Rubrik Company Introduction with Chris Wahl

well welcome everybody I'm Chris wall it's good to see many familiar and new faces at the same time as Steven brought up the this has been quite a journey from a rubric perspective I think this is the fifth time we've been at a field day the first time we've ever hosted one on our own campus so we recently moved into this building and as you've taken photos of the flowers of whatnot I think it's pretty groovy I like coming out here this is my seventh year interacting in some way shape or form with field day so I did I think eleven as a delegate and then now four as a sponsor so I understand what you're going through and understand the presenters prior and after like what they're going through it's a weird men do really quick before I intro that the rubric stuff I just wanted to share like who saw this moment when the the space man was rocked out there in a Tesla like awesome very like emotional moment for me because I own a very very old copy of the original Hitchhiker's Guide signed by Douglas Adams you know may he rest in peace excellent writers so I actually was clutching that like ah this is so cool I felt you know I literally was crying like this is so cool I'm very excited about this the first time we're seeing like the advancement of science of Technology and I we did a keynote at the sales kickoff at rubric and I kind of related that to how I feel when I'm at this company and why I feel that joy kind of everyday so just a little vulnerable moment there I know that we're supposed to start with the problem so let me just move the mouse anime there we go so I'll start with the problem because Tim seems to think that that's important so I love to pull your tweets and whatnot like I read this stuff which is pretty cool so I'm gonna get to the problem the problem is that this is like $10 here in San Francisco for avocado toast the next generation rubric is sup no I'm just just kidding that's not that's not the problem hopefully I don't tank anything out there for those that are new I just wanted to include a very quick the problem because it's a little obligatory I don't have any gardener magic watcher in here you're good it's essentially just the fact that when I joined in 2015 it was the admission that who's like a big fan of their backup software and whatnot and really wanted to like you are what no you're good sure you wrote your own didn't you yes yeah okay there we go yeah I was on a convo Chris I don't make fun to anybody I don't make fun of anybody I'm just saying as an end user I was having to deal with all this and this was my world although there was like DD of added and disk for backup but it really this kind of black morass of misery that's kind of what backup was and I actually pushed back and oh hey come join career break like what do you do backup like no not gonna do that but then I saw that they were looking at you know let's take all these bits and bytes that you need from an architecture perspective to build data protection and let's still those the services let's write our own file system let's actually deploy the software in a very cloud focused model whether or not you want to use physical virtual cloud as your implementation vehicle right so it was kind of cool from that perspective but I also got sold on the long term vision that it wasn't just about making a better backup mousetrap it was how can we move the needle entirely on data protection and actually start including cloud as a first-class citizen rather than just a dumping repository where files sit and then you have to manage them right so that's what I was thinking also everything scales out like it should there's no single points of failure there's no control heads do you have to deal with there's no forklifts so I was like okay I can bite in on this I'm down with it the experience for the customer just in case you've like never heard of us before or you didn't read Justin's like prep post which man I really I really wanted to get you out like 'mobile season 1 DVDs to complement the season 2 that I got you a couple years ago but it was out of stock I don't know why like who's buying that I don't know yeah I was very very angry at Amazon Prime but it's actually doesn't matter how you deploy the rubric software it could be on an appliance we call it the brick it'd be virtual using our edge or air appliance or it could be totally in the cloud using group of cloud cluster you deploy it it inventories everything by talking to the centralized management you know such as V Center or the api's are actually physically using our connector service to inventory everything that's out there all you as a customer have to do is actually build out the SLA s that map to your business requirements the RPO RTO availability application you know long term attention around the data and then you assign those to the objects that you're looking to protect and rubric does all the rest it schedules all of the actual tasks that it takes to ingest all that data it paralyzes it across the entire cluster so there's no kind of choke point from a network perspective every node has ten gig or whatever it's using in the cloud and that's all done kind of intelligently based on the SLA versus building backup jobs which are not so fun the great thing though is the recovery because you know it's like backup speeds are irrelevant you can't restore should be testing this stuff was recently answering some questions like why is backup testing and wrist restoration testing important I'm like why is this a question you know shouldn't you realize there's value in that but if you had of an issue something like ransomware or corruption or junior admin delete something no problem you have instant recovery which puts it back in place with all the permissions you know the exact same hierarchy name all the kind of jazz for you and you're back to square one and that's typically near zero RTO you know maybe a few minutes or something like that if it's something monstrously large but the way that we've designed the system is it's built to put all of this all the data back into production question hyper-v VMs that are running as domain controllers that support it as well well you always have to follow the vendors recommendation so like if you had no domain controllers left over and you put the Beck and play that's an option or it could be that you're putting one in play using a live mount and then using the recycle bin or the tombstone to actually roll down whatever it is or put it in directory services restore mode which you could you could back up a VM running a DS as a DC yeah yeah we have a lot of custom over here absolutely cool and then cloud native you know