With the recent collaboration between Dell Technologies and Nutanix, Dell PowerFlex with Nutanix Cloud Platform (NCP) has become a transformative force in IT infrastructure management. As the first external storage to be integrated into the Nutanix AHV hypervisor and Nutanix AOS VM data storage, PowerFlex ushers in remarkable scalability, efficiency and performance, positioning itself as a cornerstone for mission-critical environments.
To meet ever-evolving data security needs, Rubrik has extended support for its comprehensive data security solutions to Dell PowerFlex servers that are integrated with the NCP. Rubrik's data security and protection solutions have been tailored to complement this integration, ensuring that businesses can harness the full power of Dell PowerFlex while maintaining optimal security postures. Our alignment with this advanced storage solution means that enterprises can enjoy Rubrik’s robust data protection capabilities into this rich technological landscape.
Enhancing Data Security for Nutanix Environments with Rubrik
Rubrik has long delivered comprehensive data security and protection on a single platform for Nutanix environments, including the Nutanix AHV hypervisor, Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) and the Nutanix Files solutions. To help you fully capitalize on the integration between Dell PowerFlex and NCP, Rubrik delivers seamless and robust data protection for the joint platform.
Here's how Rubrik's capabilities bring unparalleled security and efficiency to Nutanix environments, which can now be enjoyed by enterprises having Dell PowerFlex on Nutanix:
Simplified and automated data protection: Rubrik optimizes backup efficiency by automatically discovering and backing up all your Nutanix data. Our platform utilizes incremental-forever backups and parallel streaming capabilities to reduce local storage needs and enhance backup speed, ensuring application-consistent recoveries. Centralized management ensures streamlined monitoring and reporting, whether in the cloud or on-premises, giving you real-time insights into failures, backup statuses, compliance, and infrastructure capacity.
Cyber resilience with zero-trust security: Rubrik provides robust security measures to ensure the integrity and availability of your Nutanix backups. Our approach includes immutability, intelligent data lock, retention lock, role-based access controls, MFA, logical air gap, and encryption. These features are built directly into the platform to protect your data against malicious or unintentional deletion, ensuring it remains readily available and uncompromised.
Sensitive data discovery and data threat analytics: Rubrik provides advanced tools to understand the blast radius of attacks through a two-stage machine learning model that identifies anomalies. Our platform's threat hunting capabilities allow for scanning backups using patterns, hashes and rules for indicators of compromise, ensuring that potential threats are mitigated. Sensitive data monitoring aids in identifying and classifying data within your environment, giving insights into user access and actions, thus enhancing overall data security and governance.
Cyber recovery simulation: Preparing for cyberattacks is crucial and Rubrik's cyber recovery simulation capabilities ensure quick recovery from disruptions. With Orchestrated Application Recovery (OAR), scheduled recoveries and advanced disaster recovery features automate validation and testing. This ensures recoveries proceed with necessary dependencies and prerequisites. Out-of-band management streamlines instantiation into clean rooms, providing visibility into suspicious activities using Rubrik's data threat analytics, aiding forensic investigations and identifying the best recovery points post-attack.
Rapid recovery at scale: Speed is critical when ransomware strikes, and Rubrik ensures fast, safe and efficient recoveries by quarantining data infected with malware to reduce the risk of reintroducing the malware into the environment during a recovery operation. Rubrik enables you to recover data from the latest clean snapshot effortlessly, minimizing business disruption. Our flexible recovery options allow mass recovery or selective restoration at file, object, application, or system-wide levels, helping you achieve faster cyber recovery time objectives (RTOs) with guided workflows.
Looking Ahead: Empowering Enterprises in a Digital-First World
This integration is pivotal for enterprises striving to modernize their IT systems to drive enhanced performance and protection. The collaboration between Dell PowerFlex and NCP offers a foundation for transformative improvements in scalability and efficiency, which are essential for today's dynamic digital demands.
Rubrik is poised to support these modernization efforts with its robust platform and comprehensive capabilities. Our data protection solutions seamlessly integrate with the new Dell and Nutanix setup, ensuring that businesses can achieve optimal security and performance. As enterprises look to enhance their competitive edge, Rubrik provides robust data protection and streamlined recovery processes.
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