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that can be easily versioned and
replicated for future deployments.
Develop applications based
on microservices: Rapid shifts
in business demand require
applications to deliver newer
capabilities faster, to be resilient
to failures and to scale-out on-
demand. Applications built in this
new manner can be decomposed
into independent components
called ‘microservices’, each
delivering a single function.
“The public cloud is playing an
ever more prominent role in an
organisation’s holistic IT strategy,
and we are witnessing its adoption
across the African continent,”
says Anton Jacobsz, Managing
Director of Networks Unlimited, an
official distributor of Rubrik’s cloud
management platform
throughout Africa.
As public cloud plays a greater role in
overall enterprise IT strategy, the need
for a cloud-scale data management
platform becomes paramount to
protect and manage data produced in
both the cloud and elsewhere.
“The public
cloud is playing
an ever more
prominent role in
an organisation’s
holistic IT
strategy, and we
are witnessing
its adoption
across the African
continent.”
In summary, Rubrik’s Cloud Data
Management platform provides:
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Instant access, that is, it enables
predictive global search and
delivers instant application
recovery by unifying data locked
within disparate application
silos into one globally indexed
namespace, while leveraging
zero-byte cloning technology
to enable on-demand copy
data workflows.
• Automated orchestration by
dramatically reducing daily
operational management,
providing a step-function change
in simplicity by enabling a single
policy engine to orchestrate
service level agreements (SLAs)
across the entire data lifecycle. In
essence, the Rubrik programmatic
interface automates how data
services are created, consumed
and retired across clouds.
• Security and compliance, Rubrik
secures data whether in-flight or
at rest throughout its lifecycle,
regardless of location – the
platform delivers granular role-
based access control across
all cloud data management
workflows while providing
automated compliance reporting
to successfully complete various
industry and internal audits.
“Delivering data protection and
management for cloud requires a
modern approach to accommodate
the shift to service consumption,
Rubrik’s white paper points out: “As
enterprises migrate applications to
the cloud, IT is depended on to deliver
core data protection (backup, disaster
recovery, archival) to maintain instant
data accessibility through disasters,
data loss and service outages.
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Jacobsz stresses the ease of
deployment of Rubrik’s platform,
which makes it so valuable in enabling
new or complex business models in
“Organisations
can either deploy
the platform on
premises through
plug-and-play
appliances
and software
appliances, or on
certified hardware
platforms.”
the regions. “Organisations can either
deploy the platform on premises
through plug-and-play appliances and
software appliances, or on certified
hardware platforms.”
The white paper elaborates: “To
protect cloud-native applications,
Rubrik can be deployed as a software
instance in a public cloud provider
to orchestrate all critical data
management functions – backup
and recovery, replication and disaster
recovery, archival, search and more.
Users spin up the recommended
compute instance on supported
public cloud providers and can scale-
out easily by growing the Rubrik
cloud cluster in lock-step with cloud
data growth. All data is indexed and
efficiently stored in a single,
scale-out repository while providing
data resiliency.”
The Rubrik Cloud Data Management
platform provides a cloud-native
approach to managing the lifecycle
of data, from creation to expiration,
to drive better performance and
operational continuity at lower
costs. Rubrik bridges the gap
between owned, on-premises
infrastructure and the cloud by
decoupling data from the data centre
through a software-defined fabric.
Comprehensive data management
is delivered through instant access,
automated orchestration, and
enterprise-class data protection
and resiliency.
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automation of service delivery and
development of modular, scale-out
applications,” continues the white paper.
Rubrik provides the same consumer-
grade HTML5 interface to manage
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the cloud as used to manage data
on-premises and at the edge. Users
can instantly locate (with real-
time predictive search) and deliver
application consistent recoveries for
data born in the cloud, including files,
folders, file sets, VMs, and database
instances (such as Windows, Linux,
SQL databases). Users receive
actionable insights with Rubrik
Envision’s rich visual reporting, which
allows creation, customisation and
sharing of platform analytics on
consumption, compliance and more,
across a multi-cloud environment.
“By using Rubrik, enterprises free data
from underlying infrastructure for
ultimate workload portability. Cloud
vendor lock-in can be avoided by
migrating data from public cloud to
public cloud to optimise application
service quality.”
Of note is that Rubrik supports
environmental considerations too as it
converges backup software, replication,
catalogue databases, deduplicated
storage, and more into a single software
fabric. It does not retain the complex,
“By using Rubrik,
enterprises
free data from
underlying
infrastructure for
ultimate workload
portability.”
bloated architecture reminiscent of
legacy data protection solutions.
“Battle-tested by the Fortune 500
companies, we have witnessed Rubrik
address the four main ‘pain points’
of our customers: management
complexity, lengthy recover processes,
lack of scalability and cost. We are
most pleased to have Rubrik’s solutions
to these challenges available in our
region and contributing to trading
hardware management for the
unbelievable strength of the public
cloud,” concludes Jacobsz. ¡
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