We compared Rubrik and NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP across several parameters based on our users' reviews. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below:
Comparison Results: Rubrik and NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP both offer simple and straightforward setups. Rubrik is commended for its easy integration and setup, while NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is highly regarded for its integration capabilities with on-premises and cloud environments. Rubrik offers features like SLA-based policy automation, archival capabilities, and ransomware detection, while NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP provides data analysis with AI, unified storage, and data replication between different cloud providers. Rubrik has more advanced features and a comprehensive backup solution. Rubrik also excels in customer service and support, whereas NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP has mixed reviews in that area.
"They have very good support team who is very helpful. They will help you with every aspect of getting the deployment done."
"This solution has made everything easier to do."
"One thing I have noticed is that it is very simple to move the data where we need to move it, delete it, or archive it if we need to archive it to StorageGRID."
"So a lot of these licenses are at the rate that is required for capacity. So they're they're able to reduce the license consumption and also the consumption of the underlying cloud storage."
"The solution’s unified file and block-storage access across our infrastructure is invaluable. Without it, we can't do what we do."
"The solution’s Snapshot copies and thin clones in terms of operational recovery are the best thing since sliced bread. Rollback is super easy. It's just simple, and it works. It's very efficient."
"ONTAP is great for helping you migrate on-premise workflows to cloud environments."
"We are definitely in the process of reducing our footprint on our secondary data center and all those snapshots technically reduce tape backup. That's from the protection perspective, but as far as files, it's much easier to use and manage and it's faster, too."
"The management and ease of installation are the most valuable features."
"I don't know if it is the best or the worst but it's very easy to install and very easy to balance. Sometimes that it's a problem because the installer of these data gets extremely scared because it's so easy. The product is easy to install, easy to balance, and easy to work with. Another really good point is the instant recovery."
"Rubrik is very simple to implement and setup. "
"Rubrik's immutability feature ensures the security of our backups by preventing unauthorized alterations. The most effective feature for simplifying our data backup processes is the ability to perform on-demand or scheduled backups and restores, which greatly enhances manageability. The security and compliance features have had a positive impact on our data management practices. We utilize Rubrik not only for virtual machine backups but also for backing up approximately twenty terabytes of unstructured data, including file shares and documents. This allows users to easily restore deleted documents using the Soft Delete feature, depending on the backup frequency."
"Rubrik has brought all of our backups under a single pane of glass and made recovery extremely simple."
"Disk mount that lets a restore happen immediately, no need to re-hydrate."
"The most valuable features of Rubrik are the restoration and ease of use."
"This is a centralized tool where we are able to schedule backups and perform monitoring."
"I'm very happy with the solution, the only thing that needs improvement is the web services API. It could be a little bit more straightforward. That's my only issue with it. It can get pretty complex."
"They definitely need to stay more on top of security vulnerabilities. Our security team is constantly finding Java vulnerabilities and SQL vulnerabilities. Our security team always wants the latest security update, and it takes a while for NetApp to stay up to speed with that. That would be my biggest complaint."
"Some of the licensing is a little kludgy. We just created an HA environment in Azure and their licensing for SVMs per node is a little kludgy. They're working on it right now."
"There is room for improvement in tier one support, especially with potential language barriers and communication challenges."
"Something we would like to see is the ability to better manage the setup and tie it to our configuration management database. We manage our whole IT infrastructure out of that database."
"When it comes to a critical or a read-write-intensive application, it doesn't provide the performance that some applications require, especially for SAP. The SAP HANA database has a write-latency of less than 2 milliseconds and the CVO solution does not fit there. It could be used for other databases, where the requirements are not so demanding, especially when it comes to write-latency."
"Multipathing for iSCSI LUNs is difficult to deal with from the client-side and I'd love to see a single entry point that can be moved around within the cluster to simplify the client configuration."
"I would like to see them improve the perspective of start and search in the panels. This would allow for better visualization of the contents that are captured in the tool."
"It would be nice if they could work on the pricing a bit."
"I would like to see the entire Office 365 product suite backed up by Rubrik. For instance, they do SharePoint and Exchange online, but they don't back up Microsoft Teams. So, I would like to see more of the Office 365 suite added into their backup capabilities."
"It needs more storage array integration options and an easier restore for files that download using a browser."
"If I could take a snapshot from a physical and be able to stand it up as a virtual immediately without the need to rebuild an entire system and restoring files, that would be HUGE."
"The solution needs to be more secure and needs to better protect against ransomware."
"They support Hyper-V and it works with our CloudOut, the cloud DR, but they seem to add features for VMware first and Hyper-V gets added second or sometimes several releases after the VMware feature comes out."
"The solution could improve by having fewer VM Stuns."
"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."
NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is ranked 11th in Cloud Backup with 60 reviews while Rubrik is ranked 4th in Cloud Backup with 82 reviews. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is rated 8.8, while Rubrik is rated 9.2. The top reviewer of NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP writes "Its data tiering helps keep storage costs under control". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Rubrik writes "Easy to use with minimal training required, innovative, good support". NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is most compared with Azure NetApp Files, Amazon S3, Amazon EFS (Elastic File System), Google Cloud Storage and Portworx Enterprise, whereas Rubrik is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Cohesity DataProtect, Commvault Cloud, Zerto and Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain). See our NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP vs. Rubrik report.
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