We performed a comparison between IBM ProtectTIER, Rubrik, and Veeam Backup & Replication based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"In terms of stability, I've found it to be very stable. I've walked into the server room when it was at 60 degrees Celcius, and it was still running fine."
"The command-line interface is good."
"The solution is highly stable."
"The cataloging is the best feature. It takes millions of frames for the backup. It's incremental, so it takes less time to complete."
"Overall IBM ProtectTIER is a great solution. It is easy to use."
"The most valuable features are the Self-Service, and the ability to search the data."
"Rubrik is very simple to implement and setup. "
"The most valuable feature has been the Live Mount feature."
"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."
"They have a great PowerShell module and easy mediums to speak to the people who create and enhance them."
"Adaptative backup and SLAs simply allow you to tell a machine to backup without taking care of the backup window."
"Instant recovery because it takes about 10 seconds to restore the VM from backup to production"
"A reduced infrastructure complexity and fast to rack and go."
"The ease of use and innovation are the features that stand out for us."
"The user interface is good and it is very easy to use."
"Veeam is highly scalable. In one scenario, we started with 2,000 users and scaled up to 24,000."
"It has helped us transfer the solution in two days instead of working for a minimum of one week to ten days."
"It is a rock-solid backup solution. That's all, and that's what we were asking for."
"It is a powerful software for communicating with the storage and for redundancy."
"Storage Snapshot is a good feature and very safe."
"The most important part is that you actually know you have a backup of the whole virtual server."
"This product is user-friendly. The interface is easy to use."
"IBM ProtectTIER could improve by being more user-friendly."
"The backup for a large amount of data is slow."
"I would like the possibility to back up the infrastructure and then replicate it upon on restart, without having to orchestrate the starting of the VM."
"The configuration wizards are still complex and hard to navigate. These should be easier to manage."
"Setting up the system to work with legacy equipment is a bit complex at times."
"Rubrik is expensive."
"The deployment and configuration of the backup service is something that could be streamlined a little bit, particularly when you're trying to do a SQL workload. You have to install a backup service on the server. You only have to do it once and then you're done, but you have to do that on every server that you want to protect."
"I want to see more features regarding filtering in the Snapshot Window, as I need to be able to set a filter for specific dates and times. If I want to check an old backup, I must scroll through one or two years of backups to find what I'm looking for."
"In terms of what could be improved with Rubrik, we need to improve the backup for remote sites. The competitors are stronger in terms of their remote office back up. Rubrik needs to improve to be stronger for backup. This is the main thing."
"If there was something that we could get Rubrik to fix, it would be when our DBS takes snapshots of a server or the database, the replication doesn't kick off fast enough. They can't remote it to the peer site and manipulate it back up in order to move it over, take a copy of production, slap it over, and test it out. As I understand, they are working on it. Replication works. We also get spoiled by how good things are now. We get to a point where it is so easy but when something isn't instant gratification, it seems that everything else is so amazing, why isn't this right?"
"It does not offer image-level backups for Hyper-V 2012."
"The reporting in the dashboard and reporting for extractions both need improvement. I would suggest making them easier to understand and use, not just out-of-the-box. We should also be able to customize them."
"Two areas I would like to see improvement in Rubrik are pricing and localization."
"The deduplication feature could be improved by changing to global deduplication."
"Restoration takes about two to four hours with Veeam. Zerto can restore in about 10 seconds. That's the restoration speed I'm looking for now that we're dealing with ransomware."
"The direct SAN backup integration can be perfected by improving the snapshot removal mechanism and process from the storage volumes."
"There is room for improvement in the application backups, particularly for Oracle and SaaS systems. Veeam Backup & Replication offers a plugin specifically designed for Oracle and SAP HANA databases. In version twelve, they introduced enhancements that allow deploying the plugin from the backup server. However, manual configuration is still required on each server to schedule the backup and specify the backup repository. Additionally, transitioning from a Windows server to a Linux server requires converting the existing model. Previously, Veeam heavily relied on Windows and Microsoft SQL databases for their solution. Fortunately, in version twelve, they introduced an enhancement by offering the option to use a Postgres SQL database, which is an open-source alternative."
"There should be better use of the external hard drives."
"It would be ideal if users could know that their data is backed up and have some security functionality where you can actually use the backup to spin up a new cluster and take it from there."
"The price can be better."
"All our customers would like a cheaper license and more flexible deployment."
