Rubrik, Pure Storage Join Forces To Deliver 'Three-Layer Defense'

The partnership combines elements from each company's offerings.

Rubrik, which provides zero-trust data security, recently announced a partnership with storage company Pure Storage to create what the company describes as a "three-layered defense strategy."

Elements of the Pure Storage Platform have been incorporated into Rubrik's Security Cloud offering. The three layers of security now in this

• Rapid recovery, the first layer of security, provides customers with immutable snapshots of their data and applications aimed to get customers back up and running in the aftermath of a cyberattack. The snapshots are secured with the Auto-on SafeMode feature and stored in such a way that only designated contacts can access them by authenticating through Pure Storage Support, Rubrik said in a news release.

• Data security makes up the second layer and is provided by Pure Storage FlashArray, on-site backup via Rubrik Secure Vault, anomaly detection, threat monitoring, orchestrated recovery, and additional features.

• The third layer is archival location. Customers have the option of archiving data using Pure Storage's FlashBlade//S or FlashBlade//E -- all-flash, unified file and object storage platforms developed to store massive amounts of data.

"As more and more organizations realize that cyber resilience is the most essential cybersecurity strategy, Pure Storage and Rubrik have come together to deliver the most complete cyber resilient hyper cloud solution," Bipul Sinha, CEO, chairman, and co-founder of Rubrik, said in a statement. "Having spent time with Charlie [Charles Giancarlo, chairman and CEO of Pure Storage] discussing cyber resilience, it became evident that our two companies had a tremendous opportunity to help our customers with data security and business continuity."

In a recent interview with CRN, Giancarlo said that 20 percent of Pure Storage's revenue is put into research and development.

"We’ve been working for many years on the ability to turn storage into a cloud of storage and not just arrays," he told CRN. "Networking has been virtualized and made universal, and compute, whether virtual machines or containers, is increasingly virtualized. But storage, at least in the enterprise, was still very bespoke, very fragmented, and tied to specific application stacks, and so not, in my parlance, not virtualized and not made like a cloud. It was high time to do it," he added.

Robert Cali is a storage and backup engineer at Rollins, Inc., which owns several leading pest, termite and wildlife control companies across the globe and services over 2 million commercial and residential customers.

As a customer of both Rubrik and Pure Storage, Cali said in an emailed statement to MES Computing: "Our partnership with Rubrik and Pure Storage has put my company in a very comfortable position. Knowing that Rubrik is incessantly protecting our data from cyber security threats, while Pure Storage’s speed and functionality allows us to recover quickly from attacks, allows me to sleep soundly at night."