Rubrik, the Cloud Data Management company, today announced it had been selected by Coventry University to protect its user and research data across Nutanix, Microsoft and AWS environments.
The university will use Rubrik Polaris, the industry’s first SaaS platform for Data Management Applications, which includes GPS for global data management and Radar for quick ransomware recovery.
Coventry wanted to future-proof its infrastructure and leverage cloud technology such as Microsoft Azure for the first time; the team decided to build a new data centre as its previous on-premises environment did not offer this functionality. With the introduction of the new data centre, the team needed so-called best-of-breed technology that can scale with the university as it grows, offer disaster recovery in the cloud, and integrate with existing Nutanix and Microsoft infrastructure, including Exchange and SQL. The team also required strong cybersecurity credentials when selecting a new cloud data management platform.
The University’s team was drawn to Rubrik’s immutable file system, and its Radar product’s ability to use machine learning to recover from ransomware. Long term, the IT team also plans to use Rubrik to extract more value from the data they hold by using additional cloud technology, such as Microsoft Office 365.
Enterprise Cloud and Infrastructure Architect at Coventry University, Steve Rogers, said he wanted to work with vendors that are developing as quickly as the UK university.
