Rubrik

I’ve deployed Veeam Backup & Replication and Rubrik for different clients over the past several years, sometimes migrating from one to the other for the same organization. The comparison isn’t as simple as “Rubrik is newer so it must be better” — it genuinely depends on your environment’s characteristics. Veeam’s Strengths Veeam is software you … Read more

Rubrik entered the backup market around 2014-2015 with a fundamentally different architecture than traditional backup software: a purpose-built hardware/software appliance with a policy-driven, SLA-based management model. When I first deployed it for a client in 2017, it solved problems I’d been working around in Veeam for years. It also introduced some new operational considerations. The … Read more