being cloud native I think is important since one dot o of the product it has talked to s3 and we've expanded the use case beyond that point we don't want it to just be like that would be dragons and things go in the cloud and you then have to like deal with that we allow you to archive and do some other creative things that we demoed at cloud field a to with being able to instantiate from backup and things like that in the cloud we're gonna go into that deeper today but they exist the other thing that I really drew me to the company was everything we do as a product is calling an API that is open and documented so when you work with the interface and you actually click on things within the rubric interface it's calling an API in the backend you can open developer mode at f12 on Chrome is an example you'll see every single call so you can see exactly we're setting from a payload person active you can use it we use it you can integrate with third-party software and use it that way kind of however you want we don't limit you and the question that comes up is as I show something people will ask and I automate that the answer is always yes because there's always an open API for it I wanted to add this because I know we have a we have a cloud and X and encryption expert here so I get a lot of questions around like where is it you know what's encrypted which actually you know secure with the system everything on ingest everything on replication everything on archive everything that's stored all encrypted in flight at rest using your keys even internode communication between the distributed cluster is also fully encrypted right so you get lots and lots of layers as far as making sure that all the data in flight and that rest are encrypted based on your security requirements well that tends to come up so I wanted to kind of coffin nail that a little bit and highlight Kenny's amazing set of blog posts I think it's like 30,000 words of some sort it's like an e-book basically probably do something like that what's that yeah yeah and I like it because it's not really like rubric per se the MIT the the focus on it is how are we dealing with encryption for public cloud and it talks about the major three public clouds you know Amazon edger and GCP so I got the parts here with a tiny URL so you can go check those out those are on his blog highly promote that and he'll be talking a little bit later so the end goal let me just build this out is that today you can have rubric on-prem you can have us as a cloud cluster or use our features and technologies in all three major clouds and the way that you set up the topology is largely irrelevant right the rubric software is really looking at things from an SLA perspective and from what axis and has a near cloud environment what you want to do and then makes that reality happen for you well so far and will go a lot deeper in the stuff I'm just you know I'm the warm-up act to get everyone excited here where I move on good so far all right well you actually did read my suite I did that was tried it hurts me on tit I obviously went enough to like go take a screenshot to put it into the deck so at any rate so I wanted to cover some kind of new things for those that are maybe even following our journey a little bit longer first off this is kind of for both the last time we were on a field day was clogged field day 2 which was the late July of last year so it's been a little bit since then we were just covering our for dodo release we've then since then released 4.1 but this is just meant to kind of show you the company has been going gangbusters you know I I joined right around here when one auto is released and you can see a cadence of roughly every quarter ish there's a new either dot release or a major release that comes out with a lot of juice behind it and we're over 900 people so we have a pretty big global footprint considering I started here as number 48 so it's uh it's been it's intense that doesn't normally happen like this it's been a lot of fun and I think it's because we genuinely solve some pain points for customers in fact I brought up a few testimonials from folks they're like what are they saying what are they publicly willing to state their reputation on and a lot of it is like I love it you know the time savings the fact that I had to deal with this thing the fact that I can actually start focusing on delivering value be above and beyond like fixing broken back up jobs I thought was cool there was a lot like here I even pointed out like hey he had a disconnect cognitively like this is what he expected it wasn't reality engaged with support got him totally on board right so I think that's that's positive feedback I like hearing that support is helping out with people we made an acquisition which kind of blew my mind because I've never bought a company before like I personally didn't buy it I don't have that kind of money but we bought Daddo Co which is an awesome company focused on kind of the no sequel space to do backups and so the way that I presented this is kind of Rubik been laser focused on what we call data center applications that's your major hypervisors from VMware and Nutanix and Microsoft as well as a lot of physical workloads we just recently announced AIX is an example so there's a lot to unpack here and then dadís IO has been really laser focused on things like the Sandra and other really no sequel type databases to make sure that when we combine these two we feel like we can really attack what's in the data center today as well as what people are moving into with and Cassandra and those are the kind of no sequel type databases because these tend to be something that you play with and all the sudden it goes in production and then it's like oh how do we how do we protect this because you know I can't just talk to one node I need a quorum from multiple nodes so I think that's pretty awesome and you'll see this continuing to evolve as we get kind of rubrics cloud data management flagship flagship product merged into what rubric dados IO which is what and now is doing but the the results are kind of the same you know especially we look at the semantic deduplication that they've patented I think they have 20 or 22 so my patents specifically around how they talked to distributed databases and how they protect that there's I'll point you out there's a solutions overview that you can go like super deep on that I didn't want to I wanted to kind of wait until maybe the next field day to go really deep into it and show demos and whatnot as we evolved that integration but I'll say this is pretty cool because they go into coder kind of what's going on under the covers within the engine and