11 New Features Coming to the Rubrik Data Protection Platform
You'll be able to take advantage of them as soon as this summer.
May 21, 2021
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First is a new SaaS-based disaster recovery (DR) offering that Rubrik claims will eliminate the need for any other data protection infrastructure. Managed by Rubrik’s SaaS-based control plane, the company described AppFlows as frameworks that use application blueprints comprising of resource maps and workload dependencies to enable reliable failovers.
“This allows you to bring DR to the masses,” said Rubrik president Dan Rogers. “This brings DR to all of applications, and dramatically lowers the cost of DR.”
Rubrik AppFlows also aim eliminate the need for different DR solutions in VMware environments.
AppFlows will enable new bidirectional replication for vSphere clusters that Rubrik is adding. Rogers said that infrastructures with VMware vSphere Metro Storage Clusters (vMSCs) that require high availability between two sites will be able to fail over seamlessly.
Rubrik has also created a new capability, code-named BlueShift, that provides faster restores, Rogers added.
“Let’s say you take a 100 gigabyte snapshot, and there are five gigabytes of changes,” Rogers said. “We’re going to look at those changes and inject the deltas into their store process to give you even faster restore on VMware.”
While Rubrik has offered Microsoft 365 protection through its customer-hosted offering, now the company will manage customers’ entire Azure environments.
“This means resources like Azure blob storage, dynamic tools like Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), and both the financial and management burden they create are now fully incurred by Rubrik,” a Kiersten Nordin, Rubrik product marketing manager, explained in a blog.
According to Nordin, this will provide streamlined onboarding, unlimited storage, more predictable costs and the ability to provide better threat protection by physically and logically isolating backup repositories. It will support Microsoft 365 applications including SharePoint and Teams.
Building on last year’s acquisition of Ingenious, Rubrik Cloud Direct will provide rapid recovery of data in petabyte-scale NAS repositories, allowing for tiering large amounts of unstructured data, according to the company. Moreover, it can point to object storage in the cloud.
“This is going to give you cost advantage to allow you to archive your NAS directly to the lowest cost storage in the cloud, and then recover that with confidence,” Rogers said. “All of that is going to be available through that same SLA engine, that same single pane of glass through which you manage rubric,” Rogers said. “This can be a real game-changer.
The new Rubrik data protection platform will also for the first time protect and offer recovery of Kubernetes-based container environments. More modern, cloud-native applications based on Kubernetes-based containers and microservices are in production. But they have different attributes from traditional VMs and files.
“The environment is very fluid. Containers’ lifespan is short, yet the data needs to be stored longer,” noted principal product marketing manager Kristina Avrionova. “If dev teams do not get the expected results, they need to change back the previous state quickly. Manual, job-centric backups are not a good fit for the dynamic Kubernetes environments.”
Rubrik Polaris will consolidate management and provide views to protect, organize and manage Kubernetes workloads, she added.
Partners will be able to deliver the same SLA policies and automated discovery for applications hosted in SAP HANA databases.
“Customers can now automatically discover databases as they are created and keep them protected with inherited SLAs that configure backup frequency, retention, archival and replication,” according to a blog by Rubrik product marketing manager Justin Ruiz. “Rubrik SLA policies also support full, incremental, and differential backups.”
Support for Oracle Data Guard, which provides high-availability to Oracle databases used for mission critical applications, will roll out this summer. It will appeal to DBAs who want their secondary or standby databases to be protected.
“Customers will now be able to offload their primary backups to standby databases and centralize the management of primary and standby databases,” according to a post by Rubrik product manager Saurav Das. Rubrik has also built in awareness for failovers and switchovers within Data Guard environments to ensure backups keep running as intended.
Rubrik is planning many other features to the new platform, all of which will appear this summer, according to the company. Some other features include:
· Intelligent cloud archival that Rubrik said will optimize costs of public cloud object-based storage.
· Backup support from NetApp SnapMirror.
· Point-in-time backup support for Nutanix Files and Live Mount for Nutanix AHV backups.
· Policy-driven backups for Cassandra database using Polaris.
Rubrik is planning many other features to the new platform, all of which will appear this summer, according to the company. Some other features include:
· Intelligent cloud archival that Rubrik said will optimize costs of public cloud object-based storage.
· Backup support from NetApp SnapMirror.
· Point-in-time backup support for Nutanix Files and Live Mount for Nutanix AHV backups.
· Policy-driven backups for Cassandra database using Polaris.
Look for a major new version of the Rubrik data protection platform to go live this summer. During Rubrik Forward, a three-day virtual event held this week, company officials revealed significant new features and integrations.
Rubrik’s Bipul Sinha
Rubrik will roll out what the company has internally referred to as the Rubik 6.0 platform. As reported this week, the new Rubrik platform will offer automated mass recovery for victims of ransomware attacks. The automated mass recovery capability will reduce recovery times by selecting applications and files at scale.
“Rubrik is reimagining the future of data management by converging data management and data security,” the company’s founder and CEO Bipul Sinha said during the event’s opening keynote session. But to protect an organization from an attack, integration with other key platforms is critical.
The company’s president, Dan Rogers, introduced many of the new features coming to the Rubrik data protection platform. They will appear incrementally starting this summer.
We outlined the most notable in the slideshow above.
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