• Containers and persistent storage

    Containers are a method of operating system virtualization that allow you to run an application and its dependencies in resource-isolated processes. Containers allow you to easily package an application’s code, configurations, and dependencies into easy to use building blocks that deliver environmental consistency, operational efficiency, developer productivity, and version control.... [Read More]
  • VMware’s Cloud Nativeness

    At first glance it feels like VMware’s efforts related to cloud native applications are meant to cater to the traditional admins, people who are mainly running virtual machines today but want, or need, to support other types of workloads as well. People who secretly don’t “get” this new container hotness*... [Read More]
  • Rubrik's Masterless Cluster Approach

    I’ve written a blog post about Atlas, our distributed filesystem before, where I tried to differentiate between pre-packaged solutions, ultimately using existing legacy architectures with inherited build-in single points of failures, and a truly distributed system where each node in the cluster can perform all of the tasks that are... [Read More]
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  • Rubrik and Microsoft, rest assured.

    Rubrik has been working with Microsoft’s solutions in various ways since version 2.3 with the initial support of Microsoft Azure as an archive location for long-term retention data. You can even argue the relationship started earlier than that with support for application consistent backups for Microsoft applications through our own... [Read More]
  • Rubrik Alta feature spotlight: AWS

    With the announcement of Rubrik CDM version 4, codenamed Alta, we have added tons of new features to the platform, but since most of the release announcements are focussed on providing an overview of all the goodies, I wanted to focus more deeply on one specific topic namely our integration... [Read More]
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