PALO ALTO, CA--(Marketwired - September 12, 2016) - Rubrik, the Cloud Data Management company, today announced that Rubrik Cloud Data Management has been selected as a co-winner of the Gold Award for Best of VMworld 2016 in the Data Protection Category, along with StorageCraft Technology Corp.
Winners were evaluated from among the exhibitors at VMworld 2016 based on innovation, performance, ease of integration into environment, ease of use and manageability, functionality, value, and ability to fill a market gap.
"We are honored to receive the Gold Award for Best of VMworld 2016 in the Data Protection category. The market response to Rubrik has been tremendous, and demonstrates the demand for a modern approach to data management," said Bipul Sinha, co-founder and CEO, Rubrik. "Our Cloud Data Management platform eliminates complex infrastructure with a simple, easy-to-manage converged system that allows companies to protect, manage, and secure data across hybrid clouds."
"The Data Protection market is going through a massive shift where buyers care not only about backing up their data, but also how they manage and use it for business value. Our audiences are showing a growing interest in technologies that offer a way to accomplish this, especially across Hybrid Clouds," said Rebecca Kitchens, SVP and Group Publisher at TechTarget. "Congratulations to the Rubrik team for being at the center of this evolution and being recognized for innovation by our Best of VMworld judges for their Cloud Data Management solutions."
Over the past year, Rubrik has delivered record business growth due to overwhelming customer demand across enterprises of all sizes and verticals, including Fortune 500 companies. Organizations are shedding complex, legacy multi-tiered solutions for simplified data management purpose-built for cloud to recover, manage, and secure data across private, public, and hybrid clouds. Rubrik delivers mission critical data management functions in a single software fabric spanning clouds -- from backup and recovery, disaster recovery, archiving and compliance, search and analytics, to copy data management.
The company also recently announced the Early Access Program for Rubrik Firefly, which supports physical workloads (Microsoft SQL, Physical Linux) and extends to edge environments (remote and branch offices).
Rubrik's Cloud Data Management solution is globally available through the Company's solution partners.
About Rubrik
Rubrik has developed the world's first Cloud Data Management platform for data protection, search, analytics, archival and copy data orchestration for hybrid cloud enterprises. Fortune 500 companies use Rubrik to manage data at scale while realizing data-driven services anytime, anywhere. Rubrik has been named to Gartner's Cool Vendors in Storage Technologies, 2016. For more information, visit http://www.rubrik.com and follow @rubrikInc on Twitter.
