NAKIVO Backup & Replication vs Rubrik Security Cloud

NAKIVO Backup & Replication provides backup, replication, failover, backup copies, granular restore, and disaster recovery orchestration for virtual, physical, cloud, and SaaS environments. It supports image-based, application-aware, incremental backups and replication, with retention of up to 1,000 recovery points using GFS rotation. Supported workloads include VMware, Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV, Proxmox VE, Amazon EC2, Microsoft 365, Oracle Database, Windows and Linux machines, and NFS/SMB file shares. Site Recovery workflows can automate disaster recovery actions across VMware, Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV, and Amazon EC2. Deployment is available as a virtual appliance or by installing it on a supported machine or NAS device. NAKIVO says physical machine backups use AES 256-bit encryption. Linux repositories can be password-encrypted, and repository self-healing can check data integrity and repair errors where possible. Active Directory integration and an HTTP API support monitoring, automation, and orchestration integrations. It runs on web, Windows, Linux, self-hosted environments, and via API. Subscription starts at $2.50 a month per workload; Perpetual starts at $229, paid once per CPU socket. A 15-day trial enables all features, but there is no free plan.

Rubrik Security Cloud protects data across enterprise, cloud and SaaS environments while helping organizations monitor risk and recover data and applications. Its air-gapped, immutable backups are designed to guard against deletion, modification or encryption by attackers. Threat monitoring looks for ransomware and other risks, including anomalies, data destruction and indicators of compromise. Sensitive Data Monitoring discovers and classifies sensitive information and can alert on potential policy violations. Recovery capabilities include threat containment and simulations for validating recovery workflows. Supported workloads include AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft 365, Jira, Salesforce, databases, Kubernetes, NAS and virtual machines. The GraphQL API exposes workloads, policies, events and recovery. The product supports MFA and SAML or OIDC identity-provider federation. Rubrik says cloud data is encrypted in transit with TLS 1.2 or higher and at rest with AES-256. It can be configured in SaaS or software mode; the latter provides standalone on-premises access to Rubrik CDM. Pricing is available on request.