Rubrik Go is a comprehensive data management solution offered by Rubrik, designed to simplify and streamline data protection and management processes. With Rubrik Go, organizations can efficiently manage their data across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments, ensuring data availability, security, and compliance.
The standout aspect of Rubrik Go is its exceptional data visualization capability.
The tool's pricing is considered high and should be improved. Additionally, there is a need for enhanced security visibility, which could be incorporated into a single portal in the next release of Rubrik Go.
The ROI from Rubrik Go is highly satisfactory and exceeded user expectations. It provided users with significant cost savings and improved efficiency in the data management processes. The solution was easy to implement and use, resulting in time savings for IT teams.
The pricing for Rubrik Go is considered relatively high. The costs are monthly.
The primary use case of Rubrik Go is to serve as a backup solution for virtual environments and SQL databases. It is also utilized for real-time monitoring, security, and compliance purposes.
The customer service and support of Rubrik Go promptly address concerns once a case is logged.
Rubrik Go can be easily installed through the cloud with just a 30-minute installation time, assuming firewall ports and network configuration are prepared. However, it is recommended to have two resources for deployment. The initial setup is straightforward and typically takes around a day to complete.
Rubrik Go is considered to be scalable.
Rubrik Go is generally reliable, although it is occasionally targeted by malware and ransomware.
Rubrik Go provides a unified platform for the backup, recovery, replication, and archival of data, eliminating the need for multiple-point solutions. It offers a simple and intuitive user interface, enabling users to easily manage and monitor their data protection operations. With its policy-driven automation, Rubrik Go automates routine tasks, reducing manual efforts and improving operational efficiency.
One of the key features of Rubrik Go is its cloud-native architecture, which enables seamless integration with public cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. This allows organizations to leverage the scalability and cost-effectiveness of the cloud while ensuring data protection and management consistency across environments.
Rubrik Go also offers advanced data security capabilities, including encryption, access controls, and data immutability, ensuring the confidentiality and integrity of data. It provides comprehensive reporting and analytics, giving organizations insights into their data protection operations and helping them make informed decisions.
With flexible subscription-based pricing, Rubrik Go offers organizations a cost-effective and scalable solution for their data management needs. It eliminates the need for upfront capital investments and provides the flexibility to scale resources based on changing business requirements.
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I'm a solutions engineer working for a distributor company in the Philippines. Our clients are generally medium to enterprise size. The product is quite expensive it's so not suitable for small companies. We have deployed to about nine companies in the past couple of years and it's usually only the backup administrator that deals with the product.
The most valuable feature with Rubrik is that even though the data is already in the cloud, it's an AWS, so by accessing the on-prem appliance you can still search because it is indexed from that appliance. It can be restored from cloud directly to your Rubrik or to the terminal unit or server. With other similar solutions that the competitors produce, the granular file-level restoration requires restoration of the whole image.
Rubrik also provides hardware upgrades. If you're subscribed and there's a new model or new generation of Rubrik, they will replace the old with the new.
One of the issues with the product is that you cannot postpone a specific backup job. If you try to do that, every backup job is paused. It's a global pause, not just a specific object-level pause. I would like to see them include a feature that would allow me to pause per object level because if you pause the backup now, it pauses global branding backups. Also, reporting could be improved. For now, it's only exported to CSB files. It would be better if it were a PDF and would save having to transfer from a CSB file.
I've been using this product for about three years.
Having used the product for three years, it's stable. The usual warranty of an appliance is three years so things might change in the next year or two.
It's scalable but as I said earlier, if you want to scale up, you need to add additional appliances.
The technical support is good, it's a free call home feature. If it's an urgent issue they will upgrade you to priority status and will contact you very quickly to assist. It's very good.
To deploy the product is quite simple. It only takes about 15 minutes. If a customer has carried out vulnerability assessments and testing, then any issues are sorted out before deployment.
In terms of appliances, there isn't any complex licensing. Extra costs are related to capacity. If you need to archive your data in the cloud, that would involve an additional license fee.
It's an expensive product. Most of the target customers are from major vendor-based enterprise companies but on the other hand, each appliance comes with a good warranty.
Rubrik is a backup or cloud data management company but they are now focusing on the security side and are including data classification. I don't know if that's a good thing. I always recommend the version prior to the latest one. If there are any issues with bugs or something isn't quite right in the latest version, you can avoid the trouble.
Cloud is still new in the Philippines and many companies are still not using it. Most of our clients here use private cloud but some are using AWS rather than Microsoft Azure.
This is a good product if you're using VMware but if you're using physical objects on Microsoft Hyper-V it's quite difficult because they don't have good integration with Microsoft.
I would rate this product a seven out of 10
