COMMVAULT® CLOUD VS. RUBRIK

Cloud Data Security that Comes in a Box? Get a Rubrik Reality Check.

Rubrik bills itself as a security cloud offering a “unified platform for zero-trust data security.” In reality, they are just an appliance hiding behind a VM. Only Commvault Cloud offers true cyber resilience in the cloud that offers the highest security, the most advanced intelligence, and the fastest recovery from a single pane of glass.

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They promise a Cleanroom.*

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Commvault vs. rubrik

True cloud cyber resilience that delivers in every category 

Commvault

  • Continuous testing and frictionless recovery

    Commvault Cloud’s Cleanroom Recovery offers comprehensive testing and failover that enables secure and quick recovery of applications into an on-demand cleanroom to ensure reliable cyber recovery.

    The result?

    Reduced the complexity and lower cost of managing on-premises cleanrooms to ensure uninterrupted business continuity.

Rubrik

  • Inadequate testing and recovery options

    Rubrik’s limited capabilities rely on third-party applications and lack any-to-any portability. They do not offer a flexible dissimilar Cleanroom target, forcing customers to depend on manual, complex, and expensive testing and recovery processes.

    The result?

    Complex, costly, and untenable requirements for readiness and recovery for the hybrid enterprise

Commvault

  • Don’t just restore data – rewind and rebuild
    Cloud Rewind automates the backup, replication, and recovery of entire cloud environments, including applications, data, and dependencies, for quick and efficient recovery with minimal manual intervention.

    The result?

    Significantly increase application resilience in public clouds with app environment level discovery, protection, rewind, recovery, and rebuild Capabilities. Dramatically reduces time to rebuild after a cyber attack from weeks to minutes.

Rubrik

  • Inadequate cloud resilience capabilities

    Limited to backing up and restoring data without the required dependencies, lacking comprehensive environment discovery. Requires scripts and manual execution or automated pipelines, which can be error-prone and time-consuming during a disaster.

    The result?

    Rubrik’s backup and recovery capabilities are not built to protect and recover all the cloud resources used by dynamic, distributed auto-scaling apps that rely on software-defined cloud infrastructure.

Commvault

  • AWS data protection for a cloud-first world

    With rapid recovery that scales to petabytes of data and billions of objects, you’ll have the confidence that you can quickly and easily recover Amazon S3 or DynamoDB data in the event of an operational error, disaster, or cyber attack.

    The result?

    The ability to scale seamlessly with your organization’s data, while providing the power of file level indexing that helps you find, protect and restore exactly the right data among billions of cloud files and objects, fast.

Rubrik

  • Increased cost and restore times

    Rubrik uses full-scale, point-in-time backup for AWS S3 workload, resulting in slower backup and restore times. Rubrik does not support DynamoDB, forcing customers to rely on a different solution, which increases TCO and operational overheads.

    The result?

    Increased backup costs, restore times, and management complexities.

Commvault

  • Built-in data security 

    Core data security features are built directly into our code – no third-party applications or separate tools needed.

    The result?

    Always-available critical threat prevention features you can rely on.

Rubrik

  • Dependent on separate tools

    Rubrik’s ransomware detection and recovery features rely on cloud-based Polaris and Radar tools, which are not built into their core platform.

    The result?

    Increased risk that your data and systems will be completely cut off from the very tools that “protect” them.

Commvault

  • Proactive: Earlier detection and response

    Commvault Cloud provides a layered approach to threat detection, looking beyond the recovery environment to actively monitor the live data.

    The result?

    Earlier warning of potential threats and the ability to quickly respond and mitigate any impact.

Rubrik

  • Reactive: Limited and delayed response

    Rubrik’s ransomware detection features can only monitor their own backup data – they have no means to monitor (or “hunt”) the live production environment for threats.

    The result?

    By the time a threat is detected, the damage has already been done.

Commvault

  • Any workload. Anywhere.

    Commvault Cloud supports the broadest spectrum of data platforms, workloads, and cloud-native applications. Powered by Metallic® AI, Commvault Cloud makes it easy to protect your cloud-native workloads and apps, plus SaaS, Kubernetes and M365 data.

    The result?

    Consistent and integrated security for all of your data, wherever it lives.

Rubrik

  • Limited protection coverage

    Rubrik is much more limited in terms of what data they can even back up. Rubrik lacks support for critical workloads like Azure Data Lake, Oracle Cloud, and many other cloud-native databases and applications.

    The result?

    Patchwork protection that requires more tools and creates more complexity.

Commvault

  • Build. Scale. Grow.

    Commvault Cloud customers can choose a mix of appliance, reference architecture, virtual, cloud, and even SaaS to best fit their evolving business needs. Plus, features like global deduplication, dynamic provisioning and power management reduce infrastructure costs on premises and in the cloud.

    The result?

    The ability to build and scale your environment with one solution, all at the industry’s lowest TCO.

Rubrik

  • More and more appliances

    While Rubrik tries to position themselves as having a SaaS solution, their customers need to deploy expensive virtual appliances in the cloud just to get basic application-consistent backups and deduplication.

    The result?

    Appliances in the cloud that are difficult to scale down, leading to more cost and complexity.

Moderation isn’t in our vocabulary

Commvault Cloud for Government is now a FedRAMP® High-Authorized SaaS data protection solution on the market. 

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Customer testimonials

What our customers are saying

“We evaluated various vendors including Rubrik, Veeam, and Dell but decided Commvault was the best fit because of its single pane of glass for management and the ability to back up Microsoft 365 and Salesforce Cloud without using a third-party product.”

Arren Pasa

IT Infrastructure Team Lead, CBHS Health

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Important: The information contained herein was based on publicly available information as of the date this analysis was prepared. Commvault Cloud makes no representations or warranties about the accuracy of the information. Information about Commvault Cloud can be found in our product documentation and earlier versions. Specifications are subject to change without notice.