all the patents that go with that as well as we're continuing to go to market with them as they exist today so example we're doing a backup recovery webinar around Cassandra on the 10th of April that you can log into so it's not like I made it I made a not so funny joke earlier if I was like they're not wearing this by them and then just like retiring it you know we're actually gonna we're working they're actually like right over there in this building working as a unit with our team so awesome throw up the horns for those guys and then Polaris SAS got announced yesterday I was very adamant that that happened so that we could talk about it today it was like should we do it whatever like no we gotta do it front probably field day because this is important so folks at least heard Polaris a little bit a couple head nods a couple hand raised all right this is a this is a complimentary kind of new product from rubric right so this is a completely new adventure that we're taking kind of our second act if you will I talked a lot about rubric cloud data management on-prem and that's working great today when you have all these applications in the data center and potentially you're like oh cloud that looks kind of cool I'm going to follow that trend I'm gonna put some stuff in those cloudy environments and you can protect those with rubric as well as rubric data say oh but now it's kind of like okay there's a lot of fragmentation going on there's a lot of potential different control points that I have to deal with we want to give everyone that seamless experience and build that if you will unified system of records so that regardless of where the data lives I know where it is I can see the versions of it I understand all the metadata data around it and so the idea is let's put literally a unified system record that's hosted as a SAS platform that talks southbound to the api's that are running on the rubric CDM instances so regardless of what cloud you're consuming or what data center that you're running in or Colo or whatnot or part we can feed into all the metadata that's being generated from these different instances we know what the files are the applications what's being protected how often what they're doing you know that's all kind of the metadata that I'm talking about here we can then absorb that via the API into this Polaris SAS platform where you get your own login as a customer and you can kind of see all your instances and control and demand them and then we float up api's northbound from there where you can build what's called a data management application and the data management application can tap into that unified system of record to solve all these use cases and I try to focus on the use cases rather than like specific products or technologies control policy management is kind of a no-brainer the fact that you can see all your rubric instances and not only that report on it analyze the data potentially see what your compliance and regulatory needs are being met or not that kind of jazz I'll go in that a lot deeper towards the end because I want to make sure everyone else on my team got a lot of time to go into some other cool things that were doing so the one thing I'll add towards the end though is these two products do mutually reinforce one another when you deploy rubric cloud data management that builds the unified system of record across all of your implementations typically it's a couple data centers and maybe some cloud turn in there we can then feed that information into Polaris and that's where you can kind of globally query all that metadata and then you can take action on that and that allows you to control and get visibility as well as control back into your our CDM instances so it's it's kind of a feedback loop there and I like feedback loops I don't want one-way conversations so in summary I think having simplicity and scalability when it comes to all your data management needs is important right for all your applications all your data pardon the swirly thing I know it's kind of fun this is all built for cloud from a generation perspective nothing is a bolt-on everything is native from a code perspective and really the reason I think it's been so sticky across the enterprise commercial and MSPs and whatnot is you're gonna save typically a lot of money if you look at tape archive and kind of the other ways that people do data protection kind of build your own build up a storage pit altogether or even by kind of a purpose-built backup appliance and then tie some software to it this is typically north of 20 to 30 percent if not more cheaper and the ROI is quite easy to realize so it works better and it's you and to be good from an agenda perspective and then I'll pause for any final questions this is what we're gonna cover when I start with cloud out with Andrew then we're gonna go to eight of us native protection that Ken is gonna cover Rebecca and Marcus are going to talk about our integration with MSPs and cloud providers and things like that and then I will go deeper into Polaris so that's our two-hour time all good questions I can put that up as a question thing yes just two questions are you doing you think in the way of backup of containers and you're doing and a lot of companies are using things like github and different repositories for doing work in you do anything for that sort of thing that I might want to backup as well that does come up and I was actually talking to Ken about that a little bit earlier offline and we both kind of agree that standard is still kind of coming out we're still figuring out exactly how to put your arms around that and I know during his presentation we kind of talked about that in a bit but to be succinct no we don't talk to containers directly at this point although certainly things like mobile development environments where developers are checking in and checking in that was an interesting one because I needed that myself I run quite a few open source projects and I was worried about potentially something happening or getting corruption and so you could easily just set up a mirrored repository somewhere that you then backed that up from a file set perspective and that would version all the artifacts within the repository and that would work without having to tie directly into github or bitbucket or whatever it is directly with them so that's what I've been doing and I found when I looked for solutions that were kind of open source third-party that's what a lot of other folks doing but if if anyone has a better way I'm open to that too okay

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Length: 17min 23sec (1043 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 06 2018