We compared Nakivo and Rubrik based on user reviews in five categories. We reviewed all of the data and you can find the conclusion below.
Features: Nakivo is praised for its offsite backup to Synology NAS and seamless cloud integration. Rubrik is praised for its automated policy enforcement and efficient ransomware detection. Nakivo could benefit from improvements in its remote upgrade capabilities, SNMP features, and application backup. Rubrik could expand compatibility with open-source databases, improve documentation, and strengthen its ability to back up remote sites.
Service and Support: Nakivo's support is praised for being quick, considerate, and attentive. Rubrik customers appreciate the support team's expertise and fast response.
Ease of Deployment: Nakivo's setup was described as straightforward. A few users said the deployment was somewhat complex but not excessively difficult. Rubrik's setup is simple, and users say the support team was available to assist as needed.
Pricing: Nakivo offers lower licensing costs and a flexible pricing structure. Nakivo provides cost-efficient backups at a competitive price and even offers a free license for one year for up to five VMs. Some users find Rubrik's pricing expensive, but many say it’s justified by its encryption and security features. Rubrik's license includes both software and hardware without any additional costs.
ROI: Nakivo ensures a favorable return on investment with a reasonable total cost of ownership and reduced testing expenditures. Rubrik provides peace of mind and some cost savings, but users say that quantifying the ROI is difficult.
Comparison Results: Nakivo is a powerful, cost-effective solution that seamlessly integrates with the cloud, but it could use some enhancements in its SNMP features and remote upgrading functionality. Users like Rubrik’s advanced ransomware features, excellent support, and automated policy enforcement. However, some had issues with its remote backup abilities and high price tag.
"With Nakivo, I have the peace of mind that all of my production environment is safely backed up and can be restored safely, easily, and quickly with a few clicks."
"Before using Nakivo Backup & Replication, all our data backup processes took a long time and did not optimize the disk space reserved for backup. With the introduction of Nakivo Backup & Replication, saving times have been reduced by almost half (thanks to the use of several simultaneous transporters) and the space occupied has also had a very important reduction."
"Nakivo has improved our organization largely due to the fact that it is an extremely robust backup system."
"This solution was surprisingly easy to configure."
"The features that we like the most are the Backup Copy and Active Directory Integration. They have helped us to save a lot of time since we do not have to make the backup copies “by hand”."
"It is flexible."
"The virtual appliance for VMware vSphere is easy to deploy, easy to manage, and we have no need for additional Windows licenses."
"All in all, NAKIVO helped us save a lot of time."
"It has reduced our maintenance efforts. The amount of time and effort that would have gone in troubleshooting various issues related a data crash has been addressed by Rubrik. So, it has helped to improve our productivity. The data is being captured about our customers periodically that is secure and safe."
"The solution is stable."
"One platform for instant recovery."
"It works with VMware and Hyper-V without agent installation."
"The initial setup is easy."
"It has a good interface which is simple to navigate and utilize."
"In the event of any issues or questions, the support is top-notch. We rarely need to use support, but when they are needed, they are always quick to respond and very knowledgeable."
"Cut backup remediation to nearly nothing."
"Updating VM Tools on a replicated VM could be better."
"An additional feature that would be appreciated is disaster recovery automation."
"In terms of what could be improved for the next release, I would probably answer better documentation and licensing models."
"Nakivo's implementation documentation could use a little beefing up."
"There are many features we have not had the opportunity to try, such as Tape Backups, Office 365 backups, and many other things."
"In the future, I would like to see support for backing up data to more cloud platforms, besides Amazon."
"So far, there is no version that supports Polish. If such a version existed, many customers in our region would decide to purchase and implement this solution."
"The only thing I could say is maybe some more options for job scheduling are needed."
"A singular system is needed to manage all of the clusters."
"There is room for improvement in pricing. After the licensing, the price tends to go up as time goes by."
"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."
"Rubrik could improve in customization options for dashboards."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"It is a lot more expensive than other solutions, but you get what you pay for."
NAKIVO Backup & Replication is ranked 6th in Backup and Recovery with 84 reviews while Rubrik is ranked 4th in Backup and Recovery with 83 reviews. NAKIVO Backup & Replication is rated 9.4, while Rubrik is rated 9.2. The top reviewer of NAKIVO Backup & Replication writes "Good deduplication, easy to configure, and offers a free version". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Rubrik writes "Easy to use with minimal training required, innovative, good support". NAKIVO Backup & Replication is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup, Acronis Cyber Protect, Zerto and Commvault Cloud, whereas Rubrik is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Cohesity DataProtect, Commvault Cloud, Zerto and Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain). See our NAKIVO Backup & Replication vs. Rubrik report.
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