Rubrik: Alta 4.1 Version of Cloud Data Management Platform

Rubrik, Inc. announced the 4.1 release of its Cloud Data Management platform.

It completes support for all major cloud providers with a new Google Cloud Platform integration.

The release also broadens support for Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure, making it easier for companies, governments and nonprofits to keep and use their data anytime, anywhere.

According to IDC, virtually all new application deployments will be made in a cloud-oriented architecture within the next two years and 47% of all organizations plan to purchase a copy data management solution in that time frame.

“Cloud adoption is top of mind for CIOs on the hunt for savings, scalability and increased business efficiency,” says Arvind Nithrakashyap, CTO, Rubrik. “With our latest release, every enterprise can mobilize their apps and data to any public cloud environment. Version 4.1 of Rubrik Cloud Data Management continues the rapid expansion of our cloud solution portfolio. Now, every enterprise can mobilize their apps and data to any cloud environment and enjoy instant data access, regardless of underlying infrastructure.”

Complete enterprise data management platform
for all Microsoft enterprise apps
Rubrik can be deployed to orchestrate all critical data management functions – backup and recovery, replication and DR, archival, search, and analytics – for all Microsoft apps; Windows, Hyper-V, SQL, Azure, and Azure Stack. Cloud Data Management was architected to deliver cloud archival and data services. With Alta 4.1, Rubrik CloudOn instantiation services support both AWS and Microsoft Azure, providing ‘server-less’ conversion of VMs to cloud instances. Now enterprises can use CloudOn services to power-on applications in Azure, mobilizing them from data center to cloud. This lowers the costs of DR and test/development in the public cloud by utilizing cloud services only when needed.

Rubrik is one of the first data management vendors to announce support for Microsoft’s new private cloud offering, Azure Stack. With Rubrik, users can migrate applications from Azure Stack to Azure and accelerate test/development of on-premises and cloud applications.

“With Rubrik, we could eliminate tape, integrate seamlessly with Microsoft Azure, and securely mobilize our applications from on-premises to the cloud,” says Leonard De Botton, CIO, Berkeley College. “Together, Rubrik and Azure helps us decrease costs, stay within our data retention policy, and establish a stronger DR strategy.”

Integration with all public cloud environments
Rubrik has always been available in the private, hybrid or public cloud. Alta 4.1 adds cloud archival support for all classes of Google Cloud Storage (nearline, cold line, multi-regional, and regional). Enterprises can now orchestrate application data across a multi-cloud environment for long-term retention while retaining instant data accessibility through search.

Support for all AWS government cloud offerings and new compliance features
Firm’s platform enables federal government agencies and commercial contractors to securely manage data from creation to expiration across private and public clouds with end-to-end encryption.

Rubrik supports Microsoft Azure’s GovCloud and AWS GovCloud, and is an Advanced Tier Technology partner in the AWS Partner Network (APN). Alta 4.1 broadens support to all government infrastructure offerings from AWS, including advanced secure services like Commercial Cloud Services (C2S). 4.1 also adds support for Amazon Glacier, completing support for all storage classes of AWS – Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Standard-Infrequent Access (Standard IA), and Glacier. Customers can now automate data archival to Glacier to fulfill legal and compliance requirements. With 4.1, it takes one click to enable the Glacier Vault Lock policy for WORM locked archive on AWS for regulatory and compliance controls.

Offering multi-tenancy to accelerate secure,
self-service delivery of data management services
Rubrik bolsters management security for multi-tenant organizations-such as Service Delivery Partners and large enterprises delivering IT-as-service – by adding secure, exclusive access to data management services in a hybrid cloud environment. With 4.1, administrators can assign granular permissions to managed objects (e.g., assign Oracle DBs to Oracle Admin) to accelerate the self-service delivery of protection policies, recoveries, and analytics reporting across a multi-cloud environment.