ARTESCA+Veeam vs. Rubrik

ARTESCA+Veeam

• A software-defined solution combining Veeam Backup & Replication with Scality’s ARTESCA immutable and cyber-resilient object storage.
• 100% hardware agnostic to eliminate vendor lock-in and optimize costs while ensuring seamless scalability. Lets you (re)use any hardware that fits your performance needs and budget.
• Deployable on your choice of commodity x86 servers from various vendors including Dell, HPE, Lenovo, and Supermicro, offering hardware flexibility.

Rubrik

• Offers integrated backup appliances combining hardware and software.
• Legacy file-system based, not true immutable object storage
• Hardware-centric, not truly hardware agnostic.
• Supports a limited range of hardware vendors that may not fit your budget, and potentially lead to vendor lock-in.

ARTESCA+Veeam

• Veeam and ARTESCA co-hosted on a single host server built on Scality’s CORE5 zero-trust security framework. S3 Object Lock for immutability, AES 256-bit encryption-at-rest, MFA-enabled admin UI, and a hardened operating system with no root access.
• ARTESCA immutable object storage prevents deletion and overwriting of backups, and secures storage access credentials on the same hardened server.
• Comprehensive protection across API, data, storage, geographic, and architectural levels. Internal-only communication between Veeam and storage components eliminates exposed endpoints, reducing the attack surface.
• Also supports easy and cost-effective tiering to public clouds for additional offsite copy protection without additional licensing costs.

Rubrik

• Provides basic security features but may lack advanced threat detection and in-house incident response services.
  Relies on external partners for incident response, which can lead to delayed responses and fragmented communication.
• Cannot meet the RPO and RTO of seconds or minutes that critical data sets require, as it only recovers from backups (no storage snapshot or VM replica) and lacks instant recovery for some workloads.
• Rubrik forces you to manually execute steps of your recovery plans, as it does not offer advanced orchestration plans like Veeam. They do not provide orchestration for CDP, VM Replication, or storage snapshots either.
• Rubrik incurs unnecessary costs and complexity to restore from the cloud, as Rubrik must deploy appliance clusters and VMware in the cloud before recovering data there.

• ARTESCA storage is optimized for Veeam workloads, achieving fast restore speeds compared to traditional solutions, to deliver high-performance backup and restore operations including Instant VM Recovery capabilities.
• Confident recovery thanks to integrated Veeam SureBackup for assured backup integrity – reduces time to find the ideal restore point.
• Veeam automatically recovers clean data with Secure Restore, which scans restore points for malware in an isolated cleanroom during recovery.
• Solution meets the lowest RPO and RTO, down to seconds or minutes, thanks to instant recovery for VMs, physical machines, workstations, apps, and NAS, storage snapshot orchestration, and CDP-based replication. All in one platform!
• Supports cross-platform recovery, enabling restoration across various hypervisors and cloud platforms.
• Real-time threat detection and mitigation during backups, with IoC tools scanner, entropy analysis, signature-based analysis to quickly flag known malware, and Recon Scanner for proactive suspicious events alerts in the backup infrastructure.
• Ensure clean data restoration and prevent reinfection by scanning data during recovery with built-in Threat Hunter, a signature-based malware detection engine, and a YARA engine to create custom malware detection patterns (rules).
• Veeam offers the most comprehensive set of in-house incident response services, combining patent-pending threat assessment technology, pre-incident ransomware educational sessions, and ransomware recovery services.

Rubrik

• Slower recovery times due to reliance on deduplication and lack of advanced recovery features.
• Limited support for instant recovery and cross-platform restoration.
• Rubrik cannot meet the RPO and RTO of seconds or minutes that critical data sets require, as it only recovers from backups (No storage snapshot or VM replica) and lacks instant recovery for some workloads.
• Rubrik forces you to manually execute steps of your recovery plans, as it does not offer advanced orchestration plans like Veeam. They do not provide orchestration for CDP, VM Replication, or storage snapshots either
• Rubrik lacks true clean room capabilities, leaving businesses at risk of reinfecting themselves. Their approach forces customers to either trust compromised data or spend extra time manually validating backups.
• Rubrik lacks signature-based malware scanning, blocks third-party tools, and relies only on onboard tools, risking missed threats during restores.
• Rubrik relies on external incident response partners like Mandiant, leading to delayed response times, fragmented communication, and limited in-house expertise. Their reactive approach means businesses face longer downtime and higher recovery risks when cyber threats strike.

• Software-defined nature allows deployment on a wide range of hardware platforms, avoiding vendor lock-in.
• Unified “single pane of glass” management interface provides single-pane-of-glass monitoring for both backup and storage components.
• Simplifies day-to-day operations with features like the ARTESCA Veeam Assistant and SOSAPI integration.
  Data portability of Veeam’s self-describing backup files, which do not depend on any infrastructure components. You can easily move them around and restore them, even if you have lost backup servers.
• Eliminate manual work by creating sophisticated recovery orchestration plans for backup, storage snapshot, VM replication, and CDP. Creating orchestration plans is easy via drag-and-drop steps.

Rubrik

• Appliance-based limits flexibility and scalability.
• Limited hardware vendor support can restrict infrastructure choices.
• Rubrik stores backups in a proprietary format that inhibits restoring from anything other than a Rubrik appliance, leading to vendor lock-in and possibly the inability to restore at all.
• Rubrik forces you to manually execute steps of your recovery plans, as it does not offer advanced orchestration plans like Veeam. They do not provide orchestration for CDP, VM Replication, or storage snapshots either.

ARTESCA+Veeam

• Veeam offers a front-end instance-based licensing model, providing predictable pricing.
• Reduces infrastructure costs by eliminating the need for separate backup servers and storage systems.
• Flexible deployment options on existing hardware can lead to significant cost savings.

Rubrik

• Rubrik utilizes back-end capacity-based licensing, which can lead to increased costs as data grows.
• Hardware lock-in and the need to purchase full appliances for scaling can further escalate expenses.