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.
"Most valuable for DimenXional Cloud is the API provided by Nakivo which allows us to implement the software in all types of solutions."
"This solution was surprisingly easy to configure."
"The backup for physical machines and replication for the virtual environment are the most valuable aspects."
"This enables us to do quick granular file recovery as and when required but also to do whole-site relocation in the case of a total loss scenario."
"The product is good for protecting very low-budget offices, whereas other solutions fail in terms of cost and footprint of the VMs involved."
"Technical support responds very quickly."
"The chat functionality with Nakivo Support in the web interface is very unique and we love it."
"The ability to create a replica of all virtual machines is a great feature."
"Rubrik is highly scalable and is easy to do."
"The feature that I found most valuable is Live Mount. You can either mount a virtual machine from a snapshot, or you can mount a volume from the snapshot. You can mount one disk to the server to retrieve data, or you can mount the whole VM, rename it, and use it as a test VM. If your VM gets corrupted, you just mount one from the snapshot, and you have your production VM's backup. So, Live Mount is definitely the best feature for me as an end-user."
"The fact that the API is so available to us with the playground — there's an internal and public playground — is also valuable. We can write API calls — and although I'm sure there's a way we could hurt the data — we write those calls with a lot of certainty that we won't be destroying anything. We write these API calls using really easy mechanisms and generate automation a lot faster."
"Cut backup remediation to nearly nothing."
"Intelligent agent technology."
"Rubrik has made the process to manage backup and recovery painless. This frees up more time to work on other projects."
"Features we have requested are typically added to the next product release."
"Rubrik simplifies our data backup and recovery processes significantly. It's very straightforward to use. We start by tagging through VMware, and everything tagged for Rubrik is backed up automatically. Backups are much better and faster because Rubrik takes a full snapshot of the virtual machine. We recently conducted a verification by performing a restore, and even during the restore process, we could bring up the server in less than 10-15 minutes. Additionally, we have set up alerts for sensitive data, which helps us track data."
"In terms of what could be improved for the next release, I would probably answer better documentation and licensing models."
"There are many features we have not had the opportunity to try, such as Tape Backups, Office 365 backups, and many other things."
"So far, there is no version that supports Polish. If such a version existed, many customers in our region would decide to purchase and implement this solution."
"I would love to see compatibility with KVM Backup."
"In the press releases, it would be useful to make sure that the manual space reclaim procedure does not have to be performed but that it happens automatically, thus optimizing the use of space."
"I think it is important to work not only in replicating the virtual machines in Amazon AWS, but in other cloud systems."
"From an administrator usage perspective, the interface is very intuitive, but maybe the wizard for creating and modifying backup jobs could look a little fancier."
"An improvement would be to include a general data backup solution that is not only for virtual machines."
"The functionality is missing, but they are very receptive to our thoughts and ideas."
"I would like to see more information on encryption with the next release."
"User interface could be improved."
"With Windows, it is difficult to configure Oracle Database."
"Better integration for complex NAS structures having to mount at root adds time and workload to the process of NDMP."
"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."
"There is always room for improvement with some shortcuts for the web interface. They could make it even more beautiful."
"There are some features to improve on in Rubrik. For instance, they should have a tool where we can integrate with our SAP HANA. Directly from the HANA studio, we should be able to do a backup. That's what I'm looking forward to in the future."
NAKIVO Backup & Replication is ranked 6th in Backup and Recovery with 84 reviews while Rubrik is ranked 4th in Backup and Recovery with 83 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 "Easy to use with minimal training required, innovative, good support". 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, Zerto and Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain). See our NAKIVO Backup & Replication vs. Rubrik report.
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