Rubrik Agreement With Microsoft to Mitigate Ransomware Threats and Integrate Cloud Services

Rubrik, Inc. announced a strategic agreement with Microsoft Corp. that includes a Microsoft equity investment in the company to drive go to market activities and co-engineering projects to deliver integrated ‘Zero Trust’ data protection solutions built on Microsoft Azure.

This work will address rising customer needs to protect vs. surging ransomware attacks, which are growing 150% annually. Together, the 2 companies will provide Microsoft 365 and hybrid cloud data protection and integrated cloud services on Microsoft Azure.

The company is addressing the pressing data challenges for enterprises: rapid recovery from ransomware, automation of data operations, and the transition of data to the cloud. The collaboration brings these offerings to the next level, providing Zero Trust data protection for hybrid cloud environments spanning data center, edge and cloud, including Microsoft 365.

Rubrik data management was designed for the cloud from day one. As part of this collaboration, customers and partners gain additional data protection, so that critical Microsoft 365 data is secure, discoverable, and always accessible in the case of a malicious attack, ransomware attack, accidental deletion, or corruption. The solution also offers additional support and protection for Microsoft 365 including instant search and restore and policy-based management at scale. Additionally, the two companies provide long-term archival of Microsoft 365 data for the purposes of regulatory compliance.

With enterprises rapidly adopting the cloud to meet their needs for security, scalability, and remote management, businesses have been increasingly focused on end-to-end data management and protection of their enterprise applications, including backup and DR and data security. With the 2 companies, mission-critical applications such as SAP, SQL, Oracle, VMware, as well as enterprise NAS workloads can tightly integrate protection and automation with Azure, which is critical as customers accelerate their digital transformation. Working with Microsoft, the firm will help customers address these priorities while providing agility to migrate data to the cloud and achieve improved productivity and optimize resources.

Rubrik takes a Zero Trust approach to data management, which follows the NIST principles of Zero Trust for everyone interacting with data. This means operating with the assumption that no person, application, or device is trustworthy. To meet this standard, data must be natively immutable so that it’s not modified, encrypted, or deleted by ransomware. Using Zero Trust Data Management architecture, enterprises can recover their data after an attack and avoid paying ransom. Together, the 2 companies will help enterprises manage hybrid and multi-cloud data security and defend vs. escalating ransomware threats.

“As the pioneer of Zero Trust Data Management, Rubrik is helping the world’s leading organizations manage their data and recover from ransomware,” said Bipul Sinha, co-founder and CEO, Rubrik. “Together with Microsoft, we are delivering tightly integrated data protection while accelerating and simplifying our customer’s journey to the cloud.“

“Customers, across industries, are migrating to the cloud to drive business transformation and realize growth,” said Nick Parker, corporate VP, global partner solutions, Microsoft. “End-to-end application and data management is critical to business success, and we believe that integrating Rubrik’s Zero Trust Data Management solutions with Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365 will make it easy for customers to advance their Zero Trust journey and increase their digital resilience.“

This collaboration builds on the company and Microsoft’s long-standing relationship, which supports more than 2,000 mutual customers globally, and hundreds of petabytes of data under Azure management across 6 continents. The 2 companies have seen customer growth and adoption across key verticals and industries including technology, healthcare, financial services, legal, higher education, federal, state and local government, manufacturing, retail, and gaming.