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to the Public Sector by standing
up a professional team focused on
this market. “Rubrik’s services and product offerings are absolutely critical to serve the business and mission needs of customers—both enterprise customers and public sector agencies,” he said. “Things like backup and recovery, data management, replication, archive, search, and analytics—you can’t function today unless you have the ability to do all those things and use data as the fuel that drives your enterprise.”
Experience Matters:
Building the Future
The addition of a public sector board only strengthens what was already a strong public practice
for Rubrik, which counts several hundred public sector agencies
as its customers, across all major government segments. The company helps agencies at the local, state and federal levels improve their backup and recovery processes, save time, reduce data center footprint, and reduce costs. It’s perfectly positioned to help agencies with the top three imperatives: digital transformation, IT modernization, and the cloud first or cloud smart agenda.
“That use case of modernizing
data management systems and archiving tiers of data to the cloud is
a very common use case that is being adopted across the government. Most of the projects that we do fit all of those categories,” Rubrik’s Kennedy explained. “We are addressing a legacy data management system. We come
in and we modernize it and digitize it. We can also eliminate multiple people operating those systems, because [now] it’s all automated.”
For example, one West Coast county cut the amount of time its team worked on backups by more than 90 percent, turning what was
Bipul Sinha, Rubrik CEO
once a four- to five-hour weekly struggle into a 30-minute process. Just as important, restores now happen in minutes versus what used to take a full week or more. A federal agency is seeing similar results using Rubrik, reducing recovery time objectives from hours to minutes.
More than One Type of Virus
Rubrik’s advisory board announcement was planned before the COVID-19 pandemic began, Khanna said, but it becomes even more crucial now as the crisis drags on and agencies look for ways
to support its workforce that has increasingly gone to a staggered or completely virtual workday. This new paradigm presents a problem not only for users, but the IT departments that support them as well.
“COVID has forced us to rely extensively on our information technology, work remotely, and make sure that those systems [supporting us] are up and running. And when they are compromised because of either user error or a deliberate attack by an adversary hacking into the system, like a ransomware attack, it is extremely important that systems that are keeping us going in the absence of face to face meetings stay up, and—if they go down—that they are recovered very quickly,” he said. “Rubrik’s products and services keep the environment running with almost instant [recovery point objectives]
Tom Kennedy, Rubrik’s VP of Public Sector
and [recovery time objectives].” The advisory board’s experts
will be able to help Rubrik and its partners and customers address new and emerging issues that come up due to COVID-19, Rubrik’s Sinha said. “If you look at what COVID has done, it has really changed the way we actually do business. It has reminded all of us about the need
to be able to work from anywhere, but still work as a team and still deliver products and services or IT to the constituents that need it,” he explained.
Going forward, the need for automation, self-service, and compliance is more significant than ever, he said, and it’s why Rubrik
is accelerating the advisory board creation. “This transition is also a learning opportunity for us,” Sinha said. “It’s a long term inflection
and an opportunity to collaborate with our customers and partners, and prospects, working closely with them to understand how they are transforming and what Rubrik could do to help them transform better and get to their destination faster in terms of digitization and automation.”
Yogesh Khanna, Rubrik Advisory Board Member
To learn more about Rubrik’s services visit, https://www.rubrik.com/en/ industries/public-sector