We compared Rubrik and NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP across several parameters based on our users' reviews. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below:
Comparison Results: Rubrik and NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP both offer simple and straightforward setups. Rubrik is commended for its easy integration and setup, while NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is highly regarded for its integration capabilities with on-premises and cloud environments. Rubrik offers features like SLA-based policy automation, archival capabilities, and ransomware detection, while NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP provides data analysis with AI, unified storage, and data replication between different cloud providers. Rubrik has more advanced features and a comprehensive backup solution. Rubrik also excels in customer service and support, whereas NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP has mixed reviews in that area.
"The initial setup was straightforward. We started with a small pilot and we then moved to production with no downtime at all."
"We're using snapshots as well and it's a pretty useful feature. That is one of the main NetApp benefits. Knowing how to use snapshots in the on-prem environment, using snapshots on the cloud solution was natural for us."
"The fast recovery time objective with the ability to bring the environment back to production in case something happens."
"The storage tiering is definitely the most valuable feature... With respect to tiering, the inactive data is pushed to a lower tier where the storage cost is cheap, but the access cost is high."
"We are definitely in the process of reducing our footprint on our secondary data center and all those snapshots technically reduce tape backup. That's from the protection perspective, but as far as files, it's much easier to use and manage and it's faster, too."
"The most valuable features of this solution are SnapShot, FlexClone, and deduplication."
"The most valuable feature is its exceptional performance and storage efficiency."
"The ability to see things going back and forth has been quite useful."
"Rubrik is cheap, and you get good performance."
"Live Mount is where we do the majority of our big recoveries, unless it is a file recovery. A file recovery takes a few minutes to restore to where the file in the event a file was accidentally deleted by a user, etc. There has been at least a 90 percent reduction in recovery time based on our previous solution, from the need to recover something to when it's actually recovered went from hours to minutes."
"Rubrik has led to improvement by reducing the amount of failed backups, leading to a reduced workload in IT operations."
"The solution’s ransomware recovery, from a security perspective, is one of the biggest features of the product. We don't have to worry about the operational complexity of air-gapped backups and can rely more on the immutability approach. It is a highly valued feature in this solution."
"It has also saved us time managing backups. It's pretty stable. So it sends us a report if something goes wrong, then you get a report. You don't really need to manually monitor this software over time. If something happens, you'll get an error and you'll get an email notification and then address it. We found the product pretty stable if it's configured correctly. So it has reduced management time."
"Rubrik is an easy and automatic solution that needs no manual intervention."
"What I like the most about Rubrik is its user-friendly interface."
"The management and ease of installation are the most valuable features."
"I would like to see better integration with Active IQ."
"One difficulty is that it has no SAP HANA certification. The asset performance restrictions create challenges with the infrastructure underneath: The disks and stuff like that often have lower latencies than SAP HANA itself has to have."
"The automated deployment was a bit complex using the public APIs. When we had to deploy Cloud Volumes ONTAP on a regular basis using automation, It could be a bit of a challenge."
"Something we would like to see is the ability to better manage the setup and tie it to our configuration management database. We manage our whole IT infrastructure out of that database."
"Not a perfect ten because it's not very efficient with upgrades and management."
"When it comes to support provided by NetApp, they have room for improvement. Every time we go through their support, we end up answering the same routine questions."
"When Azure does their maintenance, they do maintenance on one node at a time. With the two nodes of the CVO, it can automatically fail over from one node to the node that is staying up. And when the first node comes back online, it will fail back to the first node. We have had issues with everything failing back 100 percent correctly."
"I would like some more performance matrices to know what it is doing. It has some matrices inherent to the Cloud Volumes ONTAP. But inside Cloud Manager, it would also be nice to see. You can have a little Snapshot, then drill down if you go a little deeper."
"Could be improved from an analytics point of view."
"I don't like Rubrik's user interface because it's not intuitive, and I find it hard to get the information I need."
"It does not offer image-level backups for Hyper-V 2012."
"Needs integration with video CD (coming in the next release) and a multi-tenant GUI."
"Capacity reports could definitely be improved. It's hard to determine what is using the space and why. For instance, you can see that some host is using 2 TB on the Rubrik node and the disk space on that host is 400 GBs. It's hard to explain how there can be 2 TBs of data on local storage when nothing has changed on the host for the past three days."
"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."
"I would like a way to set monthly backups on a certain date and time."
"Rubrik can only leverage cloud storage for archiving and has no cloud failover."
NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is ranked 11th in Cloud Backup with 60 reviews while Rubrik is ranked 4th in Cloud Backup with 82 reviews. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is rated 8.8, while Rubrik is rated 9.2. The top reviewer of NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP writes "Its data tiering helps keep storage costs under control". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Rubrik writes "Easy to use with minimal training required, innovative, good support". NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is most compared with Azure NetApp Files, Amazon S3, Amazon EFS (Elastic File System), Google Cloud Storage and Portworx Enterprise, whereas Rubrik is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Cohesity DataProtect, Commvault Cloud, Zerto and Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain). See our NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP vs. Rubrik report.
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