We compared Rubrik and Veeam Backup for Office 365 across several parameters based on our users' reviews. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below:
Comparison Results: Rubrik is highly regarded for its seamless integration, extensive backup capabilities, and safeguard against ransomware. However, it could benefit from enhancements in pricing, compatibility with open source databases, and user interface. Conversely, Veeam Backup for Office 365 is praised for its straightforwardness, reliability, and affordability. It would benefit from improvements in integration features, consistent performance, and a more user-friendly interface. Rubrik is better suited for larger enterprises, while Veeam Backup for Office 365 is a cost-effective choice for smaller businesses.
"CloudOut, because only blocks are pushed after compression and deduplication, not raw sizing."
"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."
"Rubrik is a very scalable and high-performing backup restore solution."
"It has a good interface which is simple to navigate and utilize."
"Replaces legacy tapes and disk backups which are unreliable, expensive and space consuming."
"Its reporting is most valuable. I like how it reports that everything is successfully backed up. It provides a summarized report that I can give to auditors and management."
"A reduced infrastructure complexity and fast to rack and go."
"Rubrik can also serve as a secondary host for emergency recoveries."
"The most valuable feature of Veeam Backup for Office 365 is the backups, we do not want to lose any files. Each one of the files is updated on a regular long-term basis and kept together in the Microsoft cloud-only."
"Its ability to restore at the item level is very valuable. It is very strong at that. In the past, we had to restore a lot of data only for a couple of items. We can now restore an item as well as an email, which is good for productivity."
"The most valuable feature is the integration with our Teams environment."
"The product is easy-to-use."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the replication functionality."
"One of the valuable features is the ability to restore a specific email. For example, if a user has deleted an email and they would like that particular email back we are able to restore it."
"Technical support in Veeam is good."
"It is very easy to integrate. You can do it very fast."
"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."
"The solution needs to be more secure and needs to better protect against ransomware."
"Better integration for complex NAS structures having to mount at root adds time and workload to the process of NDMP."
"Its reporting can be improved. Sometimes, I need to create reports to know whether something is available or not, how much frontend data is being protected, etc. Rubrik gives a lot of things in the report, which can be confusing. It isn't very easy to get reports. It shows all the backup, index, replication, and everything else in one report. So, I have to export, filter, and then do the calculations."
"It needs to support more applications natively, like MySQL/MariaDB."
"The Office 365 protection could be improved."
"The product’s user interface needs improvement."
"There are some corner cases where the Rubrik Connector (Agent) still doesn't work for our clients."
"It would be a great improvement to be able to recover cover a VM straight to on-prem."
"If clients are backing up onto tape, Veeam's newest versions don't really deal with that."
"It's a new product. It's not mature."
"When using Veeam Backup for Office 365 when there is a server that's running, I have to have a hard drive installed on it. For example, if I want to use another storage solution, I can't incorporate it very well. If I want to use SMB or other protocols I cannot use them with the Veeam Backup for Office 365. They have the support in the other Veeam Backup and Restore solutions, but it doesn't support it in this solution. Hopefully, in the future, they figured it out."
"The solution is costly."
"They don't have native integration with deduplication of storage."
"The documentation for the installation is good. However, if you are new to the environment the installation could be difficult. The first time we did it it took approximately four days."
"You can't really edit. For example, if you have created a backup for a user, you can't drill down on a granular level during the backup. You have to back up the mailbox completely. That's it. It would be helpful if you could at least go inside the mailboxes to choose what you want."
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Rubrik is ranked 4th in Cloud Backup with 83 reviews while Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 is ranked 6th in Cloud Backup with 57 reviews. Rubrik is rated 9.2, while Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Rubrik writes "Easy to use with minimal training required, innovative, good support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 writes "Safe storage, reliable, and easy to use". Rubrik is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Cohesity DataProtect, Commvault Cloud, Zerto and Acronis Cyber Protect, whereas Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 is most compared with AvePoint Cloud Backup, Acronis Cyber Protect, Cirrus Backup, Commvault Cloud and Druva inSync. See our Rubrik vs. Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 report.
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