Rubrik, Cohesity, Veeam, curious if anyone has any experience with them? PoC experience to share, other thoughts?

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CxO and Startup Advisor in Software6 years ago

I LOVE Rubrik and their roadmap is solid. After lots of vendor evaluations, they were definitely most aligned with our needs since we had a combination of on prem and cloud, and there was so much cost savings with AWS due to the policies that would move EBS to S3, among other features. They were also the only ones that had SaaS solution backups on their roadmap.. do you mind sharing more about your environment and what you are looking to achieve?

CIO/Project Management Office in Software6 years ago

Veeam here as well and happy about it also. Simple interface, straightforward planning and recovery options takes the effort off of the admin and allows for solid backup and disaster planning.

VP Infrastructure and Support Services in Finance (non-banking)6 years ago

We are using Veeam and extremely happy about it. It simplified the recovery time of the applications on our ships and it is so simple that our low level techs can use it without extra headaches on training. We don’t use shoreside as we have real time replication in 3 different sites.

VP of Global IT and Cybersecurity in Manufacturing7 years ago

Rubrik was the solution to replace our legacy solution with a converged software platform that grows with the business. The simplified architecture of Rubrik will achieve 80% data center foot print reduction. The Rubrik solution allows us to get up and running on the new platform within days not weeks. This allows us to eliminate annual maintenance agreements which are scheduled for renewal in Q1/Q3 2019. We will also achieve approximately savings over three years from software convergence.Our data-centers are nearly 100% virtualized, Rubrik allows for a near-zero recovery time objective by mounting production servers directly onto Rubrik without any data rehydration. Rubrik will reduce our recovery point objective from hours to minutes. Both are extremely beneficial when recovering from a disaster, failure or ransomware event. I also worked on a pretty detailed ROI, TCO going out over 3-6 years to show the reoccurring Capex of our legacy solution.

CTO in Software7 years ago

Would be curious in hearing the key criteria that factored in the decision

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