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Azure Site Recovery vs Rubrik comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
7.2
Azure Site Recovery offers time and cost efficiency, justifying its expense with enhanced reliability over traditional secondary data centers.
Sentiment score
7.2
Rubrik enhances efficiency and productivity through time savings, cost reductions, and improved backup and recovery processes.
Azure Site Recovery, while being pricier than some providers, has a sufficient service level to justify costs.
Azure Site Recovery is time-saving, and its features allow us to automate processes and save resources.
Rubrik provides long-term return on investment for my customers, as well as immediate benefits because of deduplication and compression, drastically reducing the cost on the storage side from traditional to Rubrik.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
5.8
Azure Site Recovery's support is mixed, praised for knowledge but criticized for slow responses and complex ticket processes.
Sentiment score
8.3
Rubrik's customer service is praised for efficiency, responsiveness, and knowledge, with minor feedback on response speed improvements.
During a global outage that affected our operations, there was no apology or in-depth follow-up from Microsoft.
Issues frequently require escalation.
We primarily rely on our Cloud Support Partner for support.
They offer 24/7 support and even have a dedicated ransomware hotline with a team ready to engage immediately.
Rubrik provides excellent customer service and technical support.
Rubrik's support has been good, better than many other vendors like Microsoft, VMware, and Dell.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.4
Azure Site Recovery offers scalable, efficient server management across industries, rated 7-10 for resource flexibility and adaptability.
Sentiment score
7.9
Rubrik excels in scalable architecture, allowing seamless capacity expansion and efficient data management to meet evolving organizational needs.
I would rate the scalability of Azure Site Recovery as a nine out of ten.
Azure Site Recovery is a very scalable product and service mechanism.
It can scale out horizontally as well as vertically, and the availability of expansion is very quick.
It is highly scalable, evidenced by its ability to handle significant throughput.
Rubrik is highly scalable, with a rating of nine out of ten based on its seamless integration.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.6
Azure Site Recovery is highly rated for stability, reliability, and performance, with minimal downtime and integration challenges.
Sentiment score
8.1
Rubrik maintains high stability with minimal issues, quick support resolutions, and consistently high user ratings for dependability.
The system did go down a couple of times, which impacted our operations.
I would rate the stability of Azure Site Recovery at eight to nine out of ten.
Rubrik has been stable, and we have not experienced any downtime.
 

Room For Improvement

Azure Site Recovery requires improved error logging, competitive pricing, better replication, enhanced scalability, security, integration, and simplified deployment.
Rubrik needs to improve its interface, reporting, integration, pricing, and expand cloud, application, and database support.
There is room for improvement in the release of patches, such as ensuring they are properly managed to avoid outages.
Currently, Azure Site Recovery does not support shared disk options.
there weren't any significant problems with Azure Site Recovery.
Including packaged training with the product at the time of purchase would be beneficial.
We need more efficient search capabilities that allow searching by last name or login ID.
I need a better output from the existing reports as they currently do not provide comprehensive metrics.
 

Setup Cost

Azure Site Recovery pricing varies with usage, and costs range, requiring adjustments due to frequent Microsoft restructuring.
Rubrik's pricing is high yet justified by its all-in-one solution offering value, efficiency, and eventual cost savings.
It was not the expensive part of our costs.
The pricing of Azure Site Recovery is around a four out of ten, being somewhat cost-effective.
Rubrik is expensive due to its robust hardware.
Rubrik is considered expensive, with a price rating of three out of ten.
There are no extra expansions or expenses after purchasing the product.
 

Valuable Features

Azure Site Recovery offers efficient disaster recovery, scalability, security, and seamless integration, with strong performance and cost-effective infrastructure solutions.
Rubrik excels in data recovery, cloud integration, automation, and API use, offering efficient management and robust ransomware protection.
The most valuable features of Azure Site Recovery are its ease of use and speed of recovery.
Azure provides a 99.99% SLA for their uptime, ensuring that even during outages due to patch releases, there is no data loss, merely hindered accessibility.
Its time-saving aspects allow us to write PowerShell scripts to automate failover processes.
Even if my network is compromised by ransomware, the file system does not allow overwriting of the backups, ensuring that my backups remain safe.
Since switching to Rubrik, our backup times have decreased significantly, going from two and a half days to one and a half hours for certain systems.
The most valuable feature of Rubrik is its concept of a 'backup airbag', which provides a robust defense against attacks.
 

Categories and Ranking

Azure Site Recovery
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
24
Ranking in other categories
Disaster Recovery as a Service (2nd)
Rubrik
Average Rating
9.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
93
Ranking in other categories
Backup and Recovery (4th), Cloud Backup (4th), Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (4th)
 

Featured Reviews

RituparnaBhattacharya - PeerSpot reviewer
The time-saving aspects allow us to write PowerShell scripts to automate failover processes
First of all, we initially faced a challenge as Azure Site Recovery was not supporting shared disk options on SQL clusters with VMs, which are important for a Windows cluster mode. Additionally, the setup is quite easy, only requiring the creation of a vault. Its time-saving aspects allow us to write PowerShell scripts to automate failover processes.
AmarpreetSingh - PeerSpot reviewer
Optimal data security and management achieved with smooth deployment and strong support
I plan to expand the number of users for Rubrik in the future. Currently, I have approximately 10 to 12 customers on Rubrik, as we are partners to Rubrik and a service provider, SIS. I am working with large to medium organizations, not small ones. Regarding Artificial Intelligence, Rubrik is in the initial phase, and I am expecting more from them. I can give them seven out of ten for their improvements in that area. I would recommend Rubrik to other organizations because it is easy to install, easy to manage, and very compact in terms of a solution, with good support from Rubrik. These features allow it to match from small scale to large scale customers very easily. The number of people who usually take part in maintenance from my side depends on the customer size. For large customers, we involve four to five people, but for small customers, one person is enough. I rate Rubrik eight out of ten.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
18%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Insurance Company
6%
Computer Software Company
12%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Government
10%
Manufacturing Company
9%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Azure Site Recovery?
Azure Site Recovery allows my company to save around 30 percent of the time on every VM that we need to back up and restore.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Azure Site Recovery?
The price of Azure Site Recovery was reasonable compared to other data costs. It was not the expensive part of our costs, but, as always, there is room to make it cheaper.
What needs improvement with Azure Site Recovery?
To be honest, I didn't use it directly. As far as I know, there weren't any significant problems with Azure Site Recovery. Although pricing for data solutions can always be cheaper, site recovery w...
Which would you choose - Rubrik or Veeam Backup & Replication?
Veeam Backup & Replication provides an easy-to-set-up solution to the issue of data storage and recovery. Setting it up is a relatively simple affair. For the most part it prompts you from scre...
What do you like most about Rubrik?
It's easy to manage and has an innovated solution.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Rubrik?
Rubrik's pricing is a little costly. On a scale of one to ten, I would place it as an eight regarding cost.
 

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