Rubrik - The Solution to Legacy Bottleneck Elimination

??????????The modern enterprise is constantly adopting innovation and automation solutions to align with its business goals and drive growth. Now, this means adopting software-defined data centers, public cloud migration, deploying Infrastructure-as-Code to manage automatically and provision resources, introducing newer performant storage, and bolt-on legacy backup applications. The only issue is - the costly maintenance, the stubborn scaling, the time-consuming management needs, and the juggling of multiple vendors- all for data protection and backup. For our Infrastructure team, this involves a constant battle with complex, multi-tiered architecture to support the enterprise’s forward-thinking capabilities.?

???????????The process of data protection can seem straightforward. Adopting a modern enterprise data protection and management solution instead of the fragmented traditional, multipoint legacy backup solutions is the key to simplicity. Introducing Rubrik, our team’s trusted single software platform delivering complete enterprise data management across the data center to cloud.

Figure I: Rubrik Process Portfolio (Rubrik, 2016)

Rubrik is spectacular because it has enabled the team to have scalability and flexibility, allowing access to unprecedented simplicity, freeing time for more strategic projects, and addressing all customer data management needs.?The primary Rubrik products include,

-??????The Rubrik Cloud Data Management (CDM) Platform delivers flagship enterprise data backup, recovery, data archival, and disaster recovery solutions for all on-premise, cloud, and edge environments.?

-??????The Rubrik Polaris SaaS Platform, built to provide a unified record system for global business management, governance and compliance, and data intelligence.

-???????The Rubrik Cloud-Native Backup & Recovery devised holistic cloud-native protection, and centralized management across all enterprise environments.

Figure II: Rubrik Architecture (Rubrik, 2018)

Our Infrastructure team can harness the broad ecosystem support Rubrik’s CDM offers, which is vendor-agnostic and supports the industry-leading operating systems, databases, applications, clouds, hypervisors, and SaaS applications of the enterprise. In addition, since the Rubrik CDM architecture is built on Atlas, the Cloud-Scale File System, Callisto, the Distributed Metadata System, Cerebro, the Data Management Layer, and Infinity, for Interface and Application Awareness, the management of the enterprise virtual machines is fully automated.

Figure III: Rubrik SLA Policy Engine (Rubrik, 2016)

??Primarily focusing on enterprise data backup and recovery, the single SLA Policy Engine is heavily deployed within the IT Infrastructure team. In addition, the SLA domains of the snapshot window, archive location, planned backup frequencies, user-specified data retention period, data replication, and Auto Protect have further accelerated investment in automation and strategic initiatives that have helped achieve a more significant business value.

From data and metadata protection via the Erasure Coding to management of the enterprise data on API-first architecture, Rubrik provides operational excellence with lower TCO. Our Infrastructure team has successfully managed to transform the otherwise hardware-heavy expensive data protection and backup management legacy bottleneck into an industry-first automated, secure, and easy-to-use, low-cost solution and reclaim the valuable time for business-critical enablers.

References

Rubrik – Multi-Cloud Data Control? Company., (2016). The Definitive Guide to Rubrik Cloud Data Management. Rubrik – Multi-Cloud Data Control? Company. https://www.content.shi.com/SHIcom/ContentAttachmentImages/SharedResources/PDFs/Rubrik/rubrik-110119-CDM-White-Paper.pdf.???

Rubrik. Rubrik – Multi-Cloud Data Control? Company., (2018, April). Exploring the Depth of Simplicity: Data Integrity with Rubrik. Rubrik – Multi-Cloud Data Control? Company. https://www.rubrik.com/resources/white-papers/19/data-integrity.

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