Earlier this year, Broadcom announced VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.1. This version of the industry's most widely deployed private cloud platform was built to run AI, modern applications, and traditional workloads under one control plane, on infrastructure enterprises own and govern.
It's a strong step forward: VCF 9.1 unifies VMs, containers, AI, and data services into one operating model while lowering the cost of running them at scale, right as AI growth, data sovereignty, and tighter budgets reshape every IT roadmap.
For customers, that consolidation means critical applications, sensitive data, and AI workloads now depend on a single foundation. As VMs migrate to VCF 9.1, data protection needs to move with them at the same level of security and readiness customers already rely on. That way, the shift to a stronger platform doesn't come with any regression in data protection.
That's where Rubrik comes in. We're pleased to announce that we're qualifying our existing VMware data protection for vSphere VMs running on VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1—the same protection our customers already depend on, carried forward.
It's the first step in a broader commitment to support the platform as it evolves, including:
Zero Trust security: Fortify your data with immutable, air-gapped backups that ransomware can't modify, delete, or encrypt.
Preemptive Recovery: Automatically scan and index every backup the moment it's created, so when an incident hits Turbo Threat Hunting can pinpoint clean, malware-free recovery points across tens of thousands of historical snapshots in minutes—the answers are already there before you need them.
Surgical Recovery: Restore only the infected files and data, in place, rolling back to the moment before the attack instead of paying a ransom.
Live Mount: Bring VMs back online in minutes when a full recovery is what's required.
VMware users get all of this with minimal intervention: no re-tooling, no new console, no gap in protection as the platform evolves underneath it.
"Our customers have trusted Rubrik to protect their most critical VMware workloads for more than a decade, and that commitment doesn't pause because the platform is changing,” says Puneet Dhawan, Senior Director of Product Management at Rubrik. “As Broadcom moves the ecosystem toward VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1, we're making sure the same Zero Trust protection and surgical recovery our customers rely on today moves with them, without asking them to start over."
Download the data sheet to learn more about Rubrik's protection for VMware environments, from vSphere to VMware Cloud Foundation.
Safe Harbor Statement: This blog post contains forward-looking statements, including statements regarding Rubrik's plans for future product capabilities and anticipated benefits to customers with respect to VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1. These statements are based on current expectations and assumptions that are subject to risks and uncertainties, and actual results may differ materially from those expressed or implied. Rubrik undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise, except as required by law.