Traditional disaster recovery required a physical secondary site — a co-location facility or branch office with matching hardware that could run your workloads if your primary site failed. For small and mid-size businesses, the cost and complexity of a traditional DR site is often prohibitive. Cloud-based DR, using Veeam with Azure or AWS as the … Read more
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