a 90-day policy where if a user is not using the warehouse, it will automatically delete that username."
"The solution has significantly improved data security and compliance posture by allowing us to track and monitor activities. We can see who accesses data and when files are created and understand what's happening in our environment."
"Varonis Platform is transparent and captures everything in the environment without impacting the performance. The tool helps us unify data feeds into a single reporting system."
"I would like to have a built-in index searching ability of files/system files within the Rubrik interface to determine if a file or item exists, rather than just recovering it, and then doing a search for the file afterwards."
"The solution's reporting feature could be better."
"Setup is immediate but pricing is not cheap."
"They have what's called an organization which means different groups of access to Rubrik, but the alerting only goes to the admins. My suggestion to Rubrik is to make sure that the separate organizations or groups of users get the appropriate alerting."
"User interface could be improved."
"Rubrik is expensive."
"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."
"The functionality is missing, but they are very receptive to our thoughts and ideas."
"There is one thing that if I add something manually, I get so many alerts. That's the biggest bad thing."
"The product is very complicated."
Rubrik is ranked 4th in Backup and Recovery with 84 reviews while Varonis Platform is ranked 22nd in Data Loss Prevention (DLP) with 3 reviews. Rubrik is rated 9.2, while Varonis Platform is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Rubrik writes "Easy to use with minimal training required, innovative, good support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Varonis Platform writes "Offers visibility and helps to keep track of access ". Rubrik is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Cohesity DataProtect, Commvault Cloud, Zerto and Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), whereas Varonis Platform is most compared with Microsoft Purview Data Governance, BigID, SailPoint IdentityIQ, Netskope Data Loss Prevention (DLP) and Wiz.
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