ExaGrid Announces Support of Rubrik
Rubrik has a feature-rich product with many capabilities. ExaGrid adds to the Rubrik value proposition by improving the storage economics of Rubrik environments by working with Rubrik compression and deduplication and can achieve an additional reduction of 3:1 to 10:1 in addition to Rubrik's compression and encryption, further reducing storage by as much as 90%. The combined deduplication ratio ranges from 6:1 to 20:1, depending on the retention length and data types.
Advantages of using ExaGrid Tiered Backup Storage with Rubrik: Significant savings for onsite and offsite storage and associated costs
Use less WAN bandwidth to the disaster recovery (DR) site
Fast disaster recovery from an on-premise data center versus the Cloud
Faster restores from archive data at the primary site versus the Cloud
Non-network-facing Repository Tier (tiered air gap) with a delayed delete policy and immutable data objects ensure data is ready to restore after a ransomware attack — a second layer of protection behind Rubrik's ransomware recovery solution
'We are pleased to announce support of Rubrik, and to offer Rubrik users a huge savings for the long-term retention of backup data. Rubrik customers tend to store a couple of weeks' worth of retention locally to Rubrik and then store longer-term retention to the Cloud, which can be very expensive. The ExaGrid solution dramatically lowers those storage costs and allows for much quicker archive data restores for user productivity. We also bring another layer of ransomware recovery in addition to the ransomware recovery that Rubrik provides,' said Bill Andrews, President and CEO of ExaGrid. 'We continue to innovate our Tiered Backup Storage to offer the most integrations with 25+ industry-leading backup applications. We are excited to work with our channel partners to offer better backup storage for their Rubrik customers who are shocked at the high costs of cloud storage or are looking for better on-premise storage solutions.'
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