Rubrik Alta 4.2 Cloud Data Management Platform

Rubrik, Inc. announced Alta 4.2, the latest advancement in its cloud data management platform.

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With Alta 4.2, the company reinforces its position as a single control plane for the enterprise hybrid cloud, with further support for private cloud, public cloud, and traditional data center workloads. The users have the ability to protect a set of cloud-native AWS EC2 workloads and traditional enterprise platforms like AIX and Solaris with the same data management software, helping organizations bridge the gap between existing and future infrastructures.

Most enterprises are interested in developing a hybrid cloud computing strategy to exploit the benefits of public cloud infrastructure as a service/platform as a service (IaaS/PaaS) for elasticity, agility and overall operational efficiency.

According to polling results from Gartner, Inc.’s Data Center Infrastructure and Operations Management Summit, 32% of IT leaders reported that developing a private/public/hybrid cloud strategy is the largest data center challenge they face. ⁽¹⁾

Enterprises adopting the hybrid cloud look for flexibility to migrate workloads across environments based upon economic or business requirements.

“There is no question that hybrid cloud is the future, and adoption will be driven by both present workloads and future architecture,” said Arvind Nithrakashyap, CTO, Rubrik. “We built Alta 4.2 to enable every aspect of an enterprise hybrid cloud strategy. Our goal is to make it simpler for every organization to adopt the public cloud and to build an AWS-like, self-service cloud offering of their own. And we ensure everything is integrated in one, full-featured solution, so your infrastructure team has the same Rubrik experience whether you’re working with proprietary Unix workloads or cloud-native applications.“

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Cloud-native data protection through single control plane
As enterprises deploy new, cloud-native applications for AI, real-time-analytics, IoT, and other use cases, The company offers Amazon Web Services EC2-native backup and lifecycle management to protect those applications in the cloud. Whether you deploy Rubrik in a data center or on AWS, the Cloud Data Management can index, catalog, and protect any application running on Amazon EC2. Using AWS’s API-based functionality, the company simplifies the backup and recovery process, making it possible to run everything on the cloud – production applications, source data, backup and recovery software, and archival storage.

Simplicity and manageability for MSPs via self-service and private cloud
Building on the multi-cloud foundation of prior Alta releases, Alta 4.2 integrates with vCloud Director, VMware, Inc.‘s platform for creating an elastic private cloud environment.

For MSPs and large enterprises with multiple co-hosted tenant users, the company also offers its Envoy service to simplify and accelerate self-service. Envoy represents a service provider’s the firm’s cluster in a tenant network, making it easy for end-users to customize their backup services in a flexible, shared-everything private cloud. This helps organizations – from small MSPs to large, complex IT departments – to provide backup-as-a-service.

“Rubrik’s scalable platform and highly reliable solution helps us ensure that our secure managed private cloud is supported by seamless DR for our users across the globe,” said Arash Marzban, director, product management, Armor Defense, Inc. “Rubrik’s latest release shows its continued commitment to provide innovative offerings for MSPs.“

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Extending deeper into enterprise data center
The hybrid cloud also promises to bridge the gap between long-lived traditional data center applications and the new infrastructure of the future. To this point, Alta 4.2 protects both IBM AIX and Oracle Solaris within the core product, offering enterprise operations teams the same suite of data management tools that they use for other physical, virtualized, and cloud-based workloads. Organizations can begin moving some of these workloads into the cloud in a matter of hours. And for larger enterprises that have adopted Rubrik, supporting proprietary OSs will make it easier to standardize on the company’s platform.

“We’re advocates of the modern Rubrik approach across our physical and virtual environments,” said Kevin Mortimer, infrastructure services manager, University of Reading. “With Rubrik Alta 4.2, we’re excited to see the platform extend even deeper into the data center, further revolutionizing our approach to backing up our data.“

⁽¹⁾ Source: Gartner, Inc. Will Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure Offerings Improve or Impair Enterprise Resilience? Julia Palmer and Mark Thomas Jaggers, May 4, 2018.

Resources
Rubrik 4.2 Alta: Extending Leadership in Enterprise Hybrid Cloud
Blog: Introducing Rubrik Alta, Purpose-built for Enterprise Hybrid Cloud
Infographic Purpose-built for Hybrid Cloud