For too long, protecting mission-critical Informix environments—used globally in high-transaction sectors like retail, finance, and manufacturing —has relied on complex, high-friction methods like manual scripts and siloed utilities. This approach creates operational risk, slows down recovery, and leaves a critical data surface vulnerable to modern cyber threats.
Today marks a major expansion of Rubrik’s commitment to securing all critical enterprise data. We are thrilled to announce the general availability of native, policy-driven protection for IBM Informix databases. Rubrik is introducing native support for Informix as a fully unified workload within the Rubrik Security Cloud (RSC), empowering organizations to transition to seamless automation and the confidence of Zero Trust Data Security.
The Challenge: Why Manual Scripts Are a Business Risk
Current protection strategies—whether relying on complex scripting with the ON-Bar utility, or utilizing a Managed Volumes (MV) approach that still requires custom customer-written scripts —fail to meet modern resilience demands.
This fragmented approach leads to three critical business consequences:
Extended Outages and RPO/RTO Breach: Manual methods result in slow backup and recovery times, directly leading to an extended outage and severe business impact if a clean copy is needed after an attack.
Increased Operational Cost: The lack of a single pane of glass requires specialized, deep Informix skills to manage daily operations (day 0, day 1, and day 2), driving up Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).
Inconsistent Security Posture: Relying on scripts prevents the application of a unified, immutable Zero Trust Data Security strategy across the entire estate, exposing critical data to risk.
The Rubrik Solution: Simple, Policy-Driven Protection
Rubrik eliminates the scripting chaos by providing a native, policy-driven solution that is simple to manage and highly secure.
Zero Scripts, Maximum Performance: We eliminate the reliance on manual ON-Bar commands by using our proprietary Rubrik Informix Storage Manager (RISM) packaged within Rubrik Backup Service (RBS). RISM seamlessly integrates with the Informix ON-Bar utility, executing the necessary backup and restore commands directly from the RSC user interface.
Policy-Driven Automation: Simply assign a customizable SLA Domain for Full, Incremental, and Log backups. Rubrik handles the execution and compliance, automatically defining frequency and retention.
Superior Multi-Node Throughput: RISM is engineered to manage file distribution and I/O across multiple Rubrik nodes, enabling parallel backup and restore for superior throughput goals.
Unified Management and Accelerated Recovery: The Rubrik Security Cloud (RSC) brings your Informix databases into a single pane of glass, unifying protection alongside your other critical workloads.
Rapid Point-in-Time Recovery (PITR): Recovery is initiated directly from the RSC GUI. Leverage continuous log backups to achieve RPOs as low as 15 minutes and select a specific point in time for a granular restore.
Flexible Recovery: Conduct Instance-level recovery to the original or a different host, and create read-only Live Mounts for data validation or manual recovery steps.
Fortify Informix with Zero Trust Security: With Rubrik, your mission-critical Informix data inherits the security foundation of our Zero Trust Data Security platform.
Tamper-Proof Immutability: Backups are written to the immutable file system via the data path, ensuring copies cannot be altered or deleted.
End-to-end encryption: Rubrik uses the Secure Thrift communication protocol between Informix host and Rubrik Secure Vault enforcing end-to-end encryption for data in motion.
Role-Based Access Control (RBAC): Granular permissions ensure that only verified personnel have the necessary access, minimizing the risk of insider threats.
Extend Zero Trust to All Your Data
By delivering native, highly performant, and simple protection for IBM Informix, Rubrik empowers IT teams to transition Informix from a high-touch, risky manual process to a secure, automated policy framework.
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