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Rubrik Security Cloud to Support Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization

• By David Ramel
• 11/14/2024

Rubrik announced a collaboration with Red Hat to support Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization on Rubrik Security Cloud, with general availability expected early next year.

The new initiative from Rubrik, a Zero Trust data security specialist, aims to help organizations modernize their virtual machines (VMs) and applications while enhancing cyber resilience, offering features like easier migration, faster data recovery, and unified data management across virtualized environments to help better protect against evolving threats.

OpenShift Virtualization is a feature of Red Hat OpenShift that enables users to run and manage VMs alongside container workloads in a unified platform, simplifying management and providing a consistent environment for deploying applications. It includes a migration toolkit for virtualizing and scaling VMs, as well as integration with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform for efficient large-scale migrations.

"Rubrik's support for OpenShift Virtualization aims to empower organizations with a unified platform where their virtualized environments can better protect data, automate protection, backup and help users access data faster, simplifying the complexity of data protection and recovering what data they need when they need it," the company said in a news release. "Furthermore, the solution is designed to enable organizations to streamline their data management workflows by defining and applying a single service level agreement policy globally and providing greater consistency across data centers, clouds, and SaaS applications."

Rubrik has been busy lately in expanding the reach of its Rubrik Security Cloud in the face of rising cyber threats, whose proliferation is tracked by the company's recent Zero Labs research that indicates attackers tried to affect the backups in 96% of attacks and were at least partially successful in 74% of those reported attempts.

"Our collaboration with Red Hat reflects our ongoing commitment to supporting our customers' virtualized environments and cyber-proofing their virtual machines," said Arvind Nithrakashyap, CTO at Rubrik. "With capabilities that can proactively secure data, stay resilient against cyberattacks, and safeguard business continuity, Rubrik Security Cloud is a perfect match for organizations running virtual machines and applications on the trusted application platform, Red Hat OpenShift."