HYCU vs Rubrik: 5 Reasons to Switch

Looking to breakup with your backup provider?

Are you re-evaluating data protection vendors? Have you been using a trusted virtual backup provider? Or a backup appliance on-premises?

Like many other organizations, your backup and disaster recovery needs have changed.Instead of protecting data center applications, you now must safeguard cloud and SaaS apps like Microsoft 365, Jira, Docusign, ClickUp, and GitHub.

If your organization falls under any of the following, we recommend you read this blog:

• Evaluating hypervisors or cloud infrastructures for new alternatives
• Has lifted and shifted or is using fully modernized applications in the public cloud
• Unsure of how many SaaS applications you are currently using, and which may reside outside of IT
• Is looking to reduce costs and resources spent on data protection

1. You’re looking at protecting your SaaS applications along with your on-premises applications.‍

Gone are the days of your applications like SharePoint, Jira, and even GitRepositories being hosted on-premises. In fact, the average mid-sized organization is currently using more than 200 SaaS applications. A majority of organizations are looking for Rubrik alternatives for broader protection beyond Microsoft 365 and Jira.

How is HYCU different?

At HYCU, we’ve been protecting critical applications on-premises, just like Rubrik backup solutions. However, we recognized the dangerous lack of enterprise backup solutions for critical SaaS apps like Salesforce, Atlassian Cloud, GitHub, and dozens more. These applications are still your responsibility if there is a deletion, corruption, or even an insider threat. This makes backup a critical requirement. So, we built and launched R-Cloud, the only data protection platform that can scale to protect all your apps. With R-Cloud™, HYCU offers you a marketplace where you can find over 80 applications to protect and request those, you’d like protection for. HYCU boasts 10x more coverage than any backup vendor in the Gartner Magic Quadrant.

2. You have modernized your applications and are looking for cloud-native backups.

If your organization has lifted and shifted or fully modernized applications in the cloud, then HYCU provides broader data protection options with the ability to restore configurations. Like every backup vendor, Rubrik provides backup for instances, databases, and storage. But cloud architectures don’t function the same as on-prem applications. In fact, they are made up of dozens of services that can be configured, and in parallel, misconfigured or lost. What happens if VPC, IAM, or firewall settings are deleted? The consequences would be disastrous.  

Why HYCU? HYCU offers fully managed cloud data protection with purpose-built protection using native cloud APIs without agents, plug-ins, or managed storage requirements.

But it’s much more than that. Native cloud applications are made up of dozens of decoupled cloud services that can be misconfigured or deleted, requiring a much different approach than just instance and database backups. This is why HYCU not only protects and recovers compute, databases, and storage but also provides support for:

• Containerized workloads (ex. GKE)
• IAM & Security Services (ex. AWS IAM, Amazon VPC, AWS Route 53, etc.)
• Serverless Workloads (AWS Lambda, Google Functions, etc.)
• IaC services like Terraform and AWS CloudFormations
• Git Repositories (Bitbucket, GitHub, and GitLab)

 Modern applications require modern backup and recovery options, not retrofitted approaches built from a legacy technology.

3. You’re looking to reduce costs and management resources

If you’re protecting on-premises applications running on Nutanix or VMware, you’ll require a Rubrik backup appliance. This places management costs as well as infrastructure limitations that increase your TCO and reduce flexibility.

 Why HYCU? Cost-Efficiency HYCU's lightweight software footprint, efficient backup and recovery processes, and zero learning curve help reduce total cost of ownership (TCO) and deliver instant return on investment (ROI).

4. You’re evaluating moving to Nutanix

HYCU offers purpose-built backup and disaster recovery with deep integration and the broadest coverage of Nutanix capabilities with support for data protection, disaster recovery and migration.Here are a few unique capabilities only HYCU supports for Nutanix:

• No agents, plug-ins, proxies, or hardware applications. HYCU leverages native APIs and gets you up and running in minutes across all workloads.
• The only dataprotection vendor leveraging Nutanix snapshots for restores.
• The only data protection vendor to offer DR to AWS NC2 and Azure bare metal instances without requiring any warm cloud infrastructure.
• 100% compatible with Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS).
• The first fully integrated data protection solution for NDB.

5. You’re looking to keep control of your data and storage options.  

Backup appliances bring additional costs and resources to your organization and usually invoke very high storage costs. HYCU’s approach is software-only, agentless and hardware agnostic. Whether you’re protecting Nutanix, AWS, or Jira, HYCU works with native APIs (without agents or proxy servers) and gives you complete control of where to store the data.You can store all your backups in Amazon S3, Azure Blob, Google Cloud Storage, and Wasabi for cost-optimization. Your data always stays with you, and you can always optimize for cost.

Additionally, HYCU is a fully managed backup service. You can start in minutes and automate all backup operations in a few clicks, no matter the environment.

Conclusion

Your IT infrastructure and technology stack are rapidly changing. Whether you’re fully cloud-native, hybrid, or still on-premises, now is the time to make critical decisions on how you will protect your data.

Here are a few frequently asked questions you should always ask yourself:

1. Will this vendor protect all my critical applications?
2. How many more time, resources, and effort do I have to allocate to this?
3. Where is my data stored? Do I have the freedom of choice, or are my storage options locked in?

Will this vendor protect new applications, specifically cloud native and SaaS applications my business now relies on?  

Related Resources:‍

• For more details, Sign up for your HYCU Demo

• Unlock the potential of R-Graph to discover SaaS services in use in your organization

• Gartner Peer Insights Comparison: HYCU vs Rubrik

• HYCU on G2