We performed a comparison between Dell EMC PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) and Rubrik based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Rubrik’s users report that, in addition to being a powerful solution, it is simple to deploy and work with and therefore it comes out on top in this comparison. According to reviewers, PowerProtect’s deployment process can be difficult.
"Its pricing is not overly expensive."
"We are very satisfied with this solution. It's easy to use and efficient."
"I like the different features. We work closely with Dell on different products and features, which is why we use them all."
"The compression aspect of the solution is great."
"Good starting capacity and scalability."
"This solution has a feature called Domain Boost, which allows for source deduplication and compression."
"Deduplication and compression are the best features of the solution, which are popular and very effective."
"It's very competitive in terms of the price and technology. Also, the development team continuously makes updates. The data reduction feature is very useful."
"The feature that I have found most valuable from Rubrik is its protection against ransomware attacks. Rubrik is a very nice, very good solution because it is able to protect your data and you have the possibility from the backup to detect any abnormal behavior, like a ransomware attack. You are able to detect and restore very easily with this solution. This is a major differentiator in comparison to the other competitors."
"I haven't encountered any bugs or glitches using the solution."
"The web-based approach is the most valuable feature."
"The solution is extremely stable. They've been phenomenal, especially for a young company."
"The management and ease of installation are the most valuable features."
"The most valuable features of Rubrik are the restoration and ease of use."
"The Live Mount feature is excellent; it's useful for the backup administrator and end user."
"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."
"They still have hardware different from the software."
"The usage of this solution is a bit difficult to develop processes, and it takes a long time to market permits."
"It could be more secure."
"The price of the product is high."
"It helps if you have in-depth knowledge in order to use it correctly."
"We have some problems with backing up on the Power Platform. PowerServer is an IBM product, and it forces us to back up over LAN, which is not suitable for us."
"Technical support needs improvement."
"The only problem is that it's more expensive than any other vendors available in the market."
"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."
"They need to find a solution for SMBs. It is currently only suitable for enterprises or big customers. They need to find a solution that suits SMBs."
"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."
"The solution could improve by having fewer VM Stuns."
"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."
"I would like to see more information on encryption with the next release."
"The only thing that can be improved is catering for open source databases because at the moment it doesn't cater for Mongo, MySQL, and Postgres."
"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."
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Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) is ranked 1st in Deduplication Software with 30 reviews while Rubrik is ranked 3rd in Backup and Recovery with 20 reviews. Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) is rated 8.4, while Rubrik is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) writes "Stable and easy to scale suite of deduplication, backup, data protection, and storage solutions". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Rubrik writes "Allows us to restore a VM in minutes and has the best ransomware detection and support". Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) is most compared with HPE StoreOnce, ExaGrid EX Series, Veeam Backup & Replication, Dell PowerProtect Data Manager and Cohesity DataProtect, whereas Rubrik is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Cohesity DataProtect, Commvault Complete Data Protection, Zerto and Veritas NetBackup.
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The biggest difference is Rubrik has native software and hardware on one platform. Data Domain is only a disk target and a very good one but you still need backup software such as Networker, Veritas, Commvault, etc. That software requires both a master and media server which drives a lot of complexity. Rubrik is hyperconverged data management, there is not software licensing, end of year true-ups or additional infrastructure. Policy-based backup and restore functions with cloud archiving integration. It’s also really fast! Finally, if you’re running Nutanix and its native hypervisor AHV then Rubrik can protect that hypervisor and VMware.
I agree with the other answers - With Data Domain, you still require a software solution to go with the back-end storage. I.e., Avamar, Networker, etc.
Rubrik is a Software Defined Solution or can be deployed with its own set of hardware\storage.