Why choose Rubrik over Commvault?

Rubrik provides built-in Zero Trust Data Security with logical air gap, immutability by design, and granular access controls, reducing complexity and risk compared to bolt-on approaches.

How does Rubrik’s architecture enhance data resilience?

Rubrik uses a distributed control plane, a native append-only file system, and logical air gap to reduce the attack surface and protect backups from unauthorized access, changes, or deletion.

How does Rubrik simplify operations compared to legacy solutions?

Rubrik delivers a unified platform with a single, intuitive UI that spans SaaS and on‑prem, avoiding multiple consoles and complex, multi-tier architectures.

How does Rubrik support ransomware recovery?

Rubrik offers immutable backups from the moment data is written, rapid and guided recovery, blast radius insights with ransomware investigation, and data classification to understand exposure.

Does Rubrik offer a ransomware recovery warranty?

Yes. Rubrik offers a $10M ransomware recovery warranty for Enterprise Edition and Enterprise Proactive Edition customers protecting data on premises and in Rubrik managed cloud environments. Terms and conditions apply.

How does Rubrik improve recovery performance and backup management?

Rubrik’s scalable hyperconverged platform provides predictable restore performance, with SLA-based backups applied at the object level and application-level Live‑Mount for near production-grade database clones.

Rubrik vs Commvault

WHY RUBRIK IS THE BETTER COMMVAULT ALTERNATIVE

Built-in Data Security That Relieves Your Headache

Reliable data security can’t be achieved through endless bolt-ons—it has to be built right into the technology. Rubrik’s Zero Trust Data Security is part of our DNA, making us immutable by design. Best of all, you don’t need a degree in our technology to make it work. It just does.

Air-Gapped

Rubrik’s logical air gap prevents unauthorized discovery, access, mounting, or compromise of data.

Immutable

By storing data in a proprietary format and verifying it with data integrity checks, Rubrik prevents unauthorized read, change, encryption, or deletion.

Access-Controlled

Rubrik eliminates unauthorized account compromise via granular role-based access controls and credentials, including MFA and TOTP.

We’ve Got Your (And Your Data’s) Back

Know You Can Recover

•Avoid paying ransoms with rapid and guided recoveries from backups that are immutable the moment they are written to our append-only file system.

•Quickly identify your blast radius and what data was exposed with Ransomware Investigation and Data Classification.

Know What You Are Paying For

•Realistic sizing at initial planning.

•Predictable renewal costs.

•Cloud costs that are easy to understand.

Know You have a Reliable Partner

•High audited customer net promoter score of 84 thanks to proactive and responsive tech support.

•Code quality that delivers reliable backup and recovery.

COMPETITIVE COMPARISON

How Rubrik and Commvault Compare

Legacy solutions were built for legacy challenges. See how Rubrik and Commvault stack up.

	Rubrik	Commvault
Data Resilience and Cyber Security	Distributed control plane that is natively resilient and secure with a reduced attack surface Backup expiration based on Monotonic Clock prevents NTP changes or poisoning from expiring Threat Hunting in the backup data based on Yara Rules Native append-only file system provides “bunker-in-a-box” approach with both built-in immutability and logical air-gap	Vulnerable single control server that relies on offloading metadata for resiliency Dependent on underlying OS time with scheduled job based operations that are vulnerable to NTP poisoning Manual Staging and isolation to perform forensics on backup data and determine blast radius Bolt-on Immutability derived from dissimilar technologies and OS types that allow for malicious file level deletion
Complexity and Operational Efficiency	Intuitive and simple to use single UI that seamlessly spans both SaaS and on-prem integration points from a single pane of glass Protection objects are not dependent on entire job to complete before they are replicated to DR location Unified and easy to deploy platform consisting of software, storage, and compute all in one	Multiple UIs—Command Center, Web Console, and Java GUI (for advanced tasks)—creates a chaotic user experience of overlapping functions and legacy holdovers Inefficient job based replication queues groupings of objects behind protection operations Legacy, complex, three-tier architecture requiring continuous OS maintenance and downstream patching of the many components spanning Media Agents, Data Governance servers, Commserves, Clients/Agents, and the very many different proxy servers
Reduced Downtime and Rapid Recovery	Predictable restore performance though scalable hyperconverged platform that increases CPU and Memory as solution grows SLA based backups applied at an object level allowing for granular assignment regardless of workload Application level Live-Mount allowing for near production grade database clones direct from Rubrik Cluster	Inconsistent restore performance due to innumerable architectural options and copious hardware configurations Restrictive job-based approach that is prone to job sprawl as environment grows Limited VM based Live-Mount functionality can only bring up a few VMs online in degraded state
Data Observability	Fully integrated Sensitive Data Discovery File level anomaly detection regardless of workload Multi-phased, adaptive machine learning intelligence to detect anomalous activity to help identify encryption events	Separate resource intensive architecture required to provide sensitive data discovery adding to complexity of solution Dependent on the deployment of agents to provide file level anomaly detection for VMs Change based anomaly detection keying off of file activity or file type making it prone to more frequent false positives

Why Organizations Choose Rubrik Over Commvault

RSC Is User Friendly & Easy To Setup

May 23, 2023

Setup and administration of RSC is very straight forward. User friendly administration. I love that they are partnered with Microsoft since we are a Microsoft shop. The dashboards are great and informative.
Sr. Systems Administrator Software

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Rubrik Is The Gold Standard

Oct 25, 2022

Can't beat the support and the security of Rubrik Cloud Backup. It's easy to restore files to a particular time. I feel very secure knowing that the data is immutable. Two-factor authentication is great.
Systems Architect Government

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Rubrik Security Cloud Is A Fabulous Product

Oct 26, 2022

RSC is a highly scalable, simple to use product that has reduced our backup window by over 50%. It was simple to implement and quick to deploy.
Technical Support Manager Healthcare and Biotech

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Implementation Was Quick And Software Updates Quick. Customer Service Exceptional.

Sep 7, 2023

The vendor customer support was top notch from day one and continues to impress me with the interactions. They were able to implement a functional solution to a problem in little time and was able to improve that solution weeks later.
Security Engineer

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An Amazing Tool And Team To Have On Your Side

Oct 13, 2022

Rubrik is an amazing tool. It allows us to focus on infrastructure rather than worry about backups. It provides redundancy for all aspects of our system. The UI is very intuitive and working with the tool, support and reps has been amazing.
Infrastructure Administrator IT

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Commvault Metallic is Looking a Little Rusty

Commvault Metallic is not bred to be a PaaS-engineered product from the ground up! It is a lift-and-shift of Commvault to the cloud. Centrally managed, job-based, recycled legacy technology will leave you high and dry if the internet goes down. No ability to perform restores from on-prem means you better not tell your SecOps team to block your internet access—unless a hacker already did for you!

ransomware recovery warranty

Maximum Cyber Resilience. Maximum Peace of Mind.

From the data center to the cloud, rest assured your data is safe with Rubrik. Rubrik offers a $10M ransomware recovery warranty* for Enterprise Edition and Enterprise Proactive Edition customer protecting their data on premises and in Rubrik managed cloud environments.

* Terms and conditions apply. Refer to warranty agreement for more information.

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