yes, eliminates tape....and the shitty software we have been using for years and continue to bend over for the right to pay for it. It's good stuff if you are a heavily virtualized shop. Worth a look.
Rubrik's cube: Storage firm founder drenches us in upstart Kool-Aid
The intellectual firepower at the top of Rubrik’s founding engineering team is exceeded only by the relentless promotion of the company, its founders, engineers and prospects by CEO Bipul Sinha, a VC partner. We met Rubrik during a Silicon Valley IT press tour in December 2015. After drinking coffee and enjoying doughnuts ( …
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Tuesday 5th January 2016 12:04 GMT Pascal Monett
"being constantly [..] told how humble the co-founders are"
Sorry, humility does not advertise itself out loud. If you are indeed humble, the message gets across without being said. From what I gather here, they are anything but humble. They appear to have nailed the lavish presentation schtick, though.
And infinitely scalable ? That falls flat by logic alone, but the buzzword bullshit alarm goes off as well.
What I take from this article is that there is yet another startup playing doe-eyes in front and quietly sharpening a shiv in the back. The only question is how will these new wolves mix things up, and will they be able to ?
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Tuesday 5th January 2016 14:32 GMT RollTide14
So what about the rest of my environment?
Awesome, I've got a real slick backup appliance for my VMware environment.....now how am I supposed to back up the rest of it?
I feel like consolidation is a long forgotten term in this new market. I understand these new appliances (rubrik, nutanix, etc) are extremely simple to use but is your environment still simple if you are managing 12 different technologies instead of 3?
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Tuesday 5th January 2016 17:11 GMT Anonymous Coward
I can eliminate the software layer of my backup solution and place an appliance that does all? I'm in. ALL of my issues in the past have been with crappy software and have been forced to choose the package that sucks less. While Rubrik currently does VMware only, other hypervisors are coming as well and bare metal SQL protection abilities I have been told. I know if I hear this many folks talking down on a new product, they must be onto something! I do not work for Rubrik.
Chris Gurley has some good posts on his blog, worth a read. http://www.thegurleyman.com/
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Tuesday 5th January 2016 18:41 GMT RollTide14
I work for a VAR....trust me I would love nothing more to take money out of the major backup SW vendors pockets and put it towards a legit backup solution. I just dont have any customers who are 100% virtual....closest one is 90% and a bunch of critical apps are still running on bare metal.
I'm still amazed at the price tag associated with Commvault and the incompetence of the majority of their salesforce. You would think that Simpana was flying off the shelves the way they acted.
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Tuesday 5th January 2016 19:03 GMT Bcraig
Yep, that's the issue with VM-only solution such as this and Veeam. I think that Rubrik is powerful enough that I would buy it to cover the virtual side and use a second product for the handful of bare metal and still come out cheaper that the major vendors. Also had customers back up physical servers to a protected VM using native tools and backing up with their VM backup solution.
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Tuesday 5th January 2016 19:35 GMT Lynrd
Obviously Psycho Doughnuts
The Cap'n Crunch is a dead giveaway - those are some of San Jose's best doughnuts. Obviously the red carpet was rolled out for El Reg.
Re: the rest of the platform - I read the article twice and still cannot find the disruption here. "Job based" vs. "Policy based" is marketing fluff as both approaches basically stem from the same workflow - you built your jobs around a defined policy or SLA. The only difference is what order you do them in.
Data protection mechanisms can be evaluated largely on the basis of data integrity and speed of recovery. Reading the article a third time, I still cannot find a whole lot of information where either of those things are dramatically improved by this solution over current solutions on the market. This is not intended to be a knock on the product or company, but maybe marketing needs to figure out how to communicate their differentation...or fix the press kit.
A lot of smart engineers can come up with a lot of great solutions. The thing is, not all of the solutions have problems associated with them.
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Thursday 7th January 2016 20:22 GMT Gostev
Just for the record, these are completely false statements about Veeam:
o Veeam uses MS SQL Server as catalog storage; availability is gone if SQL server goes corrupt.
o Veeam does array integration with EMC, etc. “We don't need to do that because of our unique, app-consistent snapshots with parallel ingest from primary VMware infrastructure.”
I am confident that "We are 2 - 3 x more storage efficient" claim is also a false one, but will wait for a trusted partner to perform a SxS testing before stating that.
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Tuesday 12th January 2016 01:33 GMT Anonymous Coward
No hardware integration, no hyper-v (no. 2 hypervisor), no tape, only replicate to AWS Cloud... and if you need an extra 10% of storage you are going to have to buy a whole new controller ...
I don't think they'll be expanding on their current "There are just 65 or so appliances in the field but Rubrik says it is growing"
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Friday 15th January 2016 02:34 GMT agonzalez
This not new.... PBBA already exists since years ago
Unitrends has been doing specialized PBBA (Purpose Built Backup Appliances) for years and can backup more than just VMware. Unitrends appliances can backup 3 hypervisors VMware, Hyper-V, Xen and over 40 guestos or physical servers at agent-based backup, including of course global deduplication, replication, instant recovery for test/dev purposes, etc
On large enterprises you need to both agent-based and hypervisor based backups:
http://blogs.unitrends.com/agent-agentless-backups-virtual-machines/
"It's technology eliminates tape by letting people archive to public cloud"
Unitrends supports both archive to cloud and tape. Why do you want to eliminate tape? there are still some uses cases for it at some companies.
Veeam started years ago with the same only-virtualization vmware approach and had to add later tape and endpoint support due to customers requesting it and competition.