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.
"The tech support is extremely helpful."
"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."
"CloudOut, because only blocks are pushed after compression and deduplication, not raw sizing."
"Rubrik is a faster unit from a hardware perspective. Things, like Live Mount, mean we can bring services back straightaway, then have them transition back into the live storage in the background. Because we can use Live Mount to do instant restores, a restore is now a five-minute job. Then, the rest of it is done in the background, rather than doing something for an hour before you actually get the restore back."
"It has a good interface which is simple to navigate and utilize."
"Time dedicated to backup was drastically reduced."
"Rubrik, when compared to Cohesity, Dell, and Veritas, was the best of the four."
"I would rate the solution's web interface at eight out of ten. It's just fantastic and intuitive. It's so easy to use. I've never done any formal training on Rubrik, but I was able to quickly come to grips with its capabilities."
"The support offered by both Veeam and our third party supplier is excellent."
"The feature that I like the most is the system backup recovery from OneDrive."
"It’s amazing how the solution helps restore old data."
"It has got all the features. You can restore a mailbox based on an email or a calendar or based on all the emails. A user can also get access to restore the mailbox."
"Veeam Backup gives you the option to backup your data from the cloud to on-premises."
"It is a stable solution."
"The solution is also easy to manage and work with."
"The solution is stable."
"Its cost is high."
"Rubrik can only leverage cloud storage for archiving and has no cloud failover."
"I hope to see enhancements in areas like data governance and the incorporation of new features in future updates."
"Rubrik needs to continue to listen to their customers and what they want/need, not just care about money and the bottom line."
"The main pain points we experienced was the stability of the system. We received a lot of instability when we have upgraded from a certain version to a new version. The newer version was completely filled with bugs and we needed to purge the system every week until we update to a newer version that was available one year later. The stability of the code is the main problem, they need to make it better."
"The price of Rubrik is too high, especially when you are considering a change in the total backup solution."
"The Office 365 protection could be improved."
"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."
"In some instances, a customer is not necessarily backing up Microsoft 365. For instance, they might be backing up a large Oracle database. It would be nice if they could tweak it to compress the file, so it's easier to transfer a huge file."
"The solution is costly."
"The solution announced many features two years ago, and they still have not happened, so I would hope that the next release has these ready to go."
"They could include WAN acceleration to compress the traffic to make things faster."
"They should improve the backup and restoration time."
"Its price could be improved."
"We have found that there is a limitation in this solution where it only takes the backup of users who are using Office 365 Enterprise email IDs. We have many users in management and approximately 50 other users who are using Office 365 of which Veeam is able to capture the backup. However, for the other users who are on the local email server at that time, the solution is not able to capture the backup."
"Veeam is quite expensive."
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Rubrik is ranked 4th in Cloud Backup with 82 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 "Useful instant backup and resort, reliable and responsive support". Rubrik is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Cohesity DataProtect, Commvault Cloud, Zerto and Dell PowerProtect Data Manager, whereas Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 is most compared with AvePoint Cloud Backup, Acronis Cyber Protect, Commvault Cloud, Cirrus Backup and Boxafe. See our Rubrik vs. Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 report.
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