Rubrik 6.0 Summer Release Overview
Rubrik made the 6.0 Summer Release generally available a few days ago, in this blog post I wanted to provide an overview of some of the new features.
Backup
Kubernetes Data Management with Rubrik
Backup for Kubernetes has been a hotly debated topic over the years, pundits like to point out that container workloads are supposed to be stateless and as such backing them up isn’t strictly needed.
Protect Rubrik CDM with Microsoft Authenticator
Rubrik released version 5.3.1 of the RCDM code a couple of days ago and one of the new feautures is the ability to protect all of your Rubrik login accounts with two-step verification by using the industry standard time-based OTP(one-time password) codes.
Rubrik CDM 5.1
An overview of the new features and function highlights of the new Rubrik CDM release, codenamed Andes 5.1, see what is coming down the line.
Rubrik and NetApp StorageGRID
Rubrik and NetApp recently announced support for NetApp StorageGRID as an Archive target. Some things, like bacon and eggs, are just better together which is what I wanted to focus on in this blogpost.
Exciting new discoveries from the Andes (Rubrik CDM 5.0)
Just like discovering new animal species in what feels like already deeply explored and well understood territory, adding new insights and capabilities in technology can advance some historically held assumptions.
Everything old is new again.
My first job in IT, many moons ago, was at a company called MOTEC, it was a subcontractor of Telenet, one of the biggest ISPs in Belgium. We were responsible for building the cable based telephony systems that their customers used to make phone calls over the tv distribution network.
Rubrik's Masterless Cluster Approach
Rubrik has opted to build a truly scalable, masterless cluster, neatly leapfrogging legacy approaches of the past by taking lessons from massive-scale modern environments found at Google, Facebook and the like.
Riverbed Whitewater and Caringo CAStor
One of the coolest, in my humble opinion of course, solutions I was able to work with when I was at Dell, was the CAStor Object Storage system from Caringo, OEM’ed as the Dell DX6000.
Using Windows Azure Cloud Storage with Riverbed Whitewater
Riverbed Whitewater allows you to connect your on-premise backup and archive environment to a public cloud storage provider like Microsoft’s Windows Azure.