When organizations are attacked by ransomware, only a little more than half are able to recover their data using a backup. This begs the question, “What about the rest? Why might they be unable to recover?” One reason may be that their backup data has been compromised. Backups are a hot target for hackers. If they can get to an organization’s backup data, they have far more leverage.
Hackathons vary in sizes and shapes, but ours has typically been a 24-hour sprint, with teams submitting a five-minute video presenting their project. This year was our biggest hackathon yet, with almost 90 teams registering across a multitude of departments including Support, Sales, Product, Technical Writing, and, of course, Engineering! We crowdsource the first-round judging by asking anyone at Rubrik to participate in evaluating projects.
Oracle databases are an integral part of modern technological infrastructure for organizations globally. They underpin high-volume digital business, perform thousands of transactions, and house an organization’s critical and sensitive information. Today’s business requirements and data-driven applications are expanding the definition of “data loss” to include data that is inaccessible to the business for a period to significantly and negatively impact it.
The SaaS-based Rubrik platform is built to protect and recover a wide variety of cloud-native workloads. For Microsoft Azure, this commonly equates to protecting Azure Virtual Machines and Managed Disks, where recovery options can range from entire resource replacement, in-region or cross-region exports (clones), and now file/folder recovery.
It was 4:00 in the morning, May 20, 2021. Matthew Day, CIO of Langs Building Supplies (Langs) was excited for a long-anticipated holiday after 14 months of lockdown due to COVID-19. His wife was thrilled. His friends, ecstatic. But the day took an unexpected turn. Instead of waking up delighted to leave for his getaway, Day woke up to every CIO’s worst nightmare, the dreaded phone call: “We’ve been hacked.”
Rubrik can gracefully backup hosts with petabyte-scale filesystems containing around a billion files. It took us focused effort and innovation, both in scaling existing systems and verifying the changes work before shipping to our customers. One of the innovative systems that helped us achieve this scalability is the FileSystem Simulator.
With the rapid growth of ransomware attacks, enterprises all share the same concern: “If we get hit by ransomware, can we recover?” The reality is, when traditional security products fail and data is compromised, the stakes are high, and IT and Security teams are often left on their own. So we asked ourselves, can we give them the ultimate assurance that Rubrik will be there for them?
At the Rubrik Data Security Summit, leaders from both the public and private sectors discussed an important topic: ransomware. Cyber threats continue to expand in both volume and sophistication with attacks growing at a rate of 150% annually. As attackers increasingly target backups, it will be even more paramount for policies and guidance from government agencies to match the security innovation of private sector businesses to mitigate the risks of this cyber pandemic head-on.
Customers using Microsoft SQL Server tend to grow horizontally in terms of the number of databases. For recent versions of SQL Server, the max number of databases you can have on a single instance is 32,767 and it is common to see customers push that limit. At Rubrik, we have run into several customers who approach 10,000 databases on a single host. As SQL Server accelerates the push into the enterprise segment, one needs to address the problem of managing and protecting these servers at scale.
