"Overall IBM ProtectTIER is a great solution. It is easy to use."
"The solution is highly stable."
"Rubrik is highly scalable and is easy to do."
"The most valuable features of Rubrik are the restoration and ease of use."
"The main benefit is that we are secured in terms of workloads. We know that if we need to restore any VMs, or even any files inside a VM, that we will succeed 100 percent. This means that we don't need to spend much time administering the backup environment because we know it is self-healing and efficient. So, we are spending that time on something else, which is always a plus."
"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."
"In terms of usage, Rubrik has allowed us to retrieve data 80 to 90 percent faster than our previous technology."
"The management and ease of installation are the most valuable features."
"This is a centralized tool where we are able to schedule backups and perform monitoring."
"We have a great success rate for backups with Rubrik and because of the ease of automating tasks, we also run periodical restores to check the quality of the backups."
"IBM ProtectTIER could improve by being more user-friendly."
"There is always room for improvement with some shortcuts for the web interface. They could make it even more beautiful."
"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."
"If there was something that we could get Rubrik to fix, it would be when our DBS takes snapshots of a server or the database, the replication doesn't kick off fast enough. They can't remote it to the peer site and manipulate it back up in order to move it over, take a copy of production, slap it over, and test it out. As I understand, they are working on it. Replication works. We also get spoiled by how good things are now. We get to a point where it is so easy but when something isn't instant gratification, it seems that everything else is so amazing, why isn't this right?"
"The Polaris piece could use improvement. When you get a report and you have events that are suspicious, you cannot drill down and find out why it's suspicious. You only know it's suspicious, but you don't know the root cause. Other than that, everything works well."
"I would love to be able to just get from the dashboard to a file that I need, or a system that I need."
"The solution could improve by having fewer VM Stuns."
"It is a lot more expensive than other solutions, but you get what you pay for."
"It would be nice if they could work on the pricing a bit."
IBM ProtectTIER is ranked 52nd in Backup and Recovery Software with 2 reviews while Rubrik is ranked 2nd in Backup and Recovery Software with 34 reviews. IBM ProtectTIER is rated 0.0, while Rubrik is rated 9.2. The top reviewer of IBM ProtectTIER writes "Scalable, beneficial automatic workload transfer, and highly stable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Rubrik writes "Easy to use with an intuitive web interface, helpful support, good performance, and saves us time". IBM ProtectTIER is most compared with Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain), HPE StoreOnce, ExaGrid EX Series, IBM Spectrum Protect Plus and Veritas NetBackup Appliance, whereas Rubrik is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Cohesity DataProtect, Commvault Complete Data Protection, Veritas NetBackup and Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain). See our IBM ProtectTIER vs. Rubrik report.
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