How Rubrik Works

Rubrik Blob Engine is a distributed version control system, detached from any underlying application and infrastructure (e.g., storage, on-prem, cloud).

It can orchestrate data from on-prem to cloud, cloud to cloud, cloud to on-prem. It provides core data management services, including immutability, deduplication, retention, replication, and archival.

The Rubrik Blob Engine is designed to deliver instant access to data to meet today’s demands for recovery, test/dev, and analytics. It dynamically evaluates how to minimize fragmentation and latency within the snapshot to achieve near-zero recovery times, especially for applications that require higher quality of service (e.g., Gold vs. Silver SLA).

To deliver dramatically lower RTOs through “Live Mounts”, Rubrik exploits its distributed system DNA. When a “Live Mount” is initiated, Rubrik issues parallel requests to the cluster nodes and underlying storage to read the distributed data concurrently. Unlike traditional rehydration, Rubrik employs parallel synthesis of the data, accelerating the time in which data can be presented back to the system for recovery or test/dev purposes.

In addition, the Blob Engine maintains a mapping between content ID and an usable representation of the corresponding content until deletion (could be stored in Atlas file system). Everything is stored in an immutable format (immune to ransomware).

Automate your SLA policies with the Distributed Task Framework by globally assigning and executing tasks across the system in a fault-tolerant and efficient manner. 

It enforces the activities to uphold the assigned SLA policies on a daily and long-term basis. Once a SLA policy is set, it strategizes to meet these set goals for data retention, replication, and archival.

For example, if a user has defined prioritization requirements within the SLA — this database is mission-critical, it will constantly perform data efficiency checks (data consolidation, compression, deduplication) to ensure it recovers quickly.