Microsoft has made an equity investment in the Zero Trust data management company Rubrik as part of a push towards ransomware protection.
The deal aims to better tackle the increasing ransomware threat and deliver enhanced data protection, as well as develop co-engineering projects to deliver Zero Trust data protection solutions built on Microsoft Azure.
That means customers and partners gain additional data protection, Rubrik says, so that critical Microsoft 365 data is secure and accessible in the event of a cyber attack.
Bipul Sinha, co-founder and CEO of Rubrik. “Together with Microsoft, we are delivering tightly integrated data protection while accelerating and simplifying our customer’s journey to the cloud.”
This partnership builds on Rubrik and Microsoft’s existing long-standing relationship, which already supports more than 2,000 mutual customers around the world and hundreds of petabytes of data under Azure management.
With this new agreement, mission-critical applications such as SAP, SQL, Oracle, VMware, as well as enterprise NAS workloads, can now tightly integrate protection and automation with Azure, it is said.
