Start-Up Profile: Rubrik

Company
Rubrik, Inc.

HQs
Palo Alto, CA

Founded in
January 2014

Financial funding
Oversubscribed round of $10 million in series A in March 2015, investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners, as well as industry luminaries John W. Thompson (Microsoft chairman, former Symantec CEO, Virtual Instruments CEO), Frank Slootman (ServiceNow CEO, former Data Domain CEO) and Mark Leslie (Leslie Ventures, Veritas founder and CEO).

Main executives

• Bipul Sinha, co-founder and CEO: Founding investor and board member in Nutanix and PernixData, and partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, was director of database products at Oracle, where he led development of core data and transaction processing technologies, and also held sales and engineering positions at American Megatrends and IBM
• Arvind Jain, co-founder and VP engineering: Google distinguished engineer and founding engineer of Riverbed, chief architect at Akamai
• Soham Mazumdar, co-founder and architect: co-founder of Tagtile (acquired by Facebook) and architect of Google‘s disk-based search index
• Arvind Nithrakashyap, co-founder and CTO: co-founder of Oracle Exadata and Oracle Cluster principal engineer

Number of employees
30

Technology
Rubrik’s Converged Data Management platform is supposed to be the “industry’s first solution to eliminate backup software“, in fact the software-defined backup software being hidden into appliances forming a scale-out storage architecture for secondary storage, backup, not primary storage as many other companies.

The base 2U appliance is designed with commodity hardware, HDDs and SSDs and all the software (de-dupe, snapshots, replication, etc.). One to hundreds of boxes can be integrated, each with four nodes supporting several hundreds of VMs. When nodes are added, they are automatically identified and integrated. Data is stored in a single ‘data lake’ per se that can be searched by metadata and recovered based on a time-sliding mechanism.

Nothing was revealed concerning the protection of the data, but they are probably duplicated on one or more nodes like in common scale-out storage configuration without use of RAID.

Furthermore, an hybrid backup infrastructure is possible through gateway for Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google cloud.

Rubrik stated it invents (Apple) Time Machine for cloud infrastructure to demonstrate the easy use of its solution, as we don’t see any trace of CDP.

John W. Thompson commented: “No other solution delivers on-demand data access through the application lifecycle, from development and testing to backup and archive.”

Price
Starting at $100,000

Availability
Now through early access program and availability later this year.

Partners
100% channel-driven

Main customer
Langs Building Supply in Australia whose IT manager Matthew Day said: “Rubrik offers us a disruptive solution that simplifies our backup and recovery in the same way that Nutanix has for our primary environment.“

Competitors
Among them CommVault, EMC, Symantec and Veeam