We performed a comparison between Actifio and Rubrik based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Backup and Recovery solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The solution helps reduce costs."
"This product has unique capabilities that lead the product category in test data management, cloning and recovery."
"Very user-friendly and the QSA is very good."
"Actifio was very stable. Whenever they identified bugs, they would promptly provide us with patches."
"They will assist me in achieving whatever budget issue the client may be having."
"Very user-friendly and the QSA is very good."
"The most valuable features of Rubrik are the restoration and ease of use."
"Rubrik is cheap, and you get good performance."
"They have a great PowerShell module and easy mediums to speak to the people who create and enhance them."
"What I like the most about Rubrik is its user-friendly interface."
"Instant recovery is a good feature."
"Product support team is excellent, with issues typically being resolved on the same day."
"Rubrik has brought all of our backups under a single pane of glass and made recovery extremely simple."
"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."
"The initial setup is complex."
"Lacks the option to price backup costs within the solution itself."
"The solution doesn't support AIX software or in-cloud, and we have a lot of servers running on AIX and Oracle."
"Areas that need improvement would be the support for recovery in the physical environment."
"Google has stopped supporting the on-premise version of the tool."
"While the product does support various databases, the company needs to make more of an effort to support N-minus-one compatibility."
"The deployment and configuration of the backup service is something that could be streamlined a little bit, particularly when you're trying to do a SQL workload. You have to install a backup service on the server. You only have to do it once and then you're done, but you have to do that on every server that you want to protect."
"Could be improved from an analytics point of view."
"I would love to be able to just get from the dashboard to a file that I need, or a system that I need."
"It needs to keep innovating to stay relevant in the data management field."
"The integrated reporting is not really that nicely built. The reporting functionality could definitely be a little bit more customizable from an administration perspective, with an easier to understand interface."
"There could be better reporting and better filtering."
"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."
"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."
Actifio is ranked 23rd in Backup and Recovery with 8 reviews while Rubrik is ranked 4th in Backup and Recovery with 86 reviews. Actifio is rated 8.8, while Rubrik is rated 9.2. The top reviewer of Actifio writes "Actifio enables quick and efficient data refreshes". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Rubrik writes "Automates the backup and recovery process, reducing manual human errors and global search allows for granular recoveries". Actifio is most compared with Delphix, Veeam Backup & Replication and Commvault Cloud, whereas Rubrik is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Cohesity DataProtect, Commvault Cloud, Azure Backup and Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain). See our Actifio vs. Rubrik report.
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