Rubrik Andes 5.1 for Governance, DR Orchestration, and CDP Markets

Rubrik, Inc. announced its Andes 5.1 solutions for data classification, automated DR orchestration, and CDP across Rubrik Cloud Data Management (RCDM) and Polaris SaaS platform.

By delivering a single solution to manage, govern, and orchestrate data across data centers and clouds, the company helps enterprises eliminate the plethora of disparate tools and disjointed processes required to address data governance, DR compliance, and data and application resiliency. With Andes 5.1, enterprises automate business compliance efforts, provide data mobility for BC, increase employee productivity, and deliver cost savings through tool consolidation.

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Implement data governance to help meet data privacy requirements
Polaris Sonar is a SaaS application to discover, classify, and report on sensitive data across the enterprise environment with zero additional infrastructure required. It addresses the intensifying risk of data privacy breaches and compliance penalties by applying ML to discover sensitive data, such as personally identifiable information (PII), allowing enterprises to identify where certain types of data is located without impacting production environments. By leveraging a customer’s existing RCDM deployment and processes, Sonar delivers simplicity and rapid time-to-value.

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“Data classification tasks that would have previously required expensive third-party auditors and multiple full-time engineers can now be completely automated. We drove over 90% operational savings by eliminating manual scripting and spreadsheet management, reducing time spent to complete hundreds of search queries from two weeks to just one hour,” said Brandon Morris, systems administrator, City of Sioux Falls. “Not to mention, Sonar provides a platform to continuously and seamlessly monitor the location of our sensitive data for high-risk incidents, such as overexposed credit card numbers and social security numbers, on our existing backup data without impacting production.“

“Sonar assists with PCI-DSS compliance efforts without risking fines, dedicating multiple resources and freeing up our employees for outcome-based value-add work,” said Kevin Mortimer, manager, infrastructure services, University of Reading. “We can now automate sensitive data classification, such as credit card information, passport data, and other PII, to better understand our overall risk posture and assign data ownership. As a university, any compromise of student data can damage our students’ well-being and our organizations’ reputation.“

Automate DR orchestration to drive cloud agility
Polaris AppFlows provides integrated DR orchestration of failover/failback, testing, and application migration from data centers to Amazon Web Services (AWS). Enterprises can use the company’ solution to convert VM snapshots into Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances on an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC), delivering RTOs of minutes.

As applications run on AWS, the firm provides cloud-native protection and automates failback while minimizing egress costs. By using a single solution that unifies backup, replication, DR orchestration, and cloud instantiation, enterprises can eliminate multiple point solutions, management complexity, and unnecessary costs.

“It’s critical that today’s enterprises invest in data management solutions that offer data mobility and data governance across multi-cloud environments,” said Phil Goodwin, research director, IDC. “With the latest enhancements, Rubrik combines data protection and data governance with automation, classification, and insights, to extend their capabilities in multi-cloud data management. Polaris AppFlows and Sonar are designed by Rubrik to allow organizations to mobilize data and leverage the cloud to drive BC and IT resilience.“

Minimize data loss while driving operational efficiency
Andes 5.1 delivers integrated CDP, providing near-zero RPOs for VMware environments as an option in the SLA domains by which customers define their data protection policies. By leveraging a journal-based approach, the company offers a continuous stream of recovery points for enterprises to minimize data loss in a failure or ransomware attack. One click within the SLA policy engine enables CDP for the most critical VMs, eliminating the complexity of installing and managing yet another point solution.

“We are excited to designate Rubrik’s natively integrated CDP  solution as a VMware Ready certified solution. Rubrik’s CDP utilizes vSphere APIs for I/O filtering and helps VMware customers minimize data loss across data centers and clouds by delivering RPO ins,” said Teri Bruns, VP, global partner solutions, VMware, Inc. “Together, VMware and Rubrik help enterprises seamlessly operate within a multi-cloud, hybrid environment while reducing operational complexity.“

Manage complex enterprise environments with operational simplicity
Andes 5.1 introduces advancements targeted to the evolving needs of large, complex, and increasingly cloud-native environments. Customers with large-scale AWS and Azure environments can unify their data management for multiple clouds and data centers under the company’s SaaS-based Polaris GPS with a single console and set of SLA policies.

Customers using cloud for data archival can use Smart Data Tiering to Azure to store data at the lowest cost tier. The company’s solution automatically configures tiering rules to organize data based on access frequency and retention period, allowing customers to optimize costs across multiple access tiers.

Large-scale vSphere environments can be managed with support for vSphere tags, storage policies, and resource pools.

The company support for enterprise-grade user access features have been upgraded to add additional productivity and security. With SAML Single Sign-On support, organizations can leverage their enterprise security standards including multi-factor authentication.

Finally, enterprises operating in heavily regulated industries, such as financial services and healthcare, can use Retention Locked SLA Domains to support WORM compliance for SEC Rule 17a-4(f) and FINRA Rule 4511(c) by preventing retention policies from being lowered or removed.

Mosaic Available in Azure Marketplace
The company re-launched Datos IO as Mosaic, with availability in Azure Marketplace. Mosaic 3.1, NoSQL data management, protects DataStax Search indexes, supports backup and recovery of MongoDB 4.0 with transactions, delivers 3x performance improvements for data protection operations at scale, and integrates with DevOps tools such as Ansible and monitoring tools such as DataDog and Splunk.

“Over half of our customers choose to run Rubrik Mosaic in the public cloud to deliver cloud agility,” said Tarun Thakur, GM, database solutions, Rubrik. “Mosaic’s availability in Azure marketplace helps our customers accelerate deployment of cloud-native NoSQL applications and gets their customer-facing applications to the market faster.“

Resources:
Blog: Now in Rubrik: Orchestrated DR, CDP, and SLA Policy-Based Advancements     
Blog: Announcing Rubrik Mosaic for NoSQL